We invite the public to join us on February 8 from 6 to 8 pm in the Cordingley Room as we celebrate Black History Month with our annual Black Heritage Evening. Our keynote speaker this year is Kate Hampton, Community Preservation Coordinator with the Montana Historical Society, who will speak about her documentary “Hidden Stories: Montana’s Black Past.”
An offering of soul food will be served, and the Alexander Temple Saints Dancers, the Community Gospel Choir and other local speakers will join the program, also. This is an event co-hosted by the Alma Smith Jacobs Foundation.
In 2005, Hampton, with the Montana Historical Society and the State Historic Preservation Office initiated Montana’s African American Heritage Resources Project. Its goals were to begin compiling and dis tributing resources on Montana’s African American history from the MHS’s collections and SHPO’s historic preservation inventories.
Others presenting include Great Falls Mayor Cory Reeves, Kathy Reed, friend and neighbor of Alma Smith Jacobs, area historian Ken Robison, and Bishop Marcus Collins from the Church of God in Christ.
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