The Cambridge Black History Project
Here to Share & Illuminate Black History
Dr. Elizabeth (Betty) Miller Rawlins
It is with profound sadness that we report that our second oldest Trailblazer, Dr. Elizabeth (Betty) Miller Rawlins, became an ancestor on February 3, 2024. She joins ancestor Dr. June Jackson Christmas, who ascended on December 31, 2023.
At our January 26, 2023, bookmark launch at the Cambridge Public Library, many of you had the privilege of meeting her and hearing from her about her own legacy and her thoughts on the current state of education for our children. The City of Cambridge proclaimed that day Dr. Elizabeth Miller Rawlins and Dr. June Jackson Christmas Day in recognition of their contributions to Cambridge history and as models of achievable excellence. In April 2023, Dr. Rawlins was honored by Simmons University at the Black Alumni Symposium.
We offer sincere condolences to her children, Paul and Pattie, many other family members, and dear friends. She will be sorely missed, but her impact will continue to be felt far and wide.
The CBHP: A Work of Love
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Charlotte Hawkins Brown
An American author, educator, and founder of the Palmer Memorial Institute. Charlotte distinguished herself as a superior student and a gifted musician in Cambridge.
Roy Allen
One of the nation’s first Black television producers and directors. During the 1950s and well into the early 1990s, he was a Black pioneer in the new medium of television.
Black Trailblazers
Black Cantabrigians have–and continue to–blaze trails in all fields: education, social justice, the arts, business, and medicine. They are lawyers, television producers, star athletes, and political activists. The Black History Project wants to illuminate the lives and experiences of these oft-forgotten Black Trailblazers.
Black Trailblazers
TThis project was conceived and developed to illuminate Cambridge’s Black Trailblazers yet to be recognized by the city. It is a work of love by an older generation of Black Cantabrigians, wishing to pass on knowledge we hope to preserve.
Charlotte Hawkins Brown
An American author, educator, and founder of the Palmer Memorial Institute. Charlotte distinguished herself as a superior student and a gifted musician in Cambridge.
Roy Allen
One of the nation’s first Black television producers and directors. During the 1950s and well into the early 1990s, he was a Black pioneer in the new medium of television.