South End: Then & Now

Albany, NY

Learn about the history of the South End in Albany, NY. In partnership with RPI and Howe Public Library, kids & teens recorded oral histories of community leaders, then envisioned future possibilities that built on this history & carried it forward.

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Anne Pope

Anne Pope is the North East Regional Director of the NAACP. She went to Jackson State University in Jackson, MS. In 1999, with Dr. Jones Partnership for Building Stronger Communities, she took a Summer study tours to Africa. This was the first of several trips to Africa. She has fostered …

Clarence Samuel Johnson

Clarence Samuel Johnson was born in Albany, NY in 1940. He has lived in the South End for a very long time. His father was part of the Great Migration that occured when many African Americans migrated from the South to the Northern States between 1916 and 1970. His father, …

Dr. Alice Green

Dr. Alice Green is a community organizer and activist who works in Albany’s South End neighborhood on issues of racial justice, most prominently criminal law and prison reform. She is the Executive Director of the Center for Law and Justice, a non-profit organization that she founded in 1985 in Albany, …