Endangered Slavery-Era Churches in Lexington USA: UNESCO World Heritage?

Following the powerful civic response of the historic Main Street Baptist Church of Lexington, Ky., to a proposed threat to her viability where located for the last 145 years, noted civil-rights attorney and First Amendment scholar Amos N. Jones presents context and ideas in this mini-documentary. Voice-overs are from his Sept. 22, 2017, invited Emergency Lecture held in Main Street Baptist's chapel building at Main and Jefferson. Answering an audience member's question about how we can leave for our children what our slave ancestors built and left for us, Jones recommends specific methods for preserving Main Street Baptist's historic location and its commodious campus, exploring UNESCO World Heritage designation to hedge against urban revitalization's tendency to expunge black historic sites. The next day, the African-American Trust for Historic Preservation vowed to avenge the other four church sites that could eventually be threatened. All five of the churches are introduced in the tour in this video, along with highlights of their historic significance. All five are, Jones explains, extant monuments to religious liberty, erected among a significant indigenous civilization unique in the world -- and against the greatest of odds. Jones and others oppose politicians' and developers' current efforts to raze these sites to make way for public recreation sites. The tour in this video was filmed on site on the morning of Saturday Sept. 23, 2017, and is presented publicly here, courtesy of the African-American Trust for Historic Preservation with videography by DMZ Productions of Richmond, Ky. Read more about the organized efforts and get involved via www.athp.us.

[@mercedes1115]

Thank you for this important message. It is well done and I hope viewers share the critical message.

[@virtualstuart]

Great job, Amos!

[@amosnjones]

Thanks!

[@darnellgreene8512]

Interesting...see you in the streets!

[@Borg1269]

The US just left UNESCO tho.

[@amosnjones]

The U.S. will return to UNESCO in due course.

[@amosnjones]

I called it:
apnews.com/article/us-rejoins-unesco-biden-china-ai-tech-d2a3d44ffe596e78168cd0933decbcbd