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SOAL: Saving Our Ancestors' Legacy at one of Pennsylvania's Oldest Historically Black Cemeteries

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  • Join Action 4 Heritage 2025 to protect our historical memory. Unite to preserve marginalized voices and fight against renewed threats to our collective heritage
    SOAL’s Action 4 Heritage 2025
  • Rachael Keri Williams leads an interactive discussion on Death, Tech, & Afrofuturism; a look at Harrisburg's Black Civil War history during YPOC's Juneteenth Harrisburg symposium.
    Death, Tech, & Afrofuturism: Juneteenth Harrisburg
  • Developed by SOAL and Breadcrumb Analytics, MapGed.com is an online platform for community-based public history - visualizing historic social networks of enslaved people, freedom seekers on the underground railroad, and much more will be made possible through AI innovation, machine learning, and crowdsourced cluster genealogy research done by people like you.
    MapGed.com: AI Innovation Meets Hands-On Historic Preservation
  • Some of the Civil War Veterans buried in Harrisburg Lincoln Cemetery may have seen a full-color recruiting handbill like this when they enlisted in the United States Colored Troops.
    List Update: Harrisburg’s Civil War Veterans Buried at Lincoln Cemetery

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  1. Alex G on Devastating Loss and Potential Threat at Historic Black Cemetery29 February 2024

    Its amazing what SOAL accomplished this weekend with the support that poured out from the community.

  2. First Professional Black Artist is from Harrisburg on Civil War Veterans Buried at Lincoln Cemetery17 December 2023

    […] of his younger brothers, Cassius Maddigan Brown (who is buried in Lincoln Cemetery), “served in the brigade defending Harrisburg…

  3. WGAL News 8 Live at Harrisburg’s Oldest Black Cemetery - Lincoln Cemetery on SOAL Partners: Black Cemetery Historic Preservation with ArcGIS13 December 2023

    […] SOAL Partners: Black Cemetery Historic Preservation with ArcGIS […]

  4. SOAL Partners: Black Cemetery Historic Preservation with ArcGIS - Lincoln Cemetery on First in Black Boyscouting: Lewis Elmer Robinson13 December 2023

    […] PA, is not just a cemetery; it’s a testament to African American heritage, harboring the stories and legacies of…

  5. Central Pa Black Cemeteries | WITF Radio - Lincoln Cemetery on SOAL Partners: Black Cemetery Historic Preservation with ArcGIS13 December 2023

    […] SOAL Partners: Black Cemetery Historic Preservation with ArcGIS […]

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Sneak Preview of Beryl Warner Williams Hall Mural created by Rachel and Ryan Adams.

Beryl Warner Williams Hall: Descendant Reclaiming Black History in the Whitest State in America

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I am a Descendant Reclaiming Black History in the Whitest State in America “We want to rename a building at UMaine for your grandmother!” Beryl Warner Williams Hall It’s been 2 years since I accepted that challenge… And I’m not sure that anyone at the University knew what they were getting into … Continue reading →

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First Professional Black Artist

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First Professional Black Artist in Pacific Northwest is from Harrisburg, PA: trailblazing 19th Century Black Artist Grafton Tyler Brown: cartographer, craftsman, communicator, documentarian, entrepreneur, and pioneer.

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Endgame: Time to gather ancestors

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This is my Endgame. It’s time to gather ancestors… At SOAL we are saving our ancestors legacy. We will do it bone by bone if we have to. We’re gonna need them where we trying to go: We can’t have a future without a past. I’m not trying to leave anyone behind, … Continue reading →

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images depict the likeness of 2 west african men wearing armor, mask, costume made of seashells.

after the apocalypse

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after the apocalypse is a visual poem, inspired by SOAL’s restoration work at Harrisburg’s Lincoln Cemetery. Taking a creative and radical approach to Black History Reclamation–video and poetry by Rachael Keri Williams. after the apocalypse… i’m gonna start a rainbow cult I’m going to start a rainbow worship cultAnd all The ancestors … Continue reading →

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