"The Long Journey Home" recounts the history of the black Community of Princeton, New Jersey, from 1776-1976. This was a much-needed journey through the pages of history to rediscover a community’s past. The struggles for religious, social and educational equality were faced with determination by a proud community that stood on the threshold of American history and witnessed the growth of a great nation as it stayed in the background. This book is an attempt to bring that history into the foreground to take its rightful place in the development of this nation.

“Jack Washington is an exceptionally dedicated researcher and writer who cares deeply about retrieving the forgotten history of black Americans. His new study of Princeton’s black community offers a wealth of information that will startle, stimulate, and instruct its fortunate readers, and I recommend it highly."

-Sean Wilentz
Dayton-Stockton Professor of History and Director of the Program in American Studies, Princeton University

“Jack Washington’s A Long Journey Home: A Bicentennial History of the Black Community of Princeton, New Jersey, 1776-1976 undertakes to add overlooked information to the chronicle of Princeton, information of a kind that is still in short supply on urban, suburban, and rural areas as well as small towns."

-Henry Drewry
Retired Professor of History, Princeton University

“Once again enriching our knowledge of New Jersey’s diverse population, Jack Washington’s thorough research rescues from obscurity two centuries of the African American presence and contribution to the Princeton community."

-Evelyn Higginbotham
African American Studies Department, Harvard University and Visiting Professor at Duke University

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
JACK WASHINGTON is an educator, community activist, and historian. He lectures in African-American history. This is his fourth book.

CATEGORY
History/AFRICAN AMERICAN