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Art Films and Events: Summer 2013
The Massachusetts 54th Colored Infantry

September 21 at 2:30
East Building Auditorium

Introduction by Mark Samels

This PBS American Experience production about the formation of the Massachusetts 54th, the volunteer regiment of northern black soldiers formed after Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, is introduced by WGBH-Boston’s award-winning executive producer Mark Samels. Discussion follows the screening. (Mark Samels, 1991, HD-Cam, 120 minutes)


Robert Gould Shaw Memorial, 1973
Richard Benson, National Gallery of Art

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Tell It with Pride: The 54th Massachusetts Regiment and Augustus Saint-Gaudens' Shaw Memorial

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American, 1848–1907

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