Keywords: blackface
Item 48256
Benoit store annual party, 1928
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1928-10-30 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print
Item 23662
Costume party, Portland School of Art, 1928
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: 1928 Location: Portland Media: Glass Negative
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Music in Maine - Community Music
"… in contrast to—and perhaps competing with blackface groups—the Kemps embraced their songs and tunes as being “genuine” and “acted as though they…"
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Begin Again: reckoning with intolerance in Maine
BEGIN AGAIN explores Maine's historic role, going back 528 years, in crisis that brought about the pandemic, social and economic inequities, and the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020.
