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Winter Concert
Join us Friday, December 5 between 6:30 and 8:30 for our third annual winter holiday concert! This year’s performance will feature Brooklyn Baroque, a trio comprised of Rebecca Pechefsky (harpsichord), Andrew Bolotowsky (Baroque flute) and David Bakamjian (Baroque cello). Tickets: $15 ($12 KMM members).
This celebration of period music will prominently feature the musical compositions of Luigi Boccherini, Ludwig van Beethoven, Joseph Haydn, CPE Bach, Joseph Boulogne, and the Chevalier de Saint-Georges. The program has been carefully selected and designed to reflect the period during which Rufus would have been in London. We can easily imagine the King family enjoying a similar musical celebration 200 years ago!
Holiday Shop
Please keep us in mind as you make your shopping plans! As always, the shop is open during museum hours and upon request. As a special bonus for the holiday season, we are offering extended shopping hours from 12-4 on Thursdays and Fridays in December, as well as a special discount weekend, Thursday, December 4 to Sunday December 5. Shop “someplace special,” where your dollar makes a difference!
The Jamaica Desegregation War
King Manor’s education staff has been honored to partner with the Immaculate Conception School Aquinas Society and the St. John’s University School of Law on an exciting student research project: The Jamaica Desegregation War. In 1895, Samuel Cisco was arrested for refusing to send his young sons to the “colored school” in Jamaica, demanding instead that they be allowed to attend the superior school closer to their home, where admission was restricted to whites.
Repeated arrests did not dissuade Cisco from his arguments, and when he died, his wife Elizabeth continued to demand the desegregation of schools in Jamaica and New York City, ultimately losing at the highest levels of the NY Court of Appeals. In spite of the loss, however, a desegregation law was signed by Governor Theodore Roosevelt – under the condition that it apply to schools throughout New York State.
Thanks to the Ciscos and their fellow litigants in Jamaica, desegregation ended in New York State schools in 1900. The Immaculate Conception School students spent their summer poring over documents in the Queens Library’s Long Island Division archives, and will be creating a mock trial based on their research and performing it at a number of sites, including St. John’s University, the Queens Borough Public Library…and King Manor!
King Calendar
December 7, 1819: Following King’s powerful anti-slavery statements on the Senate floor, John Adams wrote, “May God preserve you many years for the benefit of your Country – and for the Comfort of your friend…”
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