John Mills Lecture at Yale’s Sterling Memorial Library

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Written By John Mills

On May 29th @ Noon, John Mills will be giving a lecture at Yale’s Sterling Memorial Library.

In honor of National Military Appreciation Month, join the Working Women’s Network, Yale African American Affinity Group, and Yale Veterans Network for a discussion with John Mills, an independent scholar and president of the Alex Breanne Corporation, discussing individuals of Connecticut's colored regiments.

John Mills will focus on the Colored troops of Connecticut during the Civil War: the Connecticut 29th and 30th Colored Regiments, and the 31st U.S. Colored Troops. We will dig into how they were formed, who the men were, what their experiences were, and how we honor them today. Other work to be discussed is the life and times of Thaddeus & Mary Newton, as well as information about an upcoming celebration of life at their gravesite in June.

This is a free event. If interested, please consider registering here.

BTW… We have many projects occurring across Connecticut, New Jersey and Maryland. Please consider supporting our efforts by making a donation at https://alexbreanne.org/donate.

Thanks and God Bless.

John

John Mills

Originally from San Diego, John Mills is a technologist by trade, but an equity advocate and independent scholar by passion. The descendant of both southern and northern enslaved, John focuses on unearthing little known people and stories of this country’s history in slavery and the transatlantic slave trade. John presents research through the lens and perspective of a descendant, with intent to inspire understanding and empathy, a means to inspire good, God fearing people, now armed with information, to look into whether they may be unwittingly aligning to biases resulting from the reverberating effects of a past time. John is a member of the Connecticut Freedom Trail and a member of the Webb Deane Stevens Museum Council. John is also working with an international team funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) in an effort to deliver transformational impact on digital methods in cultural institutions...a means to decolonize museums. Finally, John is working with the state of Connecticut, business leaders and scholars in Middletown, CT to honor and memorialize a former enslaved individual by the name of Prince Mortimer.

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