New York Arts and Cultural Affairs - Article 57-B - (57.51 - 57.54) the Amistad Commission

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New York Arts and Cultural Affairs - Article 57-B - the Amistad Commission
; duties and responsibilities. 57.54. Authorization.
New York Arts and Cultural Affairs - § 57.51 - Legislative Findings
The legislature finds and declares that: 1. During the period beginning late in the fifteenth century through the nineteenth century, millions of persons of African...
New York Arts and Cultural Affairs - § 57.52 - Amistad Commission; Established
1. The Amistad commission (commission), so named in honor of the group of enslaved Africans led by Joseph Cinque who, while being transported in eighteen...
New York Arts and Cultural Affairs - § 57.53 - The Amistad Commission; Duties and Responsibilities
The Amistad commission shall have the following responsibilities and duties: 1. to survey and catalog the extent and breadth of education concerning the African slave...
New York Arts and Cultural Affairs - § 57.54 - Authorization
1. The Amistad commission is authorized to call upon any department, office, division or agency of the state, or of any county, municipality or school...