Centennial
Annual Meeting
and Conference
Academic Program Journal
A Century of Black Life History and Culture
September 23-27, 2015
Sheraton Hotel Downtown • Atlanta, Georgia
www.asalh.org
Association for the Study of
African American Life and History
2016 Call for Papers
Hallowed Grounds:
Sites of African American Memory
101st Annual Conference and Meeting
October 4 – 9, 2016
Richmond Marriott, 500 East Broad Street
Richmond, VA 23219
The history of African American unfolds across the canvass of America, beginning before the arrival of the
Mayflower and continuing to the present. From port cities where Africans disembarked from slave ships to the
battle fields where their descendants fought for freedom, from the colleges and universities where they have
pursued education, to places where they created communities during centuries of migration, the imprint of
Americans of African descent is deeply embedded in the narrative of the American past, insert comma and the
sites prompt us to remember. Over time, many of these sites of African American memory became hallowed
grounds.
One cannot tell the story of America without preserving and reflecting on the places where African Americans
have made history. The Kingsley Plantation, DuSable’s home site, the numerous stops along the Underground
Railroad, Seneca Village, Mother Bethel A.M.E. Church and Frederick Douglass’ home — to name just a few
— are sites that keep alive the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in our consciousness. They retain and
refresh the memories of our forbearers’ struggles for freedom, justice, and God’s grace and mercy. Similarly,
the hallowed grounds of Mary McLeod Bethune’s home in Washington, 125th Street in Harlem, Beale Street in
Memphis, and Sweet Auburn Avenue in Atlanta tell the story of our struggle for equal citizenship during the
American century.
The National Park Service (NPS) takes responsibility for preserving and teaching about the places that have been
central in the making of African American memory. Virtually every aspect of our experience has become part
and parcel of the NPS mission, including the home of our founder, Carter G. Woodson. ASALH joins the National
Park Service in celebrating a century of preserving the hallowed grounds of African Americans and all Americans.
Deadline for submission of proposals is as follows:
Individual papers deadline is March 1, 2016; early bird panel deadline is March 15th and the panel session
deadline is March 30th.
All proposals must be submitted electronically to ASALH through the All Academic online system at http://
www.asalh.org/callforpapers.html. For complete panels that are submitted by March 15, 2016, day and
time preferences will be given on a first come first served basis. Please refer to the FAQ page for important
information on what constitutes a complete panel on https://asalh100.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/2015-asalhfrequently-asked-questions-guide-winter-2015.pdf. Consider submitting one of the following types of proposals:
full panel, conference roundtable, conference workshops, film sessions, or poster session (undergraduates).
Proposals should include title of the paper or panel, author(s) and affiliation(s), an abstract of paper or panel of
200-250 words, and all contact information. Only panel proposal submitters will receive complimentary audio/
visual equipment on a first come first served basis.
For information on how to make electronic submissions, visit http://asalh100.org/call-for-papers-2015/, and visit
the FAQ page for important information regarding submissions.
All participants must be members by April 2, 2016 and registered for the conference by July 3, 2016.
There are no refunds for membership dues and none for registration fees after August 3, 2016.
Association for the Study of African-American Life and History
Centennial Annual Meeting and Conference
September 23 - 27, 2015
Sher aton Hotel Downtown •Atlanta, Georgia
TABLE OF CONTENTS
2016 Call For Papers
2
Conference Schedule At-A-Glance 4
2015 Authors Book Signing
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2015 Asalh Centennial Conference Tours
8
Film Festival
10
2015 Convention Exhibitors & Marketplace
14
Menus15
Participant Index
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Session Index
Wednesday, September 23, 2015
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Thursday, September 24, 2015
27
Friday, September 25, 2015
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Saturday, September 26, 2015
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Sunday, September 27, 2015
Convention/Hotel Map
ASALH is Social
Live tweet with us
using the hashtag #ASALH2015
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at ASALH Annual Convention
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Conference Schedule At-A-Glance
Wednesday, September 23, 2015
Pre-Registration
7:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Rotunda Registration Office
On-site Registration
Georgia Registration Office
Pre-Conference African American Heritage Bus Tour 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
International Blvd. Portico
(bus departure area) Level 1
ASALH Executive Council Meeting
(Members Welcome)
10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Georgia 5 & 6
Special Session: National Park Service Forum Commemorating the Reconstruction Era and
Civil Rights: The National Park Service’s Call
to action in its Second Century 4:30 p.m. – 6:30:00 p.m.
Capitol Ballroom North
Opening Reception
5:30 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.
Atlanta History Center
Academic Program Committee Meeting
9:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m.
Georgia 6
Pre-Registration
7:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Rotunda Registration Office
On-site Registration
7:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Georgia Registration Office
Thursday, September 24, 2015
African American Heritage Bus Tour 7:00 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.
International Blvd. Portico
(bus departure area)
Level 1
Teachers’ Workshop
8:30 a.m. - 3:50 p.m.
Georgia 13
Session I
8:30 a.m. - 9:50 a.m.
Various
Session II
10:00 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.
Various
Educators Luncheon 12 noon - 1:45 p.m.
Keynote Speaker: Sonia Sanchez
Capitol Ballrooms Center
& South
Exhibit Area Open
12 noon - 9:00 p.m
Georgia 7, 8 &
Pre-Function Area
Brown Bag Lunch Sessions
12 noon - 1:45 p.m.
Various
Session III
2:00 p.m. - 3:50 p.m.
Georgia 13
4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Georgia 2
5:30 p.m. – 9:45 p.m.
Georgia 13
Plenary Session I: The Scholarship, Activism and Institutional Work of V.P. Franklin
Chair: Derrick Alridge
Featuring: Mary Frances Berry, Sundiata Kieta Cha-Jua,
Pero Dagbovie, James Stewart
5:45 p.m. - 7:45 p.m.
Capitol Ballroom North
Authors’ Book Signing
7:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.
Capitol Pre-Function Area
Evening Sessions
8:00 p.m. – 9:50 p.m.
Various
ASALH Business Meeting
Film Festival
Celebrating the Centennial Volume of the 9:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m.
Journal of African American History (JAAH)
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Capitol Ballrooms Center
& South
Conference Schedule At-A-Glance
Friday, September 25, 2015
Pre-Registration
7:30 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Rotunda Registration Office
On-site Registration
7:30 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Georgia Registration Office
2016 Conference Planning Meeting
8:00 a.m.
Conference Room 131
Exhibit Area Open
8:00 a.m. - 6:30 p.m.
Georgia 7, 8 & Pre-Function Area
Film Festival
8:00 a.m. - 10:15 p.m.
Georgia 13
Session I
8:30 a.m. - 9:50 a.m.
Various
Youth Day
9:00 a.m. - 12 noon
North Atlanta High School
Session II
10:00 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.
Various
Carter G. Woodson Luncheon
Keynote Speaker: Lonnie Bunch
12 noon - 1:45 p.m.
Capitol Center North/Center
Brown Bag Lunch Sessions
12 noon - 1:45 p.m.
Various
Session III
2:00 p.m. - 3:50 p.m.
Various
ASALH Awards Program
4:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Atlanta 1
Plenary Session II: Who Stole the Soul? 4:45 p.m. - 6:45 p.m.
Black Music and the Struggle for Empowerment in the Twentieth Century
Chair: Fanon Che Wilkins
Featuring: Michelle R. Scott, Scot Brown, Portia Maultsby, James Mtume
Capitol Ballroom North
Evening Sessions
Various
7:00 p.m. – 8:50 p.m.
Friday Night Out (Transportation Provided)
7:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.
The Past, Present, and Future of African American Women’s History: A Conversation
Atlanta University Center,
Robert W. Woodruff Library
Poetry Slam & Open Mic Night
10:00 p.m. - 12:30 a.m.
Savannah 2 & 3
Convention Registration
8:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Georgia Registration Office
Exhibit Area Open
8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Georgia 7, 8 & Pre-Function Area
ASALH Branch Meeting
8:30 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.
Capitol Ballroom North
Session I
8:30 a.m. - 9:50 a.m.
Various
Session II
10:00 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.
Various
Film Festival
8:00 a.m. - 8:55 p.m.
Georgia 13
Saturday, September 26, 2015
John W. Blassingame Luncheon
12 noon - 1:45 p.m.
Keynote Speaker: President Daryl Michael Scott
Special Appearance LeVar Burton Capitol Ballroom Center & South
Session III
Various
2:00 p.m. - 3:50 p.m.
Plenary Session III: Give Light and People Will Find
4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Capitol Ballroom North
the Way: The Future of the Field of Black Women’s Studies
Chair: Natanya Duncan
Featuring: Tiffany Gill, Farah Griffin, Faye V. Harrison, Jessica Marie Johnson, Alondra Nelson, Tiffany Ruby Patterson
ASALH Awards Gala
Guest Speaker: Susan L. Taylor, National Cares Network
7:30 p.m. - 10:30 p.m.
Capitol Ballroom
Awards Recipients:
Dr. David Levering-Lewis, New York University, Carter G. Woodson Scholars Medallion Recipient
The Honorable John Lewis, Ga. 5th Congressional District, John Hope Franklin Centennial Lifetime Achievement Award
Sunday, September 27, 2015
ASALH Ecumenical Breakfast
Keynote Speaker: Rev. C. T. Vivian
8:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.
Post–Conference African American Heritage Bus Tour 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Capitol Ballroom South
International Blvd.
(bus departure area) Level 1
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2015 Authors Book Signing
Dell Ray Adams
A Walk in the Face of Life
Erik Brooks
Tigers in the Tempest
Donna Gray-Banks
Ilas Diamonds
Shawn Alexander
WEB DuBois An American
Intellectual and Activist
Joan Cartwright
A History of African American
Jazz and Blues
Will Guzman
Civil Rights in the Texas Borderlands:
Dr. Lawrence A. Nixon & Black
Activism
Bailey-Bankston
Beneath the Bars of Justice
Richard Bailey
Neither Carpetbaggers nor
Scalawags: Black Officeholders
During the Reconstruction of
Alabama 1867-1878
They Too Call Alabama Home:
African American Profiles
Peter Bailey
Witnessing Brother Malcolm X:
The Master Teacher A Memoir
Yasmin Carty
Proverbs and Phrases with
Meanings
Farrell Chiles
African American: Warrant
Officers... In service to Our Country
Bettye Collier-Thomas
Jesus, Jobs, and Justice
Willie Cooper
The Forgotten 14, Civil War Heroes
Mary Frances Berry
We are Who We Say We Are
Constance W. Curry
Silver Rights
Evelyn Bethune
Bethune: Out of Darkness Into
the Light of Freedom
Marta Effinger-Crichlow
Staging Migrations Toward an
American West: From Ida B. Wells
to Rhodessa Jones
Call & Response: The
Grandchildren Reply
Carol Binta Nadeem
Civilized Blacks: Free American
Negroes In The 1870’s Whose
Lives Paralleled The Life of
Booker T. Washington
John Bracey, James Smethurst
& Sonia Sanchez
SOS-Calling All Black People
LaTonya Branham
CultureSeek: Connecting to African
and African American History
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Amazing Musicwomen
Maurice Daniels
Saving the Soul of Georgia: Donald
L. Hollowell and the Struggle for
Civil Rights
Tiffany A. Flowers
The Rooftop Club Books Series:
Meet the Rooftop Club
Cheryl Gooch
On Africa’s Lands: The Forgotten
Stories of Two Lincoln Educated
Missionaries in Liberia
George Grant
In Honor Of... Libraries Named for
African Americans
Janette Hoston-Harris
In Memoriam: Charles Harris Wesley
Tameka Hobbs
Democracy Abroad, Lynching at
Home: Racial Violence in Florida
Karen January
Lessons Mama Never Taught Me
What Every Woman Should Know
Ricky L. Jones
Black Haze Violence, Sacrifice,
and Manhood in Black
Greek-letter Fraternities
Nubia Kai
Kuma Malinke Historiography:
Sundiata Keita to Almamy
Samori Toure
Kathryn Kemp
Anointed To Sing The Gospel:
The Levitical Legacy of Thomas A.
Dorsey
Make Joyful Noise: A Brief History
of Gospel Music Ministry in America
Lionel Kimble, Jr.
A New Deal for Bronzeville:
Housing, Employment, and Civil
Rights In Black Chicago, 1925-1955
Barbara King
Transform Your Life, In TYL
Talitha LeFlouria
Chained in Silence: Black Women
and Convict Labor in the New South
2015 Authors Book Signing
Josephine McCall
The Penalty for Success: My Father
was Lunched in Lowndes County,
Alabama
Aldon Morris
The Scholar Denied: D. W. B. Du
Bois and the Birth of Modern
Sociology
Barbara McCaskill
Love, Liberation, and Escaping
Slavery: William and Ellen Craft in
Cultural Memory
Tiyi Morris
Womanpower Unlimited and
the Black Freedom Struggle in
Mississippi
Running a Thousand Miles for
Freedom: The Escape of William
and Ellen Craft from Slavery.
