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SUMMARY:Conversations in African American History and Culture: The History of Greenlawn Cemetery
DESCRIPTION:In 2024\, Freetown Village continues its monthly conversations with historians\, researchers and educators to discuss topics related to Indiana’s Black heritage. \nJuly’s program will feature Leon Bates\, who presents “The History of Greenlawn Cemetery: The First ‘Bury Ground’ of Indianapolis.” \nGreenlawn Cemetery\, Indianapolis’s first cemetery\, was a pioneer cemetery created as a public “bury ground” in 1821 by an act of the Indiana legislature. Indianapolis has never had a Black cemetery\, but the Indianapolis bury ground had a segregated “colored section.” Between 1821 and 1863\, the cemetery grew to include three adjacent cemeteries totaling 25 acres. Greenlawn began to fall from favor with the rise of the rural cemetery movement of the late 1850s and 1860s; this led to the creation of the 555-acre Crown Hill Cemetery approximately four miles to the north. In 1890 the city declared the bury ground full and closed to burials\, and by 1902\, the other three sections were being condemned as well. In subsequent years\, the site of the cemetery underwent several redevelopments\, including a baseball stadium\, a slaughterhouse and the Diamond Chain Manufacturing Company. \nIn 2023 a new developer acquired the site with a desire to construct a multiuse redevelopment with a 20\,000-seat soccer stadium and is facing the same problem that its predecessors faced: the discovery of human remains\, many of them dating to the 1820s. In this talk\, historian Leon Bates\, a doctoral student in the Department of Pan African Studies at the University of Louisville\, will share the history of Greenlawn Cemetery and will discuss the current state of redevelopment and its implications. \nThe event\, which includes a question-and-answer session\, will be presented both in person and online via Zoom. Registration is required for both in-person and online attendance. Click on the RSVP link above to register for both the in-person and online options. \nFor more information\, visit Freetown Village’s website at www.freetown.org\, email info@freetownvillage.org or call 317.631.1870. \nThis program received support from an INcommon Grant through Indiana Humanities and the Indianapolis Foundation\, a CICF affiliate. Additional sponsors include Indiana Landmarks’ Black Heritage Preservation Program\, IUPUI’s Africana Studies program and the Association of the Study of African American Life and History’s Joseph Taylor branch.
URL:https://indianahumanities.org/event/conversations-in-african-american-history-and-culture-the-history-of-greenlawn-cemetery/
LOCATION:Indiana Landmarks\, 1201 Central Ave.\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46202
CATEGORIES:Grantee Event
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SUMMARY:The Art of Harry Davis: Illustrated Presentation
DESCRIPTION:Renowned for his meticulous renderings of Indiana landmarks\, artist Harry A. Davis Jr. (1914–2006) inspires a devoted following among Hoosier art and architecture enthusiasts. Following studies at Indianapolis’s Herron School of Art in the 1930s\, Davis launched a prolific career. In 1938 he won the prestigious Prix de Rome fellowship in painting\, which led to work in Europe and North Africa. After serving as artist-in-residence in Wisconsin’s Beloit College in 1941–42\, Davis enlisted in the U.S. Army\, working as a combat artist in Italy during World War II before returning home to join Herron’s faculty. From figurative work that captured scenes from his rural Indiana upbringing to the paintings of buildings destined for demolition\, Davis has left behind a legacy of hundreds of paintings. \nOn June 7\, Rachel Berenson Perry\, fine arts curator emerita of the Indiana State Museum\, presents an illustrated talk at the Indiana Landmarks Center sharing the pivotal events of Davis’s life that shaped and inspired his art\, offering a comprehensive picture of Harry Davis as teacher\, husband\, father and artist. After Perry’s presentation\, attendees are invited to view a companion exhibit of Harry Davis’s work in the Indiana Landmarks Center’s Rapp Family Gallery until 9 p.m. \nReservations for the talk are required (click on the RSVP button above). \nFor more information\, contact Indiana Landmarks at info@indianalandmarks.org or 317.639.6734. \nThe presentation and exhibition are presented in partnership with Herron School of Art and Design and Indiana University Indianapolis’s University Library Special Collections and Archives. Perry’s presentation received support from an Indiana Humanities Action Grant.
