Black History Gallery Project

This gallery will be designed to educate and inspire this generation. The Freeman Institute® owns a Black History collection of over 3,000 vintage documents and artifacts, with the oldest piece dated 1553. The goal is to develop Black History galleries, connecting the African American experience with galleries in major U.S. cities and in selected cities internationally (parts of Canada, Europe, Africa and South America and every Caribbean country). Each gallery will have a wall dedicated to some of the White abolitionists who sacrificed their lives for the anti-slavery cause. This project also includes the development and the  manufacture of replicas of the Rosetta Stone to be exhibited in every gallery. We'd love for community-based organizations, churches, and/or community colleges to be a part of sponsoring or hosting Black History galleries in major cities throughout the USA and parts of Canada.

Objective
The Freeman Institute® Foundation wants to help establish self-sustaining Freeman Black History "Overcomer's" Galleries in communities across America & selected cities internationally.

Purpose
To educate and inspire young people of all ages.

We will not reinforce the misguided notion that Black History started with slavery. Black History has its ancient roots firmly planted in creativity, inventiveness, ingenuity, royalty, perseverance and so much more, with many African Kingdoms (Ghanian, Songehay, Great Zimbabwe, Malian, etc.) -- providing a context for the documents and artifacts exhibiting the part African Americans played in the past four centuries of American history.

Capturing Hearts & Minds through the inspiration received from and knowledge contained in Return To Glory (RTG) resources (film, book, etc.). A combined strategic focus on this step, will allow RTG to be even more deliberate in achieving its goal of changing the distorted image of Black people by starting from their ancient beginnings instead of the traditional starting points of slavery, colonization or apartheid.

Proving the Point with documents and artifacts. Verification of the history will be established through the exhibition of historical documents and artifacts from The Freeman Institute Black History collection and also from local residents, representing the respective community in which the Black History Gallery project has a presence.

Affecting Change & Future Life Goals is realized through partnerships with national and community-based service organizations with missions to impact behavior and alter life outcomes. The Foundation's desire is to assist by providing resources to help facilitate the kind of lasting change that will help individuals realize their true potential, regardless of race, gender or generation. The RTG film will be shown every hour on the hour in every gallery, in the language specific to that region of the world -- French, Portuguese, Spanish or English.