Warren County Community Center

The Warren County Community Center was founded in the 1930s as a gathering space, library, and resource for the African American community of Warren County, North Carolina. The space served the Black community during segregation. The organization is renovating the space for continued use for the community. Exhibits will tell the history of the community center as well as the longer history of the county’s African American community from slavery through the civil rights movement and beyond. I am researching and writing the exhibits using both the community center’s archives as well as other sources. In addition to the exhibit development, I am also working with the center’s board of directors to improve the preservation and organization of the center’s archives by digitizing most of the center’s key historical documents and advising on best methods for the storage and organization of the materials.