What were the topics? Who were the teachers?

The 20th Century and the African American Experience

A Teacher's Seminar of the New Jersey Council for the Humanities



Someone asked, "What were the topics? Who were the teachers?"

But before you read that, I want to commend the overall day to day organization of things which were well done by Mary Grace Whelan, Program Officer, and Matt Pihoker, Intern.


Day 1 -- Introduction - the 20th Century and the African American Experience -- Dr. Clement Price



Film - "Africans in America: Judgment Day"



Day 2 - On the Meaning of Freedom: The Dawn of the 20th Century in African American History -- Dr. Clement Price

The Harlem Renaissance -- Dr. Adalaine Holton, Assistant Professor of Literature, The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey

Film -- "Against the Odds: The Harlem Renaissance"


Day 3 -- Architecture and the Veil: The Artifacts of Segregated Education --

Dr. Wendell White, Professor of Art, Division of Arts and Humanities, The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey

African-American Identity and Cultural Agency in Film -- Dr. Miriam Petty, Cotsen Fellow with the Princeton University Society of Fellows


Meeting with Writing Instructor - Dr. Ray Ricketts



Film -- "Eyes on the Prize, Ain't Scared of Your Jails"




Day 4 -- A Time of Turmoil Amid an Era of Progress: The Civil Rights Movement & American Concepts of Freedom and Democracy -- Dr. Leslie Wilson, Professor of History and Education, Montclair State University


African American Urban Life During the Great Society -- Dr. Mark Krasovic, Geraldine R. Dodge Post-Doctoral Fellow, Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience, Rutgers University -- Newark


Meeting with Master Teacher Peter Murphy


Film -- "Revolution '67"


Day 5-- Field trip to Newark -- Dr. Price -- Itinerary

• Bus tour through Newark's Central Ward and black historic sites. Stops included



• Hopewell Baptist Church - former Jewish Synagogue



• Essex County Urban League, Vivian Fraser, President of the Essex County Urban League



• The Newark Museum, Jazz in the Garden, (T.S. Monk performed!)



• New Jersey Historical Society tour of "What's Going On? Newark and the Legacy of the Sixties"

Day 6 - Best Practices - Richard Schwartz, Social Studies Department Coordinator, Whippany Park School.

Working lunch and course wrap up with Dr. Price.

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Master Teacher Peter Murphy, adjunct lecturer in General Studies and creative writing, Richard Stockton College of New Jersey.

Writing Instructor Ray Dr. Ricketts, Bryn Mawr College

Students (teachers) are asked to choose a non-credit or a credit project. Master Teacher Peter Murphy and Writing Instructor Ray Ricketts held meetings each day to work with students to submit their project proposals.