Outreach Services Librarian Robert Kinney will give a talk on Episodes in Connecticut African American History What Newly Digitized Newspapers Can Tell Us July 18, 2019 12:00 P.M. – 12:45 P.M.

Since 2013, the Connecticut Digital Newspaper Project has been scanning historic state newspapers and making them available to the public via the Library of Congress’s database Chronicling America.  This talk will highlight important moments in our state’s African American history that are detailed in newspapers published from the Gilded Age to the immediate post World War II era.