Minding Our Monuments Webinar: Racial Disparities in Public Art, with Jose Vazquez of Monument Lab

Monument Lab is a nonprofit public art and history studio based in Philadelphia. Jose Vazquez shares the organization’s approach to racial disparities in public art. Part of the GHM Education Webinar series Minding Our Monuments: Discovering Lost Pieces of Greensboro History, exploring parts of our city’s history that have been commemorated and neglected.

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Trevor Freeman, Western NC Historical Association, and John Rees, author of “They Were Good Soldiers: African-Americans Serving in the Continental Army, 1775-1783,” discuss research into Black soldiers’ participation in the Revolutionary War.

Part of the GHM Education Webinar series Minding Our Monuments: Discovering Lost Pieces of Greensboro History, exploring parts of our city’s history that have been commemorated and neglected.

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Sage Chioma and Solomon Titus discuss learning about their ancestor, Black Revolutionary War Patriot Ishmael who fought at the Battle of Guilford Courthouse. Part of the GHM Education Webinar series Minding Our Monuments: Discovering Lost Pieces of Greensboro History, exploring parts of our city’s history that have been commemorated and neglected.

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Prof. Ernest D. Hooker of NC A&T State University discusses African American sculptures and sculptors. Part of the GHM Education Webinar series Minding Our Monuments: Discovering Lost Pieces of Greensboro History, exploring parts of our city’s history that have been commemorated and neglected.

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Greensboro has statues, markers and memorials dedicated to many men from the past – Nathanael Greene, William Sidney Porter, Dr. George Simkins, the Greensboro Four – but far fewer to remind us of women from the past. For International Women’s Day we’ll talk to people connected to three projects focused on women to be dedicated in Greensboro in the coming months:

Sarah Thuesen and Tiffany Holland from Guilford College on a new marker to recognize free woman of color Lavina Curry and her support of Freedom Seekers on the Underground Railroad in the New Garden area
Catherine Magid on a monument and marker recognizing suffragist Gertrude Weil and the establishment of the North Carolina League of Women Voters at the historic Guilford County Courthouse
Artist Victoria Milstein on the Women’s Holocaust Memorial planned for LeBauer Park

At a time when the value and purpose of monuments and historic markers is under debate, what do these efforts mean for a changing landscape of memory here in Greensboro?

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This International Women’s Day program is also part of a new GHM Education Webinar series Minding Our Monuments: Discovering Lost Pieces of Greensboro History