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determined as outstanding universal value and added to the World Heritage List. (“Nomination Process,”

2019).

These procedures for World Heritage are generally out of the control of many of the organizations that

currently are supporting and advocating for the restoration of the Freeman Houses. However, critical

information can be gathered to smooth the way into the inclusion into the Tentative List which would help

launch the site into the view of the State, namely, the U.S. Department of the Interior. Currently, at the time of

this proposal, there are twenty sites on the tentative list in the United States, submitted by the U.S. Department

of the Interior. Many of these reflect similar values that the Freeman Houses demonstrate. In 2008, the U.S.

Department of the Interior

submitted “Civil Rights

Movement Sites,” which

highlights specifically three

churches in Montgomery and

Birmingham, Alabama which

were significant to the Civil

Rights Movement of African

Americans in the 1960s. This

proposal also highlights the

significance of othersites in the

United States relating to the

movement that should also be

recognized as potential for
“Tentative List Submission Format” – photo from UNESCO
World Heritage (“Civil Rights

Movement Sites,” 2019).UNESCO provides a format for the inclusion into the Tentative List, which is

demonstrated in the image below (“Tentative Lists,” 2019). Further examples of submissions on the tentative

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