New Britain’s Notable Women: Connie Wilson Collins, Civic Leader
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New Britain’s Notable Women: Connie Wilson Collins, Civic Leader

Connie Wilson Collins (1928-2013) is considered one of New Britain’s greatest civic leaders and labor activists. Born in New York and raised in New Britain, she began her career in 1951 at Landers, Frary, & Clark and quickly became active in the plant’s union, United Electrical Workers of America Local 207. Later, she rose to the position of Union President...

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NBIM Celebrates Black Innovators: The Black Dressmaker who Transformed Ironing
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NBIM Celebrates Black Innovators: The Black Dressmaker who Transformed Ironing

Sarah (Marshall) Boone was born enslaved in New Bern, North Carolina in 1832. She married very young (only 14 or 15!) and moved to New Haven after her freedom was purchased, ostensibly by her new husband, a freedman. They had eight children and had relocated to Connecticut by 1856, six years before the start of the Civil War...

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