Iqembu eliholayo International Institute for Peace through Tourism (IIPT) I-Harrisburg Peace Promenade isebenzela ukubuyisela inkumbulo ye-Old 8th Ward kanye nabantu bayo ngetshe lesikhumbuzo elibekwe eduze ne-State Capitol yasePennsylvania. Ukwembulwa kwengxenye yokuqala yetshe lesikhumbuzo, i-The Orator's Pedestal, bekuwumkhosi wamahora amabili, oholwa isishoshovu sendawo u-Lenwood Sloan, ohola lo msebenzi. Ibonise izinkulumo, izingoma nokulingisa okwenziwe Abadlali Base-Harrisburg Past, iqembu elimele izibalo zomlando wendawo. Itshe lesikhumbuzo liqukethe izishoshovu ezine ezivelele zase-Afrika-America: uWilliam Howard Day, uThomas Morris Chester, uJacob T. Compton noFrancis Ellen Walker Harper. Babuthene eduze kwesisekelo sohlu lwemindeni eyi-100 yabaNsundu eyasuswa ngenxa yokubhidlizwa. I-Orators Pedestal izosebenza njengomaka we-GPS womphakathi owake waziswa manje osewashabalala, i-pictogram ye-Old 8th Ward, kanye nohlu oluhloniphekile lwengxenye ehlukene yezakhamuzi zakhona.
Namuhla, akukho lutho olusele lwe-Old 8th Ward, umphakathi omningi wase-Afrika-waseMelika kanye nabokufika obuzungeze i-Pennsylvania State Capitol Building e-Harrisburg. Lokhu bekuyingxube yezenkolo nezinhlanga zaseHarrisburg, emele amaphesenti amabili abantu baseHarrisburg. Izindlu eziminyene zazihlala amakhulu ezifiki, ikakhulukazi amaJalimane, amaKatolika ase-Ireland namaJuda aseRussia. Amaphesenti angu-1600 ezakhamuzi ze-1900 kule ndawo kwakungabantu base-Afrika baseMelika, abaningi babo ababeyizigqila. Kwasulwa ekuqaleni kwawo-XNUMX ukuze kuvuleke indawo yokunwetshwa kweCapitol kwaba yizisulu zeCity Beautiful Movement, inhlangano ekuqaleni kwekhulunyaka yokwenza kabusha amadolobha aseMelika (yaphinda yananela ezinhlelweni zokuvuselela amadolobha ngemva kwengxenye yekhulunyaka kamuva. ).
“Umhlangano Ezimpambanweni Zomgwaqo” udala kabusha indawo ngesikhathi. Indawo … Isigceme Esidala Sesi-8 … Isikhathi … lapho Ukuchitshiyelwa Kweshumi nanhlanu kuba umthetho wenhlangano othola ivoti labesilisa base-Afrika baseMelika. Ngokulandisa kwephephandaba laseHarrisburg, abantu bebethutheleka emigwaqweni e-Old 15th Ward bejabule ngokuzenzekelayo njengoba izakhamuzi zihlangene ukuze kufundwa umphakathi. Ukufundwa kwalandelwa imithandazo nezindumiso. Owesifazane wetshe lesikhumbuzo, uFrancis Harper, imbongi, isikhulumi kanye ne-suffragette unekhophi yesichibiyelo se-8. Njengabagqugquzeli abaningi basePennsylvania Anti-slavery, naye wayebambe iqhaza ekumeleleni ilungelo labesifazane lokuvota kodwa kwakuzoba eminye iminyaka engamashumi amahlanu ngaphambi kokuba isichibiyelo se-15 sibe umthetho.
Itshe lesikhumbuzo eliqukethe abane abavelele base-Afrika-baseMelika . izishoshovu nokuklelisa imindeni eyi-100 yabaNsundu eyasuswa ngenxa yokubhidlizwa. Isithombe sika-Becky Ault. Inkampani ART Research Enterprises, Inc.
