Ellen Garrison (Photos – robbinshouse.org)
Learn about Ellen Garrison, a 19th-century African American Civil Rights activist, abolitionist, and educator who lived her final years in Pasadena.
By News Desk
Pasadena Museum of History presents Jen Turner of The Robbins House for an insightful Zoom presentation on the Life and Legacy of Ellen Garrison (1823–1892) on Tuesday, March 28, at 7:00 pm. The program will cover Ellen Garrison’s life from her birth in Concord in 1823, to her work with abolitionist campaigns in Concord and Boston as a young adult, her dedicated teaching career at American Missionary Schools in the Reconstruction South, and her pioneering protest against segregation at a Baltimore train station.
Jen Turner is the Executive Director of The Robbins House Museum in Concord, Massachusetts, a museum that showcases the history of African American experience in Concord and beyond. It was the home where Ellen was born in 1823.
Tickets
$15 General; $10 PMH Members. Advance registration recommended; purchase tickets at Ellen Garrison: Her Life and Legacy from Concord to Pasadena Tickets, Tue, Mar 28, 2023 at 7:00 PM | Eventbrite.
> This program will be on Zoom. Link to the program will be sent to all participants the day before the program.
Edited by Ann Hunnewell
The daughter of enslaved people is buried at Mountain View Cemetery. The Altadena Historical Society along with the community raised money for a headstone to be placed her her grave site on Juneteenth 2021. This year we hope to place headstones on her husband’s and sister’s grave. AHS also gives a scholarship in her name to PUSD students on Juneteenth. Before Rosa Parks she refused to give up her seat on the train.