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February 2013 Black History Month Events at NY Historical Society

Frederick Douglass at West 154, Harlem, 2009_0

The New-York Historical Society will celebrate Black History Month with an exhibit on photographs of murals celebrating civil rights activist Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and programs on the African American troops of the Civil War; the Civil rights movement, and New York’s historic African Burial Ground.  Continue reading

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Harlem Transformed: Photo By Camilo José Vergara

HISPANIC HISTORY MONTH

The year is 1990. In the foreground, a man dressed in a blue work shirt and denim overalls poses amid corn and vegetables planted on a patch of junkyard between West 118th and 119th Streets and Frederick Douglass Boulevard in Manhattan. Continue reading