The Ralph J. Bunche Community Project
Author(s): Sarah A. Grady
Year: 2018
Summary
Built in 1930 in southern Anne Arundel County, Maryland, the Ralph J. Bunche Rosenwald-type school transitioned from a Jim Crow-era school to a community center after integration and a fight from the community to preserve the building and use it as a community center. The surrounding African American community still uses this building to celebrate its history and culture. The University of Maryland and Smithsonian Environmental Research Center partner with the center in preserving the school building, searching for the preceding Freedmen’s Bureau school, and exploring other archaeological manifestations of the community’s past. The board of trustees for the center determine the direction of the work.
Cite this Record
The Ralph J. Bunche Community Project. Sarah A. Grady. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, New Orleans, Louisiana. 2018 ( tDAR id: 441869)
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Keywords
General
African American heritage
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Education
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Public Archaeology
Geographic Keywords
North America
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United States of America
Temporal Keywords
Historic
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): 775