URL:https://indianahumanities.org/event/the-art-of-harry-davis-illustrated-presentation/
LOCATION:Indiana Landmarks\, 1201 Central Ave.\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46202
CATEGORIES:Grantee Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20240516T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20240516T193000
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SUMMARY:Conversations in African American History and Culture: Joseph Tucker Edmonds
DESCRIPTION:In 2024\, Freetown Village continues its monthly conversations with historians\, researchers and educators to discuss topics related to Indiana’s Black heritage. \nMay’s program will feature Dr. Joseph L. Tucker Edmonds\, who presents “Race and Religion in the Heartland: African Americans\, Contested Frontiers and the Black Church in Indiana.” \nTucker Edmonds is associate professor of Africana studies and religious studies at Indiana University Indianapolis and associate director of the university’s Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture. His presentation will explore the role that Black religious institutions\, particularly the Black church\, played in disrupting the idea of Indiana as solely a frontier for whiteness and racial exclusion\, and how the Black church and other Black religious institutions imagined and created new frontiers for Black belonging\, resistance and agency. Tucker Edmonds’s talk will explore the founding moments of critical Black religious institutions in the 19th century and their methods of challenging white supremacy and engaging Black communities on and in between Sundays throughout the 20th century. \nThe event\, which includes a question-and-answer session\, will be presented both in person and online via Zoom. Registration is required for both in-person and online attendance. Click on the RSVP link above to register for both the in-person and online options. \nFor more information\, visit Freetown Village’s website at www.freetown.org\, email info@freetownvillage.org or call 317.631.1870. \nThis program received support from an INcommon Grant through Indiana Humanities and the Indianapolis Foundation\, a CICF affiliate. Additional sponsors include Indiana Landmarks’ Black Heritage Preservation Program\, IUPUI’s Africana Studies program and the Association of the Study of African American Life and History’s Joseph Taylor branch.
URL:https://indianahumanities.org/event/conversations-in-african-american-history-and-culture-joseph-tucker-edmonds/
LOCATION:Indiana Landmarks\, 1201 Central Ave.\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46202
CATEGORIES:Grantee Event
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DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20240418T193000
DTSTAMP:20260711T181447
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SUMMARY:Conversations in African American History and Culture: Anthony Conley
DESCRIPTION:In 2024\, Freetown Village continues its monthly conversations with historians\, researchers and educators to discuss topics related to Indiana’s Black heritage. \nApril’s program will feature local historian Anthony Conley\, who presents “‘We Return Fighting’: Defense and Defiance in Muncie\, Indiana.” \nConley’s presentation will focus on the courageous role that the Black congregants of Muncie’s Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church played in one of the most grisly episodes in our state’s racial history. On the evening of August 9\, 1930\, a white mob stormed the Grant County jail where Thomas Shipp and Abraham Smith were being held following their arrest after being falsely accused of raping a young white woman. The men were forcibly removed and hanged from a tree on the courthouse square. \nMore than 24 hours elapsed before congregants of Muncie’s Bethel AME Church\, along with a white Delaware County law-enforcement officer\, were able to retrieve the two lynching victims\, protecting them from further desecration. \nBethel AME’s actions that evening\, this presentation maintains\, exhibited the spirit that W. E. B. DuBois’s “We Return Fighting” essay captured as the venerable activist and intellectual implored African Americans to “marshal every ounce of our (Black) brain and brawn” to fight against racism and injustice in postwar America. \nThe event\, which includes a question-and-answer session\, will be presented both in person and online via Zoom. Registration is required for both in-person and online attendance. Click on the RSVP link above to register for both the in-person and online options. \nFor more information\, visit Freetown Village’s website at www.freetown.org\, email info@freetownvillage.org or call 317.631.1870. \nThis program received support from an INcommon Grant through Indiana Humanities and the Indianapolis Foundation\, a CICF affiliate. Additional sponsors include Indiana Landmarks’ Black Heritage Preservation Program\, IUPUI’s Africana Studies program and the Association of the Study of African American Life and History’s Joseph Taylor branch.
