The Uzuri Project

Welcome to the official website of P.H.O.E.B.E/The Uzuri Project ~ A Black History Community Program of Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas.

P.H.O.E.B.E. began The Uzuri Project was founded in 1997 as a temporary Black history project about African Americans in the Hot Springs community. Six Hot Springs citizens began to accumulate the photographs and oral histories; It was evident that the records had to go on permanent display. Now The Uzuri Project is a continuing endeavor within P.H.O.E.B.E. including over 400 donated photographs, artifacts and documents.

Mission Statement

Through the preservation of African American heritage and cultural resources create economic and community development in Hot Springs National Park (Garland County), Arkansas.

The Uzuri Project (oo zoo ree, Swahili for beauty) is A Black History Community Program and was created to help fulfill the mission of P.H.O.E.B.E. by identifying, collecting, documenting, recording, interpreting, displaying, researching and preserving cultural and historic resources relevant to the African American experience.

Vision Statement

Through its interpretive program, archival collections and filming of oral histories, intergenerational researches, historians P.HO.E.B.E./The Uzuri Project seeks to create an understanding of the past and preserve the history, space and the buildings, of African Americans in Hot Springs National Park/Garland County, Arkansas. It is the desire of P.H.O.E.B.E. to partner with other organizations of the community for the restoration of the neighborhood including the Pleasant Street Historic District for a livable neighborhood and the development of a museum/gallery to house the archival memorabilia collected.

The Uzuri Project "REMEMBER WHEN" a film series of oral histories view here

The Uzuri Project KING TEAM, view KT Presentation

Partnerships

The Emma Elease Webb Community Center

The Arkansas-Chicago Connection

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

Arkansas African American Preservation Alliance

National Association of Black Storytellers

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