About Us
Hidden Brookline is much more than tours. In 2022 we have:
Served on advisory committees for:
Given Talks at:
Continuing research, now focusing on Brookline’s six slave traders:
During our first fifteen years…
Ongoing research on slavery and freedom
Permanent public memorial stones, each with a public unveiling ceremony
Talks & exhibits at
Brookline Schools
Cultural events
Events: We regularly offer walking tours of slavery & freedom through Brookline Adult Ed and for any group of 6 or more. We will schedule a walking tour whenever you and five friends get together and select a date!
For more information or to schedule a talk or a walking tour, contact Lloyd Gellineau, director of the Office of Diversity and Community Relations: lgellineau@brooklinema.gov or
Dr. Barbara Brown, founder and chair of Hidden Brookline: bbbrown@bu.edu
- Researched Brookline’s Thomas Perkins’ slave trading & opium smuggling-- on the Boston institutions that sanitize him
- Persuaded the Perkins School for the Blind to stop sanitizing Perkins on their website
Served on advisory committees for:
- Faneuil Hall (re slavery)
- Revolutionary Act (re suffragists, such as Florida Ruffin Ridley)
- Jamaica Plain (on building their organization re slavery & freedom)
- Brookline Preservation Commission (re slave traders)
- Heath School (the history of the Heath family)
Given Talks at:
- Massachusetts Historical Society
- History Cambridge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdkdKhH3gU4 (30 min)
- Heath School
- Coolidge Corner Library
Continuing research, now focusing on Brookline’s six slave traders:
During our first fifteen years…
Ongoing research on slavery and freedom
Permanent public memorial stones, each with a public unveiling ceremony
Talks & exhibits at
- Neighborhood associations
- Brookline libraries on varied related topics
Brookline Schools
- Consultant for Brookline’s new grade 3 curriculum on colonial slavery in MA (as part of the social studies curriculum on Colonial America)
- Walking tours for classes
- Professional development program for grade 3 teachers
- The Ridley School: gave a talk to Ridley parents & children; researched her life; participated in the movement to change the school’s named from Edward Devotion
Cultural events
- A concert honoring Roland Hayes
- A sneak preview of a downtown play about Roland Hayes
Events: We regularly offer walking tours of slavery & freedom through Brookline Adult Ed and for any group of 6 or more. We will schedule a walking tour whenever you and five friends get together and select a date!
For more information or to schedule a talk or a walking tour, contact Lloyd Gellineau, director of the Office of Diversity and Community Relations: lgellineau@brooklinema.gov or
Dr. Barbara Brown, founder and chair of Hidden Brookline: bbbrown@bu.edu
