Brooklyn College Students' TENTS Project

08/14/2019

The Tents collaborations continue! Dr. Britt co-wrote a wonderful essay on the TENTS with Essie Gregory. Please read and share.

Urban archeologist Kelly M. Britt and United Order of Tents member Essie E. Gregory tell the history and plan the future of the United States' first fraternal order for Black women.

06/07/2019

I was able to visit the inside of the Tents house this week to discuss ongoing support and partnership. Thank you to my for paving the way.

05/15/2019

Brooklyn College Dr. Kelly M. Britt is organizing a field school based on the Bed Stuy TENTS this summer. Sign up/Spread the word.

05/01/2019

Students created this fabulous trailer of our class site visit to the TENTS home in Spring 2019.

We are a group of 12 Brooklyn College students led by Dr. Robyn C. Spencer, visiting endowed chair of Women and Gender Studies and author of The Revolution H...

04/18/2019

Essie Gregory from the United Order of TENTS will be a featured speaker at our event on April 30, 2019 at 2:15.

04/11/2019

04/11/2019

On March 28, 2019 students in Prof. Spencer's WGST 3350/POLS 3157 class visited Bed Stuy to see the TENTS house in person. We heard from neighborhood residents Safiya Bandele, who shared her history with the house and the organization as well Prof. Kelly Britt, Brooklyn College Professor of Urban Archaeology. We observed a young man hop the fence and check out the house and noted that the mailbox had real estate solicitations. The TENTS house draws interest and attention. The TENTS organization is carefully stewarded by dedicated members. We have to act to ensure that this organization's history of community uplift and development will be preserved.

04/10/2019

Learn more about the TENTS in Brooklyn on April 30, 2019 at Brooklyn College.

In this Research Expo, Brooklyn College students and faculty will report back on their collaboration with the Brooklyn-based organization The United Order of Tents. The Tents is a benevolent organization founded in 1867 by Annetta M. Lane and Harriett R. Taylor, two formerly enslaved black women. It...