Stand Against Racism

Take a stand against racism in your community alongside your friends, fellow neighbors, educators and elected officials. Make a commitment to “a lifetime of promoting peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all people in our community and our world.” 

Spearheaded by the YWCA of White Plains, and co-sponsored by the Jay Heritage Center, the program will include readings by members of the GEMS (Girls Empowered through Meaningful Support). These students will recite original poetry inspired by the historic documents and stories of African American families and individuals, enslaved and freed, who lived in Rye and built lives and businesses in our Westchester community. 

The Jay Heritage Center is one of 13 sites on Westchester County's African American Heritage Trail. The Jay Property in Rye is a historic site where slaves are known to have lived and worked in the fields and gardens and where they were also emancipated by the Jay family and buried on the same land as their owners.

More program info to come.

This event is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served followed by tours of the 1838 Peter Augustus Jay House and current Sesquicentennial Civil War Commemoration exhibit on the Jay Family and Manumission.