Valerie Cunningham

A Former Mainer Completes Her Winding Run To The Smithsonian

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Entertainment

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Press Herald

The home was owned by Hazel and Clayton Sinclair, a former maid and chauffeur in New York who came to Maine during summer visits with their employers, said Valerie Cunningham, of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, who has studied the history of African-Americans in New Hampshire and southern Maine and found

Hogsett Seeks New Chief From Inside Impd

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Health

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Fox 59

ve already had conversations with many from throughout the leadership of not only the community, the sheriff, the prosecutor, I met with the command staff of IMPD last week, and in naming Valerie Cunningham to be the acting chief, I also made it clear that I was going to spend the better part of thi

234 Years Later, Nh Slaves Are Granted...

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ABC News

Valerie Cunningham, who wrote a history of slavery in Portsmouth, noted that the petitioners weren't asking for money, nor were they just asking for their own freedom; they were asking the state to abolish slavery altogether.

Rock Rest Pieces In Smithsonian African American Collection

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Entertainment

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Foster's Daily Democrat

Portsmouth African American historian Valerie Cunningham, founder of the Portsmouth Black Heritage Trail, called the couple Aunt Hazel and Uncle Clayton because they were such close friends of her parents. The couple married in 1936, and two years later bought a ramshackle, fixer-upper on Route 10