Online Learning Articles
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Our Eyes Were Opened
Learn about the 1954 Boycott Integration of Baseball Stadium Gates written by Diane L. Cripps, Curator of History, Portsmouth Museums.
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First Baseman Buck Leonard
The “Classiest First Baseman in Organized Baseball” passed through Portsmouth twice on his way to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
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Charles “Mule” Peete And Portsmouth’s Little League
By all accounts, Franklin-born, Portsmouth-raised Charles Peete had everything it took to be a standout major-league ballplayer.
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PACC Early Aviators Charles Wesley Peters
Prior to World War II, opportunities in aviation and the dream of flight evolved separately for Blacks than it did for Whites.
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If Walls Could Talk
Hear about the history of the Portsmouth Colored Community Library Museum through the recollections of some of the Community Library’s patrons in this 13-minute video, produced by Portsmouth Schools Educational Television, in association with the African American Historical Society of Portsmouth.
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Portraits of Service
Portsmouth African Americans in the Military, 1946 – 1967
Select Photographs from the Lee Rodgers Collection of the Portsmouth Public Library
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Finding a Path to Freedom
Click on this interactive story to see if you can successfully conduct an escaping slave to freedom via the Underground Railroad in Portsmouth in 1850.
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Remarkable Portsmouth
Learn about Bertha Edwards, the librarian at Portsmouth’s African American Library from 1945 – 1963 (when the library was integrated).