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The T. Thomas Fortune House, home to one of America’s first African-American newspaper publishers — and coiner of the term ‘African-American’ — is among New Jersey’s 10 most endangered historic locales, a statewide conservation group said yesterday.
The inclusion of the house by Preservation New Jersey is the latest in a series of designations granted to the structure at 94 Drs. James Parker Boulevard. It was named to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976 and to a comparable New Jersey list three years later.
Still, like the designations that came before it, the latest one conveys no special status should the current or a future owner of the property decide to tear it down. And that possibility has Red Bank history buffs on edge because the house is up for sale by its longtime owners, the Vaccarelli family.
“It doesn’t give us any leverage to stop a demolition,” says George Bowden, chairman of the borough’s Historic Preservation Committee . “But the concern is there. This is one we don’t want to go down the tubes.”
The designation was disclosed at a press conference yesterday on the steps of the Statehouse in Trenton. Bowden attended with another commission member, Ed Zipprich.
Also on this year’s list is the vast former Bell Labs research facility in Holmdel, which a developer is in the process of gutting and plans to surround with housing, according to the Star-Ledger .
Though he is little remembered today, even in African-American communities, Timothy Thomas Fortune was among the political thinkers who championed the rights of post-Emancipation blacks. A colleague of W.E.B. DuBois and Booker T. Washington, he was also among the co-creators of Afro-American League in Chicago in 1890, a precursor to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
Born into slavery in Florida in 1856, Fortune worked at a series of newspaper jobs before starting one of his own, the New York Freeman Fortune was acquainted in the art of provocation. In August 1893, he threatened a duel to the death with the publisher of another newspaper who was visiting in Asbury Park. Download thomas_fortune_duel.pdf A month later, he “narrowly escaped personal violence,” according to the New York Times, when he was repeatedly shouted down in a churchful of African-Americans gathered in Brooklyn to decry discrimination against an African-American teacher. Download thomas_fortune_shouted_down.
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Leader Chris Carrabba has announced plans to bring his "Swiss Army Romance" solo tour out West.
The tour kicks off in late November, and is in honor of the 10th anniversary of the first Dashboard Confessional studio album, "The Swiss Army Romance," which Carrabba will play in its entirety at each show.
Carrabba initially announced a 16-city schedule for the tour, which runs through mid-December, covered much of the East and Midwest. The newly confirmed dates cover eight cities from Colorado to California.
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