Thank you to all of our Presenters, Attendees, Honorees, and Honorary and Charter Members! The conference was a success because of you!
At our conference, we honored the work of the following individuals who sought to identify and uplift the contributions of enslaved people. Each award is named after an enslaved or freed person who made an outstanding contribution to our country, in spite of experiencing the horrors of US slavery. The awardees worked tirelessly to uncover history and disseminate it to others. They are genealogist, community leaders, authors, fundraisers, family historians, and researchers. We appreciate their efforts and congratulate them on their outstanding work.
2018 AWARDEES
FREDERICK DOUGLASS
SERVICE AWARD
HARRIET TUBMAN
SERVICE AWARD
CRISPUS ATTUCKS
SERVICE AWARD
SOJOURNER TRUTH
SERVICE AWARD
Richard Cellini, founder of the Georgetown Memory Project
Nettie Washington Douglass, Kenneth B. Morris, Jr., and Robert J. Benz, Frederick Douglass Family Initiatives
LaBrenda Garrett-Nelson, CGsm, SDUSMP Registrar General, Charter Member, and Lifetime Member
Dr. Martha A. Sandweiss, Professor of History at Princeton University, founder and director of the Princeton and Slavery Project
Darius Gray, Early Freedman Bureau Project Coordinator, SDUSMP Charter Member
Elijah Abel
Service Award
Solomon Northup
Service Award
William Wells Brown
Service Award
William and Ellen Craft
Service Award
Richard Cellini, founder of the Georgetown Memory Project
Nettie Washington Douglass, Kenneth B. Morris, Jr., and Robert J. Benz, Frederick Douglass Family Initiatives
LaBrenda Garrett-Nelson, CGsm, SDUSMP Registrar General, Charter Member, and Lifetime Member
Ric Murphy, Founding Registrar of SDUSMP, Advisory Council, SDUSMP Charter Member
Harry “Skip” Richardson and Jean “Gigi” Best-Richardson (Board Member), SDUSMP Charter Member