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Begun as a grass-roots committee in the 1970s, the Afro-American Historical Society was formed by Captain Thomas Taylor (president of the Jersey City branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People), Theodore Brunson, (lay historian in Afro-American history), [10] Mrs. Nora Fant (long time and activist resident of Jersey City), and Mrs. Virginia Dunnaway (community ...
New Jersey Afro-American: 1941 [12] ... Billed as a “newspaper for young readers that focuses on the African American experience. ... City News: 1983 [33] Weekly ...
African American Historical and Cultural Museum Waterloo Iowa 1997 A. Philip Randolph Pullman Porter Museum: Chicago: Illinois: 1995 [8] Africa Center, The: New York City New York: 1984 [9] [a] African American Civil War Memorial Museum: Washington: D.C. 1999 [13] African-American Research Library and Cultural Center: Fort Lauderdale: Florida ...
The Paterson Public Library in New Jersey recently received a copy of Shakespeare’s Life of King Henry the Fifth, ... The Today Show. 300 dad jokes that'll leave you in stitches. News. News.
The history of libraries for African Americans in the United States includes the earliest segregated libraries for African Americans that were school libraries. [1] The fastest library growth happened in urban cities such as Atlanta while rural towns, particularly in the American South, were slower to add Black libraries. [1]
This is a list of newspapers in New Jersey. There were, as of 2020, over 300 newspapers in print in New Jersey. Historically, there have been almost 2,000 newspapers published in New Jersey. [1] The Constitutional Courant, founded in 1765 in Woodbridge, New Jersey, is the earliest known New Jersey newspaper. [2]
The African American population in New Jersey is predominantly located in urban areas, specifically in the cities of Newark, Jersey City, Paterson, and Trenton, as well as in Essex and Union Counties. South Jersey also harbors a substantial African American population, primarily concentrated in Camden County, Willingboro, and Atlantic City ...
Missouri Avenue Beach, also known as Chicken Bone Beach. Missouri Avenue Beach, often referred to as "Chicken Bone Beach," [1] is a lifeguarded beach on the Jersey Shore.It was an early and mid-twentieth-century Black resort destination and racially segregated section of the Atlantic Ocean beach near the Northside neighborhood of Atlantic City, New Jersey (between Missouri and Mississippi ...