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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 Whit
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