Introduction by Barbara McCaskill.
Tommie Morton-Young
Many Roads Traveled or Twenty
years in Bondage
Kevin McGruder
Race and Real Estate; Conflict and
Cooperation in Harlem, 1890 - 1920
Genna Rae McNeil
Witness Two Hundred Years of
African-American Faith and Practice
at the Abyssinian Baptist Church of
Harlem, New York
Edna Green Medford
Lincoln and Emancipation
Trimiko Melancon
Unbought and Unbossed:
Transgressive Black Women,
Sexuality, and Representation
Black Female Sexualities
Erin Gosser Mitchell
Born Colored Life Before Bloody
Sunday
William Monnie
Selma And Its Aftermath:
A Photographic Journey by Civil
Rights Worker Bill Monnie
Premilla Nadasen
Household Workers Unite:
The Untold Story of African
American Women who Built a
Movement
Echol Nix
In the Beginning: The Martin Luther
King, Jr. International Chapel at
Morehouse College
M. J. O’Brien
We Shall Not Be Moved
Alison Parker
Interconnections: Gender and Race
in American History
Walter Rucker
Gold Coast Diasporas: Identity,
Culture, and Power (Blacks in the
Diaspora Series)
Donata Russell Ross
How I Broke Through Segregation
to Launch a Business Empire by
Herman Russell
John Sharer
The Cockney Lad and Jim Crow
Janet Sims-Wood
Dorothy Porter Wesley at
Howard University
Karen Sloan-Brown
A Reflection: What a Difference a
Day Makes, What About 100 Years?
Daniel Smith
African Americans and Charleston:
Histories Intertwined
Mattie Solomon
What Did Your Parents Do To You?
Peter Wallenstein
Race, Sex, and the Freedom to
Marry: Loving v. Virginia
Glovinia Williams
Do You Believe God? If So It’s Time
To Step out On Faith
Phyllis Jean Williams
The Secret Legend of Three Kings
Sonja Williams
Word Warrior: Richard Durham,
Radio and Freedom
Angela Williamson
Bakers Dozen
Barbara Winslow
Shirley Chisholm Catalyst for
Change
Sonia Sanchez
SOS—Calling All Black People
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2015 ASALH Centennial Conference Tours
Wednesday, September 23
“From Civil Rights to Human Rights” - ASALH Pre-Conference Tour of the MLK District and the Center for Civil
and Human Rights
8:00 - 8:30 a.m. Bus loads at Sheraton Atlanta Hotel (International Blvd. entrance- near UPS Store on Level 1)
8:30 a.m. Depart for The King Center & the MLK National Historic Site
9:00 a.m. – 12:45 p.m. Tour of The King Center and the MLK National Historic Site
9:00 – 9:45 a.m. Participants will take the self-guided tour of The King Center.
9:45 a.m. National Park Service Ranger will meet the participants outside at the Eternal flame.
9:45 a.m. – 12:45 p.m. Ranger will lead tours of the following sites:
• King Birth Home • Historic Fire Station • Historic Ebenezer Baptist Church
• National Park Service National Historic Site Visitor Center
12:45 p.m. Participants will depart from the National Park Service Visitor Center
1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. Lunch
2:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Tour of the National Center for Civil & Human Rights
4:30 p.m. Arrive back at the Sheraton Atlanta Hotel
Thursday, September 24
Atlanta Black History Tour
7:00 a.m. Bus loads at Sheraton Atlanta Hotel (International Blvd. entrance- near UPS Store on Level 1)
7:30 a.m. Bus departs for tour
11:45 a.m. Bus returns to hotel Westside (Driving tour)
• HJ Russell Construction Co. • Clark Atlanta University • W.E.B Dubois Statute
• Morehouse College/ Forbes Arena/ Ray Charles Amphitheatre • Spelman College • Morehouse School of Medicine
• The New GA Dome/ GA World Congress Center • The Last Home of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. • Morris Brown College
• The Interdenominational Theological Center • Bronner Bros. Hair Products - Mr. Nathaniel Bronner, founder
• Charles Lincoln Harper Statue • Herndon Stadium • Alonzo Herndon Mansion-1910
Downtown (Driving tour)
• The MLK Center District • National Center for Civil and Human Rights
Sweet Auburn Avenue District
• APEX Museum - (Stop)
• Sweet Auburn Avenue (Stop – participants will get off the bus to see the following sites.
Note that participants will not actually go inside these sites.) SCLC Headquarters, WERD AM Radio- First Black
Radio Station, Madame CJ Walker Salon, Odd Fellows Professional Building.- 1910 Museum Sweet Auburn
Avenue (Driving tour)
Auburn Ave. Research Library, Former Atlanta Life Insurance Building, Former Atlanta Daily World Building, Royal
Peacock o Silver Moon Barber Shop- 1904 Big Bethel AME Church, John Wesley Dobbs Statue, Wheat Street Baptist
Church, Cox Bros. Funeral Home/ Haughbrooks Funeral Home, Ebenezer Baptist Church, Birth Home Dr. MLK
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2015 ASALH Centennial Conference Tours
Sunday, September 27
Five stops are planned to give the patrons a deeper appreciation for the rich history and cultural resources found on the
six institutions that are historically linked to the Atlanta University Center (AUC).
9:30 a.m. Bus loads at the Sheraton Atlanta Hotel (International Blvd entrance near the UPS Store)
10:00 a.m. Leave the Sheraton Atlanta Hotel and drive to the Morehouse College campus. Tour the King International
Chapel, the Frederick Douglass Commons where the college has a permanent exhibit of its history on display. If time
permits, a stop by the Benjamin E. Mays Monument on the historic green of the campus.
Drive to Spelman College. Briefly tour the Cosby Center, the home of the college’s archives and Women’s Research
Center, the historic campus Oval, and Sisters Chapel.
Drive to the Clark Atlanta University campus to tour the main academic quadrangle stopping by the bust of W. E. B.
Du Bois, and the CAU Art Galleries on the second floor of Trevor Arnett Hall. If time permits, view the historic markers
commemorating the Atlanta Student Movement during the Civil Rights era of the 1960s.
Drive to the AUC Robert Woodruff Library; conduct a brief tour of the library and at the former Morris Brown College
campus where the original Atlanta University campus was founded in 1867. Pass by the sites where Du Bois worked and
lived during his early years on the Atlanta University faculty and where he wrote the book, The Souls of Black Folk.
Return to the Atlanta Sheraton Hotel, arriving before 3:00 PM.
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FILM FESTIVAL
Sher aton Hotel
Georgia 13 Room
Film Festival is FREE and open to the public
Thursday, September 24, 2015
5:30 – 7:30pm
Mountains That Take Wing: Angela Davis & Yuri Kochiyama - A Conversation on Life, Struggles & Liberation
(C.A. Griffith and H.L. T. Quan, 2009, 97 minutes)
Intercut with compelling period footage, these women - internationally renowned scholar, professor and writer
Angela Davis and 89-year-old grassroots organizer and Nobel Peace Prize nominee Yuri Kochiyama - dialogue. From
conversations in 1996 and 2008 they cover topics ranging from Jim Crow laws and Japanese American internment
camps, to Civil Rights, anti-war, women’s and gay liberation movements, to today’s campaigns for political prisoners
and prison reform.
Discussion facilitator: Michelle Duster
7:45 – 9:45pm
ALICE WALKER: Beauty in Truth
(Pratibha Parmar, 2013, 84 minutes)
The film mixes powerful archival footage with moving testimonials from friends and colleagues such as Howard Zinn,
Angela Y. Davis, Gloria Steinem, Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Quincy Jones, Steven Spielberg and Danny Glover to show
audiences a penetrating look at the life and art of an artist, intellectual, self-confessed renegade and human rights
activist.
Discussion facilitator: McKinley Melton
Friday, September 25, 2015
8:00am – 9:30am
Black Journal (May 1969)
(William Greaves, 60 minutes)
This is the episode aired in May 1969 and focuses on Black student revolts for the establishment of Black
Studies departments at Cornell and Duke universities. The latter culminates in the establishment of Malcolm X
Liberation University in Durham NC. There is also an interview with Clifford Alexander on his efforts on the US
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
Discussion Facilitator: Reginald Ellis
9:45am – 11:30am
Living Thinkers: An Autobiography of Black Women in the Ivory Tower
(Roxana Walker-Canton, 2013, 75 minutes)
Examines the intersection of race, class and gender for Black women professors and administrators working in
U.S. colleges and universities today.
Discussion Facilitator: Natanya Duncan
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Friday, September 25, 2015
11:45am – 1:15pm
Furious Flower III: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry
Cultivating Form: Creating the Black Aesthetics in Poetry (Part 1 in Four Part Series)
(Joanne Gabbin and Judith McCray, 2015, 58 minutes)
This episode features readings by Rita Dove, Elizabeth Alexander, Patricia Smith, Herman Beavers, Aracelis
Girmay, A. Van Jordan, Marilyn Nelson, and Toi Derricotte. It begins with a conversation between Elizabeth
Alexander and Rita Dove about the significance of this 20th anniversary of the Furious Flower conference poetry,
the state of the field and their role as educators. It ends with Rita Dove’s keynote address.
Discussion Facilitator: Althea Tait
1:30pm – 3:00pm
Vell Phillips: Dream Big Dreams
(Robert Trondson, 2015, 57 minutes)
Discover how Vel Phillips achieved an impressive list of “firsts” as part of her legacy, including the first African
American judge in Wisconsin and the first woman, and African American, in the nation elected to executive
office in state government.
Discussion Facilitator: Patrick Jones
3:15pm – 4:30pm
The Beech Experiment: A Success Story of Urban Rehabilitation
(Kenneth Scott, 2015, 44 minutes)
North Central Philadelphia was once the crown jewel of the Black community. After the riots of the 1960s it
descended into a desolate, bleak area most known for its crime including drugs, rape and murder. A group
of concerned citizens and leaders decided to try an experiment and form an organization called the Beech
Corporation to revitalize the neighborhood. They didn’t know if their ideas and strategies would work. This is
their story of how their vision and commitment led to huge transformation.
Discussion Facilitator: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
4:45pm – 6:15pm
Old South
(Danielle Beverly, 2015, 54 minutes)
In Athens, Georgia, a college fraternity traditionally known to fly the confederate flag moves to a historically
black neighborhood and establishes their presence by staging an antebellum style parade. What starts with
a neighborhood struggle over cultural legacies in the South, the opening of a community garden becomes a
grounds for understanding, as well as a physical and emotional space for healing, offering a sense of possibility
and hope for the future.
Discussion Facilitator: Cherisse Jones-Branch
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Friday, September 25, 2015
6:30pm – 7:30pm
This Little Light Of Mine: The Legacy of Fannie Lou Hamer
(Robin N. Hamilton, 2015, 26 minutes)
Documents her life and struggle, starting with her years on a plantation in Mississippi, and leading up to her
heroic speech during the Democratic National Convention in 1964.
Discussion Facilitator: Shenette Garrett-Scott
Film Director – Robin N. Hamilton will be there to answer questions
7:45pm – 10:15pm
The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution (Available To Conventioneers Only)
(Stanley Nelson, 2015, 116 minutes)
Explores the Black Panther Party, its significance to the broader American culture, its cultural and political
awakening for black people, and the painful lessons wrought when a movement derails.
Discussion Facilitator: Robyn Spencer
Saturday, September 26, 2015
8:00am – 9:40am
The Untold Story Of Emmett Till
(Keith A. Beauchamp, 2005, 70 minutes)
Investigates 14-year-old Till’s 1955 murder in the Mississippi Delta and the miscarriage of justice that let
his murderers go free. Nine-years in the making, the film features eye-witness accounts and uncovers new
facts surrounding Till’s murder. The film prompted the United States Justice Department to reopen its
investigation of the case.
Discussion Facilitator: Telisa Bailey
10:00am – 11:30am
Ordinary People, Extraordinary Deeds
(Presented by March on Washington Film Festival) - 60 minutes
Film excerpts and moving personal testimonies highlighting unsung heroes of the Civil Rights Movement in
the words of their survivors.
Film excerpt: 4 Little Girls (1997). Five little girls were in the basement lounge of Birmingham’s 16th St.
Baptist Church when it was bombed one Sunday morning in 1963. Four died. Sarah is the one who survived.
But what really happened to those who lived?
