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John Prendergast, UMass Lowell Greeley Peace Scholar, 4/9

April 6, 2012 by PaulM Posted in Current Events, History, Lowell Leave a Comment

John Prendergast meeting in South Sudan during the Southern Sudanese independence referendum, 2011 with President Jimmy Carter, 7th Secretary-General of the United Nations Kofi Annan and George Clooney (web photo courtesy of wikipedia.com) John Prendergast of the Enough Project is the 2012 UMass Lowell Greeley Scholar for Peace Studies. He has two…

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The US Constitution and Slavery

April 6, 2012 by DickH Posted in History, Lowell Leave a Comment

In this week’s Local History article on the Howl in Lowell website, I write about the Three-Fifths Compromise in the US Constitution, the section of that document that tacitly acknowledged the existence of slavery without ever mentioning that word. While standing firm in opposition to slavery in 1787 may have…

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“First Lady of Film” Bette Davis Born In Lowell

April 5, 2012 by Marie Posted in Lowell, History 1 Comment

  Seen here in Jezebel (1938),  Davis’s second Academy Award-winning performance On this day  April 5, 1908 – Ruth Elizabeth Davis, known from early childhood as “Betty”, was born in Lowell, Massachusetts,  the daughter of Ruth Augusta “Ruthie” (née Favor) and Harlow Morrell Davis, a patent attorney. The family was Protestant, of English,…

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