Education Resources
Union County Libraries
Visit your local library and discover more about the diverse history, culture, languages and arts of the African Diaspora. There are twenty public libraries located in Union County.
http://www.ucnj.org/libraries
Kean University - Africana Studies
Africana Studies at Kean University (Formerly Afro-American Studies) is an 18 credit Collateral Program open to all students interested in an interdisciplinary approach to the experiences of African peoples throughout the world. Since its inception in September, 1987, the Office of Africana Studies has provided coordination for the students and support for the faculty throughout the university who teach courses related to Africana Studies. New courses have been developed and old ones have been revised to focus an Afrocentric perspective upon the economies, history, culture, education, politics, philosophies, aspirations and achievements of peoples of African descent in Africa, the Americas, the Caribbean and elsewhere. Africana Studies is a form and process of education which focuses academic attention upon the history, culture, environment, philosophies, aspirations and achievements in time and space of people of Afiican descent throughout the world from an Afrocentric perspective. Variably known as Black Studies, Afro-American Studies, African American Studies, Africana Studies is a body of knowledge composed of all of the traditional disciplines as they relate to continental Africans, African-Americans, African-Caribbeans, African-Europeans and people of African heritage in Australia, South America, and the islands of the seas. Africana Studies courses are designed to present issues, trends, personalities, concepts, ideas, and ideologies basic to an understanding of the interdisciplinary Field of Africana Studies. A specific aim and objective of this interdisciplinary field of study is to help students broaden their knowledge of the world-wide human experience by presenting an aspect of that experience-the Black Experience-which has traditionally been neglected or distorted by educational institutions, Additionally, this course of study strives to introduce an Afro-centric perspective including phenomena related to the culture. For additional information, please contact:
Kean University
1000 Morris Avenue
Union, New Jersey 07083
(908) 737-KEAN (5326)
http://www.kean.edu/~africana/Africana.html
Union County College - African American Literature and History (Courses)
Union County College offers the following courses in African American Literature and History:
- African American Literature-I
This course is a survey of selected writings by African Americans emphasizing the literary significance of each work and author, studied in its historical and sociological contexts from slave narratives and early folk tradition to the beginnings of the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920's.
- African American Literature-II
This course is a survey of selected writings by African Americans emphasizing the literary significance of each work and author, studied in its historical and sociological contexts from the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s to the resurgent cultural self-consciousness of the 1960s to the present proliferation of African American literature.
- Afro-American History-I
This course provides a history of Black people from their advent in the new World to the Civil War. The African heritage and its contributions to the development of African-American culture are considered along with the slave trade and the effects of the institution of slavery. Also included are the early struggles for emancipation, resistance to slavery, the Abolitionist movement viewed from both the black and white perspective, the reasons behind the Emancipation proclamation, and the impact of the Civil War on American society.
For additional information, please contact:
Union County College
1033 Springfield Avenue
Cranford, NJ 07016
(908) 709-7000
http://www.ucc.edu
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Community Organizations
Urban League of Union County
272 North Broad Street
Elizabeth, NJ 07207
(908) 351-7200
uluioncty@aol.com
Raritan Valley Chapter, The Links
Ogretta Hawkins
Hawkins@essex.edu
(973) 877-3103
Union League of Union County, Inc.
Lorraine Brooks-Body
lorraine.brooks-body@wakefem.com
(908) 527-3911
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority
Mylene Brown
mybrown@verizon.net
(732) 563-1119
Central Jersey Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta
Dorothy Lee-Murray
feblady@aol.com
(732) 257-6662, x 357
Baron Hilliard
As One, LLC
1233 Lakeview Terrace
Plainfield, NJ 07060
908-226-5410 (phone)
Rev. Joseph Adair
NJ NAACP - Elizabeth ---union
PO Box 2387
1139 E Jersey Street
Elizabeth, NJ 07207
Sharon Robinson-Briggs
NJ NAACP - Plainfield Area
PO Box 368
Plainfield, NJ 07060
Shirley Palmer
NJ NAACP - Rahway
PO Box 424
Rahway, NJ 07065
Marguerite Brown
NJ NAACP - Tri-City
Chambers PO Box 669
Summit, NJ 07902
Myrtle Counts
NJ NAACP - Roselle
PO Box 391
Roselle, NJ 07203
National Council of Negro Women
Ms. Joann Blount
Greater Elizabeth Area Section
Roselle, NJ
(908) 298-0541
jayblount@aol.com
National Council of Negro Women
Ms. A Kelly Skinner
Plainfield Scotch Plains
Scotch Plains, NJ
(908) 322-295
keldiana@worldnet.att.net
National Council of Negro Women
Ms. Emma Harmon
Rahway Section
Rahway, NJ
(932) 381-4383
ejharm3@hotmail.com
National Council of Negro Women
Mrs. Mary H. Pershay
Roselle Section
Roselle, NJ
(908) 241-1404
marypershay@aol.com
National Council of Negro Women
Ms. Anne C. Denise Cross
Vauxhall Section
Vauxhall, NJ
(908) 686-8130
acdenise@comcast.net
Black Nurses Association BNA of Northern New Jersey
P.O. Box 8027
Hiillside, NJ 07205-1403
www.nnjbna.com
Coalition of Black Trade Unionists
Central/Northern New Jersey
P.O. Box 3014
Elizabeth, NJ 07208
(973) 898-0858
www.cbtu.org
