This year’s list of 11 most endangered historic places, announced last week, is devoted entirely to sites linked to the histories of people of color, including the Trujillo Adobe in Riverside.
The National Trust for Historic Preservation now supports the removal of public Confederate monuments, regardless of how old or “historic” they may be.
Each site on the list represents “people standing up to say these places are important because they tell our stories and we see the stories of our ancestors and our communities in these places, but that they also offer a way forward,” Malone-France said.The Georgia B. Williams Nursing Home was the residence of Beatrice Borders, a Black midwife who delivered more than 6,000 babies in Georgia. The home, now uninhabitable, suffers from water damage and deterioration.
After The Times pointed out that the organization’s president had spoken about Floyd’s influence on the group’s stance on Confederate monuments, Jones added: “I think it is impossible to disconnect the activism, and the impact that George Floyd and Breonna Taylor and all these individuals have made on our society at large. The National Trust is not immune to that; of course, we are impacted by that.
“Many of our historic buildings and sites memorialize settler colonialism and white supremacy, so preservationists are going to have to decide — either on a case-by-case basis or together, as a community — how to balance the mission of protecting so-called ‘historic’ sites with the urgent need to radically remake our built environment to tell a more accurate story of our past,” Brown wrote.
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