Film excerpt: Booker’s Place (2012) Booker Wright was a longtime waiter at Lusko’s, Restaurant and owner
of his own eatery. When he spoke too freely on a 1965 network documentary about his life in Mississippi, he
paid a terrible price. Booker’s Place is the film made by his granddaughter, Yvette to learn the whole story.
Film excerpt: Home of the Brave (2004). In 1965 Viola Liuzzo, a white wife and mother in Detroit, drove to
volunteer with the Selma March. She was shot and killed while transporting marchers in her car. The film
chronicles her daughter Mary’s search to find the pieces of her mother’s story she never knew.
Panelists: Mary Liuzzo Lilleboe. Yvette Johnson, (Booker Wright’s granddaughter and filmmaker) and Sarah
Collins Rudolph (one girl who survived the bombing)
Discussion Facilitator: Crystal R. Sanders
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Saturday, September 26, 2015
11:45am – 1:45pm
Neshoba: The Price of Freedom
(Micki Dickoff and Tony Pagano, 2010, 86 minutes)
Tells the story of a Mississippi town still divided about the meaning of justice, 40 years after the murders of
civil rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner.
Discussion Facilitator: Nan Woodruff
2:00pm – 4:00pm
BaddDDD Sonia Sanchez
(Barbara Attie, Janet Goldwater and Sabrina Schmidt Gordon, 2015, 90 minutes)
Offers unprecedented access to the life, work and mesmerizing performances of renowned poet and activist
Sonia Sanchez who had been a continuous presence for nearly 60 years. She was a central figure in the Black
Arts Movement and is an inspiration to contemporary spoken word artists
Discussion Facilitator: Sonia Sanchez
4:15pm – 6:45pm
Mumia: Long Distance Revolutionary
(Stephen Vittoria, 2012, 120 minutes)
Before he was convicted of murdering a policeman in 1981 and sentenced to die, Mumia Abu-Jamal was a
gifted journalist and brilliant writer. Now after more than 30 years in prison, Mumia is not only still alive but
continuing to report, provoke and inspire.
Discussion Facilitator: Kenja McCray
7:00pm – 8:55pm
Jesse Owens
(Stanley Nelson, 2012, 85 minutes)
The story of the 22-year-old son of a sharecropper who triumphed over adversity to become a hero and world
champion, JESSE OWENS is also about the elusive, fleeting quality of fame and the way Americans idolize
athletes when they suit our purpose, and forget them once they don’t.
Discussion Facilitator: Pellom McDaniels III
Sponsored by:
March on Washington Film Festival
California Newsreel
We would also like to thank Women Make Movies, First Run Features,
and Firelight Media for their support of this film festival.
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Centennial Annual Meeting and Conference
2015 CONVENTION EXHIBITORS & MARKETPLACE
Georgia 7, 8 & Pre-Function
FEATURING QUALITY SMALL BUSINESS VENDORS, ACADEMIC PRESSES AND MORE
Exhibitors
Art Publishing and Distribution by Charles Bibbs
Association Book Exhibit
Auburn Avenue Research Libr ary on African-American Culture & History
Everyone’s Place
Farmers Insur ance
Foundation International
Heritage International Fashions
Journal of African American History
Libr ary Company of Philadelphia
McFarland Publishing
Middle Tennnessee State University
National Museum of American History
National Park Service-Southeast Regional Office
Penguin R andom House
retiredslaves.com
Robin Lofton
Scholars Choice
University of Ark ansas Press
University of Georgia Press
University of Illinois Press
University of North Carolina Press
University Press Florida
Waldencor art Inc.
YBI African Apparel
Zee Cr afts
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Menus*
Thursday Lunch
JA AH Reception
Freshly Baked Rolls
Stations:
Pina Colada Shrimp,
Miniature Chicken Cordon Bleu
and Raspberry Brie
Garden Salad (Build Your Own)
Chicken Caponata
Displays:
Imported and Domestic
Cheese and Fruit Platter
Sliced Top Round of Beef
Rice Pilaf
Garden Fresh Vegetables
Carving Station (Steamship of Beef)
Pasta Station
Red Velvet Cake, Pecan Pie,
Key Lime Pie
Chef’s Choice of Vegetables
Whole Roasted Potatoes
Iced Tea and Starbucks Coffee
Assorted Desserts
Fruit Punch and Cash Bar
Friday BANQUET
Saturday Lunch
Freshly Baked Rolls
Freshly Baked Rolls
Garden Salad (Build Your Own)
Garden Salad (Build Your Own)
Baked Chicken
Brown Butter Chicken Breast
with Root Vegetables
Fried Catfish
Blackened Tilapia
Potato Salad
Hoppin John
Collard Greens
Sautéed Green Beans and Onions
Chocolate Layer Cake,
Banana Cream Pie,
Coconut Cake
German Chocolate Cake,
Lemon Merengue Pie and
Fruit Medley with Sambuca
Iced Tea and Starbucks Coffee
Iced Tea and Starbucks Coffee
Saturday Banquet
Sunday Breakfast
Freshly Baked Rolls
Breakfast Pastries
Georgian Salad
Scrambled Eggs
Airline Chicken
Bacon/Sausage
Mashed Potatoes
Grits/Potatoes
Brocolini & Carrots
Juice
Chocolate Truffle Cake
Coffee
Starbucks Coffee
*Each of the lunches has a vegetarian option.
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Participant Index
Abello Hurtado, Maria Ximena,
104
Acker, Daniel R, 063, 194
Adams, Dell, 100
Adams, John Hurst, 319
Adams, Sameila, 264
Adams, William Horatio, 302
Auburn Avenue Research Library
on African-American Culture and
History, 070, 115, 232
Binta, Carol, 100
Augustine, Jean, 090, 303
Blackman, Dexter, 043, 247
Austin, Paula C, 021
Austin, Stanley, 059
Autrey, Dorothy, 291
Adams-Bass, Valerie N., 038, 106,
239
Awad, Rian Hamadnalla, 251
Adell, Sandra, 181
Baggett, Antrece, 262
Adkins, Jan Batiste, 063
Bailey, A. Peter, 100
Aghahowa, Brenda, 095
Bailey, Dorothy F, 003, 209, 237
Agosto, Vonzell, 146, 285
Bailey, Richard, 100
Agyepong, Tera Eva, 299
Bailey, Ronald W, 132, 290
Akbar-Williams, Tahirah, 171, 256
Bailey, T’Shaka, 198
Akinsegun, Osuntinibu, 059
Bailey, Telisha D, 292
Aldridge, III, Daniel W., 249
Balto, Simon, 077
Alexander, Blayne, 319
Bandele, Ramla Marie, 169
Alexander, Jim, 268
Banks, Cerri Annette, 107, 165
Alexander, Representative
Kimberly, 154
Banton, Arthur, 148
Alexander, Shawn Leigh, 048, 100,
293
Barnes, Tanesha, 032
Barnes, Karl, 196
Biondi, Martha, 003, 008, 042, 125,
160, 296
Blackwell, James, 281
Blandford, Cynthia, 037
Blount, Tamika, 315
Blum, Michael, 008, 153
Boers, David, 029
Bolden, Tony, 310
Bond, Kathleen McClain, 006
Bond, Michael Julian, 226
Bonilla, Eddie, 281
Bonner, Claudine, 090
Boston, Thomas “Danny”, 308
Bosworth, Greg, 295
Bouldin, Kristin, 254
Bowles, Laurian, 249
Boyd, Kelli, 299
Boyd III, Miller William, 254
Boylorn, Robin, 040
Barr, Mary, 029, 077
Bracey, John, 048, 059, 088, 100,
268
Barr-Davenport, Leona, 167
Bradford, Joy, 309
Barrett, Marsha, 078, 233
Bradley, Regina, 176, 196, 217
Bascomb, Lia T., 147, 276
Branch, Chelsea, 054
Battle, Thomas C, 003
Branch, Cherisse Jones, 145, 211
Aman, Peter, 167
Battle-Baptiste, Whitney, 216, 298
Branch, Monsignor Edward, 167
Anderson, Carol, 270
Baumgartner, Kabria, 243
Branham, LaTonya M, 100
Anderson, Diane, 024
Bay, Mia, 144
Brawley, Otis, 200
Anderson, Lauren Kientz, 145
Beaty, Anita Law, 196
Breanna, McCallum, 016
Anthony, TaKeia, 041, 264
Bell-Thomas, Kanika, 309
Brenda, Flanagan, 249
Antonin, Henrietta, 320
Beltramini, Enrico, 221
Bridges, Eric, 315
Apparicio, Alexis, 019
Benson, Devyn Spence, 130
Brimmer, Brandi C, 055, 076
Araujo, Ana Lucia, 031, 314
Benson II, Richard D., 184, 278
Brisbon, Lauren, 028
Armstead, Myra, 036
Bentley-Edwards, Keisha L, 038
Briscoe, Natosha, 241
Armstrong, Julie Buckner, 250
Bernier, Julia Wallace, 294
Bristol, Travis, 082
Armstrong Dunbar, Erica, 243, 257
Berry, Daina Ramey, 273
Arrington, Lauren, 116
Berry, Mary Frances, 099, 100
Bristow, Margaret Bernice Smith,
148, 191
Art Publishing and Distribution by
Charles Bibbs, 070, 115, 232
Bethel, Kathleen, 170
Arthur, Rosailand, 027
Bethune-Brown, Camille, 305
Ashford, Shetay, 146
Bibbs, Charles, 319
Association Book Exhibit, 070, 115,
232
Billingsley, Andrew, 106
Alexander, William, 245
Alfonso, Rowena Ianthe, 042
Ali, Amir, 234
Alridge, Derrick, 008, 088, 099,
125, 144, 186, 266
16
(Numbers following names indicate Session numbers)
Bethune, Evelyn, 100
Brodnax, David, 168
Brooks, Cecelia, 124
Brooks, Erik, 100
Brooks, Kevin L., 053
Brooks-Tatum, Shanesha, 079
Brown, Aleia M, 085
(Numbers following names indicate Session numbers)
Participant Index
Brown, Anthony L., 082, 197
Carroll, Carolyn A, 054
Collins Rudolph, Sarah, 267
Brown, Carolyn Jean, 120
Carswell, Angela, 283
Colston-Brooks, Victoria, 073, 238
Brown, Drew, 043
Carter, Brittany, 096
Compton, Margaret, 069
Brown, Frank, 283
Carter, Daryl Anthony, 078
Conteh, Alhaji, 164
Brown, Keffrelyn D., 197
Carter, David C., 078
Cook Bell, Karen B., 076
Brown, Kimberly Juanita, 108
Carter, Lawrence Edward, 283
Cook, Samuel DuBois, 156
Brown, Kimberly, 075
Carter, Niambi M, 086
Cooley, Will, 272
Brown, Korey, 105
Carter-David, Siobhan, 150
Cooper, Afua, 090
Brown, Nikki, 250
Carter-Jackson, Kellie, 178
Cooper, Brittney, 040, 204
Brown, Scot, 210, 310
Cartwright, Joan, 100, 182
Cooper, Erica, 244
Brown II, M. Christopher, 058, 172
Carty, Yasmin, 100
Cooper, Willie, 100
Broyld, Dann J., 091, 259
Casellas, Zaira Rivera, 248
Cooper-Owens, Deirdre, 079
Bruce, Representative Roger, 154,
