During our 2020 Women in the Zoom virtual gatherings, we learned of Gifford Historic Museum and Cultural Center Director Jonnie Mae Perry’s dream of a new cultural center to replace the small historic African American museum in the Historic Macedonia Church in Gifford. We learned that the church had been built by slaves once their masters had given them permission to work on the project at night using materials they had to gather themselves. Jonnie’s idea was to build a complex to surround the church. This new cultural center complex would not only expand the existing Black history museum but also the resources and cultural programming offered to the Gifford community.
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