This week's curated list of articles explores efforts to promote economic justice and remembers an advocate who challenged the status quo.

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June 26, 2024

9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Grounds For Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ

Jim Crow in New Jersey, Part I

Presented by the Sankofa Collaborative

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.

Additional program highlights:

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

LEARN MORE ABOUT THIS TOPIC

FIGHTING FOR EQUITY

Shani Mott, Black Studies Scholar Who Examined Power All Around Her, Dies at 47 | NY Times, March 2024

Restorative Compensation: Moving from Theory to Practice | NPQ, February 2024

Changing Underwriting Rules…for Racial Justice | NPQ, December 2023

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