167
Celeste, Manoucheka, 016, 175
Copeland, Charlton, 252
Brunson, Takkara, 130
Cha-Jua, Sundiata Kieta, 099
Corey, Mary, 030
Chamberlain, Daphne, 292
Corniel, Lissette Acosta, 314
Chambers, Glenn, 281
Cortes, Krista, 017
Chambers, Jason P., 272
Cottrol, Robert J., 031
Chambliss, Julian, 129
Council, Shawn, 071, 122
Chapman, Rava Shelyn, 073, 265
Craft Tanner, Chanel, 040
Chapman-Hilliard, Collette, 239
Craig, Bradley L., 015
Charles, Julia, 056
Crater, Paul, 069
Chatelain, Benedict, 068
Crawford, Malachi, 084, 124, 169
Chatelain, Marcia, 272, 296
Crenshaw-Logal, Zena, 166
Chavis, Jr., Charles L, 055
Crew, Spencer, 091
Chennault, Ronald, 252, 266
Crosby, Emilye, 153
Chestnut, Trichita, 046, 159
Crossfield, Latangela Lajuan, 027,
151, 260
Bryant, John Hope, 308
Bunch, Lonnie, 167
Burch, Kerry, 052
Burden, Charisse, 012
Burgos, Adrian, 201
Burke, Diane Mutti, 163
Burnside, Timothy Anne, 140
Burrell Wood, Aja, 176
Burrowes, Nicole, 274
Burton, LeVar, 283
Burton, Nsenga, 309
Burton, Sammie, 095
Bush, Christina, 217
Butler, Deidre Hill, 206
Butler, Joshua W, 122
Bynum, Cornelius, 003, 008, 028,
125, 186
Bynum, Lee, 158
Bynum, Thomas L, 085
Byrd, Brandon, 144, 293
Calloway Thomas, Carolyn, 244
Cameron, Christopher, 008, 087,
144
Childs, Kenneth, 234
Chiles, Farrell, 100
Chilton, Katherine, 076
Cilli, Adam Lee, 029, 062
Claiborne, Corrie, 184
Clark, Zende Larmar, 003, 097, 237
Cleage, Pearl, 177
Clemons, Kristal Moore, 252
Clifton-James, Licia Ellen, 191
Clinton, Catherine, 263
Cobb, Charles E., 297
Cobb, William Jelani, 078, 206
Campbell, Emahunn Raheem Ali,
056, 243
Cobb-Roberts, Deirdre, 146
Campbell, Emory S, 047, 063, 284
Cochran-Edwards, Tiffany, 283
Campbell, Joie, 236
Coleman-King, Chonika, 038
Canton, David Alvin, 182
Collier-Thomas, Bettye, 099, 100,
199
Carpenter, Faedra, 220
Cochran, Shannon, 315
Collins, Stephen, 194
Cudjoe, Karen J, 106
Cumberbatch, Prudence, 199
Currie, Netisha, 159, 183
Curry, Constance, 100
Curry, Tommy, 141
Curwood, Anastasia C, 086
Cyrus, Sylvia Y., 003, 007, 008, 097,
125, 167, 237, 319, 320
Daboiku, Omope Carter, 190
Dagbovie, Pero, 099, 188, 258
Dagbovie-Mullins, Sika, 258
Dallas, Fenobia, 134, 219
Dancy, T. Elon, 172
Daniels, Andrea, 080
Daniels, Maurice, 100
Danns, Dionne, 173, 205
David, Marlo, 186
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Participant Index
Davis, Cedric, 291
Davis, Chyna Yvonne, 057, 096, 127,
170, 238, 299
Duster, Michelle, 008, 139, 161, 185,
208, 212, 228, 277, 317, 318
Flippin, William, 319
Earl-Lewis, Monique, 184
Flowers, Tiffany, 100
Flowe, Douglas, 233
Davis, Damani, 159
Eaton-Martinez, Omar, 248
Davis, Daniel R, 239
Eaves, LaToya, 174, 289
Davis, Ella J, 122, 241
Edwards, Artrisia, 320
Davis, James Earl, 172
Edwards, Janelle, 275
Davis, Joshua Clark, 189
Edwards, Ricardo J, 170
Davis, Patricia, 133
Effinger-Crichlow, Marta, 044, 100
Davis, Sarajanee O, 042
Eiland, Le’Mil, 165, 220
Davis, Sarita, 116, 290
Eisenstadt, Peter, 193
Davis, Stephanie Yvonne, 096, 127
Elgersman Lee, Maureen, 018, 061
Davis, Veronica Alease, 084
Ellis, Kelly, 095
Davis-Faulkner, Sheri, 040
Ellis, Reginald K, 034, 061, 214
Day, Aaron, 100
Erwin, Theodore and Elsie, 180
Foster, Pamela E., 084, 207, 241,
285
de Chantal, Julie, 142
Evans, Curtis, 145
Fourmy, Signe Peterson, 263
Deas, Eldrin Lamar, 021
Evans, Meredith, 025
Fox, Kyle R., 118
DeBardelaben, LaNesha, 190, 275
Evans, Stephanie, 008, 037, 079,
125, 175, 206, 226, 309
Frank, David B, 121
Everyone’s Place, 070, 115, 232
Franklin, V. P., 111, 173, 303
Debnam, Jewell, 259
DeForest, Ricci, 264
Dennie, Nneka, 294
Densu, Kwasi, 259
Diaz, Maria, 017
Dickerson, Maniphone, 146
Dickerson, Sean, 285
Dickinson, Michael, 168
Dixon, Patricia, 299
Dobson, Abby, 032
Donaldson, Anthony, 065
Donaldson, Le’Trice, 218
Dorsey, Chianta, 140
Dotson, Jr, Jerome, 106
Ewing, K. T., 056
Ezeilo, Angelou, 035
Ezra, Michael, 203
Fache, Caroline, 249
Faniel, Maco L., 280, 311
Farmer, Ashley, 189, 297
Farmers Insurance, 070, 232
Faulkenbury, Evan, 104
Faussart, Helene, 178
Feigert, Jessie, 276
Fenner, Jasmine, 014
Fludd, Representative Virgil, 154
Flynn, Joseph, 052, 136, 202
Forbes, Michael, 060
Ford, Charles, 034
Ford, Nitoshia L., 170
Ford, Richard, 149
Ford, Tanisha C, 066, 094, 150
Ford, Tanisha, 226
Foster, Lloren, 080
Foster, Makiba, 025
Franklin, Janice, 291
Fraser, Zinga, 086, 199
Frear, Yvonne Davis, 262
Fredericks, Brenda D, 134
Freelon-Foster, Dianna, 051
Freeman, Jonathan Richard, 279
Frielink, Sarah Lynne, 052, 202
Gabriel, Dexter, 020, 260
Gadsden, Brett, 255
Gaines, Rondee, 008, 141, 157, 279
Gardner, Bettye, 003, 156
Ferdinand, Renata, 044
Garrett-Scott, Shennette, 079, 212,
254, 262
Fergus, Devin, 301
Garrison-Harrison, Christy, 253
Ferguson, Cheryl, 109
Gaskamp, Katherine, 054
Ferguson, Mary LaFrance, 047
Gatson, Torren, 085
Ferguson, Robert Hunt, 145
Gault, Erika, 123
Duke, Eric D., 130
Fischer, Dawn-Elissa, 053
Gay, Agnolia Beatrice, 213, 239
Duncan, Armanthia Nicole, 056,
218
Fisher, Earle, 123
Gayles, Jonathan I, 224, 261
Fisher, Vivian, 307
Gershenhorn, Jerry, 169
Duncan, Natanya, 008, 015, 055,
130, 139, 204, 253, 257, 313, 316
Fisher-Hickman, Holly, 039
Ghartey-Tagoe Kootin, amma, 181
Dunn, Barbara Spencer, 035, 067,
209, 237
Flannery, Ifetayo, 117, 215
Ghasedi, Nadia, 025
Fleming, John, 156
Gilbert, Alan, 036
Flemming-Hunter, Sheila, 003,
007, 097, 156, 209, 312, 319
Gilbert, Cornelius, 052
Dozier, Richard, 225
Drabinski, John E., 141
Drake, Simone, 301
Drummond, Traci JoLeigh, 092
Dudley, Gabrielle, 092
Dunn, Stephane, 184
18
(Numbers following names indicate Session numbers)
Gill, Tiffany, 150, 203, 316
(Numbers following names indicate Session numbers)
Participant Index
Gillespie, Andra, 049
Hall, Eric Allen, 271
Higginbotham, Evelyn, 003, 187
Gipson, Grace, 217, 276
Halliday, Aria S., 133, 235
Higginson, John, 051, 226, 236
Gist, Conra, 136, 202
Ham, Debra Newman, 143
Hightower, Edward, 028, 050, 110
Givens, Jarvis Ray, 074
Hamilton, Aretina, 019, 124,
174, 289
Hill, Laura Warren, 147, 203
Hamilton, Jessica D.N., 117
Hilliard-Nunn, Hakim, 198
Glymph, Thavolia, 187
Gondek, Abby, 058
Gonzalez, Aston, 243
Gonzalez Velez, Mirerza, 248
Gooch, Cheryl, 083, 100
Gore, Dayo, 286
Hamilton, Kenneth, 048
Hamilton, Tikia Kenise, 160
Hamlin, Francoise, 142, 255
Harnischfeger, Mark, 030
Hilliard, Patsy Jo, 007
Hilliard-Nunn, Patricia, 198
Hillsman, Eugene, 110
Hilton, Kelly, 171, 195, 249
Hine, Darlene Clark, 088, 270
Goseer, Erin, 100
Harold, Claudrena, 064
Goudsouzian, Aram, 008, 078,
271, 297
Harper, Donna Akiba Sullivan, 177
Harper, Jim, 003, 014, 039
Gourrier, Francis, 240
Harris, Christopher, 071
Graham, Brittaney N, 064
Harris, Duchess, 257
Graham, Natalie, 219
Harris, Felicia, 290
Grant, Carl, 197
Harris, Janette Hoston, 100
Grant, George, 100
Harris, Kyle, 192
Greason, Walter, 129
Harris, LaShawn, 008, 076, 188
Green, Harriett, 132
Harris, Leslie M., 187, 273
Green, Laurie, 250
Harris, Robert L., 156
Green Benjamin, Shanna, 257
Harris, Sheena, 056, 075, 218
Greene, Christina, 152
Harrison, Alferdteen B., 103, 120
Greene, Kevin, 131, 151, 302
Harrison, Faye V., 316
Greene, Wendy, 031
Harvey Wingfield, Adia, 301
Greene II, Robert Jerome, 087, 104
Harwell, Debbie, 287
Griffin, Christi, 269
Haskins, Jewel, 128
Griffin, Farah, 316
Hayes, Floyd, 141
Grim, Valerie, 206
Hayes, Worth Kamili, 295
Grimmett, Muriel, 029
Haykal, Aaisha, 140
Houston, Akil, 019, 174, 289
Grinage, Raquel, 305
Haynes, Marcus Ta’von, 057, 127,
238
Howard, Ashley M., 008, 077, 278
Howard, Jasmin, 302
Haywood, D’Weston, 065
Howard, Schillica, 066
Heath, R. Scott, 053
Hucks, Tracy, 249
Helgeson, Jeffrey, 008, 296
Hudson, Georgia, 213
Helton, Laura E., 274
Hudson, Redditt, 269
Henderson, Tammy, 234
Huey, Ryan, 281
Hendricks, Derick Antony, 195
Hughes, Brandi, 108
Guzman, Will, 100
Henley, Lauren, 233
Hughes, Eddie, 062
Herd II, Ronald Cortez, 182
Hughes, Lyn
Hadley, Fredara M, 176
Herd-Clark, Dawn J., 192
Hunt, Rebecca, 202
Heritage International Fashions,
070, 115, 232
Hyres, Alexander, 074, 122
Herman, Lorenzo, 118
Irby-Ware, Veta, 053
Grogan, David J., 166
Gross, Kali, 152, 204
Guariglia, Matthew, 221
Guidry, Carolyn Tyler, 320
Guild, Joshua, 094
Guillory, J. Anthony, 247
Guy-Sheftall, Beverly, 086, 204
Hadley, James “Jack”, 069
Hafiz-Wahid, Fatima, 038
Hahn, Steven, 187
Haile, James, 141
Hicks, Cheryl, 152, 209
Hines, Michael, 081
Hinton, Elizabeth, 311
Hobbs, Tameka Bradley, 018, 061,
100, 123
Hobson, Maurice J, 093, 155, 182,
196
Hoff, Tamara, 018
Holloway, Pippa, 311
Holmes, Kwame, 155
Hooper, Leta, 149
Hope, Jeanelle Kevina, 147
Hopson, Rodney, 252
Horhn, John, 276
Horne, Gerald, 012, 227, 303
Hornsby-Gutting, Angela, 193
Horrocks, Allison B, 221
Hoston Harris, Janette, 156
Hotchkins, Bryan Keith, 172
House, Anton D, 024
Ivy, Nicole, 108
19
Participant Index
Jack, Bryan, 250
Jones, Ralph, 167
Lake, Tara, 207
Jackson, Andrea, 092, 140
Jones, Ricky, 100
Lambert, Eve, 044
Jackson, Cathy, 245
Jones, Shermaine, 102
Lang, Clarence, 008, 155
Jackson, David H, 048, 214
Jones, Tayari, 177
Lanois, Derrick, 033, 218
Jackson, Ivan, 235
Jones-Sneed, Frances, 122, 216,
242, 298
Larmaya, Kilgore, 016
