Happy Poetry Month! Remembering Jessie Redmon Fauset. History Moment with Shamele Jordon, the Green Book Project, Along Freedom's Journey and a Community History grant from the New Jersey Council for the Humanities. Registration is required. To register for this meeting - click below
Join us for this special LHS presentation with Dr. William Sturkey, History Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, as he discusses his book, "To Write in the Light of Freedom: The Newspapers of the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Schools." His book showcases newspapers published by Black children who learned civics, politics, and history, curriculum that helped […]
Panelists Morgan Lloyd of 1838 Black Metropolis, Ralph Hunter of the African American Heritage Museum of South Jersey, Paul Schopp of Stockton University, Guy Weston of Timbuctoo join Dr. Keith Green of Rutgers University-Camden to discuss these singular and historic communities of southern New Jersey. The LHS Monthly Meeting program is free but registration is […]
This third summer Underground Railroad Camp will run from 10 AM to 1 PM from Monday, June 24th to Friday, June 28th, 2024. In addition to a focus on Lawnside's Peter Mott House Underground Railroad Museum, campers will visit other UGRR sites and learn about the lives of freedom seekers using visual, performing and folk arts.