Excited for Day One of the NJ Amistad Commission Summer Institute! Moving Forward, Preserving our Past: Revolution, Reaction, and Reform. TheAmistadCommission

New Jersey Amistad Commission website📚🇺🇸🌎 njamistad.com

The incredible work of AmistadCommission is so worthy of gratitude for the richer and more nuanced perspective on the past they have provided this week - perspectives often overlooked or marginalized in education. #BlackHistory #AfricanAmericanHistory #AmericanHistory #Education

The New Jersey Amistad Teacher Leadership Committee with Associate Director of the NJ Amistad Trevor Melton📚🇺🇸

Day of the 2025 NJ Amistad Summer Institute 📚🇺🇸

Architect Norma Merrick Sklarek exemplified the “lifting as we climb spirit” of Black female entrepreneurship. Well-known for her project management skills on jobs like the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo, Sklarek coached architecture students preparing for licensing examinations.

The NJ Department of Education Holocaust Commission, LGBTQIA, Italian Heritage and the NJ Amistad at the 2025 NJ Amistad Summer Institute 📚🇺🇸 #njdoe #workingtogether #americanhistory

We are proud to recognize Hinchliffe Stadium with a marker on the Black Heritage Trail, recognizing its history as home to the Negro Leagues in NJ and Paterson’s own Larry Doby, the second African American to break the color barrier in baseball.

Albert Einstein teaching at Lincoln, the United State's first Historical Black University, 1946

#onthisday in 1936, Jesse Owens won his fourth gold medal as a member of the 4×100-meter relay team that set a world record of 39.8 seconds. The success of Owens and other Black athletes defeated Nazi leader Adolf Hitler’s plans to showcase “Aryan superiority.” The son of

This morning the Center for Civil Rights History & Research had the honor of hosting a Black Alumni Reunion, “The First Generation After Reintegration,” in the Hollings Library Program Room. 1/2

#OnThisDay in 1921, Alex Haley, the author of “Roots” and “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, was born in Ithaca, New York. He spent much of his first five years with his mother and grandparents in Henning, Tennessee. He graduated from high school at 15, attended what is now

—August 12th, 1906: The Brownsville Raid— Also known as the “Brownsville Affair,” in Texas resulted in the largest U.S. Army dismissal in the history of the military branch. A reported rape of a white woman during the night of August 12 incensed so many townspeople that Major

#OnThisDay in 1954, Lamar Smith, a World War I veteran who organized Black Americans to vote, was shot dead in broad daylight on the courthouse lawn in Brookhaven, Mississippi. Dozens of people watched but denied being able to identify his killer. NAACP leader Medgar Evers

#OnThisDay in 1906, the Niagara Movement (forerunner to the NAACP) met at Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, the site of John Brown’s raid. The group even conducted a barefoot pilgrimage to the site. Headed by W.E.B. DuBois, the organization called for enforcement of the 13th, 14th

The Berry Brothers, the sensational flash tap and acrobatics dance team that found fame in nightclubs, stage and film, comprised three blood brothers, Ananias, James, and Warren. Encouraged by their mother, they perfected their unique dance style from from the eccentric dancer

"Three people were killed in this crime, three human beings. We don’t know their names." Read KUT Austin's coverage of EJI's community remembrance work, in partnership with the Austin NAACP, that honors the victims of racial terror lynching. kut.org/crime-justice/…

Ella Fitzgerald arrested after singing to an integrated audience in 1955

On this day in 1956, Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong recorded “Ella and Louis”

Clean young brothers in Harlem, NY in 1970.