Program

Public Programs: Libraries Planning

Period of Performance

10/1/2006 - 6/30/2007

Funding Totals

$40,000.00 (approved)
$40,000.00 (awarded)


Words of Thunder: The Life and Times of William Lloyd Garrison and William Lloyd Garrison and the Ambassadors of Abolition

FAIN: LP-50010-07

Boston Public Library Foundation, Inc. (Boston, MA 02116-2813)
Deirdre Brennan (Project Director: February 2006 to September 2006)
Chandra S. Harrington (Project Director: September 2006 to April 2008)

Planning of two panel exhibitions with a catalog, a website, and curricular materials about William Lloyd Garrison, the radical abolitionist movement he founded in Boston in the 1830s, the African American abolitionists who influenced him, and the role of ideas in cultural change.