by lindaoppenheim | Feb 21, 2015 | Events
Share stories and histories of the W-J Neighborhood and celebrate the launch of the W-J Neighborhood Stories Project, Sunday, February 22, 3-5 pm at the Princeton Arts Council. Collaborators include the Paul Robeson House, Princeton Public Library and the Historical...
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...
by lindaoppenheim | Dec 16, 2014 | Letter to the Editor
U.S.1: To the Editor Freedom Summer: 50 Years Later This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Freedom Summer Project, the nonviolent effort by civil rights activists to integrate Mississippi’s segregated political system. Princeton was fortunate to have Robert...
by lindaoppenheim | Nov 21, 2014 | Events
Nearly 70 people came to hear NIOT’s excellent panel at Princeton Public Library on Thursday, with Ted Fetter (center of group photo) moderating four panelists (in order of photos: Joseph Moore, Michael Lipsky, Shirley Satterfield, and Benjamin Colbert) and two...
by lindaoppenheim | Nov 20, 2014 | Events
The Princeton Public Library ( 65 Witherspoon St. Princeton, NJ ) will present a panel of Princeton residents and others from the local area who participated in Freedom Summer and Civil Rights events in 1964 share their memories. The panel will be moderated by Ted...
