Queens College The City University of New York In Honor of Black History Month February 2005

• Women's Studies Conference / Virginia Frese Palmer Conference: Feminism and Multiculturalsim - March 14, 2005 - see http://www.qc.cuny.edu/pdfs/frese_conference.pdf
  
• Natalie Cole - coming to QC April 15, 2005 - see http://www.coldencenter.org/natalie.htm

• Africana Studies Program - at http://qcpages.qc.edu/africana_studies/

• Art Center links regarding African Art - at http://qcpages.qc.cuny.edu/Library/art/africa.html

• Godwin-Ternbach Museum
• African Art Exhibit - 1969 - Academic II (now Kiely Hall)
  
• Ben Shahn prints (photos coming to these pages here soon)
  

• CUNY's Voting Rights and Citizenship Calendar at http://www1.cuny.edu/portal_ur/content/voting_cal/the_promised.html .  The page refers to James Chaney, Michael Schwerner, and Andrew Goodman, and has a picture of Dr. King after the three were murdered, standing in front of posters of each of them.  More about civil rights issues at http://www1.cuny.edu/portal_ur/content/voting_cal/civil_rights.html .

• CUNY TV's Black History Month Film Schedule - February 2005 - at http://cuny.tv/specials/special2.lasso?specialsID='SP000162'

• City College's Secret Routes to Freedom: The Underground Railroad Experience - at http://www.ccny.cuny.edu/undergroundrailroadexperience/
  

• City College's IRADAC - Institute for Research on the African Diaspora in the Americas and the Caribbean / CUNY - at http://www.ccny.cuny.edu/IRADAC/
  

• Library of Congress information about Slavery in New Netherland - one of the slave ships that brought the first slaves to Jamestown in 1619 was from the town of *** Flushing *** (aka Vlissingen) in Holland; says first slaves in Manhattan were brought in 1624 - article at http://international.loc.gov/intldl/awkbhtml/kb-1/kb-1-2-3.html#track1.

• Newsday information showing 1625 as the beginning of slavery on Long Island - article at http://www.newsday.com/community/guide/lihistory/ny-history-hs313a,0,5978045.story?coll=ny-lihistory-navigation

• Coming October 7, 2005 to The New York Historical Society "SLAVERY AND THE MAKING OF NEW YORK" - information on their website at http://www.slaveryinnewyork.org/

• PBS Video including information on early slavery in New York - at http://pbsvideodb.pbs.org/programs/chapter.asp?item_id=21167&chap_id=2

• In 1925, an exhibit "Negro Harlem" was presented at the New York Public Library at 42nd St. and Fifth Avenue. An article in the New York Times of December 26, 1925 about it is entitled "Negro Life Story is Exhibited Here." The exhibit was prepared by staff at the 135th Street branch library, with Miss Ernestine Rose  identified as "in charge of the exhibit."  See information below about the Schomburg Center.

• January 1997 exhibit "Before Central Park: The Life and Death of Seneca Village," at the New York Historical Society - website http://www.nyhistory.org/seneca/  .  According to the website,

Seneca Village existed from 1825 through 1857. It was located between 82nd and 89th Streets and Seventh and Eighth Avenues. Today, this area is part of Central Park.

Seneca Village was Manhattan's first significant community of African American property owners.

• In December 2004, the Smithsonian moved ahead in their planning for a new National Museum of African American History and Culture.  From their website at http://www.si.edu/nmaahc:
  

...The Smithsonian Board of Regents, the Institution’s governing body, named the members of the founding Council of the National Museum of African American History and Culture in December 2004...

...African American history is an integral part of American history and exhibitions at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History and other museums have reflected the contributions of African Americans to this country. The establishment of this new museum within the Smithsonian does not mean that other museums will discontinue their African American exhibits, collections or programs. This new museum, however, will be the only national museum devoted exclusively to the "documentation of African American life, art, history and culture." It will include topics as varied as slavery, post-Civil War reconstruction, the Harlem Renaissance and the civil rights movement...

• The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center is a new museum in Cinncinnatti, Ohio - just opened in 2004.  Click on any state on their map and find known underground railroad sites in that state. Four are listed for Flushing, NY:
  

Kingsland Homestead
The Bowne House
Friends Meeting House
Macedonia AME Church

More on their website at http://www.freedomcenter.org/ .

• Coming April 4, 2005 to the University of Pennsylvania Library "Twelve Black Classicists - The Earliest Contributions of African Americans to Classical Studies" - information on their website at http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2005/2005-05-12.html
  

• Coming October 7, 2005 to The New York Historical Society "SLAVERY AND THE MAKING OF NEW YORK" - information on their website at http://www.slaveryinnewyork.org/

• Queens Historical Society Freedom Mile brochure at http://www.queenshistoricalsociety.org/freedom.html . Locations related to the Underground Railroad are identified and marked with a special symbol.  They include the Bowne House, the Macedonia AME Church, the Friends Meeting House and the site of Aspinwall House as "stations."
  

• Queens Courier's Black History Month Feature at http://www.queenscourier.com/spclissue/blkhistory/, with information about some of the borough's prominent African Americans.
  

• Newsday Timeline at http://www.newsday.com/community/guide/lihistory/ny-history-bhevent,0,3710832.story?coll=ny-lihistory-navigation

• Queens Borough Public Library's Black History Month website at http://www.queens.lib.ny.us/highlights/blk_his_internet_2005.asp .
  
• Free resources from Thomson Gale publishers http://www.gale.com/free_resources/bhm/index.htm --- NOTE: free access only through February 28.
• NY Public Library - Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture  - http://www.inmotionaame.org/  (new website as of 2/1/2005 for "In Motion - The African American Migration Experience") and their main website at http://www.nypl.org/research/sc/sc.html .
  

From the Schomburg Collection's website at http://www.nypl.org/press/schomburgbg.cfm :

The Schomburg Center's collections first won international acclaim in 1926 when the personal collection of the distinguished black scholar and bibliophile Arturo Alfonso Schomburg was added to the Division of Negro Literature, History and Prints of the 135th Street Branch of The New York Public Library.

About a 1996 exhibition at the Schomburg Center "Arturo Alfonso Schomburg - The Man and His Times" - http://www.nypl.org/research/calendar/exhib/sch/schexhibdesc.cfm?id=228

About the collections - "The Schomburg Legacy" - http://www.nypl.org/research/sc/WEBEXHIB/legacy/introtxt.htm

• PBS Slavery - February 2005 - at http://www.pbs.org/wnet/slavery/

• Lest We Forget: The Triumph Over Slavery - UNESCO Slave Route Project / New York Public Library / Shomburg Center - at http://digital.nypl.org/lwf/flash.html

• Metrocard Promotions / Discounts during February for Black History Month - http://www.mta.nyc.ny.us/metrocard/promos/uptown/index.html
• US Senate - African American Senators - http://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/history/h_multi_sections_and_teasers/Photo_Exhibit_African_American_Senators.htm