U.S. Civil Rights Movement Sites
and the World Heritage List
Noon - 1:00 PM EDT, July 30, 2020
Presented by US/ICOMOS
Mark your calendar for a free webinar on the efforts to preserve, restore, and interpret African American heritage sites associated with the Modern Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s, as well as the effort to develop a potential serial nomination of U.S. Civil Rights Movement Sites for possible inscription on the World Heritage List. Presented by the U.S. Chapter of the International Council on Monuments and Sites (US/ICOMOS) on July 30, 2020, at 12:00 noon EDT.
The panel of experts on the preservation of African American resources includes:
- Brent Leggs, Executive Director of the National Trust for Historic Preservation's African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund
- Denise Gilmore, Acting Executive Director of the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute
- Robert Stanton, former Director of the National Park Service
