A Proud Heritage | Sharon Buck & Beverly Mills | TEDxHopewellValleySchoolWomen

Beverly Mills and business partner, Elaine Buck, received an unexpected call for help that turned into a foray into historic preservation work to connect African American history to local and national history. Their mission has been to work with educators to build a curriculum to remedy historical omissions as well as to acknowledge and correct how miseducation directly impacts and continues to shape our future. Sharon Elaine Buck, who prefers to be called Elaine, is a founder of Stoutsburg Sourland African American Museum and a member of the Advisory Board. Elaine is also a thirty-year Trustee of the Stoutsburg Cemetery Association which is a historic cemetery for people of African descent located in the Sourland Mountains in Hopewell, New Jersey. Along with her research partner, Beverly Mills, Elaine has co-authored a book entitled “If These Stones Could Talk” which is based on over a decade’s worth of research on the contribution of African Americans who lived in the Sourland Mountain region and surrounding area. She is a co-founder of Friday Truehart Consultants which is a consulting company that works closely with K-12 educators from various school systems who are interested in including African American history in their lesson plans and curriculum.
Elaine has been married to John Buck for over forty years and is the mother of two adult sons, Aaron and Jason.

Beverly Mills is a retiree as the Director for the Workforce Development Board in Mercer County, New Jersey. Beverly is a founder of the Stoutsburg Sourland African American Museum and a member of the Advisory Board and a Trustee of the Stoutsburg Cemetery. Along with her colleague, Elaine Buck, Beverly was instrumental in forming a partnership, named the Sankofa Collaborative; an initiative created to ensure that material and resources that relate to African American history are accessible statewide to a broader and more diverse audience.
Beverly is the first African American woman to hold the elected position as a Councilwoman in Pennington Borough, NJ. Her past affiliations include Trustee on the board of Ellarslie.
Beverly currently lives in her ancestral home in Pennington with her husband Robert Mills to whom she has been married for forty-five years. She is also the mother of two adult sons, Jason and Drew, and the grandmother of five. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

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