Timeline: Albion’s ‘Self-Determined’ Black Community

A collage of photos of varying quality and from a range of time periods. Over the collage is large graphic gold text reading “Albion’s Black History.” Illustrative black squiggles pass over two opposite corners.
A timeline showing what Albion historians and residents Bob Wall and Akaiia Ridley, alumna ‘22, said are some of the most important moments in Albion’s Black history. “Black history is American history, the same way that immigrant history is American history,” Ridley said. “There is not one person in history that did it all by themselves” (Illustration by Bonnie Lord).
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Bonnie Lord is a senior from Alma, Michigan and an environmental science major at Albion College. She is driven by community, justice and sustainability. She enjoys bird watching, reading and dismantling the patriarchy. Contact Bonnie via email at [email protected].

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