RCCP collaborated with the Raleigh City Museum to help fund and research their exhibit, "Sacred Spaces, Sacred Stories – The Story of Mount Hope." The exhibit used a QR code to access an audio tour we helped create for the cemetery. RCCP’s program for the exhibit opening featured historian Alan Welsh, who read his research of slave narratives for individuals interred at Mt. Hope Cemetery. The slave narratives were part of an oral history program in 1939 during the federal Works Progress Administration, under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. RCCP members were pleased to meet descendants of those interred at Mt. Hope who attended the event. We were grateful to Alan for his impressive research and participation in our May 2022 program.
