Preserving and Sustaining Civil Rights Sites

November 18, 2021 — November 19, 2021

In November 2021, CPCRS convened a number of scholars and practitioners deeply engaged in different aspects of preserving sites, stories and organizations representing the heritage of civil rights in the U.S.

The historic preservation field finds itself in a moment of intense introspection, critique, and change. While the traditional preservation methods of listing, legal protection, architectural history, and restoration still have their place, other, emergent methods of interpretation, management, storytelling, community engagement and adaptive reuse are urgently being explored.

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Sessions

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Day One

Intro and Keynote by Dr. Fallon Aidoo

// Fallon Aidoo, Jean Brainard Boebel Endowed Professor, University of New Orleans

// Brent Leggs, Senior Advisor and Adjunct Professor, CPCRS; Executive Director, African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund

// Randy Mason, Faculty Director, CPCRS

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Roundtable Discussion: Preservation Futures

// Priscilla Hancock Cooper, Executive Director, Alabama African American Civil Rights Heritage Sites Consortium

// Kwesi Daniels, Architecture Department Head, Assistant Professor, Tuskegee University

// Turkiya Lowe, Chief Historian, National Park Service

Moderated by Randy Mason

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Closing remarks

// Brent Leggs, Senior Advisor and Adjunct Professor, CPCRS; Executive Director, African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund

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Day Two

Intro and Keynote by Dr. Mia Bay

// Mia Bay, Roy F. and Jeanette P. Nichols Professor of American History at the University Pennsylvania

// Randy Mason, Faculty Director, CPCRS

// Monica Rhodes, Director of Partnerships, CPCRS; Loeb Fellow, Harvard

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Roundtable Discussion: Storytelling Futures

// Glenn Eskew, Professor, Georgia State University

// Hasan Jeffries, Associate Professor of History, Ohio State University

// Andrea Roberts, Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, Texas A&M; Founder, Texas Freedom Colonies Project

Moderated by Monica Rhodes

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Closing remarks

// Randy Mason, Faculty Director, CPCRS

// Monica Rhodes, Director of Partnerships, CPCRS; Loeb Fellow, Harvard

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Speakers

Dr. Fallon Samuels Aidoo

Jean B. Boebel Assistant Professor of Historic Preservation in the University of New Orleans

Mia Bay

Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Chair in American History, University of Pennsylvania

Priscilla Hancock Cooper

Founding Director of the Alabama African American Civil Rights Heritage Sites Consortium (AAACRHSC)

Dr. Kwesi Daniels

Department Head, Assistant Professor Taylor School of Architecture and Construction Science, Tuskegee University

Dr. Glenn T. Eskew

Distinguished University Professor, Georgia State University

Hasan Kwame Jeffries

Associate Professor, Ohio State University

Brent Leggs

Senior Advisor

Dr. Turkiya L. Lowe

National Park Service Supervisory Historian and acting Federal Preservation Officer

Randall F. Mason

Senior Fellow

Monica Rhodes

Director of Partnerships

Andrea Roberts

Director of The Texas Freedom Colonies Project™ and an Assistant Professor of Urban Planning, and co-founder of the African American Digital Humanities Working Group at Texas A&M University

Preserving and Sustaining Civil Rights Sites

In November 2021, CPCRS convened a number of scholars and practitioners deeply engaged in different aspects of preserving sites, stories and organizations representing the heritage of civil rights in the U.S.

Sessions

All sessions were recorded and can be viewed on Vimeo through the buttons listed below.

Day One

Intro and Keynote by Dr. Fallon Aidoo

// Fallon Aidoo, Jean Brainard Boebel Endowed Professor, University of New Orleans // Brent Leggs, Senior Advisor and Adjunct Professor, CPCRS; Executive Director, African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund // Randy Mason, Faculty Director, CPCRS

Roundtable Discussion: Preservation Futures

// Priscilla Hancock Cooper, Executive Director, Alabama African American Civil Rights Heritage Sites Consortium // Kwesi Daniels, Architecture Department Head, Assistant Professor, Tuskegee University // Turkiya Lowe, Chief Historian, National Park Service

Moderated by Randy Mason

Closing remarks

// Brent Leggs, Senior Advisor and Adjunct Professor, CPCRS; Executive Director, African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund

Day Two

Intro and Keynote by Dr. Mia Bay

// Mia Bay, Roy F. and Jeanette P. Nichols Professor of American History at the University Pennsylvania // Randy Mason, Faculty Director, CPCRS // Monica Rhodes, Director of Partnerships, CPCRS; Loeb Fellow, Harvard

Watch Recording

Roundtable Discussion: Storytelling Futures

// Glenn Eskew, Professor, Georgia State University // Hasan Jeffries, Associate Professor of History, Ohio State University // Andrea Roberts, Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, Texas A&M; Founder, Texas Freedom Colonies Project

Moderated by Monica Rhodes

Closing remarks

// Randy Mason, Faculty Director, CPCRS // Monica Rhodes, Director of Partnerships, CPCRS; Loeb Fellow, Harvard

// Fallon Aidoo, Jean Brainard Boebel Endowed Professor, University of New Orleans

// Brent Leggs, Senior Advisor and Adjunct Professor, CPCRS; Executive Director, African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund

// Randy Mason, Faculty Director, CPCRS

// Priscilla Hancock Cooper, Executive Director, Alabama African American Civil Rights Heritage Sites Consortium

// Kwesi Daniels, Architecture Department Head, Assistant Professor, Tuskegee University

// Turkiya Lowe, Chief Historian, National Park Service

// Mia Bay, Roy F. and Jeanette P. Nichols Professor of American History at the University Pennsylvania

// Randy Mason, Faculty Director, CPCRS

// Monica Rhodes, Director of Partnerships, CPCRS; Loeb Fellow, Harvard

// Glenn Eskew, Professor, Georgia State University

// Hasan Jeffries, Associate Professor of History, Ohio State University

// Andrea Roberts, Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, Texas A&M; Founder, Texas Freedom Colonies Project

// Randy Mason, Faculty Director, CPCRS

// Monica Rhodes, Director of Partnerships, CPCRS; Loeb Fellow, Harvard