African American Pioneers in San Jose & John Brown W/ Prof. Libby

Professor Jean Libby  will discuss the relationship between John Brown and African American pioneers in San Jose, California. She'll also feature two books:  Herbert Ruffin, Uninvited Neighbors; African Americans in Silicon Valley 1860-1990 (2014) and Erica Armstrong Dunbar A Fragile Freedom; African American Women in the Antebellum South (2008).

• Establishment of The AME Zion Church in NYC and St. Philip's Episcopal on Wall St. (1820)
• The Cassey Delancy St. Home, National Historic Site
• Establishement of  the first secondary school
• Lovie Spencer, scholar and researcher
• Establishments of Episcopal Churches in California