Chronicles of Color: Underground History

What

Underground History is a documentary film project designed to explore connections between St. Petersburg’s diverse cultural history and emerging community efforts to acknowledge the past in charting the future. The film considers the links between the history and remaining archaeological sites of the region’s Indigenous Ancestors, the displaced contemporary African American communities and erased Black cemeteries, and the historic waterways that once created a connectivity for these places and people.

Following the film screening will be a conversation highlighting the importance of historic preservation featuring:

Ms. Gwendolyn Reese
President of African American Heritage Association of St. Petersburg

Robert (Bob) Austin, Ph.D.
Alliance for Weedon Island Archaeological Research and Education, (AWIARE)

Thomas Hallock
Ph.D. Professor, English, Literature & Cultural Studies, University of South Florida

Wanda Stuart
Storyteller and Resident

Polita Glynn
Merfolk Media Alliance Director and Underground History Filmmaker

Devin Rice
Underground History Filmmaker

To register, email education@woodsonmuseum.org.