Gillian Demetriou My name is Gillian Demetriou and I am currently a senior history major at Monmouth University with minors in English and public history. Professor Ziobro recruited me to conduct oral history interviews for Paradoxical Paradise while I was taking her Oral History class as an independent study during the Fall 2020 semester. MyContinue reading “Paradoxical Paradise Oral Histories Spring 2021: Student Perspective”
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Paradoxical Paradise Spring 2021 Oral Histories Part II: Faculty Perspective
Melissa Ziobro I would like to share a bit about the Paradoxical Paradise oral history work funded by Monmouth University’s Urban Coast Institute this past Spring 2021 semester. Some of the funding from a grant awarded by Monmouth University’s Urban Coast Institute (UCI) awarded to our project Paradoxical Paradise went towards conducting and transcribing oralContinue reading “Paradoxical Paradise Spring 2021 Oral Histories Part II: Faculty Perspective”
African Americans in Asbury Park History
Hettie V. Williams, PhD New Jersey’s coastal cities such as Atlantic City and Asbury Park were an attractive place of settlement to African Americans in the early twentieth century. This surge in the black population was greatest in counties such as Atlantic, Essex, Monmouth, Union and Camden. African American migrants relocated primarily to cities inContinue reading “African Americans in Asbury Park History”
A Brief History of Asbury Park
Michele Lippman Asbury Park is a city located in Monmouth County, New Jersey (on the central coast of the state) with a rich cultural and social history. This city is named for Francis Asbury, the first American Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States, and founded in 1871 by James A. Bradley—aContinue reading “A Brief History of Asbury Park”
Community History Projects on Asbury Park
We encourage you to visit these other local organizations preserving Asbury Park History: The Asbury Park Museumhttps://ap-museum.org The Asbury Park Historical Society https://www.aphistoricalsociety.org/ The Asbury Park African American Music Projecthttps://www.asburyamp.org/
Historic Springwood Avenue
African Americans and the West Side of Asbury Park The vast majority of African Americans who migrated to Asbury Park have primarily settled on the West Side of the city. This was apparent throughout much of the twentieth century. These photos were taken by Joseph A. Carter, Sr. (1917-1980). Carter was a photographer on theContinue reading “Historic Springwood Avenue”
Asbury Park Riots
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The Great Migration
Hettie V. Williams, PhD Black migration to the North dramatically accelerated after 1910 due to the outbreak of World War I in 1914 that precipitated a decreased availability of immigrant workers from Europe, which in turn led to the expansion of opportunities for African Americans in industrial employment. This was coupled with widespread floods inContinue reading “The Great Migration”
Research
Research on the history of African Americans in Asbury Park There are only a limited number of scholarly analyses that exist on the history of African Americans in Asbury Park. This is a list of both scholarly and popular histories with a focus on African Americans in the history of Asbury Park, New Jersey alsoContinue reading “Research”