06/25/26 @ 6:00pm –
06/25/26 @ 7:00pm

Atwater Library Community Room

Atwater Memorial Library

Registration is required.
Registration starts: 12/31/1969 @ 7:00pm

Registration end: 06/25/2026 @ 6:00pm

In this program, the Connecticut Museum of Culture & History will take you on a tour of items from their collection representing a spectrum of the Black experience in CT. 

• You’ll learn about a Harlem Renaissance writer, Ann Petry, who carefully preserved artifacts chronicling the black community of Saybrook. 
• Examine daguerreotypes by Augustus Washington, who abandoned a successful Hartford photography business to build a new nation in Africa. 
• Browse through the photo album of a Hollywood actress who became a champion of labor rights for black entertainers. 
• Marvel at the gorgeous costumes created by CT’s West Indian community for their annual MAS celebration, and see artifacts documenting the Civil Rights movement in our state.