TitleMusicians and dancers participating in Tribute to the Ancestors ceremony on the Coney Island beach.
Call NumberGORE_0059
Cite AsBob Gore photograph collection, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
SummaryParticipants in Tribute to the Ancestors, part of Brooklyn Arts Council’s Harborlore Festival, June 14, 2008 at Coney Island. Waterfront ceremony memorializing enslaved Africans who died at sea in their forced passage to the Americas. Large crowd wading in the surf, holding several red, black and green Pan-African flags.
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