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"Token on the Freedman's Coat" with Gordon Bond

  • Glen Rock Public Library 315 Rock Road Glen Rock, NJ, 07452 United States (map)

TUESDAY, APRIL 19 at 7:00 PM on Zoom

Author Gordon Bond presents "Token on the Freedman's Coat," based on Bond's book  of the same title. Thomas Mundy Peterson was the first African American voter under the Fifteenth Amendment. This book focuses on the other thing Thomas Mundy Peterson is remembered for, receiving a gold medal in 1884 from the citizens of Perth Amboy for his historic vote. Register here with LibCal.

Co-sponsored by the Friends of the Glen Rock Library and the Friends of the Englewood Library.

Earlier Event: April 19
NO STORYTIME THIS WEEK
Later Event: April 20
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