We Found Our Way, an exhibition at the Newark Public Library was curated by Newest Americans program director Dr. Samantha Boardman. The exhibit revolved around the remarkable narratives from the Krueger‐Scott African‐American Oral History Collection.
This collection, assembled in the late 1990s under the direction of Catherine J. Lenix‐Hooker, documents the stories of Newark’s African‐American citizens who migrated to the city between 1910‐1970. The result is over 100 interviews with men and women who left the segregated, Jim Crow South to make better lives for themselves and their families. Ms. Lenix‐Hooker emphasizes the importance of these interviews as not only “eyewitnesses to the city in the 21st century,” but also as a “solid body of evidence” documenting “the major contributions African‐Americans have made to the city [in] over eight decades of Newark’s rich history.”
February 4 -April 4, 2016 • Newark, NJ
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Oral History: Isaac Thomas; Artist: Nick Kline; Title: Nickel Piece Of Ice Melting 
