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 12, 2019 | Events
Learn about the people and places associated with Trenton’s African-American community from its founding to the mid-twentieth century on February 20, 7 p.m. at the Ewing Branch of the Mercer County Library, 61 Scotch Road, Ewing. Presented by Jennifer B. Leynes,...
by lindaoppenheim | Feb 11, 2019 | Events
The third Gillett G. Griffin Memorial Lecture (A Princeton University Library lecture) delivered by author Dr. Nazera Sadiq Wright, Associate Professor of English and African American and Africana Studies, University of Kentucky Wednesday, February 13, 2019, 4:30 to...
by lindaoppenheim | Feb 7, 2019 | Events, Video
The Lawrence Headquarters Branch of the Mercer County Library System will be celebrating Black History Month by hosting two programs by presenter Al Corbett, The Life and Legacy of Jack Sherrod ,and The Education of Fannie Sherrod, as well as the showing the...
