BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//ChamberMaster//Event Calendar 2.0//EN METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:P3D REFRESH-INTERVAL:P3D CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20210421T160000Z DTEND:20210421T170000Z X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:FALSE SUMMARY:Bartow History Museum Lecture: "Its Success Is Our Success" DESCRIPTION:"Its Success Is Our Success"\n\nThe Negro Building and the Politics of Slavery at the\n\n1895 Atlanta Cotton States and International Exposition\n\n\n\nApril 21\, 2021 at 12 p.m.\n\n \nJoin us on Zoom as part of the Bartow History Museum's on-line lecture programming on April 21\, 2021 at 12 p.m. as Tiffany Player\, assistant professor of History at Georgia State University\, presents\, "Its Success Is Our Success": The Negro Building and the Politics of Slavery at the 1895 Atlanta Cotton States and International Exposition. Player will share why the 1895 Atlanta Exposition offered a unique opportunity for African Americans to control the legacy of slavery after the Civil War. In addition\, she will talk about what was the Negro Building and why was it so popular among Atlanta fair goers\, and how the Negro Building helped launch a national Black women's reform movement.\n\n\nThis is a virtual lecture on Zoom and tickets are required. Member tickets are free and non-member tickets are $6.50.\n\n\n\nPurchase your ticket at www.BartowHistoryMuseum.org. For more information\, please contact the museum at 770-387-2774.\n\n\n\nGet to know your speaker:\n\nTiffany Player is completing her first year as an assistant professor of History at Georgia State University. She received her Ph.D. in History from Washington University in St. Louis. She has received a warm welcome from her students\, GSU colleagues\, and members of the greater Atlanta community and looks forward to making new connections. She is a native of New Orleans and so coming back home to the South has been a dream come true! Tiffany is a historian of identity formation and the attendant political and social transformations of communities within the African diaspora during slavery and after emancipation. She is currently working on her book project\, tentatively titled\, "What Are We Going to Do For Ourselves?: African American Women and the Politics of Slavery from the Antebellum Era to the Great Depression" that analyzes Black women's efforts to force a public reckoning with the material and cultural legacies of slavery in the United States as an essential component of their political power across multiple generations. Her presentation on the Negro Building and the 1895 Atlanta Exposition is a part of this larger project.\n\n\n\nAbout Bartow History Museum\n\nThe Bartow History Museum\, located at 4 East Church Street in downtown Cartersville\, Georgia\, documents the history of northwest Georgia's Bartow County\, spanning more than 200 years since the Cherokee were the area's primary residents. Artifacts\, photographs\, documents\, and a variety of interactive permanent exhibits tell the story of settlement\, Cherokee life and removal\, Civil War strife\, and lifestyles of years past. The Bartow History Museum also provides a variety of educational opportunities for adults\, children\, families\, and school groups. Our extensive archives and research library contains photographs\, documents\, newspapers\, rare books\, genealogy records\, oral history interviews\, and more. For additional information\, visit www.bartowhistorymuseum.org. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:&ldquo\;Its Success Is Our Success&rdquo\;
\nThe Negro Building and the Politics of Slavery at the
\n1895 Atlanta Cotton States and International Exposition
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\nApril 21\, 2021 at 12 p.m.
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Join us on Zoom as part of the Bartow History Museum&rsquo\;s on-line lecture programming on April 21\, 2021 at 12 p.m. as Tiffany Player\, assistant professor of History at Georgia State University\, presents\, &ldquo\;Its Success Is Our Success&rdquo\;: The Negro Building and the Politics of Slavery at the 1895 Atlanta Cotton States and International Exposition. Player will share why the 1895 Atlanta Exposition offered a unique opportunity for African Americans to control the legacy of slavery after the Civil War. In addition\, she will talk about what was the Negro Building and why was it so popular among Atlanta fair goers\, and how the Negro Building helped launch a national Black women&rsquo\;s reform movement.
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\nThis is a virtual lecture on Zoom and tickets are required. Member tickets are free and non-member tickets are $6.50.
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\nPurchase your ticket at www.BartowHistoryMuseum.org. For more information\, please contact the museum at 770-387-2774.
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\nGet to know your speaker:
\nTiffany Player is completing her first year as an assistant professor of History at Georgia State University. She received her Ph.D. in History from Washington University in St. Louis. She has received a warm welcome from her students\, GSU colleagues\, and members of the greater Atlanta community and looks forward to making new connections. She is a native of New Orleans and so coming back home to the South has been a dream come true! Tiffany is a historian of identity formation and the attendant political and social transformations of communities within the African diaspora during slavery and after emancipation. She is currently working on her book project\, tentatively titled\, &ldquo\;What Are We Going to Do For Ourselves?: African American Women and the Politics of Slavery from the Antebellum Era to the Great Depression"\; that analyzes Black women&rsquo\;s efforts to force a public reckoning with the material and cultural legacies of slavery in the United States as an essential component of their political power across multiple generations. Her presentation on the Negro Building and the 1895 Atlanta Exposition is a part of this larger project.
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\nAbout Bartow History Museum
\nThe Bartow History Museum\, located at 4 East Church Street in downtown Cartersville\, Georgia\, documents the history of northwest Georgia&rsquo\;s Bartow County\, spanning more than 200 years since the Cherokee were the area&rsquo\;s primary residents. Artifacts\, photographs\, documents\, and a variety of interactive permanent exhibits tell the story of settlement\, Cherokee life and removal\, Civil War strife\, \;and lifestyles of years past. The Bartow History Museum also provides a variety of educational opportunities for adults\, children\, families\, and school groups. Our extensive archives and research library contains photographs\, documents\, newspapers\, rare books\, genealogy records\, oral history interviews\, and more. For additional information\, visit www.bartowhistorymuseum.org. LOCATION:Virtual Lecture on Zoom UID:e.1202.147347 SEQUENCE:3 DTSTAMP:20260514T145320Z URL:https://business.cartersvillechamber.com/events/details/bartow-history-museum-lecture-its-success-is-our-success-147347 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR