3PE – LONG WEEKEND – Dr. Fiona Vernal on How Hartford Became Home: Migration and Community in Hartford

America 250 Special Event
Dr. Fiona Vernal on How Hartford Became Home: Migration and Community in Hartford
Thu, Jul 2, 2026
6:00 pm at The West Indian Social Club of Hartford
SPECIAL EVENT: A Program of the City of Hartford LONG WEEKEND Festival

Hartford, Connecticut attracted waves of internal and transnational migrations of African American and West Indian communities that transformed the city’s racial and ethnic landscape. These monumental shifts in mobilities unfolded in many other metropolitan areas in the United States like Chicago and Philadelphia, Harlem and San Francisco in the twentieth century. This talk explores the history of migration, housing, settlement, community formation, and succession in Hartford.