Feb-01-11 New Jersey State Attorney General Paula T. Dow gives the keynote address during the opening celebration of Black History Month at the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development.
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With the event theme, Unity, a World’s Common Goal, the celebration featured remarks from Deputy Commissioner Richard E. Constable, III, who also introduced keynote speaker, New Jersey State Attorney General Dow. The program also included musical selections from the Trenton Central High School Orchestra.
During her speech, Attorney General Dow acknowledged that the Department of Labor is one of the most diverse departments in New Jersey state government. She also spoke about “Freedom Summer,” and how the actions of three young Civil Rights workers, a black Mississippian James Chaney, and two white New Yorkers, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, sparked a movement that challenged our nation to work together in unity.
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