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Shirley Chisholm was an American politician who, in 1968, became the first black woman to be elected to the United States Congress
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Lawrence E. Walker Foundation Collection
Lawrence E. Walker Foundation Collection

Dunmore’s Royal Ethiopians

Enter the exhibit to learn more about Governor Lord Dunmore’s British Royal Ethiopians Regiments and the Revolutionary War.

Category: New Jersey During the Revolutionary War (1776)

Frederick Douglas
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

The Life of Frederick Douglass

Born into slavery in Maryland, Frederick Douglass (ca. 1817-1895) disguised himself as a sailor and escaped to New York City. 

Category: Freedom Fighters 1700’s

Thomas Mundy Peterson
Lawrence E. Walker Foundation Collection

Thomas Mundy Peterson

Thomas Mundy Peterson was the first negro voter in Perth Amboy, New Jersey. Enter this exhibit to learn more about New Jersey reconstruction.

Category: Slavery In New Jersey Emancipation/reconstruction (1870-1910)

hold of a ship
Detroit Geo. E. Pomeroy & Co., 1854

Hold of a Ship

Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua left this description of his and his companions’ ordeal aboard the ship that took them from Benin to Brazil.

Category: Trans- Atlantic Slave Trade