Here's your boarding pass to another continent. Art from 18 countries is represented: there are gowns from Nigeria, masks from Liberia, carved poles from Chad.
There's a reproduction of a Jersey slave cabin. There's also a mockup of the kind of Jersey City apartment an ordinary African-American family might have had in the s: washboard, cathedral radio, Victrola, clothes iron made of real iron, ice box that housed real ice.
From such commonplace roots, extraordinary people emerged. This is where the next generation of leadership is going to come from. These ordinary folks. Common — but extraordinary. The museum is a treasure trove for scholars. There are photos, posters, statues, drums, old street signs, examples of knitting and crochet, Civil War rifles shouldered by black regiments. One telling artifact: a pair of slave shackles inscribed with a West African pictograph.
It reads: "Perform the impossible. Open 10 to 5 p. Saturdays, and by appointment. In his day, country clubs and golf clubs were notoriously restrictive — no Negroes, no Jews, none of the "wrong sort.
Shady Rest, America's first black-owned golf club, featured a nine-hole fairway, tennis, croquet, horseback riding and shooting for "respectable men and women. Shady Rest is where the elite would meet. Du Bois, Althea Gibson were seen there. It was listed in the famous "Green Book," the guide for for black travel in segregated America that inspired the recent Oscar-nominated movie. Top entertainers performed every weekend.
The cream of black society flocked to see concerts, lectures and tournaments. John Shippen, the first African-American to compete in the U. Open — often considered America's first professional golfer, period — was groundskeeper. His house actually an 18th century farmhouse is open to the public and features artifacts from Shady Rest's glory days. Scotch Plains Township acquired the Shady Rest property in and maintained it until , when it took over operations; you can still shoot a round of golf there.
But it's not the same thing. Sometimes a piece of paper can move the world. The Declaration of Independence, for instance. Or the Magna Carta. Or a small square of paper, dropped into a ballot box by Thomas Mundy Peterson, 46, a former slave, born in Metuchen — the first black man to vote in an American election. Peter's Episcopal. Peter's rector Anne-Marie Jeffery. Peter has a history of welcoming all kinds of people.
If you look at the boys' choir from the early s, you'll see black faces there. The election wasn't the most exciting, No president was being chosen. The burning question on the ballot was whether Perth Amboy would revise or scrap its charter Peterson voted with the majority to revise it.
Still, it, must have been a thrilling day for Peterson, a school principal, handyman, and Republican party official. Her bill will put the Amistad Commission under the state Department of Education, tighten regulations and oversight, and mandate professional development for teachers. Students in high schools across the region have been pushing for changes this year after the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer. They want schools to address systemic racism and implicit bias among staff and students.
New Jersey and Pennsylvania require history to be taught, but districts decide the content of their courses. Meanwhile, the Cherry Hill School District is moving forward with a plan to become the first in New Jersey to mandate that students take an African American history course in order to graduate.
Students proposed the course after organizing a Black Lives Matter protest in the spring. The predominantly white school system would be the first in the state with such a requirement, according to the New Jersey Department of Education. Many schools teach Black history, but not as a prerequisite for graduation. In Philadelphia, a course in African American history, including the civil rights movement, is a graduation requirement.
It has not yet been determined what year students would be expected to take the class. Vaccine Appointment Support. Visit covid Department of State The Hon. Tahesha Way, Secretary of State. Martin Luther King Jr. Presented by award winning journalist and author, Rochelle Riley. Moderated by Randall Pinkston. February 11 P.
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