BLACK HERITAGE & THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT

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Huston Photo Journal Articles A Long-Forgotten HBCU to Get a Historical Marker in Huntsville, Alabama By Journal of Blacks in Higher Education Published The Walker County Historical Commission has commissioned a historical marker to be placed at the…
Buildings & Landscapes, Vol 19, No 1 (Spring 2012) cover. Journal Articles A Modern School Plant: Rural Consolidated Schools in Mississippi, 1910-1955 By Jennifer V. Opager Baughn Buildings & Landscapes, Volume 19, Issue 1 (Spring 2012).
A revised historical marker was installed at the site in 2015. Newspaper/ Magazine Articles A Momentous Arrival By By Nicolas Brulliard Four hundred years ago, a pirate ship carrying enslaved Africans pulled into Point Comfort in…
book cover Books A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History By Jeanne Theoharis In A More Beautiful and Terrible History, award-winning historian Jeanne Theoharis dissects this…
Remnants of a segregation wall in the Liberty City neighborhood of Miami, built in the late 1930s to separate a newly constructed Black-only public-housing development from a white neighborhood, 2018. [Chat Travieso] Web-articles A Nation of Walls By Chat Travieso Published It is in fact a piece of racist infrastructure – the remnant of a barrier built in the late 1930s…
logo Podcasts A Pea for the Past, A Pea for the Future By Gravy Podcast Published The story of the West African diaspora in the American South is the story of the Transatlantic…
logo Digital Humanities A People’s Archive of Police Violence By A People’s Archive of Police Violence "A living archive that collects, preserves, and shares the stories and accounts of police violence…
NPCA Cover Web-articles A People’s Historian By Julie Scharper Talking about the past and the future with the Park Service’s new chief historian from Summer 2017…
October Volume 165 (August 2018) cover. Journal Articles A Questionnaire on Monuments By Multiple Contributors Published October Volume 165 (August 2018).
A Richer Heritage cover. Books A Richer Heritage: Historic Preservation in the Twenty-First Century By Robert E. Stipe (Editor) Published See Antoinette J. Lee's "The Social and Ethnic Dimensions of Historic Preservation."
SAH Cover Journal Articles A Statement of Solidarity for Racial Justice at SAH By Charles L Davis II; Maura Lucking;Sean H McPherson; Lynne Horiuchi; Itohan Osayimwese Published Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 79, (4) (12): 376-377, 2020.
Journal Cover Journal Articles A Water Tower, A Pavilion, and Three National Historic Sites: Clarence W. Wigington and the Architectural Heritage He Left to the People of St.Paul By David V.Taylor Published This remarkable achieve­ment is credited to a man now recog­nized as the first African­American ar­…
A World More Concrete cover. Books A World More Concrete: Real Estate and the Remaking of Jim Crow South Florida By N. D. B. Connolly Published Concerned more with winners and losers than with heroes and villains, A World More Concrete offers…
A World of Homeowners cover. Books A World of Homeowners: American Power and the Politics of Housing Aid By Nancy H. Kwak Published "A World of Homeowners charts the emergence of democratic homeownership in the postwar landscape…
Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians cover. Journal Articles A. J. Davis’s Belmead: Picturesque Aesthetics in the Land of Slavery By Daniel Bluestone Published Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians Volume 71, Issue 2 (June 2012).
NPS Photo/Matt Teuten Web-articles Abiel Smith School Opened in 1835, the Abiel Smith School served as a segregated public school for African American…
Red, white, and blue seal that reads "ACHP" Organizations Advisory Council on Historic Preservation You have a voice when it comes to preserving your community's history.
Book Cover Books African American Architects: Embracing Culture and Building Urban Communities By Melvin Mitchell Published Melvin Mitchell believes that the 2016 opening of the NMAAHC signals either a black architect…
Memorial Details Other African American Civil War Memorial and Museum A museum and memorial dedicated to preserving and interpreting the history of the African American…
logo Organizations African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund The Fund is the largest preservation campaign ever undertaken on behalf of African American history…