The African Americans in WNC and Southern Appalachia Conference illuminates the African American experience in Southern Appalachia including history, culture, community, and enterprise. Now in its 8th year, the conference seeks to eradicate incomplete and false narratives about African Americans in this region, while creating new possibilities for the future.
In this way, the Conference will continue to be a community-wide effort in making the invisible histories of African Americans, and other historically minoritized highlanders—visible—and it has grown to encompass the living histories and mutable futures of our vital community here in WNC.
We are glad and honored that you have chosen to join us, and believe that you will leave with a greater understanding and appreciation for the tremendous legacy and future of empowerment within the African American experience in our region.