Summary: Professor Jean Libby will discuss the relationship between John Brown and African American pioneers in San Jose, California. She'll also feature two books: Herbert Ruffin, Uninvited Neighbors; African Americans in Silicon Valley 1860-1990 (2014) and Erica Armstrong Dunbar A Fragile Freedom; African American Women in the Antebellum South (2008). Establishment of The AME Zion Church in NYC and St. Philip's Episcopal on Wall St. (1820) The Cassey Delancy St. Home, National Historic Site Establishement of the first secondary school Lovie Spencer, scholar and researcher Establishments of Episcopal Churches in California
