Black History and Culture in the Hudson Valley: History
Overview
African American Presence in the Hudson Valley - Historic Huguenot Street collection of various documents regarding slavery, civil war service and early photographs
Dutchess African Heritage Studies: Walter M Patrice Online Library
"Negro Question" Conferences held at Mohonk
- The "Negro Question" at Mohonk: Microcosm, Mirage, and Message (New York History journal article)
- First Conference Procedings (1890)
- Second Conference Procedings (1891)
People
Cynthia Hesdra, The battle over the ex-slave's fortune (login with library card number)
Sumner Lark tried to establish African-American community in Putnam County
Jakob Wynkoop - Never Was a Slave, Builder and Civil War soldier (New Paltz)
Jane Deyo Wynkoop, The First African American to Buy Land in New Paltz
James Brown, Runaway Slave & Journal Keeper (Beacon)
Free Black Communities
The Hills (Harrison)
Honey Pot or Guinea (Town of Wallkill) - ad for sale of slave Tom, notes discuss freed slave community
New Guinea Community (Hyde Park)
Skunk Hollow (Palisades)
Black History and Culture Generally
Books
Black Frontiersman by ISBN: 9780875651712Publication Date: 1997-06-01
Daughter of the Empire State by ISBN: 9780252036576Publication Date: 2011-11-03
Freedom Journey by ISBN: 9781438455389Publication Date: 2015-05-01The story of thirty-six African American men who drew upon their shared community of The Hills for support as they fought in the Civil War.
Desegregation
"A Country School for Colored Children and Others” established by Martha Gruening at Gomez Mill House in Marlboro
Hillburn Schools, Thurgood Marshall leads effort to desegregate Rockland school
Newburgh - The Colored School (1849-1873)
Miscellaneous
Firsts
Ulysses Alsdorf first Black graduate of Newburgh Free Academy
Jane Bolin (Poughkeepsie), first Black female graduate of Yale Law School and first Black female judge in the US
Audrey Carey, Mayor of Newburgh - first Black female mayor in New York
George Peter Newkirk (Hurley), first Black voter in New York State
Jane Deyo Wynkoop, first Black woman to buy land in New Paltz
Military Service
Civil War
- Buried Truth: Black patriots of the Civil War from Orange County
- Richard Oliver, Civil War Soldier (Kingston)
- Jacob Wynkoop, Civil War records (New Paltz)
Harlem Hellfighters (15th / 369th Regiment New York National Guard)
- Enlistment Cards 1920-1949 (search municipality, e.g. Newburgh, Poughkeepsie, Kingston, etc)
- Henry Johnson Medal of Honor (Albany)
- Orange County Mobilizes, 1917 (includes Newburgh 15th Regiment recruitment and training in Poughkeepsie)
Revolutionary War
- African American Soldiers at New Windsor Cantonement, Hudson River Valley Review, page 88
- Prince Danforth - hero of the Battle of Fort Montgomery awarded his freedom and a farm in New Windsor
- The Extraordinary Journey of Dutchess County’s African American Revolutionary War Veteran Andrew Frazier
- Newburgh's 369th Subject of Nov. 13 TV Show - 1977 Evening News article about "Men of Bronze." Discusses enlisted man Walter Cobbs and Captain Hamilton Fish.
Soldiers Buried at the Mt. Zion African-American Burial Ground - Kingston 
Tuskegee Airmen
- Lt Colonel Lee A Archer, Tuskegee Ace (New Rochelle)
West Point
- Henry Ossian Flipper, first Black graduate