Working with the Flatbush African Burial Ground
Dr. Kelly M. Britt conducted an applied anthropology project with her ANTH 4635 Seminar in Museum Techniques class during the Fall 2022 semester. With the Flatbush African Burial Ground as a case study, students engaged with members of the City appointed Taskforce for the burial ground, local activist groups such as the Flatbush African Burial Ground Coalition, and multiple community members in a variety of anthropological and archaeological methods to collect data they used to create group StoryMaps. These StoryMaps highlighted the history of the site, it’s fight for preservation, and the community’s wishes for its future including thoughts on memorialization of the site.
See students' StoryMaps see here: