Current Initiatives
BAAC to the FUTURE by way of the PAST
The Dinah Robinson Courtyard
Memorial Stone at Laurel Hill Cemetery to remember African Americans buried there with no or destroyed markers.
The Black Ancestors Awareness Campaign of Weston
The Black Ancestors Awareness Campaign is a standing committee of the Weston Historical Museum
VISION
To increase visibility in permanent exhibits, changing galleries, archives, and yearlong programming honoring Weston’s Black history and an annual Juneteenth Jubilee to enhance the value, legacy, and charm of historic Weston.
MISSION
To recognize, honor, and promote the lives and contributions of Weston’s resilient Black community, whose labor, talent, and industry resonate in historic Weston to this day.
GUIDING PRINCIPLES
To say names, tell the stories, and meticulously excavate Weston’s Black lineage from obscurity, respectfully honor and reintroduce their lives and histories back into historic Weston.
CHARTER MEMBERS
Angela Hagenbach, Marilyn Carpenter, Rebecca Ehrich, Phyllis Becker, Sally Gaskill, Joyce Johnson
BAAC to the FUTURE by way of the PAST
Contact:
Weston Black – Baac1837@gmail.com
Black Ancestors Awareness Campaign of Weston
526 Main Street
Weston, MO 64098
On March 17, 2022, a group of BAAC supporters communed with the ancestors at the Black Ancestor Monument at Laurel Hill Cemetery— to choose 26 names to be memorialized in brick at the Dinah Robinson Courtyard. Sponsors paid for bricks and requested that the BAAC choose names from the stone to memorialize.