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Harpers Ferry was home to the second-ever meeting of a civil rights group that gave way to the NAACP. A new documentary in part highlights the town's connection to the movement.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsThe raid took place more than 160 years ago and is thought of as one of the events that precipitated the Civil War.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsOn December 2, 1859, abolitionist John Brown was hanged in Charles Town for treason for his raid on the U.S. Armory at Harpers Ferry six weeks earlier.…
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsThe Niagara Movement—an important civil rights group—held its first public meeting at Harpers Ferry’s Storer College on August 15, 1906.The movement…
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsOn the night of October 16, 1859, a band of antislavery men under John Brown captured the U.S. armory at Harpers Ferry. Earlier in the year, Brown had…
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsThis year marks 150 years since Storer College was established in Harpers Ferry. The school came out of the Civil War first as a place to teach former…
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