Black Founders Women & the Archives: Culture Keepers from Generation to Generation

Highlighting photographs and artifacts related to Charlotte Vandine Forten and her contemporaries on display in the Museum's Black Founders: The Forten Family of Philadelphia special exhibition, Lela J. Sewell-Williams and Rebecca Shipman from the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center at Howard University joined the Museum in June 2023 to reflect on preserving the legacies of African American women in the archives, as they implement preservation techniques as tools of accountability that protect these historical narratives for future generations to learn from visual and material culture.
This discussion was part of a Black Founders-inspired Lunch & Learn that was exclusive to Museum Members on June 3, 2023.