Q&A with PNJ: Why 9 Commerce Lane Matters
St Peter's Episcopal Church | Perth Amboy, NJ 188 Rector Street, Perth Amboy, New Jersey9 Commerce Lane: Where Thomas Mundy Peterson lived…and why it matters! On March 31, 1870, Thomas Mundy Peterson became the first African American in the nation to vote under the Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution when he cast a ballot in a Perth Amboy, NJ city charter election. He had been working in the […]