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A Community of Changemakers: Exploring the History of Black Activism in Essex County
March 25, 2023 @ 9:00 am - 3:00 pm
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Essex Heritage invites you to join us at a FREE symposium on Saturday, March 25 at Salem State University. Local educators, historians, scholars, and students will help us explore the history of African American activism in Essex County, MA. How can primary sources from the region’s past and contemporary voices in the local Black community inform our understanding of how to approach this topic? How are local museums, educators, and cultural institutions exploring these stories? Join us as we consider these and other questions via scholarly presentations, topic-specific break-out sessions, critical discussions, and facilitated activities. Preview the agenda.
List of this symposium’s speakers and contributors with their biographies.
This event is meant to extend the impact of a recently published guide compiled by Dr. Liz Duclos-Orsello (Salem State University) and Dr. Kabria Baumgartner (Northeastern University) called “African Americans in Essex County: An Annotated Guide.”
After the formal portion of the event, attendees are invited to join Dan Lipcan, Ann C. Pingree Director of PEM’s Phillips Library, for a tour of the Peabody Essex Museum’s exhibition “Let None Be Excluded“.
PDPs are available for educators. To receive your PDP, please fill out THIS FORM after the event.
To explore materials from past workshops offered by Essex National Heritage Area that explore Essex County’s rich and diverse history, please visit our Teaching Hidden Histories pages. Many of the primary source materials highlighted in our Teaching Hidden Histories workshops will be explored in our break out session: Hands On History.
Day of the Symposium
This symposium will be held March 25, 2023, at Salem State University’s Central (Harrington) Campus. The symposium will start at 9am, but we encourage registrants to arrive as early as 8:30am to sign in and network with other attendees. Please plan to arrive at Marsh Conference Center (#19 on the campus map) between 8:30am-9:00am. There will be a check in/registration table on the first floor, and conference staff will be able to direct you to the appropriate space.
Parking is available at Salem State for those driving to the symposium. The suggested parking lot for our conference is the one located on Loring Ave. and Canal St., close to the number “30” on the attached map. No parking passes are required. Salem State is an approximately 30 minute walk away from the MBTA station in Salem. The 455 bus route runs from the commuter rail to the university if you are relying on public transportation.
Lunch will be available for purchase at the Salem State Cafeteria or Starbucks on campus.
Evaluation Form to be filled out by participants after the symposium.
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This project is funded by an African American Civil Rights Grant through the National Park Service. This material was produced with assistance from the Historic Preservation Fund, administered by the National Park Service, Department of the Interior under Grant Number [P21AP11739-00]. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Department of the Interior.
