DART Partners with the Arts at Museum of the City of New York
Monday, November 21 at 6:30
Black Gotham: African American Life in New York City

Join author Carla L. Peterson, Professor of English, University of Maryland, as she discusses her book, Black Gotham: A Family History of African Americans in Nineteenth-Century New York City (Yale University Press, 2011). 

Mining city archives, Peterson reconstructs her family’s history to paint a previously unknown portrait of New York’s black elite. Learn about the ways in which black New Yorkers, both men and women, created community institutions, such as churches, schools, and mutual-aid societies, to resist racial prejudice and examine how the fortunes of this black elite were shaped by the neighborhoods in which they lived. 

Left: A view of Lenox Avenue near 134th Street, Harlem, New York City, 1898. (Photo by Museum of the City of New York/Byron Collection/Archive Photos/Getty Images). Center and right: Chapter opening art, courtesy Yale University Press.

This special program is being offered to DART subscribers at the half-off MCNY member's price of $6 when you contact 917.492.3395 or programs@mcny.org (enter promotion code DART 1121). If you phone, just mention DART and your tickets will be held for you. Please do not reply to this email.

The Museum of the City of New York is located at Fifth Avenue and 103^rd Street.
By bus: M1, M3, M4 or M106 to 104th Street, M2 to 101st Street.
By subway: #6 Lexington Avenue train to 103rd Street, walk three blocks west. #2 or #3 train to Central Park North (110th Street), walk one block east to Fifth Avenue, then south to 104th Street. 212.534.1672.

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