  {"id":527,"date":"2025-04-11T13:26:20","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T17:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/academics\/undergraduate-programs\/history\/?p=527"},"modified":"2025-04-11T13:26:20","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T17:26:20","slug":"history-professor-presents-with-student-and-staff-at-cic-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/academics\/undergraduate-programs\/history\/2025\/04\/11\/history-professor-presents-with-student-and-staff-at-cic-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"History Professor Presents with Student and Staff at CIC Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past year, Dr. Johnson worked on a multi-faceted public history project Living for the City, as part of his research funded by the Council of Independent Colleges\u2019 Humanities for the Public Good grant. Living for the City helps tell the story of Monumental Baptist Church and its decades-long partnership with Âé¶¹´«Ã½AVPeter\u2019s University. As part of the project, students Jamie Troutman and Esther Conteh worked with Dr. Johnson and university archivist Mary Kinahan-Ockay to rediscover the Black luminaries who spoke at SPC during the 1960s and 1970s. Their research culminated in the presentation \u201cEcumenical Loyalties: Reading the Luminaries of the Black Freedom Movement at Âé¶¹´«Ã½AVPeter\u2019s College,\u201d which premiered during the campus\u2019s Black History Month celebrations last year and was presented at the CIC Conference in Baltimore, MD.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/37\/files\/2025\/04\/April2022_CICConference_photo-347x260.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"347\" height=\"260\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-526 alignleft\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/37\/files\/2025\/04\/April2022_CICConference_photo-347x260.jpeg 347w, https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/37\/files\/2025\/04\/April2022_CICConference_photo-714x536.jpeg 714w, https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/37\/files\/2025\/04\/April2022_CICConference_photo-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/37\/files\/2025\/04\/April2022_CICConference_photo-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/37\/files\/2025\/04\/April2022_CICConference_photo-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/37\/files\/2025\/04\/April2022_CICConference_photo-120x90.jpeg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 347px) 100vw, 347px\" \/>Pictured are Jamie Troutman \u201925, Dr. John Johnson, university archivist Mary Kinahan-Ockay, and Emory Edwards Senior Director of Partnerships and Institutional Relations in the Office of Advancement and External Affairs, on their way to the Council of Independent Colleges Conference in Baltimore, MD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past year, Dr. Johnson worked on a multi-faceted public history project Living for the City, as part of his research funded by the Council of Independent Colleges\u2019 Humanities for the Public Good grant. Living for the City helps tell the story of Monumental Baptist Church and its decades-long partnership with Âé¶¹´«Ã½AVPeter\u2019s University. 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