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UWG Special Collections director Blynne Olivieri (left) and archivist Shanee' Murrain (right) led a fantastic workshop on preserving family and church records. Included in the workshop were important conversations about ownership of records and…

Dr. Larry Rivers of the UWG Department of History gave the keynote address on the history of the A.M.E. church, with a focus on Antioch's past. Participants reported they were "full of knowledge" after his talk.

The Antioch A.M.E. Church's men's group, the Sons of Allen, generously cooked a breakfast of fried fish and grits for the participants of History Day.

Tigner Rand of Antioch A.M.E. Church talks with Edith Kelman of the Early Edgewood-Candler Park Biracial History Project in Atlanta. Kelman, with a group of neighborhood activists, has led a nine-year effort to document the African American history…

Antioch A.M.E. Church members [from left to right] Shirley Vaughn, Meta Simon, and William Thomas donated items to be scanned into the archive. Jackie Cain, a University of West Georgia Center for Public History volunteer for Summer 2016, and Jennah…

University of West Georgia Public History students talk with Sharon Youngblood, a long-time member of Antioch A.M.E. Church. Youngblood allowed students to scan a souvenir program of the 1960s church groundbreaking in its second locaiton in Downtown…

Antioch A.M.E. Church History Day planning committee member Tigner Rand (right) and church photographer William Thomas (left) on History Day.

University of West Georgia Public History Graduate Research Assistant Hannah Givens (left) and UWG Center for Public History volunteer Jackie Cain photographed items for the Antioch A.M.E. digital archive.

Mark Greenberg took this photograph of the 1933 Cornerstone of the Antioch A.M.E. Church that was in Decatur, Georgia.

Mark Greenberg took this photograph of the 1995 Cornerstone for Antioch A.M.E. Church in Stone Mountain, Georgia during the History Day events.