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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 ...
Front page of The Echo from 1904, announcing the argument before the Supreme Court in the Clyatt v. United States peonage case.. This is a list of African American newspapers that have been published in the state of New Jersey.
Oscar Grant III was a 22-year-old African-American man who was killed in the early morning hours of New Year's Day 2009 by BART Police Officer Johannes Mehserle in Oakland, California. Responding to reports of a fight on a crowded Bay Area Rapid Transit train returning from San Francisco , BART Police officers detained Grant and several other ...
Braheme Days is African American and formerly worked as a personal finance teacher at Woodbury High School in 2009. [5] During a 2011 meeting of Bridgeton residents, Days suggested violence is a "many-headed beast, and we are going to have to attack it from many angles." [6] Days is the father of Braheme Days Jr., a shot putter from Bridgeton ...
On December 10, 2019, a shooting took place at a kosher grocery store in the Greenville section of Jersey City, New Jersey. Three people were killed at the store by two assailants, David N. Anderson and Francine Graham. The assailants also wounded one customer and two police officers before being killed by police during an ensuing shootout.
Killed by African-American mob [208] [215] Wright, Charlotte: 62: White: Gilman: Iroquois: Illinois: August 27, 1900: Performed an abortion that killed a 16-year-old girl: Shot during shoot-out with sheriff and angry mob that set fire to her home [216] [217] Mills, Avery: about 22: African American: Forest City: Rutherford: North Carolina ...
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 ...
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 ...