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Listen & Learn: Biddy Mason & Black L.A.

ABOUT THE EVENT Her story sounds almost too remarkable to be true. Biddy Mason was an enslaved African American woman who, in 1856, won her freedom in one of the largest “freedom suits” the U.S. had ever seen. Biddy went on to work as a midwife; within ten years, she had saved enough money to start buying real estate. By the time she died in 1891, she was not only one of the wealthiest women West of the Mississippi, she was also well-known and loved as a healer, a philanthropist, and a hero of LA’s black community. You’d think Biddy Mason’s story would be taught in every California classroom, that her memory would be etched throughout the built landscapes of Southern California. And yet. Biddy's memory has basically been erased from the built environment. That’s why, in this season of the Urban Roots podcast, we dedicated two whole episodes to Biddy Mason. We feature folks from the Biddy Mason Collaborative — project co-directors Professor Sarah Barringer Gordon (UPenn) and Dr. Kevin Waite (Durham University), Jackie Broxton from the Biddy Mason Charitable Foundation, and architectural historian Laura Voisin George — who are working together to keep Biddy Mason’s memory alive. During this virtual Q&A, you’ll get to hear directly from these organizers and historians, go behind the scenes of the podcast, and dive even deeper into Los Angeles’ little-known African American history. PARTICIPANTS Jackie Broxton (Panelist) is a Los Angeles native and serves as the Executive Director of the Biddy Mason Charitable Foundation, which provides services and support to current and former foster youth in Los Angeles County. She is also a 40-year member of First AME Church, where she has served in a variety of leadership positions, a Community Outreach Director for the Long Journey to Freedom, an international research project examining the life of Biddy Mason, and a playwright — she is currently completing a series of six, one act plays featuring Biddy Mason and other early Los Angeles settlers. Laura Voisin George (Panelist) is a Ph.D. candidate in History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her work explores Southerners' antebellum efforts to transplant U.S. sectional struggles to post-conquest California. She is a graduate student member of the Historical Society of Southern California's board of directors. Laura is also an architectural historian and works for ASM Affiliates, a cultural resources management firm with offices throughout the Western and Pacific U.S. Sarah Barringer Gordon (Panelist) is the Arlin M. Adams Professor of Constitutional Law and Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. She is best known for her work on religion in American public life, and has been a commentator and/or contributor to news outlets, a participant in litigation and amicus filings at the Supreme Court, and is the author of two books and more than a dozen scholarly articles. She is the co-founder of the Biddy Mason Collaborative and is currently working on a symposium issue of the Journal of the Early Republic, which will feature the first scholarly study of Biddy Mason’s freedom suit and its place in California and American history, co-authored with Kevin Waite. Ken Bernstein (Special Guest) will also be joining us. He is the Principal City Planner at the City of Los Angeles, author of Preserving Los Angeles: How Historic Places Can Transform America's Cities, and member of the Getty Conservation Institute's Los Angeles African American Historic Places Project. Vanessa M. Quirk (Moderator) is a journalist who writes and speaks about cities’ past, present, and future. She’s the co-host of Urban Roots, which tells little-known stories from urban history; Uncertain Things, a long-form interview show for our uncertain times; and City of the Future, about the ideas and innovations that will transform cities. Deqah Hussein-Wetzel (Audience Moderator) is a historic preservationist based in Cincinnati. She is the founder of Urbanist Media — an anti-racist community preservation not-for-profit — and the Urban Roots podcast, which both share the same mission: to elevate underrepresented voices and help preserve the places significant to them. Find Urban Roots wherever you listen to podcasts (Apple, Stitcher, Spotify, Pocket Casts, etc).