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Camille Johnson

Camille Johnson is the 2022 Thomas Dugan Intern for the Concord Museum and The Robbins House. She is currently pursuing a Master of Arts in Museum Studies in the Cooperstown Graduate Program at SUNY College at Oneonta.

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From Concord to California: Ellen Garrison and Her Fight for Freedom

September 15, 2022
Camille Johnson
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Concord has a reputation for producing people of radical ideas, justice, and bravery. From the minutemen of the American Revolution to transcendentalist writers like Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson, the town of Concord has an ability to grow a sense of social justice in all its citizens. The story of Ellen Garrison Jackson Clark, an African American woman born and raised here in Concord who went on to fight for freedom at a national level, is a less well-known example—an injustice that The Robbins House and the Concord Museum are seeking to rectify.


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