by lindaoppenheim | Mar 27, 2019 | Events, Speech
On Tuesday, April 2, 7 pm, at Rutgers-Camden Campus Center (326 Penn Street, Camden, NJ) Dr. Cheryl LaRoche, author of Free Black Communities and the Underground Railroad: The Geography of Resistance, will given a talk entitled, “In Search of the Underground...
by lindaoppenheim | Feb 15, 2019 | Video
At 4 pm on Sunday, February 24, the Acme Screening Room (25 S Union St, Lambertville, NJ 08530, Phone: (609) 483-5237) will show THE NORTH STAR, the story of Benjamin “Big Ben” Jones, a runaway slave who escaped to freedom in Bucks County. Local filmmaker...
by lindaoppenheim | Feb 12, 2018 | Events
The Lawrence Public Library, 2751 Brunswick Pike, Lawrenceville, will present two programs for Black History Month: “The Logistics of the Underground Railroad,” Thursday, February 15, 7:00 PM Logistics, a term used in private industry, the military and...
by lindaoppenheim | Oct 9, 2017 | Exhibit
The Arts Council of Princeton presents Reconstructed History (Taplin Gallery). Curated by Amy Brummer, Reconstructed History features work by artists Wendel White (Schools for the Colored Series), Annie Hogan (photographs of buildings at the Berkeley Plantation in...
by lindaoppenheim | Sep 7, 2017 | Events
The Underground Railroad in New Jersey, Trent House, 15 Market St, Trenton, NJ 08611 Saturday September 9, 1 pm Treading the Paths that with Tears Have Been Watered: The Underground Railroad in New Jersey. A lecture by Dr. Linda Caldwell Epps From the beginning of...
