![]() Some Black residents have centuries-old roots in the United States, others come from the Caribbean and Central America, and still others were born in Africa and came here for higher education and stayed. They’ll be fine.’ I’ve talked to a few other people in the area and they felt this very same way.Īnother success of the book is the way it synthesizes the seemingly diverse subgroups that makeup the Black community of Lowell. I think it was like, ‘Well, we’ll give them a space, let them hang out. I felt like they did the very bare minimum for us to be seen. We could’ve benefited from seeing more Black faces, people just like us that we can relate to and unwind and let them know, ‘Hey, I’m having a rough day because. It would have ben great for us to learn the things that we know now. I went to the club a handful of times and I just felt that the knowledge that he was teaching us was very basic. Even the Black Unity Club was run by a white man. We didn’t have many people that look like us in school, so it would’ve been nice to have that. ![]() ![]() Growing up, I would have loved having more Black guidance counselors to talk to that would help me navigate my future. I also want to see more Black leadership within the community, particularly in the school system. Price who came to Lowell at age 5 and said about her experience in the Lowell schools: An example can be found in the comments of Jessica C. One of the great successes of Hidden in Plain Sight is that the recited interviews subtly touch upon the structural forces that have kept those stories from being equitably told. I should have been able to write, “it has already been told in great detail” but that’s not the case. But the words I just wrote – “it deserves telling” – illustrates the problem highlighted by this book. There is much more about the experience of Black people in Lowell that deserves closer attention not the least of which is the active role played by that community in the pre-Civil War fight against slavery. Yet little is known about him and I know of no monument erected in his honor. For example, Barzillai Lew, who owned a home in Pawtucketville and is buried there (in Clay Pit Cemetery), fought in the American Revolution, and spent the rest of his life here. It succeeds in that attempt and does much more.īlack people have been in Lowell for longer than there has been a Lowell. In her forward to the book, Christa observes that the stories of Black people in Lowell have mostly been omitted from our history books and school curriculums and that this book is an attempt to remedy that. Christa Brown at the opening of the Hidden in Plain Sight exhibit at Lowell National Historical Park.
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