Pocahontas Island black history museum Preservation Project & Documentary

The middle school students of Cultural Roots Homeschool Cooperative spent the Fall semester of 2020 creating a short film about the life and work of Mr. Richard Stewart and the Pocahontas Island Museum in Petersburg, Virginia. We first met Mr. Stewart in early 2019 when he gave our co-op a hands-on tour of this amazing museum which is home to hundreds of primary source documents and artifacts regarding Black history.

The students hope this film will encourage viewers to donate to the important work of preserving Pocahontas Island and the irreplaceable legacy of the documents and artifacts collected by Mr. Stewart throughout the years.

Our co-op has a fundraising goal of $3000 until 02/13/2019 for the museum.
To donate: https://paypal.me/pools/c/8w3Dto3zsc

CREDITS:
Malachi, Jordan, Kennedy, Elia, Noa, Jameelah, and Yasir
Special thanks to our instructor- Ariana Hamidi of MicroMovies

Video of our Middle Schoolers on MLK Day documentary fundraising kick-off, showing their gratitude for Mr. Stewart and all of his work to preserve Black history.