Tracing History, Memory and Family Reflecting on Juneteenth and America 250 Thursday, June 25, 2026 | 6:30 PMNyack Library, Community Room59 South BroadwayNyack, New York 10960 Join the African American Historical Society of Rockland County for an evening exploring Black life in the Hudson Valley through history, memory, and...
AAHS hosted The Underestimated: Hillburn’s Brook School and the Fight Against Segregation, an evening revisiting the 1943 desegregation fight in Hillburn—when Black families, supported by the NAACP, challenged unequal schools and helped lay groundwork for the broader civil rights movement.
The African American Historical Society of Rockland County is pleased to invite you to a Community Forum on Thursday, September 12, 2024, at 7:00 PM, at Rockland Community College, Technology Building – Ellipse 8180, 145 College Road, Suffern, NY. This open forum will be a space for us to collectively...
Reflections on Juneteenth: Uncovering the Hidden Histories of Seneca Village and Skunk Hollow The 2024 Juneteenth event, hosted by the African American Historical Society of Rockland County, brought the community together to not only celebrate freedom but to uncover the hidden legacies of African American resilience. Attendees were treated...
Dear Friends: On behalf of AAHS, we cordially invite you to join us at our annual meeting on December 11, 2023, 6:30 PM, at the Rockland Community College (RCC) Technology Center – Ellipse Room. We are very excited about this program and take pleasure in presenting Vinnie Bagwell (Sculptor)....
THE CONTRIBUTIONS AND CHALLENGES OF AFRICAN AMERICANS IN THE US MILITARY The African American Historical Society of Rockland County offered two free programs on February 2015 (February 25th at 10AM and 7PM and with a snow date) in collaboration with the Rockland Community College African American History Month Committee...
The African American Historical Society of Rockland County in collaboration with Rockland Community College’s Performing Arts Department will present an engaging, cultural and educational program called “A Glimpse of the Harlem Renaissance.” In recognition of African American History Month, this program will highlight an unprecedented era in U.S. history...
COMMENTARIES FOR THE VOTE Elaine Jones, Part I Elaine Jones, Part II Jack Greenberg John Lewis Vernon Jordan
Within the fabric of American identity is woven a story that has long been invisible—the lives and experiences of people who share African American and Native American ancestry. African and Native peoples came together in the Americas. Over centuries, African Americans and Native Americans created shared histories, communities, families,...
Dear Friends: We pray that this note finds you and yours well and that 2022 will be a beautiful new beginning for us all. We are inviting you to attend the African American Historical Society of Rockland County (AAHS) for this past year’s annual meeting being held virtually on...
Dear Friends: This year has been one of great challenges. We know that many in and around Rockland have suffered a variety of losses. We hope that this note finds you and yours well and that 2021 will be a beautiful new beginning for us all. We are inviting you to...
Birth of the African Grove Theater Based of the true story of the first black theater company established in New York in 1821, and the first to perform Othello with a Negro actor. With… Keith Bulluck, Dimitri Cambronne, Phil Gist, John DeBlasio, Drusilla Kinzonzi, Barbara Cepeda, Bruce Pearl, Anne...