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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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Download thomas_fortune_shouted_down.pdf Prior to his death at age 71 in Philadelphia on June 2, 1928, the National Negro Press Association bestowed upon him the honorary title of “Dean of Negro Journalism,” according to the encyclopedia.
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Wikipedia is on the other hand a rather messy site with lots and lots of links, menus and information that are often not related to the topic the user is researching.
Userscripts are small scripts that change the information that are displayed on a website they have been configured for. They can change, remove or add information to those pages. Userscripts are supported natively by the Google Chrome browser. Firefox users need to install the Greasemonkey extension first. Opera users might want to take a look at Greasemonkey in Opera and Internet Explorer users at the plugin Trixie .
Simplepedia – If you think that Wikipedia is to crowded and filled with unrelated information then Simplepedia is for you. The userscript removes much of the excess on the pages turning Wikipedia into a simple but effective information powerhouse. The starting page has been redesigned to only provide access to a search form, much like Google does with Google Search.
The individual pages on Wikipedia have also been redesigned. Away with all the information in the header and sidebar. Only the relevant information, a search form and the footer information are displayed so that it becomes much easier to access the information on Wikipedia.
Wikipedia Inline Article Viewer – Wikipedia uses a keyword listing to link to other articles on their website automatically. This can accumulate to hundreds of links on a single page that lead to other Wikipedia entries. A click on a link normally loads the new page in the same browser tab. Some users might prefer to access the information directly instead.
That is what the Wikipedia Inline Article Viewer helps with. It will display the linked articles in an iframe on the same site making it possible to browser the linked page without leaving the current one.
Multi-column articles – Wikipedia provides access to a printable version of all articles hosted on the site. The printable version is not optimized. The multi-column articles userscript has been designed to change that. It turns printable Wikipedia pages into a multi-column layout so that the printout is optimized. Some users might even prefer to read the articles in that mode as it resembles the design of newspapers. The extension is not working in Google Chrome currently but a port seems to be in the making.
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