by lindaoppenheim | Aug 4, 2016 | Events
The annual PRINCETON SAFE STREETS ACTIVITIES will take place on August 6-14, 2016. It’s focused on COMMUNITY, FAITH, HOPE, HISTORY as a WITHERSPOON – JACKSON COMMUNITY CELEBRATION OF PAUL ROBESON, BLACK HISTORY, AND BLACK FAMILIES OF PRINCETON “In...
by lindaoppenheim | Jul 13, 2016 | Exhibit
Princeton Chronicles, founded by Priya Vulchi, Not in Our Town board member, consists of Princeton High School students, who, under the guidance of local historian and Not in Our Town board member, Shirley Satterfield, and professional artist, Dressler Smith, have...
by lindaoppenheim | Apr 6, 2016 | Letter to the Editor, Uncategorized
Below is the letter from Not in Our Town published in the Town Topics (April 6, 2016) supporting the designation of the Witherspoon-Jackson neighborhood as an historic district. To the Editor: African Americans have for centuries sustained and strengthened the...
by lindaoppenheim | Nov 30, 2015 | Community Meeting, Documents, Website
The meeting in the Princeton Municipal building Council room will focus on the survey and report of the consultant hired by the Princeton Council to evaluate the proposal to make the Witherspoon-Jackson neighborhood an historic district. A website was created as a...
by lindaoppenheim | Feb 21, 2015 | Article
Not In Our Town board member Shirley Satterfield, the acknowledged historian of the Princeton African American community, reminisces about the Witherspoon-Jackson neighborhood and the former “Colored Y,” now the Paul Robeson Center for the Arts which...
