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Eyewitness to African American History Tour

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

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. Tours begin at 1:00 and 2:30 pm in the Nathaniel Crane House, 110 Orange Road. Admission is $6/adult; $5/student/senior with ID; $4/child; under 2 free, good for both sites. Members get in free! Join here.

Earlier Event: October 13
Tour the Shultz House (Evergreens)
Later Event: October 14
Lunch on the Hearth