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Ed Brennen Born a slave on a Virginia plantation in 1826, Nathaniel Booth escaped at age 17 and sought freedom in the North. He arrived in Lowell around 1844 and opened a barbershop on Dutton Street. When Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Act in 1850, making it a crime to aid âFreedom Seekers,â Booth briefly fled to Canada. But in 1851, Boott Cotton Mills Agent (CEO) Linus Child raised $750 from the Lowell community to purchase Boothâs freedom. Thatâs just one example of the anti-slavery and abolitionist movements that existed in Lowell two centuries ago â movements that are chronicled in âUntold Lowell Stories: Black History,â an online research guide recently published by the UMass Lowell Libraryâs Center for Lowell History. ....
The Kansas City Star removes the name and image of its founder William Rockhill Nelson Kevin Hardy, The Kansas City Star Jan. 10 The Kansas City Star has stripped from its pages and website the name, words and image that recognized its first publisher and founder, William Rockhill Nelson. The move comes after The Star s Dec. 20 series investigating its own history of how it covered and failed to cover Black Kansas Citians. Star President and Editor Mike Fannin launched the project with an apology, saying the newspaper had robbed an entire community of opportunity, dignity, justice and recognition. Another piece in the series examined the role of Nelson, whose support of developer J.C. Nichols enabled the proliferation of neighborhoods that explicitly banned Black Kansas Citians a practice that laid the foundation for decades of racial segregation that still persists today. ....