Searching for Proud Shoes: The Pauli Murray Project and the Place of Historical Archaeology within a Social Justice Organization
Author(s): Colleen Betti; Anna Agbe-Davies
Year: 2017
Summary
The authors organized an excavation on the site of the Pauli Murray Family Home in 2016. Murray was a fierce advocate for equal rights, especially on behalf of African Americans and women. In her autobiographies she traces her refusal to follow the scripts available to "Negro" "women" in the early 20th century to her upbringing among extended family in Durham, North Carolina. The session abstract urges contributors to consider how historical archaeology can inform contemporary strategies for building a more just world. We'd like to turn this proposition on its head and instead discuss how collaboration with other participants in the Pauli Murray Project has informed our strategies for conducting historical archaeology.
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Searching for Proud Shoes: The Pauli Murray Project and the Place of Historical Archaeology within a Social Justice Organization. Colleen Betti, Anna Agbe-Davies. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, Fort Worth, TX. 2017 ( tDAR id: 435292)
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Keywords
General
African American Archaeology
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collaboration
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social justice
Geographic Keywords
North America
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United States of America
Temporal Keywords
20th Century
Spatial Coverage
min long: -129.199; min lat: 24.495 ; max long: -66.973; max lat: 49.359 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 300