Where ATHP has Contributed and/or Presented

Supported other organizations' concerted push to preserve Dr. King’s student residence, a site associated with the events that inspired his first anti-discrimination lawsuit.

  Recorded elder civic statesman Timothy L. Jenkins’s firsthand reflections on Howard University and the transformative 34-year presidency of Mordecai Wyatt Johnson. 

 Contributed legal-historical scholarship on systemic racism, economic terror, and court reform at the Tulsa Race Massacre centennial symposium.

Presented on the Tulsa Riot by invited lecture on July 21, 2021, titled What the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre and its Observances Reveal about Human Relations Today.
 

Developed a culturally responsive training blueprint for a summer program strengthening educators’ teaching of African-American history.

 Interviewed Dred Scott descendant Lynne Jackson on the case’s constitutional legacy, historic injustice, and the enduring importance of personal agency.

Advised on disputed land claims on one-room schoolhouse built for African-American families in 1870 as Reconstruction policies of uplift took hold in the former Confederacy.

 Helped filmmakers chronicle the award-winning movement to reclaim Lexington’s former slave-auction square and restore its African-American history to public memory.

Provided preservation consultation for two significant Black educational landmarks, including a residence designed by pioneering architect Vertner W. Tandy Sr.

Helped protect the historic church’s 1870s-adjacent property from redevelopment and supported early interventions supporting negotiations that secured an adjacent 95-space parking lot. 

Provided intellectual encouragement to core leadership who ensured economic and cultural continuity through sophisticated real-estate bifurcation followed by local, binding landmarking in 2020. 

Identifying funding opportunities and supplying relevant visioning and drafting to historic churches, civil-rights sites, and cultural landscapes.