URL:https://indianahumanities.org/event/conversations-in-african-american-history-and-culture-anthony-conley/
LOCATION:Indiana Landmarks\, 1201 Central Ave.\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46202
CATEGORIES:Grantee Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240321T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240321T193000
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SUMMARY:Conversations in African American History: Kaila Austin
DESCRIPTION:In 2024\, Freetown Village continues its monthly conversations with historians\, researchers and educators to discuss topics related to Indiana’s Black heritage. \nMarch’s program will feature local historian and artist Kaila Austin\, who will present “Recovering the History of Norwood\,” a look at Norwood neighborhood and its partner community\, Barrington\, both located in the southeast quadrant of Indianapolis. \nEstablished by U.S. Colored Troop veterans during the Reconstruction period (1867 to 1877)\, Norwood and Barrington are two of the oldest descendant-maintained African American communities in the United States. Austin will present aspects of the history of the Indiana 28th Regiment and their Kentucky counterparts during the years of the Civil War and the nearly two centuries of work the descendant community has done to maintain their ancestral homes. \nThe event\, which includes a question-and-answer session\, will be presented both in person and online via Zoom. Registration is required for both in-person and online attendance. Click on the RSVP link above to register for both the in-person and online options. \nFor more information\, visit Freetown Village’s website at www.freetown.org\, email info@freetownvillage.org or call 317.631.1870. \nThis program received support from an INcommon Grant through Indiana Humanities and the Indianapolis Foundation\, a CICF affiliate. Additional sponsors include Indiana Landmarks’ Black Heritage Preservation Program\, IUPUI’s Africana Studies program and the Association of the Study of African American Life and History’s Joseph Taylor branch.
URL:https://indianahumanities.org/event/conversations-in-african-american-history/
LOCATION:Indiana Landmarks\, 1201 Central Ave.\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46202
CATEGORIES:Grantee Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20240222T180000
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SUMMARY:Reviving the West Baden Colored Church: A Labor of Love Screening
DESCRIPTION:Reviving the West Baden Colored Church: A Labor of Love tells the story of the First Baptist (Colored) Church in West Baden Springs\, Indiana\, from its founding and years of growth\, to its decline and rebirth. \nBeginning in the early 1900s\, a large thriving community of African Americans worked at the resorts in West Baden Springs and nearby French Lick. The community established the First Baptist (Colored) Church under Jim Crow laws and persevered under those conditions with courage\, strength and the persistence of hope over hate. Over decades the church remained as the cornerstone of the African American community until its decline. \nReviving the West Baden Colored Church tells the history of the church and the people who worshiped there\, and it chronicles the challenges of the extensive restoration that took place over five years leading to its revival. After this screening\, director Elizabeth Michell will share insights and answer questions. \nTickets cost $5 for general admission and are free for Indiana Landmarks members with RSVP. To register\, click on the RSVP button above. \nFor more information\, email info@indianalandmarks.org or call 317.639.4534. \nThis program received support from a Historic Preservation Education Grant offered by Indiana Humanities and Indiana Landmarks.
