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Eyewitness to History: The African-American Experience.

  • Crane House & Historic YWCA 110 Orange Road Montclair, NJ, 07042 United States (map)

Eyewitness to History: The African-American Experience. 

Explore 200 years of Black history in Montclair and New Jersey through rare first-hand accounts, primary and secondary source documents. Artifacts include a bill of sale for an enslaved person in the household, an 1800s newspaper, an 1840s New York Knickerbocker magazine, census data, personal letters, oral histories, and mid-century Jet and Ebony magazines. These artifacts provide a springboard for discussion about race both in the past and in the present-day. Tours are on the hour, last tour at 3 pm. Admission is $6/adult; $5/student/senior with ID; $4/child; under 2 free. Members get in free! 

Later Event: February 12
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