Once the #oralhistory is recorded, the relationship continues through #accessibility, ongoing engagement in the topics and communities. In the process of developing a collaborative plan for #stewardship #AquíenChicago ChicagoHistoryMuseum #NCPHUHS2024

S24 Q: how to best help #climate scientists make their work intellectually accessible in the #oralhistory setting? After agreeing on baseline questions for interviewees, #MeganMiller classmates honed questions to more specificity for each interviewee. #NCPHUHS2024

S24 #MeganMiller Shadow / participate with scientist in the field as possible. Shared experience breaks the ice and offers base of experience for conversation. Then ask: Why do you stay engaged? Why do you do what you do? #NCPHUHS2024

S32 #MarcusPSmith Discussing the development of the Bellevue Passage Museum in Bellevue, MD, due to break ground this December to commemorate this historically African American maritime community. #NCPHUHS2024

S32 #MarcusPSmith The Bellevue #museum will facilitate social change in a changing landscape in the tradition of other African American grassroots museums. Black communities have been discussed as places to be left rather than in terms of their value. #NCPHUHS2024

S32 #MarcusPSmith Bellevue was self-sufficient till incorporated against their will and now facing #gentrification. (Decline of industry and skilled labor--> infrastructural neglect--> environmental degradation--> real estate speculation.) #NCPHUHS2024

S32 #MarcusPSmith Development goal: erasure of the extant and historical Black community. Resident's response to meeting between community and developer: "it was absolutely disgusting because we had no options whatsoever." #NCPHUHS2024

S32 #MarcusPSmith 5th gen residents of Bellevue, Dr Mary and Dennis DeShields = founders of the #museum. They see the museum as a center for energy justice - technologies that can save the average resident $. #EnvironmentalJustice is a strategy for affordable housing #NCPHUHS2024

#ProtectBellevueMD bellevuepassagemuseum.org S32 #NCPHUHS2024

S32 #MelodyHunterPillion Heirs' property: Poor people without wills may have lots of heirs. If one heir sells even a portion of the property, it opens the whole property. Important to note re #AfricanAmericans, poor white folk, #indigenous folks, and more. By design. #NCPHUHS2024

S32 #MarcusPSmith Dissertation = history of Black grassroots museums in the agro-urban and rural south. Can't wait to read it! #NCPHUHS2024

S32 Q+A: Is the act of preserving and presenting as good as we can do, or is there hope for policy change at any level? There is space for policy change. Community members need to be informed, invested in the fight, and *able to participate.* #NCPHUHS2024

S32 #MarcusPSmith Public historians need to fight for communities that are trying to make their histories public. #NCPHUHS2024

S32 #MarcusPSmith New residents should ask themselves: Is it possible to be a part of the social fabric that exists rather than disrupt it? #NCPHUHS2024

S32 #MelodyHunterPillion How to we leverage our own amazing histories and storytellers? ex #oralhistories Advertising is storytelling, and the real stories can counter it. #MarcusPSmith the museum *is* this community's activist response. #NCPHUHS2024

Thanks #NCPHUHS2024! It has been educational! Safe travels to all.

This is collaborative work involving a lot of long term stewardship. Many thanks to Jamie and all of my Collections and Curatorial colleagues for this vital work.

Can't wait for this!

Proud to have worked with this team of great researchers on this piece highlighting #Latino military service and research strategies through #HistoryDay. They truly went the distance!