Why would a baseball star who died more than forty years ago have such a great impact on Hartford people? … More
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Ralph Allen: “He have more than courage”
As 3,000 people left Connecticut by car, bus, and train to join the historic March on Washington, Hartford college student … More
Playing ’til Sundown
Mahlon “Duck” Duckett and John “Mule” Miles returned to Hartford in 2007. Duck and Mule are surviving members of a … More
Two, Three, Many Rosa Parks
In 1955, Rosa Parks was removed from a city bus by a Montgomery, Alabama police officer. Her arrest sparked a … More
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