In one afternoon, you could walk the property of a celebrated Black historian and spend the next moment visiting a vestige of Jim Crow-era segregation.
Learning about both New Jersey’s proudest and most shameful moments in Black history is of equal importance, said Leslie Wilson, professor of history and associate dean of the college of humanities and social sciences at Montclair State University.
“I just think that we should teach history with all the flaws. No country is perfect and sometimes you learn from the mistakes that are made in the past and hopefully you don’t repeat them,” Wilson told NJ Advance Media. “We need to have a more open notion of history and we need to share more information about the past. We shouldn’t hide things,” he said.
Take an immersive approach to educating yourself this Black History Month and plan to visit some of these significant sites in New Jersey.in Bordentown, Burlington County The Bordentown School was a co-educational, vocational school founded in 1886 by the Rev. Walter Rice, a college-educated former slave and minister with the African Methodist Episcopal Church who wanted to create educational opportunities for Black youth,. The facility, also known as the “Tuskegee of the North,” a landmark in African American education, closed in 1955 after attempts to integrate failed in the wake of Brown v. Board of Education.
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