Jordan, Jamon, 042, 063, 300
Law, Matthew, 037
Jackson, Lawrence, 102
Jackson, Mark S., 190
Jackson, Shantina, 074
Jordon, Ashley, 024
Jacobs Thompson, Sharita, 076,
275, 314
Joseph, Peniel, 203, 297
Joslin-Knapp, Sydney, 174, 289
Jamison, David Michael, 284
Journal of African American
History, 070, 115, 232
Jamison, Felicia, 236
January, Karen, 021, 100
Jarrett, Robin, 259
Jefferson, Robert Franklin, 151, 182
Jefferson, Karen, 256
Jeffries, Bayyinah S., 013, 289
Jeffries, Hasan, 065, 153
Jelks, Randal Maurice, 031, 141,
188, 240, 310
Jennings, John, 129
John, Beverly M, 047
Johnson, Andre E., 068, 123
Johnson, Birgitta Joelisa, 176
Johnson, Doria, 061
Johnson, Frank, 207
Johnson, Jessica Marie, 144, 304,
316
Johnson, Karen, 081, 266
Johnson, Latoya, 170
Johnson, Patrick, 217
Johnson, Pearlie Mae, 134
Johnson, Roman, 135
Johnson, Sylvester, 214
Johnson, W. Chris, 286, 297
Johnson, Yvette, 267
Jones, Alisha, 176
Jones, Mack H., 089
Jones, Ida, 197
Jones, Jacqueline C., 157
Jones, Jennifer D., 160
Jones, Lindsey Elizabeth, 074
Jones, Martha S., 031, 187
Jones, Norrece, 163
Jones, Patrick, 077
20
(Numbers following names indicate Session numbers)
Jowers-Barber, Sandra, 083
Kachun, Mitch, 157
Kai, Nubia, 100, 246, 285
Kanu, Christina, 057, 096
Kart, Susan, 313
Keeton, Kymberly Mieshia Dionne,
285
LaRoche, Cheryl, 126
Lee, Julia, 016, 175
Lee Shetterly, Margot, 257
LeFlouria, Talitha, 100, 152, 188
Leggs, Brent, 225
Lentz-Smith, Adriane, 051
Leon, Alexxa, 122
Levering-Lewis, David, 319
LeVias, Arcadia, 241
Levy, Jessica Ann, 255
Levy, LaTasha B., 186, 274
Levy, Peter, 034
Lewis, John, 319
Kemp, Kathryn, 100
Lewis, Kay Wright, 245, 314
Kerr-Ritchie, Jeffrey, 076, 187
Lewis, Nghana, 258
Kessler, Bryan, 292
Lewis, Regina, 023, 026, 136
Kimberly, Odusanya, 016
Lewis, Thabiti, 043
Kimble, Lionel, 003, 008, 098, 101,
211, 224, 231, 256, 296
Lewis-McCoy, L’Heureux, 301
Kinard, Joy, 035, 128, 225, 312
Library Company of Philadelphia,
070, 115, 232
Kinchen, Shirletta J., 155
Liuzzo Lillieboe, Mary, 267
King, Amina, 319
Ligon, Tina L, 159, 183
King, Barbara, 100
Lindsey, Treva, 008, 204
King, Joyce E, 082
Linker, Destiney Lynn, 236
King, Kenya, 003
Little, Monroe, 003, 237
King, LaGarrett, 197
Little, Sharoni, 244
King, Shannon, 155, 233, 275
Littlefield, Daniel, 163
Kinlow, Matthew, 171
Littlejohn, Jeffery, 034, 054, 280
Kokayi, Assata, 199
Littleton, La’Neice, 073, 265
Kossie-Chernyshev, Karen, 262
Livingston, Samuel T., 184
Kouadio, Ajua, 107
Loder-Jackson, Tondra, 081
Krauthamer, Barbara, 273
Loewen, James W, 067
Kuchle, Spencer, 165
Lofton, Richard, 081
Lofton, Robin, 070, 115, 232
LaCott, Ignace, 073
Lomax, Mark Ogunwale, 167
Lacy, Travis K., 300
Long, Khalid, 220
Lafayette, Dr. Bernard, 269
Losier, Toussaint, 223
Laird, Alan, 151, 171
Lotson, Griffin, 121
(Numbers following names indicate Session numbers)
Participant Index
Louis, Diana, 102
McDuffie, Erik, 037, 193
Morgan, Kelli, 066
Love, Jade, 021
McGruder, Kevin, 100
Morgan-Brown, MaryNell, 216, 298
Love, Johnnieque Blackmon, 008,
237, 256, 307
McGuire, Danielle, 051, 153
Moriah, Kristin, 036
Lovett, Laura, 142
McKinley, Catherine, 150
Morris, Aldon, 100
McKinney, Charles, 008, 078
Morris, Burnis R, 045
McKinney, Cynthia, 315
Morris, Courtney Desiree, 137
McKisick, Derrick D., 168
Morris, Jamae, 135, 290
McKnight, Utz, 141
Morris, Susana, 040
McLeod, Jacqueline, 079, 163
Morris, Tiyi, 100, 251, 287
McNair, Kimberly, 217
Morrison, Amani, 131
McNeil, Chesley, 167
Morton-Young, Tommie, 100
Mcneil, Genna, 100
Mosby, Representative Howard,
154
Lowe, Tony B, 194, 221
Lowe, Turkiya L, 006, 050
Lowery, Lauren G., 140
Luckett, Robert, 120
Lyle, Anndretta, 310
MacLeish, Peter, 200
Madison, Cynthia, 192
Madzimoyo, Ayana, 320
Madzimoyo, Ife, 135
Maginn, Andrew Wyatt, 195
Magras, Lydia, 095
Makalani, Minkah, 012, 130, 286
Mann, Kimberly, 091
Mann, Regis Marlene, 258
Manning-Miller, Carmen, 045
Mares, Richard M, 060
Marsalis, Delfeayo, 178
Marshall, Amani, 239
Martin, Arthuretta H, 166
Mason, Patience, 080
Massenburg, Moses, 118, 319
Matlock, Charles, 140
Matthews, Lopez, 046
Maultsby, Portia, 210
McAllister, Marvin, 220
McCall, Josephine Bolling, 100
McCall, Nathan, 049
McCaskill, Barbara, 069, 100
McCoy, Austin, 255
McCray, Kenja R, 207, 253
McCray, Michael, 166
McCune, Jeffrey Q., 025
McCurtis, Marlene, 287
McCutcheon, Priscilla, 174, 289
McDaniels III, Pellom, 021, 069, 271
McDole, Ayondela, 066
McDonald, George, 035
McDougal, Serie, 240
McDowell, Deborah E., 274
Mears, Tanya, 103
Medford, Edna Greene, 003, 100
Melancon, Trimiko, 100
Melton, McKinley, 101
Menzise, Jeffrey, 242
Mickens, Ronald, 058
Moses, Raven M., 117
Moses, Sibyl, 062
Mosley, Derek, 092
Moten, Crystal, 077
Moultrie, Monique, 068
Middle Tennessee State University,
070, 115, 232
Muhammad, Baiyina W., 013, 072,
143
Miletsky, Zebulon, 008, 077,
182, 266
Muhammad, Nafeesa Haniyah, 253
Murch, Donna, 223
Miller, Rasul, 223
Mustakeem, Sowande, 025, 152
Mills, Jeri, 067
Mwanzia Koster, Mickie, 147
Mills, ShaVonte’, 083
Myles, Sharnell, 309
Millward, Jessica, 187, 304
Myrick-Harris, Clarissa, 226
Milteer, Warren, 072
Minamoto, Kunihiko, 033
Nadasen, Premilla, 100
Mingo, AnneMarie, 137
Nadine V. Wedderburn, Nadine V.,
216, 298
Mitchell, Elise Agatha, 015
Mitchell, Martin, 319
Mitchell, Representative Billy, 154
National Museum of American
History, 070, 115, 232
Mitchell, Roland Walker, 172
National Park Service Southeast
Regional Office, 070, 115, 232
Mixon, Gregory, 028
Ndege, Conchita, 020
Momon, Tiffany, 085
Neal, La Vonne, 023, 026, 202
Monnie, Bill, 100
Neblett, Asma, 256
Montooth, Jennifer, 305
Nellon, Chy’na, 149, 213, 239
Montrie, Chad, 300
Nelson, Alondra, 316
Moore, Alicia, 023, 026, 202
Nelson, Claudia D, 106, 191, 259
Moore, Cornelius, 114, 306
Neucere, Elizabeth, 280
Moore, Erin H, 071
Nevius, Marcus P., 065
Moore, Isabell Lola, 169
Newby-Alexander, Cassandra, 245
Moore, Louis, 271
Newport, Melanie, 223
Moorhead, Deborah, 259
Nichols, Jason, 248
Morehouse, Lawrence, 158
Nicol, Donna J, 219
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Participant Index
Nishimoto, Azusa, 227
Nix, Keturah, 279
Nix, Jr., Echol Lee, 100, 123
Norman, Michael “Gradie”, 280
Norwood, Arlisha, 075
Nosakhere, Akilah, 307
Nunn, Kenneth, 198
O’Brien, M. J., 100
Oduguwa, Moriayo MaripazShenee, 066
Ofili, Elizabeth, 200
Ogunsola, Dellita Martin, 106
Okedeyi, Risikat, 105
Okoh, Harry, 207
Oligmueller, Lisa, 104
Omari, Safiya, 290
Onaci, Edward, 020, 186, 278
Onishi, Yuichiro, 227
Ortner, Johanna Maria, 294
Owens, Destiny, 014
Owens, Emily, 243
Owens-Lalude, Judith C., 134
(Numbers following names indicate Session numbers)
Perro, Ebony, 028, 057, 096, 127,
265
Rice, Albert “AJ”, 012
Perry, Kennetta Hammond, 094,
130
Richardson, Riché, 177
Peskine, Alexis, 178
Peterson, James, 252, 313
Peterson-Quantana, Tanasha, 014
Phelps, Kenyatta, 018
Pheonix, Sandra, 132
Phillips, Kenvi, 046
Phillips-Lewis, Kathleen, 226
Pimblott, Kerry, 042, 278
Platt, Michael, 178
Polk, Khary, 036
Porter, Lavelle, 260
Power-Greene, Ousmane Kirumu,
037
Richie, Rashad, 154
Richmond, Afrah, 087
Rickford, Russell, 189
Rivers, Larry O., 068
Roane, James, 064
Roberts, Christopher, 117
Roberts, Juanita, 109
Robertson, Ashley, 075
Robinson, Brian, 148
Robinson, Howard Overton, 291
Robinson, Julia M, 168
Robinson, Lasean Robinson, 143
Robinson, Sharon E., 307
Pratcher II, Anthony, 223
Rodriguez, Cheryl R., 175
Price, Delaina, 071
Rodriguez, Kaelyn D, 017
Price, Melanye, 304
Rogers, Justin Isaac, 171, 254
Price, Melynda x, 051
Rooks, Noliwe, 177
Pruitt, Bernadette, 262
Rosa, Andrew Juan, 195
Publishing, McFarland, 070, 115,
232
Rose, Stephany, 289
Rose-Rodriguez, Lisa Angela, 020
Pumphrey, Shelby, 275
Pack, Uraina N, 284
Rosenthal, Danielle, 276
Purdy, Michelle A., 173, 205
Paige, Gina, 003, 209
Ross, Donata Russell, 100, 283, 308
Purkiss, Ava, 274
Palmer, Annette, 003, 097, 143
Ross, Kendra Janelle, 032
Purnell, Brian, 153
Rothstein, Blair, 222
Parham, Loretta, 226
Parker, Alison M., 100, 193
Rowley, Larry Lee, 186
Quiros, Ansley L, 122
Parker, Freddie L., 065
Rouse, Jacquelyn, 226
Roy, Ethan Staten, 014, 241
Parker, Nakia D, 263
Rabe, Rob, 045
Parker, Robert, 091, 128
Royster, Michael D, 021, 110
Rael, Patrick, 122
Parks, Fayth M., 047
Rucker, Sandra, 027
Rahman, Ahmad, 060
Parsons, Anne E., 311
Rucker, Walter C, 020, 100
Raimist, Rachel, 040
Parsons, Elaine Franz, 311
Rydolph, Sarah Collins, 267
Raines, Tara, 016
Pasquerella, Lynn, 165
Runstedtler, Theresa, 201, 271
Ramsey, Sonya, 020
Patterson, Sydney-Paige, 133
Russell, Alexandria, 062
Randolph, Adah, 081
Patterson, Tiffany Ruby, 270, 316
Russell Ross, Donata, 100
Rash-Sawyer, Donna, 041
Patton, Stacey, 204
Ryan, Corey, 280
Ratchford, Jamal, 247
Peoples, Gabriel, 102
Ray, Louis, 029, 104
Penguin Random House, 070, 115,
232
Saffold, Jacinta Renee, 133
Reed, Kasim, 007
Sakashita, Fumiko, 227
Reed, Marquita, 085
Salaam, Omar J., 083, 164
Reid, Andy, 135
Sall, Dialika, 064
Reid, Patricia, 008, 168, 187
Samuel, Gail, 109
retiredslaves.com,, 070, 115, 232
Sanchez, Sonia, 059, 268, 306
Perkins, Kathy A, 181
Perkins, Linda Marie, 058, 205
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Rice, Dr. Valerie Montgomery, 200
