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Meadowlands Museum
Current Rotating Exhibit:
Black History in Rutherford and the Meadowlands Area
On display until the end of March - the Museum's current rotating exhibit is devoted to the history of African American's in Rutherford and the Meadowlands Area. The exhibit features:
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The Hoage Family - the first Black family to own their own home in Rutherford in 1868
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Slavery in the Meadowlands Area
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The Underground Railroad in northern NJ
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Segregation of Housing in Rutherford until the mid 1960s
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The Rutherford Civil rights Commission (begun in 1964 as the first local Civil Rights Commission in NJ
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Notable African American Residents of Rutherford
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The Murray Hodge VFW Post 453, and
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The Tuskegee Airmen from Rutherford.
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