World Heritage Initiative
Department of History
Atlanta, Georgia
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U.S. Civil Rights Movement Sites Symposium
Thursday and Friday, April 21-22, 2022
Group hotel rate expires this Sunday, March 20
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Register now as the U.S. Civil Rights Movement Sites Symposium will offer plenty of opportunities to hear from experts, learn from colleagues, and network. This free event will feature presentations on African American historic preservation and cultural heritage.
Use the links below to register for the Symposium
and secure your hotel room!
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With a program featuring two engaging keynote speakers, two lively panels, and receptions, the Symposium will make good use of your time. Details on the program will be provided in a Spotlight section of future eblasts.
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Spotlight: Preservation is Social Justice
Closing Keynote Address by Brent Leggs
Friday April 22, 2022, 11:30 am
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The Symposium will close with remarks by Brent Leggs, Executive Director of the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Leggs will speak about two of his passions, preservation and social justice. In his words:
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"Historic sites imbued with civil rights legacies stand to inspire contemporary social movements and resistance in the face of injustice. By preserving America’s civil rights heritage, our nation can harness the power of place and the influence of historical figures to inspire and advocate for equity, funding, and recognition of our shared cultural legacy. This work helps our society remember the long fight for civil rights, while also celebrating those sainted men, women, and children whose activism changed our nation and the world." |
Leggs is the founding executive director of the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund, the largest preservation campaign in U.S. History on behalf of historic African American places. Through the Action Fund, he leads a broad community of leaders and activists in honor of the clarion that preserving African American cultural sites is fundamental to understanding the American story. Leggs is a Harvard University Loeb Fellow, author of Preserving African American Historic Places, and the 2018 recipient of the Robert G. Stanton National Preservation Award.
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His efforts to protect Alabama’s A.G. Gaston Motel (image above), New York’s Villa Lewaro, North Carolina’s Nina Simone birthplace (pictured left), New Jersey’s Hinchliffe Stadium, Pennsylvania’s Joe Frazier’s Gym, and other places are exemplary of his successful campaigns to protect many cultural monuments throughout the U.S. Leggs is also an Adjunct Associate Professor of the Graduate Program in Historic Preservation and Senior Advisor to the Center for the Preservation of Civil Rights Sites at the University of Pennsylvania’s Stuart Weitzman School of Design.
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Symposium Program
All events held at the GSU College of Law, 85 Park Place NE, Atlanta, GA 30303
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THURSDAY APRIL 21
5:00 pm - Opening Keynote Address
Context is key: The Importance of Situating Civil Rights Sites in Movement History
Hasan Kwame Jeffries, Department of History, Ohio State University
6:00-7:30 pm - Reception
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FRIDAY APRIL 22
8:00 am – Coffee with Networking
9:00 am - Panel 1: Creative Marketing of Civil Rights Movement Sites
10:15 am - Panel 2: Planning and Funding Your Rehabilitation
11:30 am - Closing Keynote Address
Preservation is Social Justice
Brent Leggs, African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund, National Trust for Historic Preservation
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More details on the other panel and keynote speakers coming soon! |
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Register now for this free event on April 21-22, 2022. Please use the link below to email your name and organization. |
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Hotel Accommodations
Group rate expires March 20, 2022.
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The Symposium has reserved a block of rooms at the discounted rate of $141 per night at the Marriott Residence Inn Downtown located just across Peachtree Street from the GSU Law School Auditorium.
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About COVID
This is an in-person event. It will be held in the downstairs lobby and auditorium of the College of Law, both large spaces. We expect our numbers to be below capacity for the areas and encourage participants to socially distance as needed.
As a state entity, Georgia State University follows the COVID guidelines set forth by the University System of Georgia (USG). In accordance with USG policy, individuals are strongly encouraged to be fully vaccinated and boosted and if necessary wear masks as recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. You can learn more about GSU's current COVID policy here.
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This project is funded in part by:
The African American Civil Rights program of the Historic Preservation Fund,
National Park Service, Department of the Interior. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material do not constitute endorsement or necessarily reflect the views of the Department of the Interior or U.S. Government; and
Grants from the African American Fund and the Southern Intervention Fund of the
National Trust for Historic Preservation.
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