Black Lives Matter joins the effort to restore and preserve The Abyssinian Meeting House, underway since 1998. Author: Zach Blanchard (NEWS CENTER Maine) Published: 5:05 PM EST February 24, 2021 Updated: 6:30 PM EST February 24, 2021
PORTLAND, Maine Nestled on Portland s Munjoy Hill in the shadow of construction for a new office building, the Abyssinian Meeting House would be easy to miss.
Its rich history, however, is impossible to overlook. This to me is a national monument, not yet defined, Leonard Cummings said.
Cummings knows all there is to know about the nearly 200-year-old Meeting House that was once was at the center of the civil rights movement in Maine, even before slavery was abolished.