My father Stephen Sampson is included in the official record of the City Of Elizabeth, New Jersey

 

1664   Elizabethtown becomes a formal settlement, the first permanent English community in New Jersey. They had benefitted from the transfer of power from Dutch to English with the British capture of New Amsterdam.
1664   On October 28, a group of Englishmen—the Elizabethtown Associates—from eastern Long Island bought land from the Lenape sachem, Mattano.

Now lets jump to 1940 and My father Stephen Sampson

1940s First Civil Rights protests initiated by Bravell Nesbit, Director of NAACP and funeral home owner, joined by Stephen Sampson (owner of Reed/E. Jersey St. barber shop (“Not Just a Barber Shop”) and other prominent Afro-American leaders (incl. Wm Brown and Kirkpatrick Marrow, the city’s first black police detective). Organized picketing of Howard Johnson’s (on present site of Daffy Dan’s) to protest right to equal service.

My father Stephen Sampson and his mentor Mr Nesbitt starting up the first protest in Elizabeth New jersey.

He continued on protesting, registering African Americans to vote, fighting for the rights of Haitians in Elizabeth and then onto Senior citizen rights until his death at 83. A amazing man this father of mine

click this for a Link to historical Elizabeth timelines of events

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