In Spring 2023, the National Women's History Museum partnered with a class at Miss Hall's School, an independent high school for girls in Massachusetts, to create a discussion guide for select sites featured in We Who Believe in Freedom: Black Feminist DC. The students thought about the legacy of these sites and shared their reflections and questions for further discussions with NWHM. This guide, created by students for students, provides reflections and discussion questions that can facilitate deeper thinking and exploration of how historic sites still impact Americans today. The guide centers on the question, "what is the legacy of a historic site?"

Please use this guide to further engage with historic sites related to significant Black feminist activists and events in early-to-mid-nineteenth-century Washington DC. Students will explore the period in DC history through our special online map, which features sites important to Black feminist history before emancipation (the freeing of enslaved people).