Dorris Keeven-Franke
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Dorris Keeven-Franke is an award-winning author and International speaker. As a public historian, professional genealogist, and lifelong resident of Missouri, she loves to share the history of her state's earliest residents. She has authored numerous books, articles, blogs, videos and her forthcoming book is the biography of Archer Alexander, a freedom seeker whose burial site is listed on the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom. Alexander had overheard Confederates plotting to destroy the local railroad bridge, informed the Union troops, and then fled for his life, taking sixteen other freedom seekers with him on the Underground Railroad. Alexander is the avatar for Emancipation, forever memorialized representing all the enslaved with President Lincoln on the Emancipation Memorial, erected by the formerly enslaved in Washington, D.C.'s Lincoln Park.
A member of the Missouri Speakers Bureau, sponsored by the Missouri Humanities and the State Historical Society of Missouri, her programs include Archer Alexander and the Underground Railroad and The Boone's Lick Road. She is President of Missouri's Boone's Lick Road Association. As Executive Director of Missouri Germans Consortium, her current project is to preserve the story of Missouri's German Heritage and promote the cross-cultural history of German Americans with African Americans. She is President Emeritus of the German American Committee, an umbrella organization of all St. Louis German organizations. As U.S. contact and curator for the International traveling exhibition UTOPIA-Revisiting a German State in America, she promoted the history of German American immigrants to Missouri in the early 19th Century. For that work she has been awarded the prestigious German American Friendship Award from the Federal Republic of Germany.
A member of the Missouri Speakers Bureau, sponsored by the Missouri Humanities and the State Historical Society of Missouri, her programs include Archer Alexander and the Underground Railroad and The Boone's Lick Road. She is President of Missouri's Boone's Lick Road Association. As Executive Director of Missouri Germans Consortium, her current project is to preserve the story of Missouri's German Heritage and promote the cross-cultural history of German Americans with African Americans. She is President Emeritus of the German American Committee, an umbrella organization of all St. Louis German organizations. As U.S. contact and curator for the International traveling exhibition UTOPIA-Revisiting a German State in America, she promoted the history of German American immigrants to Missouri in the early 19th Century. For that work she has been awarded the prestigious German American Friendship Award from the Federal Republic of Germany.
Dorris Keeven-Franke is an award-winning author and International speaker. As a public historian, professional genealogist, and lifelong resident of Missouri, she loves to share the history of her state's earliest residents. She has authored numerous books, articles, blogs, videos and her forthcoming book is the biography of Archer Alexander, a freedom seeker whose burial site is listed on the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom. Alexander had overheard Confederates plotting to destroy the local railroad bridge, informed the Union troops, and then fled for his life, taking sixteen other freedom seekers with him on the Underground Railroad. Alexander is the avatar for Emancipation, forever memorialized representing all the enslaved with President Lincoln on the Emancipation Memorial, erected by the formerly enslaved in Washington, D.C.'s Lincoln Park.
A member of the Missouri Speakers Bureau, sponsored by the Missouri Humanities and the State Historical Society of Missouri, her programs include Archer Alexander and the Underground Railroad and The Boone's Lick Road. She is President of Missouri's Boone's Lick Road Association. As Executive Director of Missouri Germans Consortium, her current project is to preserve the story of Missouri's German Heritage and promote the cross-cultural history of German Americans with African Americans. She is President Emeritus of the German American Committee, an umbrella organization of all St. Louis German organizations. As U.S. contact and curator for the International traveling exhibition UTOPIA-Revisiting a German State in America, she promoted the history of German American immigrants to Missouri in the early 19th Century. For that work she has been awarded the prestigious German American Friendship Award from the Federal Republic of Germany.
A member of the Missouri Speakers Bureau, sponsored by the Missouri Humanities and the State Historical Society of Missouri, her programs include Archer Alexander and the Underground Railroad and The Boone's Lick Road. She is President of Missouri's Boone's Lick Road Association. As Executive Director of Missouri Germans Consortium, her current project is to preserve the story of Missouri's German Heritage and promote the cross-cultural history of German Americans with African Americans. She is President Emeritus of the German American Committee, an umbrella organization of all St. Louis German organizations. As U.S. contact and curator for the International traveling exhibition UTOPIA-Revisiting a German State in America, she promoted the history of German American immigrants to Missouri in the early 19th Century. For that work she has been awarded the prestigious German American Friendship Award from the Federal Republic of Germany.