(Numbers following names indicate Session numbers)
Participant Index
Sanderfer, Selena, 080
Smethurst, James, 100, 268
Sumpter, Althea Natalga, 121
Sanders, Crystal, 008, 137, 173, 267
Smith, Billy Boyd, 235
Sunnenberg, Lenise Alexandra, 251
Sanders, Katrina Marie, 205
Smith, Camille Rose, 019
Sunni-Ali, Asantewa, 253
Santos, Mayra, 248
Smith, Daniel, 100
Swan, Quito, 094, 295
Satcher, Dr. David, 200
Smith, Tamara, 039
Saunders, Lynsey Marie, 134
Smith, Elaine M., 312
Tait, Althea, 049
Sawyer, Don, 107
Smith, Gilbert, 003
Tarik, Latif A, 024
Schlichtmann, Karleen, 016
Smith, Holly, 092
Tate, Candy, 049, 207, 268
Schweninger, Loren, 163
Smith, John Matthew, 271
Tate, Desta, 320
Scott, Alexis, 320
Smith, Sharde McNeil, 290
Taylor, Brittney Nikel, 064
Scott, Daryl Michael, 003, 007, 008,
059, 091, 097, 167, 209, 237, 283
Smith, Theophus “Thee”, 222
Taylor, Keeanga Yamahtta, 012,
208, 296
Scott, DeWitt, 083, 149
Smith, Sr., Harvey J, 104
Taylor, Nikki, 003
Smith-Stewart, Bonnyeclaire, 118,
265
Taylor, Paul C, 137
Taylor, Susan L, 319
Sneed, Kymara J., 192
Taylor, Toniesha, 081
Snider, Joleene Maddox, 067
Taylor, Ula, 008, 013, 158, 304
Snyder, Jeffrey Aaron, 197
Taylor-Watson, Kadari, 150, 235
Solomon, Mattie, 100
Taylor-Webb, Traki, 074, 146, 205
Sotilleo, Sophia, 062
Terry, Courtney, 073, 238, 265
Spence, Cynthia, 226
Terry, David Taft, 055
Spencer, Joi, 067
The Foundation International, 070,
115, 187
Scott, Lakia M, 084, 149
Scott, Michelle R., 008, 158, 210,
305
Scott, Mikana, 215
Scott Giles, Freda, 181
Scruggs, Camesha, 054
Sdunzik, Jennifer, 063
Seawell, Stephanie, 278
Semmes, Clovis, 272
Seniors, Paula, 003
Sessions, Brittany, 261
Shabazz, Amilcar, 300
Shakir, Ameenah, 214, 259
Smith, Tiffani J, 022, 260
Spencer, Robyn, 286
Sperrazza, Tyler, 137
St. Julien, Danielle, 300
Sharer, John, 100
Stanford-Randle, Greer Charlotte,
003, 190, 237
Sharpley-Whiting, Tracy D, 270
Stanley III, William, 225
Shaw, Stephanie, 293
Stanton, Robert, 059
Sheldon, Andrew “Andy”, 222
Starks, Howard W, 033
Shellum, Brian George, 128
Stephens, Ronald Jemal, 279
Sherman, Eugene, 100
Steptoe, Tyina, 133
Shropshire, Shonda, 050
Stevenson, Brenda, 163, 273
Silvera, Torah M, 251
Steward, Tyran Kai, 201
Simama, Jabari, 089
Stewart, Angela Daphne, 120
Simmons, Dwan, 301
Stewart, James, 003, 088, 099, 150,
156, 308
Simmons, Matthew E., 117
Simpson, Cynne, 059
Simpson-Wilkey, LaJuan, 315
Stone, Oliver, 019
Stout, Gayle J., 030
Sims, Katrina R, 292
Stubblefield, Ronald, 234
Sims-Wood, Janet, 003, 097, 100,
209, 237
Stubbs, Marcus, 080
Sturdevant, Katherine Scott, 194
Sinha, Manisha, 294
Suarez, Camille, 124
Sistrunk, Walter Lee, 033
Sulavik, Andrew T., 046
Sloan-Brown, Carol, 100
Sullivan, Louis W., 200
Smalls, Victoria A., 006
Summers, Brandi, 150
The Scholars Choice, 070, 115
The University of Arkansas Press,
070, 115, 232
The University of Georgia Press,
070, 115, 232
Theodore, Ashley, 251
Theoharis, Jeanne, 203, 236
Thomas, Byron, 059
Thomas, Jasmine, 261
Thomas-Houston, Marilyn, 053, 132
Thompson, Celine I, 038
Thompson, Heather Ann, 311
Thompson, Shirley, 071, 242, 302
Thornton, Troy, 003, 097
Threat, Charissa, 153
Tidwell, Wylie Jason, 103, 239
Tilghman, John Randolph, 105, 295
Tillerson-Brown, Amy, 072, 143
Tinnie, Gene S, 194
Tinnie, Wallis, 124
Tiwalade, Egbe, 059
Toby, William, 200
Todd-Breland, Elizabeth, 173
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Participant Index
(Numbers following names indicate Session numbers)
Tolan, Paraska Lorraine, 284
Ward Jordan, Tanya, 166
Williams, Robert Isaac, 151
Tomlinson, Linda Diane, 063, 253,
285
Warren, Calvin, 108
Williams, Sonja, 100, 126
Townes, Mitzi, 291
Warren, Chezare, 082
Williams, Wanda, 183
Warren, Naomi, 244
Williams, Yohuru, 189, 297
Wash, Charles, 128
Williams, Yolanda Yvette, 149
Washington, Delo Elizabeth, 047
Williams, Zachary, 039
Washington, Michael, 242
Williams II, Ronald, 013
Washington Jr, Fred Samuel, 047
Williamson, Abraham J., 041, 264
Waterhouse, Carlton M., 031
Williamson, Angela, 041, 100, 264
Waters, Brandi M., 015
Willis, Daria, 018, 061
Watson, Huewayne, 064
Wilson, Francille, 226
Webb, Na’eemah, 279
Wilson, Jessica Alyce, 146
Webb, Sandra, 100
Wilson, Shaunqula, 038
Webster, Crystal Lynn, 142
Winkler, Erin N., 206
Weddington, Jordan, 305
Winslow, Barbara, 086
Weems, Robert, 272
Winslow, Barbara, 100
Trent, Noelle, 314
Tsuruta, Dorothy Jane Randall, 053
Tucker, Veta Smith, 090
Turner, Sasha, 263
Uhuru, Jihad, 116
Umoja, Akinyele, 290, 319
Underwood, Aubrey, 164
University of Florida Press, 070, 115,
232
University of Illinois Press, 070, 115,
232
University of North Carolina Press,
070, 115, 232
Weinfeld, David, 087
Winstead, Wheeler, 126
Van Putten, Melodye Micere, 180
Wells, Brandy Thomas, 193
Wisecarver, Roy, 254
Vassall, Kweku, 116
Wesley International Choir, 283
Wohlford, Corinne, 233
Vaughn, Gladys Gary, 003
Whipple, Angela, 251
Wolfskill, Phoebe, 134
Vaught, Seneca, 039
White, Deborah Gray, 273
Wolk, Sarah, 302
Veras, Edlin, 261
White, Derrick, 008, 201, 221
Wood, Jacqueline Edith, 022
Verges, Francoise, 091
White, Joyce, 118
Wood III, Augustus, 042
Vigne, Elaine, 191
Whitehead, Karsonya (Kaye) Wise,
136, 202
Woodard, Komozi, 203
Villarreal, Christina M, 020
Vincent, Godrey, 295
Wiemers, Alice, 249
Woods, Louis, 085
Vivian, C.T., 320
Wiggins, Danielle Lee, 255
Wilbourn, Mack, 196
Wade, Darren, 105
Wiliiams, Seretha, 120
Walden, Laurence, 264
Wilkins, Fanon Che, 210
Waldecoart Art Inc., 070, 115, 232
Williams, Chad, 293
Wales Freedman, Eden Elizabeth,
022, 120
Williams, Concetta A., 095
Walker, Antiwan, 127
Williams, Doretha, 307
Walker, Dominic, 107
Williams, Douglas, 110, 259
Walker, Dorothy, 291
Williams, Erica Lorraine, 175
Walker, Randolph Meade, 021
Williams, Glovinia Lewis, 100
Walker, Sheila, 270, 303
Williams, Hettie V, 302
Walker, Tamara, 150
Williams, Jennifer, 117, 215
Wallace, Michele, 204
Williams, John E., 131
Wallenstein, Peter, 072, 100
Williams, Learotha, 207
Walsh, Shane B., 183
Williams, Oscar R, 029, 131
Walton, David Mathew, 042, 060,
195
Williams, Phyllis Jean, 100
Ward, Jervette RaShaun, 218
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Williams, Darius, 313
Williams, Rhonda, 155, 188
Woodruff, Nan Elizabeth, 051
Woods, Naurice Frank, 022
Woods, Sonja, 024
Woodson, Ashley, 082
Wright, Allison M., 030
Wright, Donela, 215
Wright, Eric D, 182
Wright, Joshua Kondwani, 240
Wright, Nazera, 157
Wright Rigueur, Leah, 160
Yancy, Dorothy C., 089
YBI African Apparel, 070, 115, 232
Young, Darius J., 214
Young, Lisa, 131
Young, US Ambassador Andrew J,
196, 269
Zee Crafts, 070, 115, 232
Wednesday, SEPTEMBER 23, 2015
Session Index
Wednesday, SEPTEMBER 23, 2015
001.
7:00 am to 7:00 pm
Registration
Rotunda Pre-registration Office
PRE-REGISTRATION 9/23.
002.
8:00 am to 4:30 pm
Tour International Blvd. Portico (Bus departure area) Level 1
PRE-CONFERENCE AFRICAN AMERICAN HERITAGE BUS TOUR.
003.
10:00 am to 5:00 pm
Meeting
ASALH EXECUTIVE COUNCIL MEETING.
Georgia 5-A-V Room
Georgia 6-A-V Room
Participants:
Lionel Kimble, Chicago State University & Executive Council, ASALH
Dorothy F Bailey, MNCPPC & Executive Branch, ASALH
Thomas C Battle, Bethel Dukes Branch of ASALH & Executive Council, ASALH
Zende Larmar Clark, Executive Council, ASALH National Secretary
Sylvia Cyrus, Executive Director, ASALH
Sheila Flemming-Hunter, Clark Atlanta University & Executive Council, ASALH
Bettye Gardner, Coppin State University & Executive Council, ASALH
Evelyn Higginbotham, Harvard University & Executive Council, ASALH
Kenya King, Organizing Atlanta Branch & Executive Council, ASALH
Monroe Little, Indiana University & Executive Council, ASALH
Edna Greene Medford, Howard University, History Department & Executive Council, ASALH
Paula Seniors, Virginia Tech & Executive Council, ASALH
Janet Sims-Wood, Bethel Dukes Branch of ASALH & Executive Council, ASALH
Gilbert Smith, Executive Council, ASALH
Nikki Taylor, Texas Southern University & Executive Council, ASALH
Troy Thornton, Goldman Sachs & Co.& Executive Council, ASALH
Gladys Gary Vaughn, Executive Council, ASALH
Martha Biondi, Northwestern University & Executive Council, ASALH
Cornelius Bynum, Purdue University & Executive Coucil, ASALH
Jim Harper, North Carolina Central University & Executive Council, ASALH
Gina Paige, African Ancestry & Executive Council, ASALH
Annette Palmer, Morgan State University & Executive Council, ASALH
Daryl Michael Scott, Howard University & Centennial President, ASALH
Greer Charlotte Stanford-Randle, ASALH/ Paul Laurence Dunbar Branch at Dayton, OH & Executive Council, ASALH
James Stewart, Pennsylvania State University, (Emeritus) & Executive Council, ASALH
V.P Franklin, Editor Journal of African American History
Marilyn Thomas-Houston, Co-Editor, Fire!!!
La Vonne Neal, Co-Editor, Black History Bulletin
Alicia Moore, Co-Editor, Black History Bulletin
004.
10:00 am to 5:00 pm
Meeting
ASALH EXECUTIVE COUNCIL MEETING(B).
005.
11:00 am to 7:00 pm
Registration
ONSITE REGISTRATION.
Georgia Registration Office
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Wednesday, SEPTEMBER 23, 2015
006.
