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During the 2021 Fall semester, our Fall Speaker Series will bring together scholars, historians, archivists, and community stakeholders to discuss the history of Quakertown & Freedman Colonies in Texas.
During the first Fall Speaker Series event Denton community leaders Alma Clark, Betty Kimble, Linnie McAdams, and Dianne Randolph and historian Chelsea Stallings will share about their personal history and continued legacy of Quakertown in a Roundtable Discussion.
THURS OCT 21 4:00 - 5:30 PM CFO 202
Image: Ida Hill, Will Hill, and A Hill pose for a photograph on Terry Street in Quakertown, TX. Image courtesy of The Portal to Texas History. Image available on the Internet and included in accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107.
Image: Dr. Andrea Roberts, Assistant Professor of Urban Planning at Texas A&M University, founder of The Texas Freedom Colonies Project
Join the Quakertown Stories Project Team for the final event of our fall speaker series!
Dr. Andrea Roberts, Assistant Professor of Urban Planning at Texas A&M University, is going to speak with us about her Texas Freedom Colonies Project. It is because of her digital humanities project that we now know that Black people created over 500+ independent communities in the state of Texas.
Dr. Roberts is going to share her project’s findings. She will also discuss how Quakertown fits within the larger context of Black settlements in the state and how we can teach this history in our classrooms.
WED DEC 8 3:00 - 4:30 PM ZOOM
The second event in the Fall Speaker Series features a lecture by local activist and doctoral student Jessica Luther Rummel about their research into the history of the Ku Klux Klan in Denton County.
TUES OCT 26 4:00 - 5:30 PM ASSC 259
Image: Advertisement for screening of The Birth of A Nation at CIA published in the Denton Record Chronicle on January 15, 1917. Image courtesy of TWU. Image included in accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107.
Town Hall Discussion
Town Hall Discussion
3:00 - 4:00 PM
3:00 - 4:00 PM
The student-driven Town Hall Discussion will bring together local policymakers and the TWU and larger Denton communities to engage in dialogue about the history of Quakertown and pathways for addressing its impact on community members today.
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