URL:https://indianahumanities.org/event/reviving-the-west-baden-colored-church-a-labor-of-love-screening-2/
LOCATION:Indiana Landmarks\, 1201 Central Ave.\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46202
CATEGORIES:Grantee Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20240215T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20240215T193000
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SUMMARY:Conversations in Indiana African American History and Culture: Leon Bates
DESCRIPTION:In 2024\, Freetown Village continues its monthly conversations with historians\, researchers and educators to discuss topics related to Indiana’s Black heritage. \nFebruary’s speaker is Leon Bates\, a local historian\, veteran and educator and one of Indiana Humanities’ current Wilma Gibbs Moore Fellows. His presentation will examine the life of Lieutenant Colonel Joseph H. Ward\, M.D. \nA first-generation freedman\, born in a slave cabin in Wilson\, North Carolina\, Ward went on to become a physician\, a surgeon\, an entrepreneur\, an army officer\, the first African American to lead a U.S. Army field hospital\, the first African American to lead a U.S. veteran’s hospital and the first African American to lead a major hospital in the United States. He did all this at the height of the Jim Crow era\, between Plessy v. Ferguson and Brown v. Board of Education (1896–1954)\, and yet\, almost no one knows his name.​ \nThe event\, which includes a question-and-answer session\, will be presented both in person and online via Zoom. Registration is required for both in-person and online attendance. In-person seating is limited to 50 people. Click on the RSVP link above to register for both the in-person and online options. \nFor more information\, visit Freetown Village’s website at www.freetown.org\, email info@freetownvillage.org or call 317.631.1870. \nThis program received support from an INcommon Grant through Indiana Humanities and the Indianapolis Foundation\, a CICF affiliate. Additional sponsors include Indiana Landmarks’ Black Heritage Preservation Program\, IUPUI’s Africana Studies program and the Association of the Study of African American Life and History’s Joseph Taylor branch.
URL:https://indianahumanities.org/event/conversations-in-indiana-african-american-history-and-culture-leon-bates-2/
LOCATION:Indiana Landmarks\, 1201 Central Ave.\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46202
CATEGORIES:Grantee Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20230824T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20230824T193000
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SUMMARY:Conversations in Indiana African American History and Culture: Charlene Fletcher
DESCRIPTION:Throughout 2023\, Freetown Village will host monthly conversations with historians\, researchers and educators to discuss topics related to Indiana’s Black heritage. \nIn August\, Dr. Charlene Fletcher\, assistant professor of history at Bulter University\, will discuss “Club Women—A Seat at the Table. African American Women and the Right to Vote.” \nThe 19th Amendment\, passed in 1920\, granted voting rights to women in the United States\, and Americans often celebrated it as a triumphant victory for women’s rights. Yet not all women—particularly Black women—could relish the victory. This workshop provides insight into how Black women in Indiana and around the country navigated the suffrage movement at the turn of the 20th century. \nTo reserve tickets\, click on the RSVP link above. In addition to the in-person program\, Freetown Village is offering an online viewing option. \nFor more information\, visit Freetown Village’s website at www.freetown.org\, email info@freetownvillage.org or call 317.631.1870. \nThis program received support from an INcommon Grant through Indiana Humanities and the Indianapolis Foundation\, a CICF affiliate. Additional sponsors include Indiana Landmarks’ Black Heritage Preservation Program\, IUPUI’s Africana Studies program and the Association of the Study of African American Life and History’s Joseph Taylor branch.
URL:https://indianahumanities.org/event/conversations-in-indiana-african-american-history-and-culture-charlene-fletcher/
LOCATION:Indiana Landmarks\, 1201 Central Ave.\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46202
CATEGORIES:Grantee Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20230727T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20230727T193000
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SUMMARY:Conversations in Indiana African American History and Culture: Anthony Conley
DESCRIPTION:Throughout 2023\, Freetown Village will host monthly conversations with historians\, researchers and educators to discuss topics related to Indiana’s Black heritage. \nIn July\, Anthony Conley\, former history instructor at Ivy Tech Community College in Indianapolis\, examines Black migration to Indiana in the nineteenth century. \nTo reserve tickets\, click on the RSVP link above. In addition to the in-person program\, Freetown Village is offering an online viewing option. \nFor more information\, visit Freetown Village’s website at www.freetown.org\, email info@freetownvillage.org or call 317.631.1870. \nThis program received support from an INcommon Grant through Indiana Humanities and the Indianapolis Foundation\, a CICF affiliate. Additional sponsors include Indiana Landmarks’ Black Heritage Preservation Program\, IUPUI’s Africana Studies program and the Association of the Study of African American Life and History’s Joseph Taylor branch.
