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Thursday, 25th October 2007 (2043 views)

A new museum is set to re-examine the role black Americans played in the nation's gold rush, it has been reported.

Sylvia Alden Roberts, an author who has written on the history of the relationship between African Americans and the gold rush, is planning to open The Sugg-McDonald Museum and Research Center Project, reports the Union Democrat.

Roberts reportedly commenced her research into black involvement in the search for US gold in 1992 - research that eventually led to her writing a book entitled Mining for Freedom: Black History Meets the California Gold Rush, intended for self-publication and sale in time for Black History Month.

She told the news provider: "If we can get the doors to this museum open, think of the things that will have happened, and that can happen.

"An entire cultural history will have been elevated out of the shadows."

In related news, it has been reported by ABC Ballarat that a new memorandum of understanding has been signed by chief executive officers of the Sovereign Hill Museums Association and Kirrit Barreet Aboriginal Art and Cultural Centre pledging that more attention will be given to the role Australia's indigenous peoples played in the country's gold rush.

 

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