Lost Voices
OUR PROJECT
The creation of this website began as a class project
at Marshall University,
in Huntington,
West
Virginia. Our purpose is to recognize and pay tribute
to the experiences, knowledge and contributions, of four
Appalachian African-American women. We wish to honor
their places in history as exhibited in their
communities, their state, and their nation, and to
acknowledge with gratitude, the profound and lasting
marks they have made on our world. We also hope to
encourage, through the examples of these women, a
determination to continue the positive transformation of
community, which comes from worthy dreams and lives
well-lived. This site includes four sections of
biography, which link to pages discussing, race, region,
gender, as well as effects on community as related to
each of the women we explore. Links to national
organizations, universities, and other points of
interest, can be accessed from each page. For those who
would like to further investigate the lives of these
women, more information is available in the Marshall
University Oral History Department.