Connecting African American History in the Chesapeake (PastForward 2022)
Channel: National Trust for Historic Preservation
Date: 2023-05-02

From PastForward 2022 (https://savingplaces.org/conference):
Since 2020, the National Trust for Historic Preservation has been working on the Chesapeake Mapping Initiative, a tristate effort to increase the number of African American historic sites included in state-level cultural resource information systems across the Chesapeake watershed. One of the purposes of the Chesapeake Mapping Initiative is to improve approaches for effectively connecting with minority group communities to document their history. This session will bring together contributors to the Chesapeake Mapping Initiative to reflect on the success of methods used during the life of the project and how the historic preservation field can improve in this area. Sponsored by the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund.