Professor Fiona Vernal’s Oral History Exhibition “Bloomfield Mosaic: Stories from our Jewish, African American, and West Indian Communities” Opens at Alvin and Beatrice Wood Human Services Center

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Fiona Vernal, Associate Professor of History and Africana Studies and Associate Director of the Africana Studies Institute, and graduate student Tim Brown, with the help of community volunteers recorded oral histories and digitized photos that were used to curate the exhibit. The work for the exhibit began in 2023, and builds upon Professor Vernal’s local history work in CT towns including Hartford, Windsor, and Enfield. UConn Today has written an in-depth article on the project and what it means to the communities whose stories are being told.

Full article here