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  • More Hidden Histories Revealed

    After asking the community to help us gather full names and personal stories to bring recognition to these men, our understanding of the richness of our local, national, and global communities expanded greatly.

  • Hidden Histories: The Quest continues…

    • Black History
    • Collections
    • Hampton Roads History
    • Hidden Histories

    “Hidden Histories” is a Museum project designed to give names, agency, and interpretation of unidentified African Americans in our Collections through genealogical research and community engagement.

  • Hidden Histories: The Quest to Put Names to Our Past

    • Black History
    • Collections
    • Hidden Histories

    For a while, the images of the Black men who built our Museum remained anonymous, despite our efforts to try to identify them. All we really had to go on was that they worked here. So that is where we started.

  • What is “Hidden Histories”?

    • Hidden Histories

    Hidden Histories will give names, agency, and interpretation of the unidentified Black people depicted in our Collections.

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