By Keyanna James
History is at root “his story.” Someone must tell it and have it recorded for others to have access to it, share it and know it. The Ballard House Project held its “Gather for Community Conversations” July 28 as part of such a discovery.
Founded by Majella and Herschell Hamilton, The Ballard House Project has held several conversations in an effort to discover the history of the black community before the civil rights movement.
The project was formed to restore and renovate the Ballard House, built by an African-American physician in the 1940s, and to gather and educate the community about Birmingham’s early African-American history.The “Community Conversations” covered a wide variety of topics, Herschell Hamilton said: “conversations about early history in Birmingham, the early business community at the turn of the 20th century, the progress in African-American businesses, … the cuisine and the heritage of food and family gathering, and economic empowerment issues in the city of Birmingham.”
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