{"id":11930,"date":"2020-03-03T17:03:55","date_gmt":"2020-03-03T22:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/weeklyrounds\/?p=11930"},"modified":"2020-03-03T17:15:38","modified_gmt":"2020-03-03T22:15:38","slug":"who-are-our-experts-on-south-jersey-black-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/weeklyrounds\/2020\/03\/who-are-our-experts-on-south-jersey-black-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Are Our Experts on South Jersey Black History?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, we thought we were giving you a break when we limited our trivia questions to South Jersey, but it proved to be more difficult than our Science and Medicine quiz!<\/p>\n<p>What question was the undoing of most of our trivia buffs? Perhaps surprisingly, it was the one about Cooper\u2019s very own Dr. Bascom Waugh. Most people chose the fact that he was a flight surgeon with the Tuskegee Airmen, but he was also the first African American president of the Camden County Heart Association as well as a clinical assistant professor at Jefferson Medical College, so \u201call of the above\u201d was the correct answer.<\/p>\n<p>There were nine quiz masters (and assumed Dr. Waugh super fans) who got all of the answers right:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Christopher Hearn<\/li>\n<li>William White<\/li>\n<li>James Martinez<\/li>\n<li>Siani Carrion<\/li>\n<li>Rosemarie Maitland<\/li>\n<li>Mathilda Woodards<\/li>\n<li>Krystal Hunter<\/li>\n<li>Joanna Davis<\/li>\n<li>Leidy Sanchez<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The randomly selected winner of the group with 100% scores is <strong>Mathilda Woodards, SPD Supply Technician<\/strong>, who will receive a swag bag full of Cooper-themed gifts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<!-- iframe plugin v.6.0 wordpress.org\/plugins\/iframe\/ -->\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.jwplayer.com\/players\/AvchpoP7-PfkgzvIG.html\" width=\"480\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"auto\" title=\"Trivia Winner 2\" 0=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\"><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">~~~<\/p>\n<p>Black History Month 2020 Local History Quiz \u2013 Here Are the Answers:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>There\u2019s some controversy over whether Martin Luther King Jr. lived in or just visited the house of a Camden family while he was a seminary student. However, there is no controversy over the fact that he participated in his first sit-in in a pub in a South Jersey town during that time period. What was the town?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Gibbsboro<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Maple Shade<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Mt. Ephraim<\/p>\n<p>Mt. Royal<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li>Camden physician Dr. Bascom S. Waugh was Cooper\u2019s first African American physician, and was on staff for more than 40 years. What other accomplishment(s) marked his career?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>He was a flight surgeon with the 332nd Fighter Group, the Tuskegee Airmen.<\/p>\n<p>He was the first African American president of the Camden County Heart Association.<\/p>\n<p>He was a clinical assistant professor at Jefferson Medical College.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>All of the above<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"3\">\n<li>Octavius V. Catto and Jacob C. White founded one of the earliest Negro League baseball clubs in Philadelphia in 1865. The club had to play its first game at Diamond Cottage Park in Camden because it was denied access to the Parade Grounds in South Philadelphia. The team\u2019s name was:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The Blue Stockings<\/p>\n<p>The Keystones<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Pythians<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Stars<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"4\">\n<li>This\u00a0church,\u00a0associated with multiple participants in the Underground Railroad, offered lodging to fugitive slaves travelling north after leaving Maryland&#8217;s Eastern Shore and Delaware and is now on the National Register of Historic Places. Oral histories attest that Harriet Tubman used this\u00a0station from 1849 to 1853\u00a0along\u00a0one of her most famous routes.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em><strong>Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Springtown, Cumberland County<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Grant African Methodist Episcopal Church in Chesilhurst, Camden County<\/p>\n<p>Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church in Woolwich Township, Gloucester County<\/p>\n<p>Trinity African Methodist Episcopal Church in Gouldtown, Cumberland County<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"5\">\n<li>South Jersey is home to Lawnside, the first independent, self-governing black municipality north of the Mason-Dixon Line. The land was purchased in 1840 by abolitionists who wanted to establish a community for freed and escaped slaves, and other African Americans. The town was originally known as:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em><strong>Free Haven<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Free Hill<\/p>\n<p>Freedmen\u2019s Village<\/p>\n<p>Freedtown<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"6\">\n<li>John S. Rock was born to free, black parents in Salem, NJ, in 1825. He worked as a teacher, graduated from the American Medical College of Pennsylvania, opened a medical and dental office in Massachusetts, and then studied law. He was one of the first African Americans to be admitted to the Massachusetts Bar before the Civil War. In 1865, he also became:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em><strong>The first black lawyer admitted to the bar of the U.S. Supreme Court<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The first black medical malpractice lawyer<\/p>\n<p>The first black chief justice of a state Supreme Court<\/p>\n<p>The first black president of the National Educational Association<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"7\">\n<li>Historical markers were installed in 2017 at Cooper\u2019s Point, Cooper Street, and Federal Street in Camden to mark what?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em><strong>Ferry landings where slaves were sold from 1727 to the mid 1760s<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Houses that served as Underground Railroad stops between 1757 and 1860<\/p>\n<p>Meeting places to plot the failed 1816 Camden slave uprising<\/p>\n<p>New Jersey\u2019s first abolitionist meetings in 1778 and 1779<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"8\">\n<li>Part of the Delaware Valley\u2019s \u201ccradle of emancipation,\u201d by 1790 this county had the largest free black population of any county in New Jersey. The large population and strong presence of Quakers \u2014 the first organized group to speak against slavery \u2014 enabled South Jersey to be a pacesetter in black emancipation.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em><strong>Burlington County<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Camden County<\/p>\n<p>Cumberland County<\/p>\n<p>Gloucester County<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"9\">\n<li>In 1860, the \u201cBattle of Pine Swamp\u201d occurred when armed residents of this South Jersey town founded by free blacks and former slaves prevented the capture of Perry Simmons, an escaped slave living there, by infamous slave catcher George Alberti.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Gouldtown, Cumberland County<\/p>\n<p>Jericho, Gloucester County<\/p>\n<p>Springtown, Cumberland County<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Timbuctoo, Burlington County<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"10\">\n<li>This Atlantic City native, considered to be one of the most influential painters of the 20th century, was the first black artist to be represented by a major, commercial gallery, and the first to receive mainstream recognition.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Augusta Savage<\/p>\n<p>Faith Ringgold<\/p>\n<p>Horace Pippin<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Jacob Lawrence<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, we thought we were giving you a break when we limited our trivia questions to South Jersey, but it proved to be more difficult than our Science and Medicine quiz! 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