Black Women Preserving Race Memory through Historic Sites

Session Submission Type: Panel Session

Abstract

The panel explores the role of Black women in preserving race memory through historic sites in three different contexts: (A) historic places in Montgomery, Alabama preserved by Black clubwomen; (B) a national project undertaken by members of the Order of the Eastern Star (PHA) documenting grave sites of deceased Worth Grand Matrons; and (C) the efforts of community women in Nashville, Tennessee preserving the history of an African American neighborhood destroyed by flood. These three projects examine the role black women preserving race memory through historic sites from 1840 to the present.

Sub Unit

• 101st Annual Meeting and Conference of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History

Chair

• Angela Marie Nelson, Bowling Green State University

Individual Presentations

• The Prince Hall Masonic Historical Sites Project - Sibyl Moses, Library of Congress

• Montgomery’s Black Club Women and Historic Preservation - Tara Y White, WCCS

• Rebuilding on Hallowed Ground: A Contemporary Example in Nashville, TN - Deidre Butler, Union College

Commentator

• ASALH Audience, .

Co-sponsored by:

• Association of Black Women Historians, (ABWH)