African Scientific Research Institute

Phone: (312) 505-4784

Emails: asri@asrip.org 

Event Organizer: Bishop Michael Green 

Greater Faith World Outreach Ministry

Phone: 816-377-3489

Email: bishopmlgreen@gmail.com

PRESS RELEASE

ASRI Restores Community Integrity from the African American Experience 

Through the restoration of “time capsules” found in historic enslaved burial grounds throughout the Mississippi River Delta basin, the African Scientific Research Institute launches its first sustainable eco-tourist attraction in and around Sikeston/ Haiti, MO.

• Southeast Missouri Delta Heritage Project identifies crucial first site for tourism initiative “Lincoln Junior High School” Targeted for memorialization through the National Register for Historic Preservation
• Preserves first-generation African Progenitor’s cultural history and sacred burial grounds in all regions throughout the Bootheel of Missouri

DATE: September 3rd-4th, 2022, Sikeston, MO –  A Day of Jubilee Celebrations,

The African Scientific Research Institute (ASRI) is poised to launch its first tourist destination highlighting the historically significant African American experience through the restoration of slave burial sites historic Places and Things.   The Southeast Missouri (SEMO) Delta Heritage Project will be located in rural areas of beautiful lush agricultural fields between Hayti Heights and Sikeston, Missouri. ASRI aims to develop a thriving tourist destination by capitalizing on the people and resources that have been in the area for generations. 

To jumpstart this important initiative, ASRI initiates the 2022 Jubilee celebration entitled “The Great Awakening,” a National Trust Historic Preservation-sponsored project. Lincoln Jr. High School’s eligibility for nomination to the National Register for its significant status in the community’s prosperity will be held in Sikeston, MO. ASRI is partnering with several academic institutions; Lincoln University (LU) (HBCU), College of Agriculture, Environmental and Human Sciences, Southeast Missouri State University (SEMO), History Department,  “Bollinger Center Region History”, Institute for Historical Biology at Williamsburg, VA William and Mary College (WM), for this occasion. The Jubilee is designed to identify future policy as well as economic issues that will impact project outcomes and to encourage dialogue between scholars, citizens, elected officials and students from nearby academic institutions regarding project strategies and best practices.

The SEMO Delta Heritage Project will capitalize upon the expressed interests of the residents to energize and restore the Sunset Addition, African American community in Scott County, Missouri to its former glory and invite tourists to see and experience the culture and history that is often forgotten and perilously close to extinction. This rendezvous will convene the progeny of many men and women who has represented the dreams and aspirations of the past.