This work is carried forward through community.
Becoming better ancestors begins with
remembering, protecting, and sharing history.
The Newburgh Black Cemetery Project
Newburgh begins the work of return, establishes funding for African American Burial Ground Memorial
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American Graveyard
How Black history has been paved over in the U.S. American Graveyard is a feature-length documentary that begins not with an answer…
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Margaret Wade-Lewis Center
History. Culture. Education. Healing.
Preserving the Black experience in the Hudson Valley.
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Pine Street Burial Ground
African Burial Ground and Museum
Celebration . Education. Preservation
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Ulster County Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Our mission is to facilitate the integration of our undertold past into our ongoing present.
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Mid-Hudson Antislavery History Project
Uncovering the History of Slavery and Antislavery in the Mid-Hudson Valley
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AJ Williams-Myers African Roots Center
To promote literacy through teaching and learning about the African roots experience..
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Libguide
Black History and Culture in the Hudson Valley: Slavery. In 1626 the Dutch West India Company shipped 11 African slaves into New Amsterdam.