Black Women Exhibit

Project Details

Sema Hadithi Foundation researches preserves and presents the stories of Blacks in Utah. These stories date as far back as 1822. It features the outstanding work of the Buffalo Soldier Working Group. Much of the heavy lifting of Sema Hadithi is performed by working groups. They do the research, the correlation of data and documents, and even the presentation of findings. These women and men meet as independent teams to plan and implement their visions. This freedom allows them the chance to think out of the box and to reach far and wide in their efforts to discover, analyze, and correlate the documents, artifacts, images, and stories they find. They have produced amazing work.

Tiffany Greene, Rachel Quist, and Adrienne Scott-Ellis present their research in The Black Women Working Group. Their work on social and support clubs created by Black women in Ogden and Salt Lake City has been exceptional. These clubs provided education, companionship, and income opportunities for Black women as far back as the late 1800s. Their work included research on Emancipation Celebrations. , commonly known as Juneteenth today, from as far back as 1897. They researched the community and political leader Alberta Henry and other high-profile individuals.

Easily Sema Hadithi Foundation's most successful working group. Each quarter they report new and exciting discoveries. They have several exciting projects and research in the works for 2022. The Utah community will get the chance to share in these discoveries through exhibitions, lectures, and community conversations.

The women researched were icons of strength and sacrifice. Mothers, teachers, beauty queens, activists, nurses, cheerleaders, and prayer warriors stood as pillars to the community. If wives and mothers are the strength that holds communities together, then these pioneering women are the epitome of womanhood.

The Black Women Working Group logs many hours of research. The foundation hopes to use that research to create an educational toolkit containing books, posters, pencils, trading cards, stickers, pins, bookmarkers, activity sheets, and coloring books.