In March we hosted Trinity alum (‘09) and Primus Project founder, Prof. Alex Manevitz (History, Baruch College). Dr. Manevitz lectured about New York’s Seneca Village, a 19th century African American settlement in what is now Central Park. He analyzed how renewed interest in the site has coincided with a new generation of anti-racist activism around space and memory.
He also detailed the research on Trinity and slavery that he had initiated with Trinity students in 2019 which later became the Primus Project. He explained how the students organizing in the Black student-led Umoja Coalition drew upon this research to make demands for justice in 2020. TSJI is indebted to the research and activism of these students and to Dr. Manevitz. The talk was organized by the TSJI Hidden Black CT Research Cluster and co-sponsored by History, American Studies, and the Primus Project.