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Jehu Jones Mission 
               Educational Resources

1839

Unable to raise support among leaders of the Pennsylvania Lutheran Synod, the Rev. Jehu Jones loses the mortgage on his Black congregation’s building

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1890’s

Rise of Jim Crow laws to disenfranchise and remove economic gains made by Blacks during Reconstruction

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1921

Tulsa, OK riots wipe out vibrant Black area of city, a major setback for Tulsa’s Black population.

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1944-1956

The GI Bill failed to compensate Black veterans of WWII the same as Whites.

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1950 - today

Redlining used by lenders to restrict Black ownership in certain areas of American cities

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1988 to the Present

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1930 State Highway 33

Hamilton Square, NJ 08690

609-586-6800

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“Our synod office is located on land which is part of the traditional territory of the Lenni-Lenape, called “Lenapehoking.” The Lenape People lived in harmony with one another upon this territory for thousands of years. During the colonial era and early federal period, many were removed west and north, but some also remain among the continuing historical tribal communities of the region: The Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Tribal Nation; the Ramapough Lenape Nation; and the Powhatan Renape Nation, The Nanticoke of Millsboro Delaware, and the Lenape of Cheswold Delaware. We acknowledge the Lenni-Lenape as the original people of this land and their continuing relationship with their territory. In our acknowledgment of the continued presence of Lenape people in their homeland, we affirm the aspiration of the great Lenape Chief Tamanend, that there be harmony between the indigenous people of this land and the descendants of the immigrants to this land, “as long as the rivers and creeks flow, and the sun, moon, and stars shine.”

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