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Notes & Numbers: Embracing King’s Legacy Through Local Black History
$5.00
GCC Main Campus
Imagine the numbers of Black community members from the mid-19th to mid-20th centuries whose contributions in music, art, sports, the hospitality industry, manufacturing and family life quietly shaped the town's development. In this workshop we will share some of the names, faces and figures of Greenfield's oft-elusive past.
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Carol Aleman grew up on a dairy farm in Shelburne, Massachusetts, graduated from Greenfield Community College and UMass–Amherst, and has always resided in Franklin County. Employed for almost thirty years at the Five College Consortium in Amherst, upon retirement she developed an interest in local history. Finding little in Greenfield’s written history that addressed people of color, Carol began a personal mission to identify as many members of Greenfield’s Black population of the past with an eye toward who they were, what their lives were like and how they had participated in and contributed to community life. Marrying into a Black family in 1972, she was equipped with a starting point and despite the divorce that followed, she remained close to the O’Hare family on Hope Street. Over the next four decades, they shared fragments of their past and unwittingly prepared her for the quest she would later take and the goals she would later pursue.
