A Tribute to Dr. John Henrik Clarke

His life and times

John Henrik Clarke and Sybil Williams Clarke at their Wedding Ceremony.

John Henrik Clarke and Sybil Williams Clarke en route to a lecture.

Office Door; Dept. of Black and Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College

Famous Quotations by Dr. Clarke

"History is a clock that people use to tell their political and cultural time of day.

It is also a compass that people use to find themselves on the map of human geography.

The role of history is to tell a people what they have been and where they have been, what they are and where they are.

The most important role that history plays is that it has the function of telling people where they still must go and what they still must be."

Mezzanine Floor of Javits Federal Building in New York City.

"You cannot subjugate a man and recognize his humanity, his history and his personality."

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