People In Iron & Steel: "The African American Experience"
In partnership with Hopewell National Historic Site, we present our inaugural Black
History Month lecture, "The African American Experience". This lecture is
presented by Frances Delmar, Chief of Interpretation at Hopewell Furnace National
Historic Site.
In 2009 park staff began mining records to reconstruct the story of the African
American experience at Hopewell. As the work progressed a fascinating and unusual
picture emerged of race relations in this rural settlement.