Noelle Lorraine Williams |Researcher and Curator
Black Power! 19th Century EXHIBITION
Noelle Lorraine Williams
Artist, Researcher and Curator
In 2020, the Newark Public Library received a project grant from the New Jersey Historical Commission, a division of the Department of State for the virtual and in-house exhibition.
The pop-up exhibition is currently hosted at Rutgers-University Newark in the
VIRTUAL EXHIBITION Content
Overview
Learn ThE HISTORY OF BLACK ACTIVISM IN THE NORTH
Learn ThE HISTORY OF BLACK ACTIVISM IN THE NORTH
African Americans in nineteenth-century Newark fought a decades-long battle against injustice and slavery and for Black lives in Newark and in the United States.
Learn ThE HISTORY OF BLACK ACTIVISM IN THE NORTH
Learn ThE HISTORY OF BLACK ACTIVISM IN THE NORTH
Learn ThE HISTORY OF BLACK ACTIVISM IN THE NORTH
Why did the city and state work to prevent African Americans from building community?
Why was relocating free African Americans seen as the best solution to prevent Black rebellion?
BLACK POWER! 20th CenTURY vs 19th CENTURY
Learn ThE HISTORY OF BLACK ACTIVISM IN THE NORTH
BLACK POWER! 20th CenTURY vs 19th CENTURY
In what ways was the Black Power movement of the 1800s similar to the one in the 1960s?
MUSIC & POETRY VIDEOS
MAPS OF HISTORIC SITES
BLACK POWER! 20th CenTURY vs 19th CENTURY
Check out some of the poetry and stories of African American freedom fighters!
Watch poet Khali Raymond perform a poem about Underground Railroad hero Jermain Loguen written by Newark poet and Reverend Elymas Payson.
Hear vocal artist and guitarist Janètza Miranda sing the song of a 19th century Black woman and her baby imprisoned in a Newark jail cell.
MAPS OF HISTORIC SITES
MAPS OF HISTORIC SITES
MAPS OF HISTORIC SITES
What are the existing and destroyed Black Power sites from the 1800s and 1900s in Newark?
Where are some of the places that Blacks sought freedom and lived their lives in greater New Jersey?
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