Members Only: Behind the Scenes Collections Tour
Aug
27
6:00 PM18:00

Members Only: Behind the Scenes Collections Tour

Join us for an evening tour with Collections Manager Erin Benz. Enjoy a behind-the-scenes look at the museum collections and refreshments in the gardens of the Crane House and Historic YWCA Museum, 110 Orange Road, Montclair. 

RSVP to mail@montclairhistory.org. This event is for active MHC members. Not a member? Become one today and join us!

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PBS NJ's The Price of Silence: A Free Screening and Discussion with the Filmmaker
Feb
22
3:30 PM15:30

PBS NJ's The Price of Silence: A Free Screening and Discussion with the Filmmaker

Explore the roots of slavery in this three-part NJ PBS documentary, The Price of Silence, at Montclair Public Library! Afterward, we'll be hosting a discussion with the filmmaker, Ridgeley Hutchinson, and Linda Caldwell Epps, a founding partner of the Sankofa Collaborative and a historical consultant on the film.

New Jersey, the Garden State, is known for its produce, but not for the enslaved people who tilled the soil. In this three-part documentary series, which was originally created for and broadcast on NJ PBS, descendants and historians tell their stories and why it was the last northern state to end the institution of slavery, and how NJ's history affected those who came here in the Great Migration. Each episode is 28 minutes long and there will be a 5-minute intermission after the second episode. Register online here.

The Price of Silence is a Public Media Initiative through The WNET Group. 

This program is co-presented by the Montclair NAACP, the Friends of Howe House, Montclair History Center, and the League of Women Voters of the Montclair Area.

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