The National Park Service and the Afro-American Experience 1990: An Independent Assessment from the Black Perspective
Miller RE. 1991. The National Park Service and the Afro-American Experience 1990: An Independent Assessment from the Black Perspective. Washington, D.C.
This report, an assessment of the National Park Service (NPS) and its relations with the Afro-American public, is essentially the outcome of visits I made to units of the park system in eleven eastern states and the District of Columbia between June and November 1990. As a consultant hired by the Afro-American Institute for Historic Preservation and Community Development in conjunction with its co-operative agreement with the NPS I conducted independent research and regularly submitted progress reports to the NPS History Division. Those reports contained details regarding my methodology and documented my activities in the hope that timely action would be taken on some of my recommendations. Important advice and liaison assistance was provided by Ben Levy, Ed Bearss and others in the NPS divisions of History and Interpretation. I had originally planned to revisit each of the five NPS units featured in the 1978 assessment conducted by Washington's Howard University entitled, Afro-American History Interpretation at selected National Parks and known as the Howard Study. However, various time limitations and the difficulty of finding assistance for field work made it repeatedly necessary to modify my visitation list. Eventually, Fort Davis, Perry's Victory, Chalmett and other sites in the central and western states were eliminated and several sites in the northeast were added to the schedule.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Miller, Richard
- Date of Issue
- 1991-05
- Units
- HIST
- Keywords
- African American, Andersonville, Assessment, black, Boston, Boston African American, Castillo de San Marcos, Chattanooga, Chickamauga, ehistory, experience, Fort Frederica, Fort McHenry, Fort Moultrie, Fort Pulaski, Fort Sumter, Gettysburg, Harpers Ferry, History, Horseshoe Bend, Inclusion, Inclusionary, Independent, interaction, interpretive, Lowell, National Park Service, NPS, perspective, Petersburg, ranger, Richmond, Salem Maritime, theme, Visitor, Visitors, Yorktown