URL:https://indianahumanities.org/event/conversations-in-indiana-african-american-history-and-culture-anthony-conley/
LOCATION:Indiana Landmarks\, 1201 Central Ave.\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46202
CATEGORIES:Grantee Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20230717T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20230717T193000
DTSTAMP:20260711T181447
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SUMMARY:INconversation with Tess Gunty
DESCRIPTION:Join Indiana Humanities and the Indiana Authors Awards for a conversation between National Book Award winner Tess Gunty and Indiana author Susan Neville at the Indiana Landmarks Center on Monday\, July 17\, at 6:30pm Eastern. \nSCHEDULE \n6:00pm | Doors open \n6:30pm | INconversation with Tess Gunty begins \n7:15pm | Q&A begins \n7:30pm | Book signing begins \nSouth Bend-native Tess Gunty’s debut novel\, The Rabbit Hutch\, won the 2022 National Book Award for fiction. Set during one sweltering week in July and culminating in a bizarre act of violence\, The Rabbit Hutch explores the interconnected stories of residents of a low-cost housing complex in the fictional city of Vacca Vale\, Indiana. Loosely based on her hometown of South Bend\, Gunty’s Vacca Vale is filled with distinct characters and vivid imagery of the post-industrial Midwest. Both intimate and sweeping\, The Rabbit Hutch explores dialectical themes of loneliness and community\, entrapment and freedom\, religious dogma and mysticism. \nGunty’s novel also won the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize and the Barnes and Noble Discover Prize. It was named one of twelve essential reads by The New Yorker\, and a best book of the year by TIME\, NPR\, the Chicago Tribune\, People\, the New York Times and others. Her work has appeared in The Iowa Review\, Granta\, LitHub\, Joyland\, Freeman’s and elsewhere. Gunty received an undergraduate degree from Notre Dame University and holds an MFA in Creative Writing from NYU\, where she was a Lillian Vernon Fellow. She now lives in Los Angeles. \nGunty will be joined in conversation with Indiana author and Butler University professor emerita\, Susan Neville\, who writes essays and stories inspired by the history\, culture and people of Indiana. In 2022\, her book of short stories\, The Town of Whispering Dolls\, a book which also explores post-industrial America through the lens of a fictional Indiana town\, won the Indiana Authors Award for fiction. Neville graduated from North Central High School in Indianapolis\, DePauw University\, Bowling Green State University\, and in 2021 retired from teaching at Butler University after 38 years. She lives in Indianapolis. \nHeld in partnership between Indiana Humanities and the Indiana State Library’s Center for the Book\, this event coincides with the paperback release of The Rabbit Hutch and the upcoming National Book Festival. The novel has been selected by the Indiana Center for the Book as the state’s 2023 contribution to the Library of Congress’s Great Reads from Great Places program held at the Festival. \nBooks by both authors will be available for purchase with a book signing to follow. \nAbout Indiana Humanities  Indiana Humanities connects people\, opens minds and enriches lives by creating and facilitating programs that encourage Hoosiers to think\, read and talk. Learn more at www.IndianaHumanities.org. \nAbout the Indiana Authors Awards The Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana Authors Awards honor the best books written by Indiana authors. Awarded every two years\, they celebrate Indiana writers\, shine a light on the Hoosier state’s literary community and deepen connections between Indiana writers and readers. They were established in 2009 as a vision of Eugene and Marilyn Glick and are a new component of Indiana Humanities’ rich and diverse literary programming. \nAbout the Indiana Center for the Book  The Indiana Center for the Book is a program of the Indiana State Library and an affiliate of the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress. It promotes interest in reading\, writing\, literacy\, libraries\, and Indiana’s literary heritage by sponsoring events and serving as an information resource at the state and local level. The Center supports both the professional endeavors and the popular pursuits of Indiana’s residents toward reading and writing. \nAbout the Indiana State Library The Indiana State Library serves Indiana residents\, leads and supports Indiana’s library community and preserves Indiana’s history. Learn more at www.in.gov/library. \nAbout the National Book Festival The 23rd annual Library of Congress National Book Festival will be held at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington\, D.C.\, on Saturday\, August 12\, from 9am to 8pm (doors open at 8:30pm). The event is free and open to the public. A selection of programs will be livestreamed online\, and videos of all programs will be available shortly after the Festival.
