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River Road African American Museum highlights local history, calls to save True Friends Hall
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A program at the River Road African American Museum in Donaldsonville traced the museum’s origin, its G U 272 exhibit documenting the 1830s sale of 272 enslaved people, and urged restoration of the historic True Friends Benevolent Society Hall to preserve local cultural memory.
The River Road African American Museum in Donaldsonville, Ascension Parish, showcased its work documenting local Black history and urged preservation of a neighborhood landmark during a community program, speakers said.
The museum began in 1994 after funeral directors Kathy and Daryl Hambrick started collecting oral histories, Speaker 2 said, growing from a single obituary into an organization now housed across five buildings. "We took this history that most people thought was nothing, and we brought it to the forefront," Speaker 1 said, describing the museum’s effort to make local stories visible.
The program foregrounded a recent exhibit referred to as the G U 272, which "tells…
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