Mission

The Save Sewanee Black History Project endeavors to recover, preserve, and publicly share the 160-plus-year record of the African American people who lived and worked in this university community and helped shape its history. The task of building an enduring archive and an active program of public education is jointly undertaken by people with roots in Sewanee’s Black community in partnership with the Roberson Project on Slavery, Race, and Reconciliation at the University of the South.

Vision

We pursue this archival and educational mission in order to conserve a memory of Black life and experience on the Mountain that, first, reflects the priorities, preferences, and wishes of the residents of these neighborhoods and their descendants and, second, reverses the University of the South’s long disregard for the meaningful contributions of Sewanee’s Black residents.