Vermont pastor brings Harlem kids to Vermont in 1946

Vermont pastor brings Harlem kids to Vermont in 1946

Stein, Benjamin C., Jr.

Vermont Life article about Vergennes, Vermont, pastor Ritchie Low, and his program to bring Black children from a Harlem, New York, church for a stay with white families in Vermont in 1946. This article celebrates Vermont's tolerance of racial diversity: "In this work Reverand Low was carrying on one of Vermont's oldest traditions, a tradition of equality in the eyes of God and man." The same issue of Vermont Life also contained a picture of two students in blackface at Kake Walk at UVM without noting the contradiction.

Vermont Life, vol. 3, no. 3 (Spring 1949): 42, 64

1946

"Vermont Plan: A Vermont parson brings the Vermont heritage of tolerance down to date"

VermontLifeVol3No3Spring1949.pdf

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More information about the "Vermont Plan for Racial Tolerance" can be found in the Alvah Ritchie Low papers, 1944-1952, at UVM Department of Special Collections.

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