For at least two centuries, African Americans have been an integral part of the greater Roslyn community. Though they have always been a small segment of the population, their lives, particularly throughout the nineteenth century, were closely intertwined with and paralleled those of their white neighbors. Although their lives were constrained in many ways by prejudice and racial discrimination, Roslyn’s Black residents contributed in major ways to the economic and civic life of the community.
Most of images in this gallery are from The Local History Collection’s photograph collection, where they were grouped randomly under the “Blacks” subject heading when the vertical file was created.
