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Supported by the Toledo Rotary
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a) Vision Statement
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The African American Legacy Project (AALP) shall be the innovative multi-disciplinary epicenter, celebrating the triumph and spirit of the African-American experience. The African American Legacy Project exists to:
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Be a vehicle for raising the historical and present cognizance levels of African Americans in Northwest Ohio communities
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Be a motivator and promoter of community development
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Be a resource and repository for historic, current, and cultural inquiry
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Be an avenue for nurturing unity and the creative process
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b) Mission Statement
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The AALP pledges to stimulate the intellectual, socioeconomic and participatory growth in communities wherein African Americans reside
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c) Statement of Purpose
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The purpose of The African American Legacy Project is to bring together people who are interested in documenting and preserving the history of northwest Ohio’s African American communities and their impact and influence upon Toledo and the greater world community. Additionally, The African American Legacy Project will examine and record the socio-economic and cultural impact of African Americans for present and future generations of African Americans as we as the broader world society.
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The primary function of The African American Legacy Project is to discover, document and preserve artifacts and historical information demonstrative, representative, and reflective of life, lifestyles and culture of Toledo’s African American community. |
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100 Grandmothers
Grandmothers are often the moral barometers of a family. They are spiritual, and inspirational leaders and quite often are the single person whom each family member seeks council and entrusts their deepest secrets. In our own experience, grandmothers are the heartbeat of the African American culture.
Need: It is critically important for the African American community to begin to find develop mechanisms to begin to resurrect, reclaim, and recover core community values and there is a need to assemble and deliver a cadre of respected voices to impact the current community landscape.
100 Grandmothers will speak to community about those things that youth and others will have an opportunity to be exposed to traditions that historically aided in producing better citizens.
If you would like to be interviewed or know that special grandmother that we should interview please email us at: info@africanamericanlegacy.org; or call us at 419-720-4369
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