Jim Crow in New Jersey

Keynote Speaker: Spencer Crew, Robinson Professor of U.S. History, George Mason University

Spencer Crew has worked in public history institutions for more than twenty-five years. He served as president of the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center for six years and worked at the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution for twenty years. Nine of those years he served as the director of NMAH. He graduated from Brown University and holds a master’s degree and a doctorate from Rutgers University. In 2003 he was inducted into the Rutgers Hall of Distinguished Alumni. He is a Robinson Professor of American history at George Mason University.

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Additional program highlights:

• Panel on segregation at hotels and beaches – stories from Cape May, NJ
• Visualization of school segregation in photographs by Wendell White

This program will be held at Grounds For Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ. The per person fee of $75 includes a light breakfast, lunch, beverages all day, and admission to the beautiful sculpture park.

Sponsorship support from the NJ Council for the Humanities is helping to make this program possible.