AAHS is honored to welcome Dr. Jarvis R. Givens, Professor of Education and Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University, for our 2026 Black History Month keynote program. A leading scholar of African American educational history, Dr. Givens is the author of Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson and...
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...
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...
This video is courtesy of LOHUD. An advertisement will play before the video starts. Ramapo Film documenting desegregation battle “Two Schools in Hillburn” recounts the 1943 struggle to integrate the village’s Main School for white students and the Brook School, where “colored” students were sent. Joe Allen’s film recounts the...
Born in Brooklyn, New York and raised in Richmond, Virginia, Dr. Arelene W. Clinkscale knew from a young age that she wanted to pursue a career in teaching. Throughout her decades long career in education, Dr. Clinkscale has been a role model and trailblazer in education in Rockland County,...
Thank you for attending our Annual Meeting held at Rockland Community College in Suffern, NY, on Mon, Dec 17, 2018. The below highlights of the meeting including an annual update of the Society’s activities by Co-President Drusilla Kinzonzi, and a keynote presentation by David Lucander, PhD. David Lucander, PhD,...
Welcome to the African American Historical Society of Rockland County: Linking/Preserving the Cultures of the African Diaspora (AAHS) Rockland County is indeed the smallest county in the state of New York, yet its size is magnified by the significant historical history of the people of African descent. The AAHS...