New York Arts and Cultural Affairs Law Article 57-B - THE AMISTAD COMMISSION

• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...

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