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On August 25, 2019, parks, partners, and sites across the country gathered to remember the landing of the first enslaved Africans in English-occupied North America 400 years ago at Point Comfort in Hampton, Virginia. The anniversary was commemorated at Fort Monroe and nationwide as a day of healing and reconciliation. Fort Monroe National Monument and its partners invited parks and community organizations across the country to come together in solidarity to ring bells simultaneously for four minutes—one for each century—to remember the first Africans who were brought in bondage to American shores in 1619 and to honor 400 years of African American history.

The J.E.W.L. Oral History Learning Institute & Museum at Evergreen Valley College participated in the nationwide bell ringing with an event on campus.