Research Conversations
The Hidden History of Jamaica, Queens
Event details
When
Feb 07, 2013
from 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM
from 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM
Where
Faculty Dining Room AC-2D03
Contact Name
Contact Phone
718 262 2543
Carl Ballenas, Historian
Immaculate Conception School
Join historian Carl Ballenas as he takes us back to the early 1900's and reveals that current site of York College housed the first school for African American and Native American children. Learn the pivotal role this school played in the battle for battle for school desegregation in New York State.
Two Sessions
11am - 11:30am (Session I)
12:00pm - 12:30pm (Session II)
