Black History and Culture in the Hudson Valley: Culture
Artists Writers, Musicians
Black Artists in the Hudson Valley (Chronogram list of contemporary Black artists, writers and musicians who live in the Hudson Valley)
The Alsdorfs of Newburgh
Artists and Writers
Horace Pippin (Goshen)
Celebrations and Holidays
Emancipation Day 1858 (Poughkeepsie) featuring Frederick Douglass
Juneteenth, City of Newburgh Recognizes
Pinksterfeest, 1881 Harper's article about Albany celebration
Books
Genealogical history of black families of Orange County, New York by
Call Number: LOH R.REF 929.1 BREPublication Date: 2001
Mighty Change, Tall Within by ISBN: 9780791456729Publication Date: 2003-01-30A history of African American presence in the Hudson Valley region from the colonial period to the present.
Primitive by ISBN: 9781942683209Publication Date: 2016-10-11
Varick's Newburgh by ISBN: 0805959165Publication Date: 2003-08-01
Cultural Institutions
Miscellaneous
Burial Grounds
Churches
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
- James Varick, founder and Newburgh native
- Beacon Church
- Kingston Church (oldest African-American congregation in Ulster County)
- Newburgh Church
- Reverend Joseph and Catherine Gilchrist Thomposon
Dutch Reformed Church
- James Murphy, A Pastor's Double Life Unearthed
- Hidden Heritage, the Story of Reverend James Murphy
- Old Dutch Church of Kingston, NY Writes Statement of Reconciliation for Slavery and Racism