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Eyewitness to African American History

  • 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. These artifacts provide a springboard for discussion about race both in the past and in the present-day.

Tours begin at 1:00 and 2:30pm.

Admission is $6/adult; $5/student/senior with ID; $4/child; under 2 free. Members get in free!

If you are not a member, you may join prior to the event or at the event for admission by contacting the Montclair History Center at 973-744-1796, at www.montclairhistory.org, or sending a note to mail@montclairhistorical.org.