Lawrence E. Walker
Foundation and Kennesaw State University
have agreed to develop an historical project for
the purpose of collecting historical data in the
State of Georgia. Lawrence E. Walker
Foundation, working as a consultant (Phase
I), will collect and turn over the historical
collection to Kennesaw State University Center
for African & African Diaspora Studies regarding
Historical Cemeteries, Historical Churches &
Historical Plantations in the State of Georgia.
Lawrence E. Walker Foundation will develop
for Kennesaw State University an archival
collection of historical cemeteries, churches
and plantations. This will be the single most
important and significant historical collection
in the State of Georgia never before assembled
for the general public. Phase I, will contain
documents (103 page word file), historical
pictures (over 900) and digitized film
interviews (over 14 tapes) with well-known
historians, many more scholars throughout the
State of Georgia, location shoot of cemeteries
and plantations.
Read
the Article from the Kenessaw State News:
"New collection broadens KSU’s African−American
archive holdings" |