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Challenge Details
Sponsor
San Francisco Planning Department
Challenge Judges
Prize Package
Multiple winners will be chosen based on the number of votes each receives during the challenge. One prize will be awarded for first, second and third place, five prizes for 4th place and ten prizes for 5th place!
Prizes will be awarded at our second community event in February 2014. |
We want to hear them! Share your stories with us between October 9, 2013 and February 1, 2014. Did you know that there were 1,850 African Americans adults and children living in San Francisco in 1850; or, that the working waterfront provided some of the best available jobs to Black men during the 19th and the early 20th century; or, that in 1942, the number of African Americans employed by Muni skyrocketed beginning with Mr. Audley Cole, who broke the color barrier when he became the first African American driver? These stories and more are currently being collected and documented for the development of a San Francisco city-wide African American Historic Context Statement. The Historic Context Statement will focus on the African American/Black experience from the City’s early history to the present day. The context statement will provide a foundation for the identification, evaluation, registration and treatment of historic properties and surveys associated with African American history. The project was funded by a grant from the Historic Preservation Fund Committee.
The expert responding in this Challenge is
Susan Parks, Preservation Planner, San Francisco Planning Department.
About The Challenge
About the San Francisco African American History Project
The African American History Project is a way for the Planning Department and the public to share information about African American history and the Black experience in San Francisco. We want to hear from you about your family, your family's history, and the places that matter to you. The Project Team: The African American Historic Context Statement will be prepared by a project team with specialized experience in African American history, including Al Williams, Director of Community Outreach for the Bayview Hunters Point Historic Context Statement and President of the African American Historical and Cultural Society; Dr. Albert S. Broussard, author of Black San Francisco: The Struggle for Racial Equality in the West, 1900-1954; Christopher VerPlanck, author of the Bayview Hunters Point Historic Context Statement; Tim Kelley, author of the Bayview Hunters Point Historic Context Statement and the landmark designation for the Cecil Poole-Joseph Leonard House; and Stacy Farr, principle author of the landmark designations for Sam Jordan's Bar and Marcus Books. The project will also include a peer review committee comprised of California's most experienced professionals in the documentation and interpretation of African American history. Participants in the peer review committee include Bob Cherny, historian, San Francisco State University; Carson Anderson, architectural historian and ethnographer at ICF International; Courtney Damkroger, former San Francisco Historic Preservation Commissioner; Rick Moss, director of the African American Museum and Library of Oakland; Mike Buhler, executive director of San Francisco Architectural Heritage; and Donna Graves, a public arts and cultural planner, historian, and author of the Japantown Historic Context Statement.
The Winner
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The African American History Project
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