Through a series of facilitated, collaborative discussions, the Wesleyan Center for Social and Racial Equity, in collaboration with the Tubman Museum, will work with community members across a variety of areas to identify areas of reparative justice that most require Macon’s attention. This project extends from the understanding that fuller narratives of Macon’s regional history and Wesleyan’s institutional history are necessary first steps in developing further frameworks for reparative justice. In addition to hosting community-led listening circles, the Wesleyan team will also host public digitization days for Macon community members to contribute oral testimonies and artifacts to a digital archive of regional history, make hidden regional histories visible through public art and monument projects, and develop infrastructure to support anti-racist pedagogy on the Wesleyan campus and in the wider Macon k-12 educational system.
These are Johnny Crawford’s photos from Wesleyan College’s Reparative Justice: Hidden Histories exhibition will be at the Tubman Museum until December 2023. This exhibit features photographs, portraits, and historical artifacts that document Wesleyan College’s work with the Mellon Foundation’s Crafting Democratic Futures Project and involves both scholarly research on Wesleyan’s history, as well as the result of Macon community members who are preserving Macon’s multifaceted and often hidden African American histories. Photo by Johnny Crawford 
Wesleyan students, faculty and community leader visiting The Legacy Museum and Mayor Steven Reed in Montgomery, Alabama. ©2023 Johnny Crawford
Principal Investigator
Rufus K. and Jane Mulkey Green Professor of English
Community Fellows
Director of Exhibitions, Tubman African American Museum
Faculty
Assistant Professor of History
Assistant Professor of Psychology
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