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Saturday, May 14th

10:00AM to 3:00PM

Location: Greene County African American Museum Campus, located at 1415 North Main Street, Greensboro, Georgia.

CompassionCon Greensboro is a part of the Springtime one day, multi-city event throughout Georgia, centering on the viral nature of compassion when our communities prioritize our common humanity and interdependence. This interactive festival-like conference will uplift the positive impact compassion has on our social and community contexts of holistic health and wellness with a spotlight on Mental Health. CompassionCon will develop awareness, education, and action around compassion for self, others, and the Earth. The goal is to help people realize that we must care for each other and build communities around a culture of care that supports everyone’s wellbeing. CompassionCon is an opportunity to celebrate our interconnectedness while we build healthier communities together. The festival will include music and art, wellness activities, food trucks, blood pressure testing, HIV testing, covid vaccines, as well as the distribution of diapers and hygiene products.

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  • Healthcare Professionals will be available to do basic medical checks including blood pressure, blood sugar and other forms of testing. We shall host questions, and answer sessions on health concerns. We shall also have other information and talks regarding the medical disparities regarding all African Americans. Join us as we make Greensboro a healthy place for the African American Community!
The Greene County African American Museum is dedicated to the empowerment of and truth-telling about African American lives in Greene County, Georgia.
The Museum is designed to inspire clarity of heart and mind by sharing with all the important contributions and stories of Greene County’s African American community throughout its history to the present day.
 
For more information or to make an appointment to visit, contact Museum Director Mamie Hillman at mamie@gcaam.org.
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The Greene County African American Museum is dedicated to the empowerment of and truth-telling about African American lives in Greene County, Georgia. The Museum is designed to inspire clarity of heart and mind by sharing all the important contributions and stories of Greene County’s African American community throughout its history to the present day.

So many people are talking about the importance of supporting, listening to and following Black women in rural areas in this country. My name is Mamie Hillman and I’m asking you to step up.  After 25 years of organizing, I have opened the Greene County African American Museum, dedicated to the empowerment of and truth-telling about African American lives in Greene County, Georgia. We are doing the work of giving hope to our young people. I invite you to invest in bring my dream to inspire generations of African Americans in rural Georgia. In 1995, I had a vision to establish a center that honors the lives and legacy of African Americans in rural Georgia and Greene County specifically – the women and men on whose shoulders we stand who gave their lives so that one day Black people would be free.

 

The lives of Black folk in Greene County have inspired artists and scholars for generations.

  • Sonny Terrell, one of this nation’s most distinctive Blues musicians, hails from Greene County. When he sings and strums: “That’s alright and I don’t worry cuz there will be a better day,” it is the faith of this particular people in this particular place of which he sings.
  • When Works Progress Administration (WPA) artists documented lives of everyday Americans in the Great Depression, writers and photographers flocked to Greene County, Georgia.
  • Some of the career-defining photographs by artists such as Dorothea Lange and Jack Delano are of Greene County’s African American life.
  • When award-winning historian Jonathan Bryant wanted to document the difficulty Black people have faced to overcome the systems of oppression in this nation after the Civil War, he focused on Greene County. In the conclusion of Bryant’s gripping book How Curious A Land: Conflict and Change in Greene County, 1850-1885, he names the need to celebrate the everyday African American heroes of Greene County and also its history-making leaders.
  • Abram Colby, born enslaved, who testified to Congress about being terrorized by the KKK for serving in the Georgia State Senate immediately after the Civil War.
  • The Rev. Adam Daniel Williams, grandfather of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., born enslaved in Greene County, who was the first president of the Atlanta NAACP and the second pastor of the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta.

 

In the face of centuries of terror and repression, Black people in Greene County have risked their lives to care for one another, tell the truth about the injustice they face, and fight for the flourishing of generations to come. We need the Greene County African American Museum now to uplift the heroes of the past and inspire their descendants to envision and build a future in which all are finally free.

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