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By Jared D. Childress | OBSERVER Staff Writer - Sacramento's African American Experience History Project is a city initiative to codify the pivotal aspects of local Black history from 1839-1980 and recognize historic properties important to Black Sacramentans, including 12 historical resources eligible for listing in the Sacramento Register, and may support reparations efforts, school curriculum and future grant proposals.

Virna Canson, shown here in a Sacramento Bee photo from 1978, served as director of the NAACP’s Western Region, which covered nine states.