Historic Happenings Blog

Wednesday, November 13 – Passaic County     On Wednesday, November 13th at 7:00 p.m. at the Louis Bay II Library, 345 Lafayette Ave, Hawthorne NJ, the Passaic County Historical Society is hosting  Mario Medici as he presents the Civil Rights Movement. The civil rights movement was a struggle by African Americans in the mid-1950s to late 1960s to achieve civil rights equal to those of whites. No social or political movement of the twentieth century has had as profound an effect on the legal and political institutions of the United States. Learn how this movement sought to restore to African Americans the rights of citizenship guaranteed by the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments, which had been eroded by segregationist Jim Crow Laws in the South.    Mario Medici is a retired Information Technology executive with 50 years of business experience, 30 of which were with the airline industry. Having traveled the world extensively, and with a love for am...

June 1-30 -- Gloucester County      June 1-30  -  A Time for Change at MADE Artisan Marketplace, 65 North Broad St., Woodbury: This visiting from the African American Heritage Museum of Southern New Jersey details South Jersey's participation in the tumultuous Civil Rights movement of the 1960s.  Free. Open to the public Monday through Saturday from 10am-7pm. Coupons obtained at the exhibit allow for free admission to the Gloucester County Historical Society's World War I exhibit through the month of June. https://www.facebook.com/events/516575065538763/    Mon. to Sat. 10:00 am to 4:00 pm

Monthly Lecture: Monuments Go Up, Monuments Come Down: The Politics of Confederate and Civil Rights Monuments Barbara Seater, Ph.D. comes to the Strauss Mansion Museum for this engaging topic. The events in Charlottesville during the summer of 2017 have prompted even more consideration about memorials and what they represent. When it comes to memorials, heritage and events are political and often reflected in the monuments that are erected. As ideologies change, groups become more or less powerful in privileging the commemorated, or as new information comes to light, new monuments are created and/or old ones are removed. In this session, the politics of and public response to memorials will be examined through numerous lens. This program is funded by the New Jersey Council for the Humanities This program has been made possible in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the New Jersey Council for the Humanities (NJCH). Any views, findings, conclusions, or re...