Searching for A Better Life: Looking Back at the African American Migration to Bridgehampton with Pat Turner Ph.D.

UCLA research professor Patricia A. Turner, PhD, whose family migrated to “the Turnpike” in 1930, will share stories of the people and institutions that forged Bridgehampton’s resilient black community. Searching for A Better Life: Looking Back at the African American Migration to Bridgehampton will be anchored by interviews, documents from local libraries and archives---including newspapers only available in the Nathaniel Rogers house—publications such as Grandfather Lived Here and The Other Hampton as well as photography from family albums as well as from the collections of Judy Tomkins and Kathryn Szoka. Searching for A Better Life: Looking Back at the African American Migration to Bridgehampton is one installment in a larger project that seeks to guarantee that the early days of the East End’s Black communities are preserved and celebrated. Co-sponsored by Canio’s and the Eastville Community Historical Society.