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Angelica Juliani In the Fall 2021 semester, my oral history classmates and I independently conducted oral history interviews as the capstone project of our semester-long Monmouth University oral history course with Professor Melissa Ziobro. Most of us would be interviewing people for the first time. This was an exciting end of semester project to lookContinue reading “Student Oral Historians at Monmouth University”

Melissa Ziobro This Spring 2022, the pop up exhibit “Asbury Park: 150 Years of Change and Transformation — A Segregated Seashore” was installed at the Monmouth University Guggenheim Memorial Library, and a new pop up exhibit, “One Voice Is Not Enough: Asbury Park’s Musical Diversity Since 1871” was installed at the historic Berkeley-Carteret Hotel inContinue reading “Pop Up Exhibit Updates”

Killian Mann In November of 1910, Thomas Williams, who acquired the nickname “Black Diamond” during his boxing years, was accused and subsequently arrested on suspicion for the murder of a 10-year-old white child named Marie Smith. This story was heavily covered in local and national papers as a “negro crime” including in the New YorkContinue reading “The Attempted Lynching of Tom Williams in Asbury Park, 1910”

Hettie V. Williams, PhD Gentrification Down the Shore by Molly Vollman Makris and Mary Gatta is one of the first sustained academic studies on seasonal gentrification. Makris is an Associate Professor, and Coordinator of the Urban Studies Program, at CUNY-Guttman Community College, and the author of Public Housing and School Choice in a Gentrified City:Continue reading “Review of Gentrification Down the Shore. By Molly Vollman Makris, and Mary Gatta. Rutgers University Press, 2020. 228 p. $29.00 ISBN: 9781978813618.”

Melissa Ziobro On May 14, Professor Melissa Ziobro of the Paradoxical Paradise project won a Diversity Innovation Grant from Monmouth University to help fund a traveling exhibit on the history of the east side of Asbury Park, to include a discussion of segregation there. Ziobro volunteered her time to serve as an advisor on thisContinue reading ““Asbury Park: 150 Years of Change and Transformation — A Segregated Seashore””

Justin Montana In the 1960s, social rebellion was a constant. All across the country, African Americans, women, members of the LGBTQ community and marginalized groups, more generally, were fighting for basic human rights. While these battles for justice in the North are mostly connected to places such as Newark and Detroit, urban rebellion occurred inContinue reading “Rebellion on the 4th of July: A Brief History of the Asbury Park Riots, July 1970”