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The Garvey Church Lives!: St. Augustine’s African Orthodox Church Archives
The St. Augustine’s African Orthodox Church Archives, built with Omeka-S, documents the history and community life of an original “Garvey Churches,” organizationally founded in Cambridge in 1921 from the collaboration between Bishop George Alexander McGuire and the United Negro Improvement Association (UNIA). This collection highlights the congregation’s West Indian roots, its ties to Roxbury in Boston, and the material culture of the church denomination.
Grace of the Black Church
We are honored to support the Cambridge Museum of History and the Cambridge Mayor’s Office in their “The Grace of the Black Church” project with Omeka-S and ArcGIS curation website. It is a digital archive and interactive map showcasing materials from 12 historically significant Black churches, highlighting their nearly two-century-long legacy of spiritual leadership, cultural influence, and community building.
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Redlining in Cambridge
This project uses ArcGIS WebMap and StoryMap to explore the history of redlining in Cambridge and its lasting effects on the city’s Black community. The interactive maps layer 1930s redlining boundaries with demographic data from the U.S. Census (2000, 2010, 2020) and Richmond University’s Mapping Inequality project. Together, these visualizations highlight how historical redlining continues to shape present-day patterns of Black population distribution, income, health, and housing in Cambridge.
Mapping Black Cambridge
Our Mapping Black Cambridge Project uses ArcGIS and StoryMap to visualize the geographies of Cambridge’s Black community from the 1930s to the present. These maps show patterns of historical redlining, as well as contemporary data on community displacement and income distribution. We draw on census data from the 1950s to the present day.
