{"id":104715,"date":"2025-07-31T13:18:48","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T17:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.cga.ct.gov\/osh\/?p=104715"},"modified":"2025-07-31T13:18:50","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T17:18:50","slug":"connecticut-freedom-trail-brings-brent-leggs-to-hartford-for-important-discussion-on-celebrating-the-legacies-of-african-americans-through-historic-preservation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.cga.ct.gov\/osh\/2025\/07\/31\/connecticut-freedom-trail-brings-brent-leggs-to-hartford-for-important-discussion-on-celebrating-the-legacies-of-african-americans-through-historic-preservation\/","title":{"rendered":"Connecticut Freedom Trail brings Brent Leggs to Hartford for Important Discussion on Celebrating the Legacies of African Americans through Historic Preservation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(Hartford, CT) The Connecticut Freedom Trails spotlighted preservationist Brent Leggs during their &#8220;Conversations at Noon\u201d event on Wednesday, July 30, at Connecticut\u2019s Old State House, located at 800 Main Street in downtown Hartford. A recording of the full program is available to watch here: <a href=\"http:\/\/ct-n.com\/ctnplayer.asp?odID=25155\">http:\/\/ct-n.com\/ctnplayer.asp?odID=25155<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What is the role of preservation when it comes to telling America\u2019s whole history? Brent Leggs, a national leader in the U.S. preservation movement, visited Hartford to discuss his passion for elevating the significance of Black culture in American history. \u201cWe are so excited to bring renowned preservationist Brent Leggs to Connecticut\u2019s Old State House,\u201d said Tammy Denease, Director of Outreach for the Connecticut Freedom Trail. \u201cHaving Mr. Leggs come to this historic site to discuss preservation and funding for sites on the Connecticut Freedom Trail could not be timelier. We are excited to bring the public together with Mr. Leggs to explore why it is critical now that we attach black narratives from the black perspective to the structures, sites, and artifacts across our state.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As executive director of the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund and senior vice president of the National Trust, Mr. Leggs envisions a social movement for justice, equity, and reconciliation. His work includes promoting the role of cultural preservation in telling the nation\u2019s full history, while also empowering activists, entrepreneurs, artists, and civic leaders to advocate on behalf of African American historic places.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Preserving African American historic sites is one way Mr. Leggs believes our country can confront the past and make amends for the atrocities of slavery and segregation. In addition to his work at the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund and National Trust for Historic Preservation, Mr Leggs was the 2018 recipient of the Robert G. Stanton National Preservation Award. He is a former Loeb Fellow at Harvard University. He co-authored \u201cPreserving African American Historic Places,\u201d which the Smithsonian Institution called the \u201cseminal publication on preserving African American historic sites.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Hartford, CT) The Connecticut Freedom Trails spotlighted preservationist Brent Leggs during their &#8220;Conversations at Noon\u201d event on Wednesday, July 30, at Connecticut\u2019s Old State House, located at 800 Main Street [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"Connecticut&#039;s Old State House","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/wp.cga.ct.gov\/osh","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cga.ct.gov\/osh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cga.ct.gov\/osh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cga.ct.gov\/osh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cga.ct.gov\/osh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cga.ct.gov\/osh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cga.ct.gov\/osh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104717,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cga.ct.gov\/osh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104715\/revisions\/104717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cga.ct.gov\/osh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cga.ct.gov\/osh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cga.ct.gov\/osh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}