Mapping Narratives:
The New Deal, Segregation and Black Power in DC
Online via Zoom
Wednesday June 9, 2021
3:15 – 3:30 Pre-panel convening
3:30 – 4:30 Public Event
- About the Event
A.1. What are we talking about?
How do we tell historical narratives with maps? Learn how maps give the public a unique lens into history with expert historian mapmakers moderated by DC expert in bringing history to the public.
A.2. Audience
The event is open to the public. Our typical audience is a mix of local policymakers and policy analysts, academics, students and those in the non-profit community. We anticipate an attendance between 30 and 50 people.
A.3 Handouts
- A handout with bios and links to maps
- Schedule of Events
B.1. Event Basics
| Venue | Zoom |
| Room Setup | Kyla Sommer is host, Leah Brooks is co-host
Everyone else joins as a panelist Questions submitted through Q&A: Leah monitors |
| Contact | Leah Brooks, 650-796-3450 (mobile) |
B.2. Event Schedule
| 3:15 | Moderator and panelists meet online |
| 3:30 | Welcome from Leah Brooks to Center and GW |
| 3:33 | Kyla asks questions to motivate panelist introductions |
| No later than 4:10 | Kyla moderates questions from audience |
| 4:30 | Conclude discussion, Brooks says thanks and come again |
| 4:31 | Adjourn |
- Event Links
C.1. Public Links
Event page: https://blogs.gwu.edu/centerforwashingtonareastudies/events-2/
Registration: https://gwu-edu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_W3iJsRl5SSKzAOU_WF2rtQ
C.2. Links to join as panelist
Mara:
Dick:
Derek:
Kyla:
C.3. Questions online
Use Zoom Q&A.
- Media
D.1. Status
This event is “on the record,” open to media.
D.2. Twitter Handles
| Event Host | GWU Center for Washington Area Studies | @GW_CWAS |
| Welcome | Leah Brooks, GW CWAS | n/a |
| Moderator | Kyla Sommers, American Oversight | @Kyla_in_DC |
| Panelist | George Derek Musgrove, Professor of History, UMBC | @gdmusgrove |
| Panelist | Richard A Walker, Professor of Geography, UC Berkeley | |
| Panelist | Mara Cherkasky, Prologue DC |
D.3. Hashtag
update
- Panelist Biographies
Kyla Sommers
Digital Engagement Directory, American Oversight
xx
Mara Cherkasky
Historian, Prologue DC
Mara Cherkasky is a DC-based historian and writer/editor, and the co-founder in 2014 of
both the historical research firm Prologue DC, LLC , and the digital public history project
Mapping Segregation in Washington DC . She has produced exhibit panels, books and
articles for print and online publications, and historic site signage for clients such as the
National Park Service, Public Service Commission of the District of Columbia, and
Cultural Tourism DC. A meticulous researcher, she has assisted the Smithsonian
Anacostia Community Museum, WETA-TV, the DC Historic Preservation Office, the
Meyer Foundation, and many others with projects. She is also as an experienced oral
history interviewer and walking tour guide, and speaks frequently on systemic racism to
civic and business organizations, as well as classrooms from elementary school level up. Current/recent projects include mapping the ca. 1912 destruction of the African American community on Meridian Hill; developing a 100-site DC African American Civil Rights Tour; and creating a Heritage Trail (signs with text, maps, and images) for the Northeast DC neighborhood of Eckington. Mara holds a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Master’s degree in American Studies from the George Washington University. She is a non-resident senior scholar at the George Washington University Institute of Public Policy.
Derek Musgrove
Professor of History, UMBC
George Derek Musgrove, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of History and Africana Studies at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. He is the author of Rumor, Repression, and Racial Politics: How the Harassment of Black Elected Officials Shaped Post-Civil Rights America (U. of Georgia, 2012), and co-author, with Chris Myers Asch, of Chocolate City, A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation’s Capital (UNC, 2017). His latest project is “Black Power in Washington, D.C.” a web-based map of Black Power activism in the nation’s capital between 1961 and 1998. His work has appeared in the Washington Post, National Public Radio, the New York Times and The Root. He is currently working on a book project tentatively titled “We must take to the streets again”: The Black Power Resurgence in Conservative America, 1980-97, which explores the burst of black activism that rose in opposition to the urban crisis and the conservative retrenchment. He earned his Ph.D. from New York University in 2005 and now lives with his wife and two sons in Washington, D.C.
Richard A Walker
Professor of Geography, UC Berkely & Living History
Richard A Walker is Professor Emeritus of Geography at UC Berkeley, where he taught from 1975 to 2012. He is author of scores of articles and six books, including classics in economic geography and the development of California. His latest book is Pictures of a Gone City: Tech and the Dark Side of Prosperity in the San Francisco Bay Area (2018). Walker’s awards include Fulbright and Guggenheim Fellowships. He is currently executive director of the Living New Deal project.
- Contact Information
| Name | |
| Kyla Sommers | [email protected] |
| Mara Cherkasky | [email protected] |
| Derek Musgrove | [email protected] |
| Richard A Walker | [email protected] |
| Leah Brooks | lfbrooks@gwu |