Voices Heard

The Voices Heard project is a collection of African American oral histories about life in Lewes in the last half of the 20th-century. The footage below was collected in 2022 and is a full transcription of the thoughts, emotions, and opinions of members of the community who lived through the changing racial and cultural landscape before, during, and after the Civil Rights Movement.

A new exhibition opened in 2024 as a companion to these interviews, entitled Voices Heard: The History & Legacy of the Black Community in Lewes. It is on display at the Lewes History Museum until the end of 2024 and will afterward be available as a traveling exhibition.