Marcia Goldman, Anna French

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Marcia Goldman was one of the founders of the Weeksville Society and one of the past presidents. Anna French was a longtime assistant to past president Joan Maynard. Marcia Goldman was born in Brooklyn in 1936. She attended Franklin K. Lane High School and Brooklyn College. She worked as an educator and guidance counselor in the public school system, starting at PS 21 in Brooklyn, where she worked for 14 years. She then attended Brooklyn College for a higher degree in education, and worked at various high schools before retiring in 1991. She also began an after school and summer camp program at Siloam Presbyterian Church in the 1960s and 70s. Marcia Goldman became involved with Weeksville through Barbara Jackson, who was heading Project Weeksville which was based at NYCC. Barbara Jackson asked Ms. Goldman to look at her research on Weeksville. Before being involved with Weeksville, Ms. Goldman was a member of a group of educators called Friends of African American Studies that agitated to have African American studies and history included in school curricula and cultural institutions. Ms. Goldman recounts that the Friends protested the Hall of Man in Africa at the Museum of Natural History in New York. They worked to have an African or African American serve as curator of the Hall. While a member of the group, Ms. Goldman had the chance to work with Leonard Jeffries, who is also mentioned by Evette Simmons in her oral history. Additional Weeksville Society members mentioned by Marcia...

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Weeksville Heritage Center