Shirley Green founded the Whitesboro Historical Foundation Museum in Cape May County in 2000 and has served as its curator for more than 20 years. The Foundation preserves the unique history of Whitesboro, the first planned African American community in New Jersey. Founded by George H. White, the last Reconstruction-era African American Congressman, Whitesboro was a vibrant community settled by African Americans fleeing racial violence in the South in the early twentieth century.