Join a conversation about historic monuments and their past, present, and future in Montgomery, Alabama

Hosted by Landmarks Foundation of Montgomery

Wednesday, November 18, 2020 | 7:00 – 9:00 pm EST

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On November 18, join nationally renowned Civil War historian, educator, and public speaker Kevin Levin (http://cwmemory.com/) as he enters conversation with Montgomery native Professor Shakita Brooks Jones on Montgomery’s monument landscape. He’ll address the past, present, and future of Confederate memorialization in Alabama’s capitol.

This digital talk is hosted by the Landmarks Foundation of Montgomery, and sponsored by the Auburn University Department of History, the University of Alabama Department of History, Tyler Bell, and Sara Philpott.

This event is free to the general public thanks to these generous sponsorships. Participants may request a signed copy of Mr. Levin’s most recent book, Searching for Black Confederates: The Civil War’s Most Persistent Myth for a $75 donation to Landmarks Foundation.

Registered participants will get a link to attend the talk via email shortly before the talk.

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Published by Meadow Dibble

Meadow Dibble is Director of Community-Engaged Research at the Permanent Commission on the Status of Racial, Indigenous, and Tribal Populations and founding Director of Atlantic Black Box, a nonprofit devoted to researching and reckoning with New England’s role in the slave trade and the economy of enslavement. She is currently in her third year as a Visiting Scholar at Brown University’s Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice. Meadow received her Doctorate from Brown’s Department of French with a focus on Postcolonial studies and taught Francophone African literature at Colby College from 2005–08. Originally from Cape Cod, she lived for six years on Senegal’s Cape Verde peninsula, where she published a cultural magazine and coordinated foreign study programs. In 2016, Meadow experienced a brutal awakening to the reality of her hometown’s deep investment in the global slave economy. Ever since, she has been researching complicity among Cape Cod’s sea captains while developing The Atlantic Black Box Project.

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