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Trailblazers: 11 Black politicians from New Jersey you should know about

January 17, 2022   12:23 amJanuary 16, 2022   10:18 pm
Dr. George E. Cannon (1869-1925) was a physician and New Jersey Black Republican leader from Jersey City who seconded the nomination of President Calvin Coolidge at the 1924 Republican National Convention in Cleveland.   He was the first Republican to win...
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Freedom Rider Byron Baer spent 34 years in the NJ legislature — and 45 days in a Mississippi prison

July 29, 2021   12:01 amJuly 28, 2021   6:39 pm
Today is the 60th anniversary of the arrest of Freedom Rider Byron Baer, a longtime New Jersey legislator who was charged with attempting to desegregate a blacks-only waiting room at the Greyhound bus terminal in Jackson, Mississippi. He spent 45...
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Freedom Rider Byron Baer spent 34 years in the NJ legislature — and 45 days in a Mississippi prison

July 29, 2020   12:10 amJuly 29, 2020   12:59 pm
Today is the 59th anniversary of the arrest of Freedom Rider Byron Baer, a longtime New Jersey legislator who was charged with attempting to desegregate a blacks-only waiting room at the Greyhound bus terminal in Jackson, Mississippi. He spent 45...
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Freedom Rider Byron Baer spent 34 years in the NJ legislature — and 45 days in a Mississippi prison

July 29, 2019   8:02 amJanuary 18, 2021   4:17 pm
Today is the 58th anniversary of the arrest of Freedom Rider Byron Baer, a longtime New Jersey legislator who was charged with attempting to desegregate a blacks-only waiting room at the Greyhound bus terminal in Jackson, Mississippi. He spent 45...
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Some 1960s Bergen County political history

March 3, 2019   10:22 pmMarch 4, 2019   8:59 am
Until the U.S. Supreme Court’s one-man, one-vote ruling, Bergen County began the 1960’s with one state Senator – Walter Jones (R-Norwood) — and seven Assembly seats. Jones gave up that Senate seat after eight years in 1961 to run for...
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Former Assemblyman and Judge from Bergen dies

October 23, 2018   6:48 amOctober 22, 2018   11:03 pm
Robert E. Hamer, who served as an Assemblyman from Bergen County and as a Superior Court Judge, died on July 4.  He was 88. The New Jersey Globe regrets missing his passing, as The (Bergen) Record surely does as well....
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