4:30 pm to 6:30 pm
Special Session
Capital Ballroom North
COMMEMORATING THE RECONSTRUCTION ERA AND CIVIL RIGHTS:
THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE’S CALL TO ACTION IN ITS SECOND CENTURY.
Presenters:
Turkiya L Lowe, National Park Service
Victoria A. Smalls, History, Arts, and Culture Director
Kathleen McClain Bond, Natchez National Historical Park
Sponsor:
National Park Service
007.
5:30 pm to 10:00 pm
Reception
OPENING NIGHT RECEPTION.
Atlanta History Center
Participants:
Kasim Reed, Mayor City of Atlanta
The Honorable Patsy Jo Hilliard, Former Mayor East Point GA, Centennial Atlanta Honorary Committee Co-Chair
Emcee:
Sylvia Y. Cyrus, Executive Director, ASALH
008.
9:00 pm to 11:00 pm
Meeting
ACADEMIC PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEETING.
Participants:
Lionel Kimble, Chicago State University & Executive Council, ASALH
Cornelius Bynum, Purdue University & Executive Coucil, ASALH
Derrick Alridge, University of Virginia
Martha Biondi, Northwestern University & Executive Council, ASALH
Michael Blum, Jarvis Chrisitan College
Christopher Cameron, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Sylvia Y. Cyrus, ASALH
Natanya Duncan, Lehigh University
Michelle Duster, Independent Writer
Stephanie Evans, Clark Atlanta University
Rondee Gaines, Miami University
Aram Goudsouzian, Universiry of Memphis
LaShawn Harris, Michigan State University
Jeffrey Helgeson, Texas State University
Ashley M. Howard, Loyola University New Orleans
Clarence Lang, University of Kansas
Treva Lindsey, Ohio State University
Charles McKinney, Rhodes College
Zebulon Miletsky, Stony Brook University
Patricia Reid, University of Dayton
Crystal Sanders, Pennsylvania State University
Daryl Michael Scott, Howard University & Centennial President, ASALH
Michelle R. Scott, UMBC
Ula Taylor, University of California UC Berkeley
Derrick White, Dartmouth College
Johnnieque Blackmon Love, University of Maryland Libraries
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Georgia 6-A-V Room
Thursday, SEPTEMBER 24, 2015
THURsday, SEPTEMBER 24, 2015
009.
7:00 am to 7:00 pm
Registration
PRE-REGISTRATION.
010.
7:00 am to 7:00 pm
Registration
ONSITE REGISTRATION.
011.
7:00 am to 11:45 am
012.
Rotunda Pre-registration Office
Georgia Registration Office
Tour International Blvd. Portico (Bus departure area) Level 1
AFRICAN AMERICAN HERITAGE BUS TOUR.
12:00 pm to 1:50 pm
Panel Session
Atlanta 1
STRUCTURES OF DOMINATION IN/ON THE BLACK: AFRICANA STUDIES AND POLITICAL ECONOMY.
Chair:
Gerald Horne, University of Houston
Participants:
Creating Race in the Post Civil Rights Era: Colorblindness and the Politics of Poverty in the Nixon Administration.
Keeanga Yamahtta Taylor, Princeton University
The Cold War and the Cultural Turn: Some Theoretical Sketches. Charisse Burden, University of California, Berkeley
Languaging Detroit: Neocolonialism, Race, and Urban Politics. Albert “AJ” Rice, Michigan State University
Commentator:
Minkah Makalani, University of Texas at Austin
013.
8:30 am to 9:50 am
Panel Session
BLACK MUSLIM WOMEN ACTIVISM: RECENTERING
THE DISCOURSE ON THE NATION OF ISLAM.
Atlanta 2
Roundtable Session
A CLOSER LOOK INTO THE LIFE OF JOHN HOPE FRANKLIN.
Atlanta 3
Chair:
Ronald Williams II, African American Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Participants:
Reformer Burnisteen Sharrieff and the Final Call to Islam. Ula Taylor, University of California UC Berkeley
Sister Captain: Black Muslim Women’s Leadership. Bayyinah S. Jeffries, Department of African American Studies, Ohio University
Finding My Grandmother, Finding Myself: NOI Pioneer, Mable Carrie Foreman (1908-1980). Baiyina W. Muhammad,
North Carolina Central University
Commentator:
Ronald Williams II, African American Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
014.
8:30 am to 9:50 am
Chair:
Jim Harper, North Carolina Central University & Executive Council, ASALH
Discussants:
Jasmine Fenner, North Carolina Central University
Ethan Staten Roy, North Carolina Central University
Destiny Owens, North Carolina Central University
Tanasha Peterson-Quantana, North Carolina Central University
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Thursday, SEPTEMBER 24, 2015
015.
8:30 am to 9:50 am
Panel Session
Atlanta 4
THREE CENTURIES OF BLACK LIFE IN SLAVERY IN THE CARIBBEAN AND LATIN AMERICA.
Chair:
Natanya Duncan, Lehigh University
Participants:
Queen Leonor’s War: Gender and Slave Resistance in Seventeenth-Century New Grenada. Bradley L. Craig, Harvard University
Department of History
‘Smallpox Negroes’: Smallpox Inoculation and the Enslaved Black Body in the British West Indies 1756-1800. Elise Agatha Mitchell,
New York University Department of History
Caught in the Act: Suicide and Slavery in 19th Century New Granada. Brandi M. Waters, Yale University - Departments of History &
African American Studies
Commentator:
Natanya Duncan, Lehigh University
016.
8:30 am to 9:50 am
Roundtable Session
Atlanta 5
MENTORING THE NEXT GENERATION OF AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES STUDENTS AND LEADERS.
Chair:
Manoucheka Celeste, University of Nevada Las Vegas
Discussants:
Julia Lee, University of Nevada Las Vegas
Tara Raines, University of Nevada Las Vegas
Kilgore Larmaya, University of Nevada Las Vegas
Karleen Schlichtmann, university of Nevada Las Vegas
Odusanya Kimberly, University of Nevada Las Vegas
McCallum Breanna, University of Nevada Las Vegas
017.
8:30 am to 9:50 am
Panel Session
THE MISEDUCATION OF AND ABOUT THE AFROLATIN:
CRITICAL DIALOGUES ON BEING BLACK AND BROWN.
Capital Ballroom North
Chair:
Krista Cortes, University of California - Berkeley
Participants:
Bodies, Bodies Everywhere and not a Puerto Rican in Sight!: An exploration of the Black Puerto Rican (Afroboriqua) Body.
Krista Cortes, University of California - Berkeley
Dominican hair manifesto. Maria Diaz, Harvard University
Black Women in Mexican Art; A Colonial Legacy. Kaelyn D Rodriguez, University of California, Los Angeles
Commentator:
Maria Diaz, Harvard University
018.
8:30 am to 9:50 am
Panel Session
Conference Room 123
RISE TO THE OCCASION: BLACK WOMEN’S CONTRIBUTIONS TO
CIVIL RIGHTS, EDUCATION, AND PHILANTHROPY.
Chair:
Tameka Bradley Hobbs, Florida Memorial University
Participants:
Myra and Ruth Logan: Sisters for Civil Rights. Daria Willis, Lee College
Black Women and Education, Williamsburg, Virginia, 1870-1940. Maureen Elgersman Lee, Hampton University
When and Where They Entered: The Financial and Philanthropic Contribution of African American Women Post-Emancipation.
Kenyatta Phelps, Lone Star College
“Black Women’s Activism at the University of Illinois, 1901-1939”. Tamara Hoff, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Commentator:
Tameka Bradley Hobbs, Florida Memorial University
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Thursday, SEPTEMBER 24, 2015
019.
8:30 am to 9:50 am
Panel Session
NO HUMANS INVOLVED: THE CONTINUING INSIGNIFICANCE
OF BLACK FEMALE BODIES.
Conference Room 125
Paper Session
AFRICANS IN THE AMERICAS.
Conference Room 127
Chair:
Aretina Hamilton, Ohio University, Department of African American Studies
Participants:
The Neglect of Black Women Through Prison Policies. Camille Rose Smith, Ohio University
No One Knows My Name: Racial Profiling and African American Women. Alexis Apparicio, Ohio University
The History of Violence on Black Women’s Bodies. Oliver Stone, Ohio University
Commentator:
Akil Houston, Ohio University, Department of African American Studies
020.
8:30 am to 9:50 am
Chair:
Edward Onaci, Ursinus College
Participants:
Diaspora Docterine: The Transplantation of IFA from Nigeria to Cuba and Brazil. Past and Present Practices.
Lisa Angela Rose-Rodriguez, UCONN, UCHC & Capital Community College
Obeah, Oaths, and Ancestors: Ritual Technologies and Mortuary Realms in the Gold Coast Diaspora. Walter C Rucker, Rutgers
University
Over 100 Years or More of Inspirations from Africa in the Americas: Case Studies of Salvador, Brazil and New Orleans, La.
Conchita Ndege, 1947
“Where liberty dwells, there is my country:” African-Americans and the British Emigration Scheme. Dexter Gabriel,
SUNY-Stony Brook
Fugitive Slaves, Gender, and Power Geometries in Late Spanish Texas, 1820. Christina M Villarreal, History Department, University
of Texas at Austin
Commentator:
Sonya Ramsey, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
021.
8:30 am to 9:50 am
Paper Session
Conference Room 129
DISMISSING AND REASSESSING MYTHS ABOUT RACE AND GENDER.
Chair:
Eldrin Lamar Deas, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Participants:
Beastial Myth: A Critical Race Theory of African American Male Stigma. Michael D Royster, Prairie View A&M University
For the Love of Ebony Women. Jade Love, undergraduate
The Glass is Half Full: Resurrection of the Post Civil War Assessment of the State of African Americans. Randolph Meade Walker,
Memphis organizing Branch
“I’m a Woman Who Knows Her Own Mind”: Narratives of Interiority and Black Life in Washington D.C. 1919 - 1942. Paula C
Austin, Graduate Center CUNY
“I’m a Woman Who Knows Her Own Mind”: Narratives of Interiority and Black Life in Washington D.C. 1919 - 1942. Paula C
Austin, California State University, Sacramento
Will The Real Sheroes Please Stand Up. Karen January, Educator and Author
Commentator:
Pellom McDaniels III, Emory University
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Thursday, SEPTEMBER 24, 2015
022.
8:30 am to 9:50 am
Panel Session
Conference Room 131
THE NEW NEGRO MOVEMENT AND ITS BLACK ARTS LEGACIES.
Chair:
Eden Elizabeth Wales Freedman, Adams State University
Participants:
A Seabed of BAM: Sounding the Impact of the 1968 Summer Issue of The Drama Review. Jacqueline Edith Wood, University of
Missouri-Kansas City
Henry Ossawa Tanner in the Time of the New Negro Movement. Naurice Frank Woods, The University of North Carolina at
Greensboro
Playing in the Light: An Analysis of “Progressive” Black Masculinities in Literature. Tiffani J Smith, Claremont Graduate University
Commentator:
Eden Elizabeth Wales Freedman, Adams State University
023.
8:30 am to 9:50 am
Special Session
TEACHERS WORKSHOP STUDENT SESSION.
Georgia 10
Leaders:
La Vonne Neal, Northern Illinois University
Regina Lewis, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
Alicia Moore, Southwestern University
Sponsor:
American Federation of Teachers
024.
8:30 am to 9:50 am
Panel Session
Georgia 11
THE LIONS TELL THEIR STORY: A CENTURY OF AFRICAN AMERICAN PUBLIC HISTORY.
Chair:
Latif A Tarik, Howard University
Participants:
Interpreting Our Heritage: Visibility and Omission the Presence of African Americans in the 21st Century. Ashley Jordon,
National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center
Race Pride, Progress, and Class: African Americans and the Atlanta International Cotton States Exposition, 1895. Anton D House,
Howard University
Claiming Space Within the Dominant Public Sphere: The History of African American Exhibitions, Fairs and Museums. Diane
Anderson, Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
Howard University Moorland-Spingarn Contributions to Africana Archives and Repository. Sonja Woods, Howard University
Commentator:
Diane Anderson, Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
025.
8:30 am to 9:50 am
Roundtable Session
FROM THE STREETS TO THE CLASSROOM:
COLLABORATING TO DOCUMENT A SOCIAL MOVEMENT.
Chair:
Nadia Ghasedi, Washington University
Discussants:
Meredith Evans, Washington University
Sowande Mustakeem, Washington University in St. Louis
Makiba Foster, Washington University in St. Louis
Jeffrey Q. McCune, Washington University in St. Louis
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Georgia 12
Thursday, SEPTEMBER 24, 2015
026.
8:30 am to 3:50 pm
Special Session
TEACHERS WORKSHOP.
