Black History Galleries

Marcellena Hicks Pearsall (1868 – 1964) was born in Brooklyn and moved to Roslyn with her family at the age of ten. Her personal photo album was donated to the Local History Collection by her grandson, Bryan Pearsall. While some family...

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...

Eugene and Marcellena Pearsall were married circa 1888 and had eight children, Ethel, Eugenie, Gertrude, Arnold, Marjorie, Hilda, Myrtle, and Arrell. The youngest of his siblings, Arrell wrote extensively about his family in his autobiography, THIS IS MY LIFE...

Throughout his autobiography, Arrell Pearsall details the various activities he enjoyed during his life. This includes poultry raising, sports, and riflery. The gallery below features photos associated with those activities...

E. Arrell Pearsall (1908 – 2003) married Marion Peters Pearsall (1920 – 1987) in 1941. Both born and raised in Roslyn, they lived for the first few years of their marriage with Arrell’s parents, Eugene and Marcellena Pearsall on Power...