Landslide 2024

The Cultural Landscape Foundation

Landslide 2024: Demonstration Grounds is the latest annual, thematic report and digital exhibition in The Cultural Landscape Foundation’s ongoing series, which began in 2004. However, this is the first time the program has not focused on threatened landscapes and landscape features. Instead, attention is directed at thirteen sites across the country that have hosted significant protests; the protests are at the risk of being forgotten. These events focused on Civil Rights, Native American rights, gay rights, Chicano rights, disability rights, urban renewal, anti-Vietnam War activism, sovereignty, self-determination, and fair representation. The stories associated with each are illuminating and inspiring, yet many are at-risk of fading from public memory.

Public protests have been integral to American history since the Colonial era and continue to the present day on campuses, at political conventions, public parks, and elsewhere. Some historic marches, sit-ins, and other actions such as the Selma to Montgomery March in 1965 are enshrined in our collective narrative, while others have faded from memory; however, the cultural landscapes that served as stages where these events occurred still exist. These places are the focus of Landslide 2024: Demonstration Grounds and a portal for re-engaging with the stories of now lesser- or little-known and even forgotten events that were pivotal in the nation’s history. The thirteen different sites across the country represented in Landslide 2024: Demonstration Grounds touch on events that shaped individuals and sparked movements.