How can a school district flagrantly defy the law for decades? NJ250 Related A New Jersey Reform Era Court Ruling Change is Slow While the 13th Amendment freed all enslaved… Continue reading “Segregation as Custom – Hedgepeth v. Trenton Board of Education”
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VIRTUAL AUTHOR TALK – The Princeton Fugitive Slave: The Trials of James Collins Johnson
James Collins Johnson made his name by escaping slavery in Maryland and fleeing to Princeton, where he built a life in a bustling community of African Americans working at what… Continue reading “VIRTUAL AUTHOR TALK – The Princeton Fugitive Slave: The Trials of James Collins Johnson”
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How One NJ School District Tackled Desegregation – Booker v. Plainfield Board of Education
How far should a school district go to eradicate de facto segregation? tagNJ250 Related A New Jersey Modern Era Court Ruling The Aftermath of Brown v. Board of Education The… Continue reading “How One NJ School District Tackled Desegregation – Booker v. Plainfield Board of Education”
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Recap of Genealogy Research Stories: Benjamin Flinn and Oliver Cromwell
Written by Regina FitzpatrickPublished on November 3, 2023 Thank you for attending the recent Genealogy Research Stories Class on Benjamin Flinn and Oliver Cromwell. For information about researching NJ Revolutionary… Continue reading “Recap of Genealogy Research Stories: Benjamin Flinn and Oliver Cromwell”
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NJ State Library Digital Collections
The NJ State Library’s (NJSL) Digital Collections include materials that have been digitized or published electronically. They are maintained and preserved by the Research Library to ensure perpetual public access.… Continue reading “NJ State Library Digital Collections”
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Hidden Figures Revealed Program Recap
Written by Andrew DauphineePublished on March 17 2021 Thank you to Janice Cross-Gilyard, president of the Afro-American Historical and Genealogy Society – New Jersey Chapter, for her fascinating and well-researched… Continue reading “Hidden Figures Revealed Program Recap”
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Gustavus Vassa, Written by Himself (1789)
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From Chapter 3, “The Slave Ship”