Amistad at Large

Alfred Marder: A Compass for Peace | Memorial Event

September 21st, 2024
2 P.M. - 5 P.M. EST

Join us live on the International Day of Peace to pay tribute to Alfred Marder (1922 - 2023), an outstanding stalwart, in a memorial event to carry on his legacy. A permanent resident of New Haven, World War II veteran, and University of Connecticut graduate, Al was a consistent leader in supporting workers rights, civil rights, peace and justice, and other progressive struggles starting from high school and continuing throughout his long life.

This event will be streamed live, via the New Haven Peoples Center Facebook page: https://tinyurl.com/AlMarderACompassforPeace

For more information, please contact Henry Lowendorf: grnhpeacecouncil@gmail.com

This event is sponsored by: The New Haven Peoples Center, Greater New Haven Peace Council, City of New Haven Peace Commission, and The Amistad Committee, Inc.

JULY 19 & 20: Community Weekend Honoring Amistad: Film, Music, Exhibit & Waterfront Programs

You are invited to a special community weekend coinciding with the New Haven Museum’s “Amistad Retold” and the docking of the Amistad Freedom Schooner at Long Wharf in New Haven.

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Amistad: Retold @ the New Haven Museum

The reconceived exhibition Amistad: Retold takes a new angle on the familiar story of the Amistad, centering the people who led the revolt and their collective actions to determine their own lives. It also foregrounds New Haven as the site of their incarceration and organizing by Black and white abolitionists. The exhibition opened at the New Haven Museum (NHM) on Thursday, May 9, 2024. At the exhibition’s opening, the Amistad Committee Inc. announced the awardees of the Toni N. Harp Human Rights Day Essay Contest for New Haven public high school students. This year, students have written essays connecting their ideas to the life and contributions of Judge Constance Baker Motley (Hillhouse High School class of 1939) to human and civil rights. This event was streamed live and can be watched via New Haven Museum’s Youtube channel.

AMISTAD COMMUNITY COMMEMORATIVE

It happened here in New Haven…

Join The Amistad Committee, New Haven Sister Cities, and Dixwell Avenue Congregational UCC in remembrance of the historic Amistad incident, its legacy, and the man who sought to keep this history alive for New Haven, former Amistad Committee president Alfred Marder (1922 -2023).

When: SUNDAY, MARCH 10th, 2024 | 11 A.M.
Where: Dixwell Avenue Congregational UCC
217 Dixwell Avenue, New Haven, CT

The Amistad Committee helped catalyze Yale’s movement to examine its own history. | Feb. 19, 2024

The following Yale Daily News article quotes extensively from committee member Charles Warner, who is also a member of the Yale and Slavery Working Group. The article also references a booklet the Amistad Committee published in 2001.

Read the entirety of the article, HERE.

Al Marder, True Believer To The End, Dies At 101

Alfred Marder was a life-long resident of New Haven, World War II veteran, and University of Connecticut graduate. He joined the Communist party as a teen in 1938, served as the chairman of the Connecticut Young Communist League, and was one of the organizers of the campaign for the first evening college in the state. As a Communist party organizer in 1952 in New Haven during the Cold War, he helped to organize an unsuccessful campaign to allow African Americans to work as bus drivers. | New Haven Independent | December 19, 2023

DeLauro, Clyburn, Meeks, Clarke, Torres Introduce Legislation Honoring Constance Baker Motley | Feb. 17, 2023

Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-03), House Assistant Democratic Leader James Clyburn (SC-06), Congressman Gregory W. Meeks (NY-05), Congresswoman Yvette D. Clarke (NY-09), and Congressman Ritchie Torres (NY-15) introduced the Congressional Tribute to Constance Baker Motley Act of 2023, legislation to honor the life of civil rights pioneer Judge Constance Baker Motley by posthumously awarding her with a Congressional Gold Medal.