Port Henry’s 20th Century African American Community: A Conversation with Dr. Alice Green Webinar скачать в хорошем качестве

Port Henry’s 20th Century African American Community: A Conversation with Dr. Alice Green Webinar

Dr. Alice P. Green’s recent book, Outsider: Stories of Growing Up Black in the Adirondacks, details her experiences as her family grappled with poverty, race, and acceptance in the mid-20th century Champlain Valley. In this webinar, Dr. Alice P. Green shares her experiences growing up in the Essex County hamlet of Witherbee after her father started working at Republic Steel's Witherbee-Sherman iron ore mines as part of the Great Migration. While her family was one of only two Black families in Witherbee, the nearby community of Port Henry had a thriving Black community centered on Elizabeth Street. She discusses spending time in Port Henry and the surrounding area during the mid-to-late twentieth century. Dr. Green's book is available at the Center for Law and Justice's website (https://www.cflj.org/store) and from Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Outsider-Stori.... Dr. Alice P. Green is a lifelong advocate and academic, as well as the Executive Director of the Center for Law and Justice, a civil rights organization she founded in 1985. She has a doctorate in criminal justice and 3 master’s degrees – education, social work, and criminology. The Center provides community education on civil and criminal justice, legal guidance and advocacy, crisis intervention, and community planning and organizing around criminal justice, civil rights, and civil liberties issues of particular concern to poor communities and those of color. Dr. Green is the author of several books and a frequent speaker on social justice issues. See more of the Center's work at their website: https://www.cflj.org/ This webinar occurred on February 27, 2023 and was edited and uploaded by Nolan Cool, AARCH Educational Programs Director.