It’s often said that the winners write the history. Most times, the winners are also the landowners. Landowners control the narrative of the property they own. Who owns the land where your ancestors are buried?
Join Holocaust Museum Houston and Convict Leasing & Labor Project (CLLP) for a Juneteenth roundtable with grassroots activists and scholars on best practices of Black cemetery preservation, and lingering questions on memorialization and the ethics of public history. This event will unpack why federal protections for cemeteries are necessary for marginalized groups in America and consider how past oppression has shaped the current tensions in conversation about preservation efforts.
Panelists:
Donna Y. Stephens
Founder and Chair of the Chattahoochee Brick Company Coalition.
Dr. Antoinette Jackson
Professor and Chair of the department of Anthropology at the University of South Florida (USF) in Tampa and Director of the USF Heritage Research Lab.
Dr. Marco Robinson
Assistant Professor of History and the Assistant Director of the Ruth J. Simmons Center for Race and Justice at Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU).
For more information on Convict Leasing & Labor Project: https://www.cllptx.org/
This event is open to the public, but registration is required.