"Lapho uzwa kakhulu, udabukisa kakhulu," kusho uLt. Governor John Fetterman ngesikhathi ephawula. "Kodwa ongakwenza wukugubha futhi ukhuthaze imizamo yokukhumbula." I-Fetterman iphromotha okunye ukwenziwa kusebenze kwetshe lesikhumbuzo esithi “Bheka Ubheke,” uchungechunge lokufakwa ezakhiweni zamahhovisi ombuso angu-12. U-Fetterman ukhuthaza abasebenzi nezivakashi ukuthi bacabange nge-Old 8th besebenzisa izindaba nezithombe kusukela ngaleso sikhathi kumaphaneli okuhumusha axhunywe namakhodi e-QR kuya kokuqukethwe okujulile.
Kukhona okunye ukuqaliswa, ukuthuthukiswa kwekharikhulamu ye-STEAM, ukusebenzelana komphakathi kwanyanga zonke okunamafomethi ashintshanayo ukusebenza kwabalingiswa bomlando ophilayo abadlala abantu abane abamelelwe etsheni lesikhumbuzo esethulweni sesitayela sokusebenza / “solwazi”, incwadi kanye nesifundiswa esidala ukuvela ngaleso sikhathi ( kusukela ngo-1870-1920) okulandelwa "letha izinto zobuciko zomndeni wakho futhi ukhulume nabaseshi bethu bomlando."
“Lo msebenzi umayelana nokuqapha, ukuqaphela igazi, izithukuthuku nezinyembezi okwadingeka ukuze kuthuthukiswe lezi zinto,” kusho uSloan. “Futhi kumayelana nokwazisa ivoti. "Sihlonipha i-Old 8th, sikhumbula ukuphasiswa kweSichibiyelo se-15 soMthethosisekelo wase-US eminyakeni engu-150 edlule kanye nokuphasiswa kwesichibiyelo se-19 eminyakeni eyi-100 eyedlule ukuze kutholakale ivoti labantu base-Afrika baseMelika kanye nabesifazane ngokulandelana," kusho uSloan evuma ngekhanda. futhi wafaka isigqoko sakhe esiphezulu.
I-Orator's Pedestal isiqephu sokuqala setshe lesikhumbuzo esizolethwa. Imelela cishe u-10% wezindleko zetshe lesikhumbuzo eliphelele elilingana nempilo ($400,000) futhi ukuqoqwa kwezimali kuyaqhubeka. "Sifuna ukuthi lokhu kube sekukhona ngoJuniteenth 2020," kusho uSloan. "Sithemba ukuthi kuzovula ikhoneni izinkulungwane zabantu eziwela nsuku zonke, futhi sithemba ukuthi abantu bazofunda ukubaluleka kwevoti."
Lona unyaka wesithathu we-IIPT Harrisburg Peace Promenade. Iminyaka emibili yokuqala, leli qembu lagxila ezikhumbuzo ezisenkabeni yedolobha i-Harrisburg eduze nomfula i-Susquehanna owawusubhidlike. Izishoshovu zanikezela kabusha amatshe esikhumbuzo ayisishiyagalombili, zagubha inhloso yazo yasekuqaleni ngabaphathi abasha, bezibophezele endaweni nezinkumbulo zayo, abantu nekusasa labo.
LOKHO ONGAKUTHATHE KULESI SIHLOKO:
- “We are honoring the Old 8th, we are commemorating the passage of the 15th Amendment to the US Constitution 150 years ago and the passage of the 19th Amendment 100 years ago securing the vote for African Americans and women respectively,” Sloan said as he nodded and tipped his top hat.
- Cleared in the early 1900's to make room for the Capitol expansion it was a casualty of the City Beautiful Movement, a movement at the turn-of-the-century to remake American cities (echoed again in the urban renewal programs a half a century later).
- curricula development, monthly civic engagements with alternating formats a performance of living history characters playing the four personas represented in the monument in a performance /”informance” style presentation, a book and a scholar creating emersion in the period (from 1870-1920) followed by “bring your family artifacts and talk to our history detectives.
