Lawnside,New Jersey

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Lawnside,New Jersey is written by James L. Conyers and published by . It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1592212905 (ISBN 10) and 9781592212903 (ISBN 13).

Culture, symbols, and folklore are essential attributes of a people and their citizenry. Such is the case with Lawnside, a predominantly Black community based in the southwestern region of New Jersey. As the first predominantly all Black settlement in the state of New Jersey that was incorporated borough in 1926, Lawnside reveals a rich history of Africana culture.The municipality of Lawnside exhibits the importance of heritage and oral historyas it pertains to New Jersey historiography. Themes and patterns in African American history in New Jersey are tenacity, adversity; struggle, and the pursuit to locate this middle colony in the public sphere of Americana society. On the other hand, the preparation and interpretation of Black nationalist history in Lawnside provides an alternative worldview of the Africana experience.This study sets forth two central objectives: (1) to examine chronologically and conceptually the historic and cultural dimensions of Lawnside; and (2) to explore and study the nature, function, and agency of an autonomous Black community. The themes of culture, memory, and African American oral-history in Lawnside which are explored in this study enhance knowledge about this community and the state of New Jersey in general. In summary, Lawnsides history and racial memory is significant to the advancement of local, state, and national Africana historiography.