Stories from Black History Everyone Should Know
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Learn more about the writer and educator at RannMiller.com | |
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If you think young people need to be taught Black History hear Rann Miller, educator and author, outline how and why it must be done.
He is the featured speaker at the Society's free monthly meeting on Zoom only, Thursday, March 14 at
7 p.m.
Mr. Miller is the author of the Expanded Edition of “Resistance Stories from Black History for Kids: Inspiring People and Events that Every Kid Should Know.”
He teaches Advanced Placement Black History at Camden's Promise Academy Charter High School where is he is also the director of diversity and inclusion for the district.
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Time to Share Green Book Site Memories and Photos | |
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Shamele Jordon, project manager, is leading a team documenting the Negro Motorist Green Book locations in Lawnside and Berlin. This guide was first published in 1936 to list safe places for African Americans traveling during the segregation era. Lawnside and Berlin businesses were listed in multiple editions.
You can help breathe life into these long-gone people and places that landed both towns in the guide by sharing memories, mementos and photos. The sites include the Acorn Inn, Dreamland, Henry Smith's Barbershop, Hi-Hat Inn, Inman Inn, La Belle Inn, Lawnside Inn, Lawnside Park, Newton's Service Station, Thelma Thomas Salon, Wilcox Cafe and the Tippin Inn.
If you want to participate, have questions or suggestions, reach out to researcher@petermotthouse.org or (856) 335-5156. Click the image above to register.
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Revolutionary War Sign to be Installed
Lawnside will place a marker on East Charleston Avenue this month honoring the role of Black fighters in the Revolutionary War. This includes those the British promised to free and who fought for the Americans without that promise. It was complicated.
Stay tuned!
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Postal Service Issues UGRR Stamps | |
Ten heroes of abolition are honored by the U.S. Postal Service with these Underground Railroad stamps.
Buy them online from USPS.com, at your local post office or wherever stamps are sold.
Beside Harriet Tubman, can you name others?
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In Memoriam:
Hugh Braithwaite | |
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The Lawnside Historical Society was saddened to learn of the sudden passing of Hugh Braithwaite, founder of Braithwaite Communications of Philadelphia. He generously committed company resources and talented associates to create branding, media campaigns, videography and design help to promote the Peter Mott House Underground Railroad Museum. We offer sincere condolences to his family and colleagues. Hugh is at left in the photograph taken when they visited last year.
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Society Receives Humanities Grant
The New Jersey Council for the Humanities awarded the Society a grant of up to $5,000 for a community history project on the impact of building the N.J. Turnpike and Interstate 295 through Lawnside. We need volunteers. More details to come.
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FREE ON ZOOM
THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 7 PM Monthly Meeting
Poetry Month honoring Jessie Redmon Fauset with a reading by Kate Rushin, Lawnside native, poet, author, professor at Connecticut College, and Poet in Residence, English, New London, Connecticut.
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THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 7 PM
SHOWCASING MISSISSIPPI '64 FREEDOM SCHOOL NEWSPAPERS
Dr. William Sturkey, University of Pennsylvania history professor, discusses his book featuring work students created when a freedom curriculum replaced degrading segregationist lessons.
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SUPPORT THIS EVENT
Private Screening
ORIGIN by Ava Duvernay
Based on the book CASTE
by Isabel Wilkerson
SUNDAY, MARCH 17, 2:30 PM
Hosted by NAACP Camden County East Youth Council
AMC Theatres, Haddonfield-Berlin Road, Voorhees, NJ
Tickets: $25
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Order Underground Railroad Freedom Fighter Stickers | |
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Click the image to order them at shop.petermotthouse.org
featuring William Still, the father of the Underground Railroad; the Civil War battle flag of the New Jersey 22nd Regiment U.S. Colored Troops; abolitionist and suffragist Sojourner Truth; Harriet Tubman, spy, scout, nurse, conductor; Frederick Douglass, editor, author, and orator and Henry "Box" Brown who shipped himself to freedom.
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Board of Trustees
Jacqueline Miller Bentley
Stephanie Fisher
Dr. Keith Green
Linda Shockley
Officers
Linda Shockley, President
C. Joyce Fowler, Vice President
Christine Lewis-Coker, Treasurer
Gloria G. Goodman, Financial Secretary
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The Lawnside Historical Society is a qualified organization of the New Jersey Cultural Trust. It is supported by UPS Foundation, Braithwaite Communications, New Jersey American Water, New Jersey State Council on the Arts, New Jersey Arts & Culture Renewal Fund of the Princeton Area Community Foundation, Edmund Optics, the New Jersey Historical Commission, the New Jersey Historic Trust, PSE&G, members, individuals and the Camden County Cultural and Heritage Commission at Camden County College, the officially designated county history agency of the New Jersey Historical Commission. | |
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Support the Peter Mott House
and the Lawnside Historical Society
Click DONATE NOW or mail a check to:
Lawnside Historical Society, P.O. Box 608, Lawnside NJ 08045-0608
Tax ID No. 52-1747850
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CONTACT US
E: lhs@petermotthouse.org W: petermotthouse.org P: 856.546.8850
The Lawnside Historical Society is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization making
donations deductible to the extent permitted by law.
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