Historic Preservation and the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950's and 1960's: Identifying, Preserving, and Interpreting the Architecture of Liberation

Author(s)

Robert Weyeneth, University of South CarolinaFollow

Document Type

Paper

Abstract

This report surveys the extent to which the civil rights movement of the 1950's and 1960's has been commemorated in the United States. It concludes that there are wide-ranging and imaginative efforts not only in the South but all over the counny that seek to identify, preserve, and interpret historic sites associated with the civil rights movement These efforts, however, have been hampered by the difficulties of commemorating chapters of history that are local, recellt, and controversial. These problems of selectivity are analyzed in order to facilitate incorporation of missing aspects of civil rights history into future heritage preservation projects. In a final section of the report, the results of the survey are summarized on a state-by-state basis,

Publication Info

Cultural Resources Survey and Analysis, 1995.

Rights

© 1995, Robert Weyeneth