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, Ph.D. is a writer, researcher, and antiracist historical recovery advocate working to surface New England's suppressed narratives through her practice Public History & Education Consulting LLC. In 2018 she founded Atlantic Black Box, a grassroots public history project that empowers communities throughout the Northeast to take up the critical work of researching and reckoning with the region’s complicity in the slave trade and the global economy of enslavement. Meadow serves as Project Lead on the Place Justice Project for the Permanent Commission on the Status of Racial, Indigenous, and Tribal Populations.

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