Upcoming Programs from GVSHP
What: Little Africa Rediscovered: African Descendants in the South Village During the 19th Century
A Lecture by Jamila Brathwaite
When: Thursday, February 17
6:30 – 8:00 P.M.
Where: St. Anthony of Padua Church, 154 Sullivan Street (at West Houston Street)
Cost: free; reservations required.
RSVP: [email protected] or 212-475-9585 ext. 35
Since the 17th century, people of African descent have been laying roots in and around Greenwich Village. Often referred to as Little Africa, this community, in the current South Village, had the largest population of African Americans in the city during its heyday. This presentation will highlight the innovative laborers, entrepreneurs, abolitionists, educators, community organizers, journalists, and religious leaders who built public and private lives while calling Greenwich Village home during the 19th century. (More information)
What: Discovering Black New York
A Lecture by Linda Tarrant-Reid
When: Tuesday, February 22
6:30 – 8:00 P.M.
Where: Hudson Park Branch Library, 66 Leroy Street (off 7th Avenue South)
Cost: Free, reservations required.
RSVP: [email protected] or 212-475-9585 ext. 35
Linda Tarrant-Reid, author and journalist, will examine the earliest community of African Americans in the Five Points District (also called Stagg Town) in Lower Manhattan in the early 1820s; the migration of free blacks to the West Village (Little Africa) in the mid-1800s; and the establishment of African American social and cultural institutions, schools and businesses in Greenwich Village and the surrounding area. (More information)
What: Black Gotham: A Book Talk by Author Carla Peterson
When: Monday, February 28
6:30 – 8:00 P.M.
Where: Jefferson Market Library, 625 Avenue of the Americas (between West 9th & 10th Streets)
Cost: Free, reservations required.
RSVP: [email protected] or 212-475-9585 ext. 35
Join author Carla Peterson as she discusses her new book, Black Gotham: A Family History of African Americans in Nineteenth-Century New York City. Mining city archives, Peterson reconstructs her family’s history to paint a vivid and largely unknown portrait of African American elites before the Civil War, depicting the neighborhoods in which they lived, in and around Greenwich Village. (More information)