Anita Wills Contact Information

Writing, Lecturing, and Media Experience

2003 Scheduled for release - Band of Warriors: A Descendant Traces Her Roots, The African American Historical and Genealogical Society Journal, Sylvia Burris, Editor

July 3, 2003 Henrico County Citizen, From Henrico, Onward and Outward Hatchers and Lewises Among County’s Far-Flung Families, written by Anita Wills, Edited by Patty Kruszewski; http://www.henricocitizen.com/news/News_Item.2003-07-03.4135

April 23, 2003, Talk History Radio, The Roots of Racial Profiling; Commentary for University of Missouri Radio Program.

January 31 - February 6, 2002, Local Family's History Linked to Washington, Coatesville Ledger, Coatesville Pennsylvania, Bryan J. Robinson, Reporter.

December 23, 2002, History News Network; Racial Profiling: Then and Now, HNN Website,http://hnn.us/

February 3, 2002, Rooted In History, The Reading Eagle Times, Reading PA, Patrick Walters, Reporter.

October 16, 1999, presented article, Ambrose Lewis: Virginia's Son 1740-1834, Lyceum Museum Alexandria Virginia, as a participant in the 250th anniversary of Alexandria Virginia.

October 9, 1999 coordinated Event with the National Park Services to commemorate Indentured Servants, Mary & Patty Bowden of George Washington Birthplace.

September 30 1999 Coordinated event with Yorktown in which Native & Free Black Soldiers were commemorated. Presented lecture, titled Amherst Counties Multi Colored Militia, on Natives and African Americans who participated in the American Revolution, Colonial Yorktown Virginia.

October 10, 1999, Popes Creek Tribute, The Richmond Times Dispatch, Richmond VA, Kiran Krishnamurthy, Staff Writer.

October 2, 1999, A History In The Making, The Fredericksburg Freelance Star, Town & County, Fredericksburg VA, Gwenn Woolf, Editor.

Exhibit: Richmond Then And Now: http://thenandnow.bravepages.com/CharlesandAmbroseLewis.html

Guardians of the Past: A 20th-century Black Family Finds its Origins on a Washington Plantation: http://www.answerpoint.org/columns2.asp?column_id=395&column_type=feature

October 2002 - August 2003 Patriots Exhibit Constitution Hall, Washington DC; Exhibit features African and Native American Revolutionary War Soldiers, and includes documents from Anita Wills collection on Charles and Ambrose Lewis.