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| "Black History Month Design" by Marina Shemesh (License: CC0 Public Domain) |
This year for Black History Month we posted every day on the DNJRJR Facebook page about Black history in the Diocese of New Jersey. We want this to be available as a resource for the future so here are the posts in order:
1) REV. PETER WILLIAMS (1786-1840): SECOND ORDAINED AFRICAN AMERICAN PRIEST IN THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH
2) REV. JAMES C. WARD (1777-1834): FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN CLERGYMAN IN THE DIOCESE OF NEW JERSEY
3) THE EPISCOPAL MISSION AT THE FREE BLACK SETTLEMENT OF MACEDONIA, NEW JERSEY (1853-1887)
4) JOHN N. STILL (1815-?): FIRST BLACK CANDIDATE FOR HOLY ORDERS IN THE DIOCESE OF NEW JERSEY
5) JOHN STILL'S CALL TO RESIST THE FUGITIVE SLAVE ACT
6) A HISTORY OF TRINITY AND ST. PHILIP'S CATHEDRAL
7) THE EARLIEST BLACK CHURCH LEADERSHIP IN THE DIOCESE OF NEW JERSEY
8) TINTON FALLS AFRICAN BURIAL GROUND: A SITE OF MEMORY
9) THE ENSLAVED IN THE PARISH REGISTER AT CHRIST CHURCH SHREWSBURY
10) THE REVOLUTIONARY PERIOD AND EARLY BLACK ESTRANGEMENT FROM THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH
11) EMANCIPATED AFRICAN AMERICANS LEAVING THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH: A CASE STUDY FROM MIDDLETOWN, NJ
12) SOURLAND AFRICAN AMERICANS WHO LEFT THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH
13) SUPPORT FOR THE AMERICAN COLONIZATION SOCIETY IN THE DIOCESE OF NEW JERSEY
14) EARLY AFRICAN MISSION GIVING (FOREIGN) IN THE DIOCESE OF NEW JERSEY (1835-1865)
15) BISHOP DOANE'S 1854 REPARATIONS MANDATE
16) THE FREEDMAN'S COMMISSION AND THE DIOCESE OF NEW JERSEY
17) "HOME MISSIONS TO COLORED PEOPLE" AND THE DIOCESE OF NEW JERSEY (1877-1900)
18) BISHOP SCARBOROUGH'S CONVENTION ADDRESS OF 1890
19) THOMAS AND CARRIE FORTUNE OF ST. THOMAS', RED BANK
20) REV. EUGENE L. HENDERSON: FIRST BLACK PRIEST ORDAINED IN THE DIOCESE OF NEW JERSEY
21) REV. EARL B. SCOTT (1919-1984): UBE NAMESAKE
22) INTERVIEW WITH MS. KATHLEEN MONTGOMERY EDWARDS (1924-2000)
23) THE VERY REV. CN. DR. SANDYE A. WILSON (EULOGY)
24) INTERVIEW WITH MS. NATALIECE MOORE (ST. AUGUSTINE'S, CAMDEN)
25) ST. AUGUSTINE'S ASBURY PARK
26) BLACK CLERGY AND DELAGATES VISION STATEMENT (1996)
27) "REPARATION: MY TAKE" - CN. NOREEN DUNCAN
28) REPARATIONS COUNCIL REPORT (2025)
