by lindaoppenheim | Mar 2, 2019 | Article, Truth and Reconciliation
A self-guided Heritage Tour, sponsored by the Witherspoon-Jackson Historical and Cultural Society (WJHCS) to commemorate 29 noted African American sites in Princeton, is about to become a reality. For many decades Ms. Shirley Satterfield has been conducting...
by lindaoppenheim | Feb 28, 2019 | Article
Tom Jackman’s article describes the efforts of Hightstown, NJ high school students to get the federal government to release information about 128 “cold” cases of lynchings of black Southerners in the decades after World War II . “Hightstown...
by lindaoppenheim | Feb 26, 2019 | Article
New Jersey is ranked the sixth-most-segregated state in the nation for black students, and seventh for Latino students. High school students from Ridgewood, Leonia, Cliffside Park and New Milford recently convened to propose solutions to the racial divisions in New...
by lindaoppenheim | Feb 25, 2019 | Article, history, Website
“Massachusetts was the first [colony] to legalize slavery, in 1641. Even before then, merchants in the Massachusetts Bay Colony had enslaved Native Americans, and by 1638 were bartering them for Africans in the West Indies. The slave trade grew from there and...
by lindaoppenheim | Feb 24, 2019 | Article, history
Kathleen O’Brien rightly notes the limitations of the Oscar-nominated movie Green Book, which tells the story of the friendship between pianist Dr. Don Shirley and his chauffeur Tony Lip and depicts segregation in accommodations in the South in the 1950s. (The...
by lindaoppenheim | Feb 22, 2019 | Article
Tiffany Mitchell Patterson, Assistant Professor of Secondary Social Studies, West Virginia University, provides specific suggestions for doing “a better job of understanding the subject and presenting it to others.” Click here to read her article.