The Society of Mississippi Archivists' latest Virtual Table Talk will take place on Friday, July 21st at 12:00 PM CDT. This talk will feature Sharon Leslie Morgan who will speak on "Healing Historical Harm." To register, please visit: https://msstate.webex.com/weblink/register/r1f84b757c142c835cf273d60db150723
About the talk:
"America the Beautiful" has a legacy of historical harm. Our foundation was built upon the genocide of Native Americans and the enslavement of Africans. How do we overcome that history and empower our future as a society that truly embraces the ideals of the Declaration of Independence?
Speaker bio:
Sharon Leslie Morgan, a native of Chicago, is a writer and genealogist. She is a descendant of ancestors in Noxubee County, Mississippi.
She is the co-author, with Thomas DeWolf, of GATHER AT THE TABLE: The Healing Journey of a Daughter of Slavery and a Son of the Slave Trade (Beacon Press, 2012) and Finding Your Family Tree: A Beginner's Guide to Researching Your Genealogy (Wellfleet Press, 2023).
She lives in Macon, Mississippi, where she is writing a book about her ancestral heritage.
She is the founder of OurBlackAncestry.com, a website devoted to African American genealogy; serves on the board of the Noxubee County Historical Society; and is a Daughter of the American Revolution. In 2022, she was awarded "Woman of the Year" by the Noxubee Alliance.
Prior to retirement, she was a multicultural marketing expert who worked for many years as a consultant to Fortune 100 companies including Coca-Cola, McDonald's and Walmart.
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Carrie P. Mastley
Assistant Professor/Curator of Material Culture
Mississippi State University Libraries
Mississippi State, MS
she/her
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