Look below: CHANGE the NAME

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Look below: CHANGE the NAME -

Honoring the Legacy of Africans and their descendants in Poughkeepsie, NY

Our Vision

CELEBRATING THE AFRICAN SPIRIT presents memorials to celebrate and commemorate the contributions of Africans and their descendants to the building and growth of Poughkeepsie and the Dutchess County region, from the work of the earliest enslaved persons through today. We collaborate with other organizations and entities to provide opportunities for education and exploration, so that the entire community can learn more about this purposefully neglected and ignored aspect of American history.

A Call to Action:

Change the

NAME of

Morse Elementary

“We, the Board members of Celebrating the African Spirit, urge you to remove any evidence of Morse in the school and to give it another name…We strongly recommend ‘North Star Elementary School’ as a new name.”

“How can a District elementary school carry this man’s name, another cruel injustice against the Black community, and say that you are providing a quality education to our young minds?”

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ANTHONY T. BROWDER, Transition 13
We knew not
We studied
We learned all there was to know
We taught others
Then we forgot what we had learned
and then forgot we had forgotten
Now we are taught (by those whom were once taught by us)
knowledge
(that we already had)
So…
we study
we learn all there is to know
we teach others
WILL WE FORGET AGAIN…