TX Freedom Colonies Project's Plan to Preserve Endangered Historic Black Settlements & Cemeteries
Date
2022-02-25Metadata
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“The Texas Freedom Colonies Project's Plan to Preserve Endangered Historic Black Settlements&
Cemeteries” (the Grant) funded through the Trust provided $50,000 to support engagement, mobile
cemetery identification and assessment in partnership with descendant communities, and an overall
strategic and technical plan to coordinate our online and offline engagement better. We partnered with
Newton and Jasper County community descendants active in local preservation from Dixie Community
and another community in which a homestead is a National Register site, Shankleville. The grant emerges
from The Project team's desire to support local descendants’ efforts to organize other nascent preservation
efforts in the region related to cemetery preservation.
This executive summary provides an overview of grant-funded activities. Two documents describe the
scope, aims, and goals achieved, “the strategic plan and technical report,” and “field testing report.”
1. The strategic plan and technical report intended to guide web portal platform building, and
field data collection infrastructure development includes appendices. Primarily authored by
vendor: Root Cause Research Center and subcontractors
2. Field testing report: A guidebook, A cemetery mobile assessment tool and registry entries
(https://www.thetexasfreedomcoloniesproject.com/cemetery-registry), and evidence of field
testing, and lessons learned from descendants
This summary reviews the project’s purpose and scope, core audiences, process, findings and conclusions
from our contractors, and our Team research processes.
Description
The technical report describes grant activities for activities taking place 2019-2021.Subject
digital humanitiesurban planning
environmental justice
historic black settlements
freedom colonies
Texas
cemeteries
historic preservation
Department
Landscape Architecture and Urban PlanningCollections
Citation
Roberts, Andrea; Blanks, jennifer (2022). TX Freedom Colonies Project's Plan to Preserve Endangered Historic Black Settlements & Cemeteries. Available electronically from https : / /hdl .handle .net /1969 .1 /195850.
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