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Letters of history-making Dr. Albert Forsythe going on display in February

Staff photo by Danny Drake

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Ralph Hunter, of the North Side section of Atlantic City, president of the African American Heritage Museum of Southern New Jersey, and Atlantic City Library archivist, Heather Halpin Perez, of Absecon, go over some of the exhibits

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Joi Dickerson-Neal from California with an article about Dr. Albert Forsythe in the African American Heritage Museum in Newtonville. Dickerson-Neal is the one who discovered the trove of letters under her grandfather's house.

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Dr. Albert Forsythe is the third from the right, dressed in dark jacket and shaking hands in a pamphlet from 1936. The pamphlet is on exhibit at the Atlantic City Library.