Witherspoon Street Presbyterian Church

Bob Duncan of West Windsor
    In identifying the Presbyterian churches that initiated the interracial housing efforts in Princeton in the 1950s, your otherwise fine article (“GlenAcres marks 50-year-old stand . . . “) failed to include Witherspoon Street Presbyterian Church. As a racially integrated — though largely African-American — congregation, Witherspoon Street Presbyterian’s role was critical. The insight that housing integration was crucial to the ultimate success of school integration was initially voiced by Howard Waxwood, a Witherspoon Street Church member and the black principal of Princeton’s racially integrated Quarry Street School. That insight was the trigger for the effort that led eventually to the creation of the GlenAcres and Maplecrest developments.
   I should also note that the First and Second Presbyterian Churches that are named in the article later merged to become the present Nassau Presbyterian Church.
Bob Duncan
Original GlenAcres homeowner
West Windsor