November 1st – 19th Black Historic Sites in NYC Challenge: A Virtual Art Exhibition – KCC Community A curated art exhibition developed by Prof. Thomas Mintz (Art), Paule Lafortune, HURFS-RC, and Maudelyne Maxineau (CAWS).

If you are interested in participating, the submission guidelines are as follows 1. Visit two of the listed sites 2. Continue to practice social distancing regulations 3. Submit a picture and/or video with a brief description to [email protected]

All KCC students, faculty, and staff are welcome to take part in the Challenge. The submission period will begin on 10/15/2020 to 11/1/2020.

The exhibition will be available for viewing at www.kbcc.cuny.edu/diversitysymposium

Historic Sites

Dyckman Farmhouse (1785) is Manhattan’s oldest remaining farmhouse. Located on the corner of Broadway and 204th Street. The Farmhouse is both a New York City Landmark and a National Historic Landmark.

Seneca Village (1825)- was a settlement in the 19th-century in present-day Central Park

Weeksville was a neighborhood that was founded by free African Americans, situated in modern-day Crown Heights, Brooklyn.

The Langston Hughes House on East 127th Street in Harlem was the home of Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes where he wrote works like “Montage of a Dream Deferred” and “I Wonder as I Wander.”

The Lewis Latimer House in Flushing, Queens, honors Lewis Howard Latimer, an African- American inventor and humanist born to fugitive slaves who lived in the home from 1903 until his death in 1928.

Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Studio-57 Great Jones Street in Greenwich Village an artist of Haitian and Puerto Rican descent best known for his graffiti art.

Shirley Chisholm Campaign Office 1467 Bedford Avenue in Crown Heights and Shirley Chisholm State Park 1750 Granville Payne Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11239- while the students may know that Chisolm was a presidential candidate. They may not know that she introduced Search for Education, Elevation and Knowledge (SEEK) Programs. This program was designed to help disadvantaged students enter college. The SEEK program that has helped thousands of students with varying challenges on entry to college.

Louis Armstrong House in Corona, Queens, was where jazz trumpeter Louis Armstrong lived with his wife Lucille Wilson from 1943 until his death in 1971.

At the Esplanade Gardens along the Harlem River there is a bronze statue of MLK, designed by Stan Sawyer in 1970 with a plaque containing an excerpt of his “I Have a Dream Speech.”

The Hotel Theresa on Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard was considered the “Waldorf of Harlem.”

The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture is a New York Public Library research library on Malcolm X Boulevard that serves as an archive repository for Black culture worldwide. Names after the Afro-Puerto Rican scholar Arturo Alfonso Schomburg, it houses manuscripts to rare books to photographs depicting Black culture.

The Amsterdam News was founded in 1909 and takes its name from its original location one block east of Amsterdam Avenue. James Henry Anderson founded the paper with just a $10 investment, and at the time it was one of only a handful of black-owned newspapers in the United States. The paper originally sold for just 2 cents out of Anderson’s home, yet it was eventually sold to the Powell Savory Corporation, which helped the paper write about both local and national news. The newspaper published the writings of W.E.B. DuBois and Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., and it was one of the first publications to publish Malcolm X. Today, the paper is edited by Elinor Tatum, daughter of previous Editor-in-Chief Wilbert Tatum.

St. Philip’s Episcopal Church on West 134th Street is the oldest black Episcopal parish in New York City, founded in 1809 by free African Americans. The church was originally named the Free African Church of St. Philip and was first located in the Five Points neighborhood, before moving north to Harlem. The church’s first rector was Rev. Peter Williams, Jr., an abolitionist who also supported free black emigration to Haiti and served on the executive committee of the American Anti-Slavery Society.

Many of the church’s members were pioneers in their fields, including many teachers, doctors, restauranteurs, and marine traders. The church would suffer damage in the mid-1800s due to vandalism by whites and by the NYPD during the 1863 Draft Riots. The church moved to Harlem in the early 1900s and was designed by Tandy & Foster, prominent African-American architects, in the Neo-Gothic style. The church included among its parishioners Dr. James McCune Smith, the first African American to hold a medical degree. Among its members were W.E.B. DuBois, Thurgood Marshall, and Langston Hughes.