MillingtonBL

Historian and Dev. Program Specialist; Works on International Development, But Still Tweets About History; Author of Race Over Party; Lives in Kinshasa, DRC.

[MillingtonBL @MillingtonBL]

Thank you to @emilysweeney and @BostonGlobeMag for sharing this amazing story of the struggle for justice in Boston’s skating rinks. Very honored to have been able to contribute. For more on the topic see my article in @JCWE1 in the comments https://t.co/PrtwwYxqmT

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@CulturedModesty Wow! I had the pleasure to review this excellent book!

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@alexanderao Very good work! You might be interested in my work on AfAm politics during this period that studies black support of O’Brien. Would love to be able to map black voting patterns. https://t.co/GDy8pwjF1d

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@JanelleNanos Whoa!!! You totally deserve this!! Congratulations!!!!

[Homebrew Finds @homebrewfinds]

Enter to Win a Delta Brewing Systems Fermtank Conical! https://t.co/l14gjgDW3u #homebrew

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@NickSacco55 Brian Taylor’s Fighting for Citizenship: Black Northerners and the Debate over Military Service in the Civil War does an excellent job unpacking these questions. Highly recommend. @UNC_Press https://t.co/Giw3n6sghk

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@jackiantonovich https://t.co/nTnmhalAur

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Too much too young… https://t.co/0fxXKu3beX

[Zebulon Miletsky @ZebulonMiletsky]

#PubDay My book ‘Before Busing: A History of Boston’s Long Black Freedom Struggle’ comes out today and I couldn’t be more excited! Thank you @UNC_Press 🙌🏽

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@ZebulonMiletsky @UNC_Press Very excited for this!!! Congrats!!!

[Isobel Coleman @ColemanUSAID]

Productive visit to Côte d’Ivoire last week! Wonderful to meet w/ community & civil society leaders from the North & hear firsthand how @USAID can implement the U.S. Strategy to Prevent Conflict and #PromoteStability to support building locally-led peace 🇺🇸🤝🏾🇨🇮

[MillingtonBL @MillingtonBL]

.@FlyingBrussels can you confirm if there is an embargo on pets traveling via Brussels? @BrusselsAirport

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If you are looking for a thrilling read, but this series. Atmospheric horror at its best. Engrossing and seriously terrifying. They still haunt me years later. Thanks @SPMiskowski !!!

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@jackiantonovich I always made the mistake of asking students how their weekend went…at the class I taught on a Wednesday…

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“A bench of mere lawyers” who “with an armful of musty precedents, with piles of dusty folios … has met and turned back the young and struggling spirit of liberty.” True in 1883, true now… https://t.co/x5y0yD49BR

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I wrote this several years ago…sadly still relevant. @werehist https://t.co/x5y0yD49BR

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@HUBhistory @onemichistory @NAACP Thanks so much! #JMTrotter definitely deserves more attention.

[The Boston Globe @BostonGlobe]

From @bostonglobemag: Denied entry to a roller-skating rink in 1885 because of their race, Edward Everett Brown and George Freeman decided to take a stand. https://t.co/RRhnTD67a0

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@ronitstahl Kingdom of Mathias! Bonus points for the twist ending !!!

[Globe Magazine @BostonGlobeMag]

The untold story of roller-skating heroes who fought racism in Victorian-era Boston.
https://t.co/oorFlQiJdc @emilysweeney

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“We Do Not Care Particularly about the Skating Rinks”: African American Challenges to Racial Discrimination in Places of Public Amusement in Nineteenth-Century Boston, Massachusetts https://t.co/DAhN7QZDum @JCWE1

[MillingtonBL @MillingtonBL]

Thank you to @emilysweeney and @BostonGlobeMag for sharing this amazing story of the struggle for justice in Boston’s skating rinks. Very honored to have been able to contribute. For more on the topic see my article in @JCWE1 in the comments https://t.co/PrtwwYxqmT