N.J. town’s Oprah connection is just the beginning. It was also a haven from the racist South.
Updated Feb 15, 2021;
Posted Feb 15, 2021
Shirley Green, founder and curator of the Whitesboro Historical Society Museum talks about the founders of Whitesboro, Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2019. Tim Hawk | NJ Advance Media for NJ.comTim Hawk | NJ Advance Media for
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Oprah Winfrey sat center stage as a guest of honor at the 2018 Whitesboro Reunion Festival. Nearby was her longtime beau Stedman Graham.
Graham easily could have been the guest of honor at the annual celebration of a historic community founded by a Reconstruction-era black congressman in 1901.