Research on Charlottesville and Albemarle County
I turned a racial landscape project, which looked at zoning maps to understand municipal development, into the cover story for the local alternative newspaper.
“But because race and housing have always been connected in Charlottesville, as elsewhere, neighborhood advocacy came with racial implications. When city officials neglected black desires and prioritized white ones, white neighborhoods ultimately were preserved as quiet enclaves of single-family homes, where property values increased over time, while black neighborhoods were left vulnerable to disruption.”
I used archives from the UVA Special Collections to write a history of the Charlottesville-Albemarle Tribune, the local Black newspaper which ran from 1954-2011.
“The topics found in the Charlottesville-Albemarle Tribune over the years are incredibly interesting, both because of the version of Black life it portrays and because this was not information reported in The Daily Progress.”
I completed a summer internship with the Preservers of the Daughters of Zion Cemetery, doing archival research across the state of Virginia to study local Black fraternal organizations during the Jim Crow era.
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