URL:https://indianahumanities.org/event/inconversation-with-tess-gunty/
LOCATION:Indiana Landmarks\, 1201 Central Ave.\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46202
CATEGORIES:Indiana Humanities Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20230525T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20230525T193000
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SUMMARY:Conversations in Indiana African American History and Culture: Leslie Etienne
DESCRIPTION:Throughout 2023\, Freetown Village will host monthly conversations with historians\, researchers and educators to discuss topics related to Indiana’s Black heritage. \nIn May\, Leslie Etienne\, director of the Africana Studies program at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis\, will discuss the Dust Bowl Tournament basketball league at Lockefield Gardens—a segregated WPA Black housing community in Indianapolis. \nTo reserve tickets\, click on the RSVP link above. In addition to the in-person program\, Freetown Village is offering an online viewing option. \nFor more information\, visit Freetown Village’s website at www.freetown.org\, email info@freetownvillage.org\, or call 317.631.1870. \nThis program received support from an INcommon Grant through Indiana Humanities and the Indianapolis Foundation\, a CICF affiliate. Additional sponsors include Indiana Landmarks’ Black Heritage Preservation Program\, IUPUI’s Africana Studies program and the Association of the Study of African American Life and History’s Joseph Taylor branch.
URL:https://indianahumanities.org/event/conversations-in-indiana-african-american-history-and-culture-leslie-etienne/
LOCATION:Indiana Landmarks\, 1201 Central Ave.\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46202
CATEGORIES:Grantee Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20230207T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20230207T150000
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SUMMARY:Black Heritage Preservation  Program Research Training Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Indiana Landmarks’ Black Heritage Preservation Program seeks to identify\, save and celebrate places significant to the state’s Black history\, but how do you preserve history that you don’t know exists? \nOne of the challenges in preserving and promoting Black heritage is the lack of historical research. Qualified research is vital for preparing nominations to the National Register of Historic Places\, developing local preservation protections\, and creating historical markers\, articles\, books and interpretive projects. Well-documented history is also often required to be eligible for preservation grants. \nTo address this lack of research and to help partners across the state elevate the stories of Black Hoosiers\, Indiana Landmarks\, Indiana Humanities and Freetown Village are partnering to present a daylong workshop sharing techniques and resources for uncovering and documenting Black heritage. \nThe workshop will feature a performance by Freetown Village actors showing how Black history can be brought to life\, morning sessions offering research and writing tips\, and afternoon sessions providing information about writing grant proposals and connecting with grant-making organizations. See the full itinerary here. \nParticipants can choose to attend either in person or virtually. In-person attendance is capped at 50 participants and lunch will be provided. Those joining virtually will receive a Zoom link prior to the workshop. To register for either option\, click on the RSVP link above. \nFor more information about the event or tickets\, email info@indianahumanities.org or call 317.616.9798.
URL:https://indianahumanities.org/event/black-heritage-preservation-program-research-training-workshop/
LOCATION:Indiana Landmarks\, 1201 Central Ave.\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46202
CATEGORIES:Indiana Humanities Event
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