Angie Albright, Shiloh Museum of Ozark History, Springdale, AR

Hi all! David McKenzie from Ford’s Theatre in Washington, DC

Hi Everyone—please introduce yourself here in the chat—name, organization if relevant, and if anything specific brought you here.

Greeting! I'm Shiori Oki, the Collections Care Specialist with Wendy Jessup and Associates, Inc. We are a small preventive conservation firm working around the Washington DC area.

Always here to think about what language we use and what the implications are.

Hello everyone, thanks for joining us for "Language & Terms".

Good morning!I'm Jason Wright from Ohio History Connection in Columbus.

Joanie DiMartino, Curator of the Prudence Crandall Museum in Canterbury, CT

Hi all! Michele Longo with Historic Alexandria in Alexandria, VA. Working on a language guide now to guide our department's work.

Kacey Page, Collections Manager at the Buffalo Museum in Science

@Michele Yay for a language guide! Been working on one too.

Good Morning! I’m Maddy McCoy from Slavery Inventory Database, Llc

https://www.ashleydstevens.com/archives-are-not-neutral

In the Lincoln assassination trial record, Black witnesses are labeled as “(colored)” after their names. White witnesses aren’t listed as “(white)” but just listed by their names. https://www.fords.org/blog/post/finding-black-witnesses-to-the-lincoln-assassination/

I’ve lived in the same square mile in Arlington, VA for the last 14 years. Used to live off of Lee Highway but now it’s Langston Blvd—a much more worthy name, in this case.

Yes--agreed!

Amen!

Resources are here: Margaret Middleton, "Family Inclusive Language" https://b033418d-11a7-49a3-bbde-c0d18406843d.filesusr.com/ugd/ae50a5_93212e2cea484ad9aa87d36b35b6557d.pdfTufts University, "DCA Statement on Potentially Harmful Language in Archival Description"https://dca.tufts.edu/about/policies/DCA-Statement-on-Potentially-Harmful-Language-in-Archival-DescriptionP. Gabrielle Foreman, "Writing About Slavery: This might help" https://docs.google.com/document/d/1A4TEdDgYslX-hlKezLodMIM71My3KTN0zxRv0IQTOQs/mobilebasic

also - check out the work of Oakland Museum of California’s work on the ways that registrars are changing their practice.

You can find the survey here:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd3ok1-tCYa2F9oNBwgpCiI8IKEenNrcabUuvnHsdte7ApjzA/viewform

THANK YOU!

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Thank you everyone!