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My name is Jeanette Dianne Bendolph and I am an alumna of the University of Delaware. During my undergraduate career, I earned a Bachelor of Arts in History and minors in Museum Studies and Africana Studies. My public history background includes my experience creating a children’s program, curation and creation of an exhibition, and participation in a collegiate history symposium. For my children’s program, I was required to document past Delawarean laws (18th century to the 20th century) concerning school desegregation, immigration, and eminent domain in order for kids to compare how citizens reacted towards these laws in the past vs. today. My summer research entailed the political and social climate of Victorian Britain for its Black citizens. The exhibition I created which was placed in the New Castle Historical Society of New Castle, Delaware in 2019 documented the activities which stimulated early childhood development in young New Castle Citizens of the 19th and 20th centuries. My historical interest involves African American history, women’s history, and other minority histories of America. I intend to complete future research about the ways that minorities lived in America’s past, the adversity they faced, and how members of minority communities captured their trials and successes through writing, oral histories, and other historical means. I believe that as a historian, it is my duty to research histories that are overshadowed and bring them to the public eye. It is also my goal to create historical environments which encourage civil and progressive conversations on historical topics involving race and gender inequality that America’s society has only slightly breached.

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  1. Brian WallaceSeptember 9, 2020 at 11:51 AM

    Hello...I like how you bridged from Rosenzweig and co. to BLM with such brevity! I did something along the same lines on my class blog but it took me a few more words (okay, paragraphs....): if you wouldn't mind taking a look before class I would greatly value your comments on blog, during class discussion, etc.

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