New Jersey
Black Heritage Trail highlighting historic, culturally significant places opens in New Jersey
TRENTON, N.J. (CBS) — New Jersey is highlighting Black historical past all through the state. The Black Heritage Path now identifies historic and culturally important locations.
“Celebrating and commemorating Black historical past just isn’t one thing that we must always relegate to solely the month of February or to Juneteenth,” Gov. Phil Murphy stated. “Black historical past is New Jersey historical past. It have to be honored on daily basis of the 12 months.”
The governor signed laws making the path official.
Websites will assist join tales of Black life and resiliency within the Backyard State.
Some are proper right here in our area, together with the Harriet Tubman Museum in Cape Could. She lived and labored there in the course of the 1850s to assist fund her expeditions to free enslaved individuals.
Additionally on the path is the Civil Rights Backyard in Atlantic Metropolis.
That is the place sculptures, vegetation and flowers pay homage to the individuals and occasions of the civil rights motion.