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V.S. civil rights activist tells his story but also in Valley Stream, where acts of intimidation often deterred Black families from On March 7, 1965, protesters moving in. An article in The trekking the 54 miles from New York Times on Aug. 16, 1979, Selma, Ala., to Montgomery, the detailed a cross burning on the state capital, to register Black lawn of Inga Grant, a native of voters were violently confronted Jamaica, and her family, on by local authorities and white Woodland Avenue, five weeks vigilante groups. In the wake of after their arrival in the mostly that national tragewhite neighborhood. dy, which became The Times reported known as Bloody that the family of Sunday, civil rights nine was subjected protesters snapped to obscene calls, into action around threatening letters, the country. and rocks shattering Eight days later, their windows. roughly 15,000 civil Less overt but rights activists took equally discriminato the streets of Har- lARRy Fox tory behavior was a lem in a show of sol- Activist fact of life, accordi d a r i t y, d u r i n g ing to Fox. To fight which someone bigoted housing snapped a photo of a young man practices and help Black families marching in the crowd, holding secure homes, Fox, alongside up a sign that read, “We Will members of the Long Island Overcome.” chapter of the Congress of That man in the photo was Racial Equality, or CORE, would local civil rights legend Larry try to catch white homeowners Fox, now 79, marching alongside and real estate agents in their college students Karen Penner, uneven dealings with Black cusWillie Espy, Rose Brown and tomers through a tactic known Ralph Penner. All except Fox as “home testing.” have since died. The activists would try to see In the 1960s and ’70s, racially whether home renters would be motivated violence was taking more willing to rent to Fox, a place not only in far-off Alabama Continued on page 9
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BeFoRe He BeCAMe executive director, Jason Tan served as LIJ’s deputy executive director. Prior to that, he was the associate executive director of quality management.
LIJ Valley Stream hospital welcomes new chief By JUAN lASSo jlasso@liherald.com
A new wave of leadership has come to Long Island Jewish Valley Stream Hospital. The hospital started the year by welcoming Dr. Hsiang-chi “Angel” Meng as its medical director. A few weeks later, Jason Tan, 42, became the facility’s executive director, after two years as deputy executive director of administration. Tan is hardly an unfamil-
iar face to the hospital staff, having spent seven years getting to know the faces on the hospital floor and forging strong relationships with the health care team. But now he will face new pressures and demands as its chief, tasked with overseeing the day-today operations of the 284-bed facility and its roughly 1,300 employees, while ensuring a high-quality standard of care for the large volume and diversity of patients his hospital serves.
LIJ Valley Stream’s Emergency Department alone takes care of over 40,000 people a year. The hospital executive director’s role involves making daily rounds of its many departments and round-theclock meetings focusing on everything from patient postdischarge follow-ups to the expansion of service program. Colleagues who’ve worked closely with Tan say Continued on page 16
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