Focus Group Final Report; Assessing African American Attitudes Toward the Civil War. The War of Jubilee; Tell Our Story and We Will Come
Glass-Avery H. 2011. Focus Group Final Report; Assessing African American Attitudes Toward the Civil War. The War of Jubilee; Tell Our Story and We Will Come. NPS: Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park. Kennesaw Georgia
Hereto Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park (KEMO) in Cobb County, Georgia is initiating plans to expand its current interpretive program to an inclusive model that is more culturally and ethnically diverse. This idea follows a congressional charge in 2000 that advised NPS sites to explore slavery as a causality of the Civil War and to find ways to increase access and relevance to underserved populations. To meet these two goals, KEMO partnered with the Center for the Study of the Civil War Era (Center) at Kennesaw State University to research the attitudes of African Americans toward the Civil War. Central to this quantitative research is the understanding that while African and African American slaves were two of the populations most affected by the Civil War, their stories are often absent from Civil War battlefield site interpretations. As a vital starting point, the Center hosted focus group sessions with important African American community organizations in the Metropolitan Atlanta area. The three goals of the focus groups were to: 1. Increase understanding of the local African American community’s perspectives on the Civil War 2. Determine how African Americans would like the African American experience interpreted to the broader public 3. Gain insight on how to incorporate the African American narrative into park interpretations This paper serves as the final report on these focus groups.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Glass-Avery, Hermina
- Date of Issue
- 2011-01-04
- Publisher
- NPS: Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park
- Units
- KEMO
- Keywords
- 13th Amendment, African Americans, Black, Civil War, Emancipation, Jubilee, KEMO, Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park, Land Ownership, Lost Cause, National Park Service, Negro, NPS, Race, Racial Relations, Racism, Slave, Slavery, Ten Cent Bill, United States Colored Troops, USCT, Wallis House