“The Appalachia Four Women Legacy Project” contains a historical collection of photographs, oral recordings and documents interpreted as primary sources for preserving the history of Appalachia African American women’s lives and the roles they played in history. This discussion is led, not as a question but as a perspective, in honor of the rarely mentioned broader roles played by them, in the lives of everyone contained within the community.

The mission of “The Appalachia Four Women Legacy Project” is to contextualize Appalachia African American narrative, with a focus on racial reality, gender and cultural practices.

Carl Sauer, 1963, defined a new term “Cultural Landscapes” and emphasizes how humans shape ‘and define’ the non-human environment. Therefore, the narrative of all humans, no matter what race or gender, must be included in our documentation of history for true preservation.

Join independent scholars Tina Vaughan Jones, Lisa Kay Snyder and Vonnia Harris Davis as they review multiple bloodlines, singular and crossed, and share mostly undocumented narrative of six Appalachia African American communities. They are the descendants who continue to celebrate and honor the 125-140 year tradition of annual gatherings in the Southern West Virginia and Virginia.