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Description: "Mission: While We Are Still Here (WWSH) ensures that the “post-gentrification” community of Harlem and beyond will honor and find a meaningful connection to the legacy of African American achievement, and its paramount importance to world culture; Objective: To create lasting tributes to the movers and shakers of Edgecombe Avenue and beyond by erecting, publishing, and presenting: a monument, a book, and a series of public events. WWSH will also collect oral histories; Vision: Will educate, enshrine, and preserve the extraordinary legacy of two historical landmark buildings [409 & 555 Edgecombe Avenue] that were vital to the intellectual, cultural, social, and political advancements of the Harlem community and the African Diaspora."
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Subject: Historic buildings--Conservation and restoration, Historic preservation
Group: Historic preservation
Creator: While We Are Still Here (Organization: New York, N.Y.)
Coverage: New York (N.Y.) , Harlem (New York, N.Y.)
Borough: Manhattan
Collector: Columbia University Libraries, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library
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