Georgia 13
Leaders:
La Vonne Neal, Northern Illinois University
Regina Lewis, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
Alicia Moore, Southwestern University
Sponsor:
American Federation of Teachers
027.
8:30 am to 9:50 am
Workshop Session
Georgia 2 --AV Room
MORE THAN A GAME: USING GAMING TO ENGAGE AND TEACH IN THE DIGITAL AGE.
Leaders:
Latangela Lajuan Crossfield, Clark Atlanta University
Rosailand Arthur, Clark Atlanta University
Sandra Rucker, Clark Atlanta University
028.
8:30 am to 9:50 am
Panel Session
Georgia 3-A-V Room
CIVIL WAR TO CIVIL RIGHTS: A STRUGGLE FOR HUMAN DIGNITY.
Chair:
Cornelius Bynum, Purdue University & Executive Coucil, ASALH
Participants:
Rufus B. Bullock and Convict Leasing in Post-Civil War Georgia. Edward Hightower, Clark Atlanta University
Pre-Civil Rights Discussions of the African American Churches During the Jim Crow Era. Lauren Brisbon, Clark Atlanta University
Color Cast (e): Reconstructing Black Identities from Reconstruction to Post-Racial America. Ebony Perro, Clark Atlanta University
Commentator:
Gregory Mixon, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
029.
8:30 am to 9:50 am
Paper Session
CIVIL RIGHTS IN THE URBAN NORTH.
Georgia 5-A-V Room
Chair:
Louis Ray, Fairleigh Dickinson University
Participants:
“The Greatest Good”: Black Professionals and the Early Civil Rights Movement in Pittsburgh, 1925-1940. Adam Lee Cilli,
University of Maine
Continuity and Change: the African American Struggle for Civil Rights, 1954-1956. Louis Ray, Fairleigh Dickinson University;
Muriel Grimmett, Independent scholar
Protest in Suburbia! The 1965 North Shore Summer Project for Fair Housing in Chicago’s Suburbs. Mary Barr, Clemson University
School Desegregation Law: Amos et al v. Board of School Directors of the City of Milwaukee. David Boers, Marian University
Commentator:
Oscar R Williams, SUNY Albany
030.
8:30 am to 9:50 am
Panel Session
Georgia 6-A-V Room
MOVING BEYOND THE ACADEMY: AFRICAN AMERICAN HERITAGE TOURISM COMES OF AGE.
Chair:
Mary Corey, The College at Brockport, Brockport, NY
Participants:
Public History’s Critical Role in Public Perceptions of African American History. Mary Corey, The College at Brockport, Brockport, NY
Teaching the Past: Public History and Public Schools. Mark Harnischfeger, Greece Central School District
Why here? Tracing the Intersection of Physical & Cultural Geography. Gayle J. Stout, Genesee Community College & Dansville, NY
High School, Ret.
Commentator:
Allison M. Wright, The College at Brockport, Brockport, NY
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Thursday, SEPTEMBER 24, 2015
031.
8:00 am to 3:50 pm
Panel Session
Georgia 9-A-V Room
SLAVERY, PUBLIC MEMORY, AND REPARATIONS: CONNECTING THE UNITED STATES, FRANCE, AND BRAZIL.
Chair:
Randal Maurice Jelks, University of Kansas
Participants:
An African American Historian in Paris: Finding the History of Slavery in the City of Lights. Martha S. Jones, University of Michigan
Total Recall: Repairing the Public Memory of Slavery and Segregation. Carlton M. Waterhouse, Indiana University
Public Memory and Reparations for Slavery in Brazil and the United States. Ana Lucia Araujo, Howard University
Racial Slavery and Reparations in Brazilian and American Race-Conscious Affirmative Jurisprudence. Wendy Greene, Samford
University
Commentators:
Robert J. Cottrol, George Washington University
Randal Maurice Jelks, University of Kansas
032.
8:30 am to 9:50 am
Panel Session
Savannah 1 (Level 2 Lobby)
WHAT’S LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT: THE POLITICAL DIMENSIONS OF
LOVE WITHIN BLACK EXPRESSIVE CULTURE.
Chair:
Kendra Janelle Ross, Cultural Worker/Independent Scholar
Participants:
Sonic Black Feminist Praxis: The Politics and Power of the Love Songs in Malindy’s Toolbox. Abby Dobson, Sonic Conceptual
Artist/Independent Scholar
In Search of Fannie’s Song: Towards an Affective Politics of Love in Black Women’s Musical Expressions. Kendra Janelle Ross,
Cultural Worker/Independent Scholar
The Politics of Emotion in Motown and Stax Love Songs. Tanesha Barnes, Cultural Critic
Commentator:
Abby Dobson, Sonic Conceptual Artist/Independent Scholar
033.
8:30 am to 9:50 am
Paper Session
LINGUISTICS AND BLACK EXPRESSION.
Savannah 2 (Level 2 Lobby)
Chair:
Derrick Lanois, Georgia State University
Participants:
Life Story of Ernie A. Smith: Black Nationalist Language Ideology to Ebonics. Kunihiko Minamoto, Michigan State University
Mending the Divide: Why Theoretical Linguistics should be in the Mix. Walter Lee Sistrunk, St. John’s University
People without Tongues: An Ethnic Anomaly. Howard W Starks, WSU-Alluni
Commentator:
Derrick Lanois, Georgia State University
034.
8:30 am to 9:50 am
Panel Session
Savannah 3 (Level 2 Lobby)
REPRESSION, REFORM, AND REVOLUTION: NEW STUDIES ON THE LONG CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT.
Chair:
Charles Ford, Norfolk State University
Participants:
Florida State Normal and Industrial School for Coloreds: Thomas DeSalle Tucker and His Radical Approach to Black Higher
Education. Reginald K Ellis, Florida A&M University
The Apotheosis of Booker T. Washington High School: History, Identity, and Educational Equity in Norfolk, Virginia. Jeffery
Littlejohn, Sam Houston State University
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: The Urban Rebellion in York, Pennsylvania, A Case Study of a Nation on Fire in the late
1960s. Peter Levy, York College of Pennsylvania
Commentator:
Charles Ford, Norfolk State University
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Thursday, SEPTEMBER 24, 2015
035.
10:00 am to 11:50 am
Roundtable Session
ON THE ROAD TO THE NPS CENTENNIAL: PARTNERING WITH THE NPS
TO PREPARE HBCU STUDENTS AS THE NEXT GENERATION OF PARK STEWARDS.
Atlanta 1
Chair:
Barbara Spencer Dunn, DeVereux Family
Discussants:
George McDonald, National Park Service
Angelou Ezeilo, Greening Youth Foundation
Joy Kinard, National Park Service
035.1
SEE SESSION 088.
036.
10:00 am to 11:50 am
Panel Session
“THE DEPLOYMENT OF SOLDIERING: BLACK AMERICANS
FROM THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR THROUGH WORLD WAR I.”
Atlanta 2
10:00 am to 11:50 am
Panel Session
“WE ARE THE ARBITERS OF OUR OWN DESTINY”: LIBERIA AND
THE BLACK INTELLECTUAL AND RADICAL TRADITION.
Atlanta 3
10:00 am to 11:50 am
Atlanta 4
Chair:
Khary Polk, Amherst College
Participants:
Caribbean Slave Revolt and Rank and File Patriot Abolitionism. Alan Gilbert, Denver University
“Doing Our Bit”: Race, Gender and the Aesthetics of War in WWI Propaganda. Kristin Moriah, CUNY Graduate Center
Leveraging Military Service Against Jim Crow 1890 to 1914. Myra Armstead, Bard College
Commentator:
Khary Polk, Amherst College
037.
Chair:
Stephanie Evans, Clark Atlanta University
Participants:
“The second battle for Africa has begun”: Rev. Clarence W. Harding Jr., Liberia, the US Midwest, and Garveyism, 1966-1980.
Erik McDuffie, University of Illinois
“On the Mountain of the Lion: Edward Blyden and his 1885 Exile to Sierra Leone”. Matthew Law, Queens University Belfast
“Benjamin Brawley’s Liberian Dream.” Ousmane Kirumu Power-Greene, Clark University
Commentator:
Cynthia Blandford, Honorary Consul General Republic of Liberia
038.
Roundtable Session
(WE) MIND THE GAP: CULTURAL SUPPORT THAT
STRENGTHENS BLACK STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT.
Chair:
Valerie N. Adams-Bass, University of California, Davis
Discussants:
Fatima Hafiz-Wahid, Temple University
Keisha L Bentley-Edwards, University of Texas, Austin
Chonika Coleman-King, University of Tennessee
Celine I Thompson, Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine
Shaunqula Wilson, University of Texas, Dallas
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Thursday, SEPTEMBER 24, 2015
039.
10:00 am to 11:50 am
Roundtable Session
“POST-BROWN TO ‘POST-RACIAL ERA’: BLACK TEACHERS
AND THE SEGREGATION OF THE AMERICAN MIND.”
Atlanta 5
Chair:
Zachary Williams, University of Akron
Discussants:
Dr. Tamara Smith, I-LEAD Charter School; Independent Researcher
Holly Fisher-Hickman, Independent Researcher; Learning-Healing Institute, Inc
Seneca Vaught, Kennesaw State University
Jim Harper, North Carolina Central University & Executive Council, ASALH
040.
10:00 am to 11:50 am
Roundtable Session
TRANSFORMATIVE DIGITAL BLACK FEMINISMS:
A CRUNK FEMINIST COLLECTIVE ROUNDTABLE.
Capital Ballroom North
Chair:
Rachel Raimist, University of Alabama
Discussants:
Robin Boylorn, University of Alabama
Brittney Cooper, Rutgers University
Chanel Craft Tanner, Emory University
Sheri Davis-Faulkner, Georgia Tech
Susana Morris, Auburn University
041.
10:00 am to 11:50 am
Panel Session
ACTIVISTS, EDUCATION, AND ASALH: A CENTURY OF
JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA’S AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY.
Conference Room 123
Chair:
Abraham J. Williamson, Harvard Law School
Participants:
A. Philip Randolph: An American Hero. Donna Rash-Sawyer, Florida State Community College at Jacksonville South
150 years of Higher Education in the Deep South: Edward Waters College. TaKeia Anthony, Edward Waters College
Preserving Jacksonville’s African-American History: A brief history of the James Weldon Johnson Chapter of ASALH. Angela
Williamson, ASALH JWJ Branch, Clay County Historic Preservation Board, Southern New Hampshire University
Commentator:
TaKeia Anthony, Edward Waters College
042.
10:00 am to 11:50 am
Chair:
Martha Biondi, Northwestern University
Paper Session
BLACK POWER IDENTITY AND SOCIAL ACTIVISM.
Conference Room 125
Participants:
“If There’s a Hell Below, We’re All Going to Go!”:The Black Working Class and Black Power in the Atlanta Freedom Struggle,
1970-1973. Augustus Wood III, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
“My Mind is Black”: Black Power and BUILD in 1960s Buffalo, New York. Rowena Ianthe Alfonso
A Five-Fold Foundation of Faith: How Black Religion in Detroit Radicalized Black America. Jamon Jordan, ASALH-Detroit, Vice
President; Founder & CEO of Black Scroll History & Tours
Where is Africa? Who is African?: Africa and identity amongst Black Power era high school students in Detroit, Michigan. David
Mathew Walton, Michigan State University
“Is this Mississippi?” Black Power Politics, Student Activism, and the Perpetuation of Exceptional Southern Racism.
Sarajanee O Davis, Ohio State University
Commentator:
Kerry Pimblott, University of Wyoming
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Thursday, SEPTEMBER 24, 2015
043.
10:00 am to 11:50 am
Panel Session
CONCEPTUALIZING AFRICANA SPORTING STUDIES.
Conference Room 127
Panel Session
DO REMEMBER ME: BLACK WOMEN’S SUBJECTIVITY
AND INVISIBILITY IN CULTURE AND THE ARTS.
Georgia 5-A-V Room
Chair:
Drew Brown, University of Houston
Participants:
Black Masculinity on Display at the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum. Thabiti Lewis, Washington State University at Vancouver
“The Myth of the Black Athlete”: The Need to Incorporate African American Studies into the Study of Athletics as a Black
Advancement Strategy. Dexter Blackman, Loyola Marymount University
The Cultural Meaning of Sport to Black Folk. Drew Brown, University of Houston
Commentator:
Thabiti Lewis, Washington State University at Vancouver
044.
10:00 am to 11:50 am
Chair:
Marta Effinger-Crichlow, New York City College of Technology - CUNY
Participants:
‘I Wish My Momma Was Here’: A Black Feminist Reading of Gregory Porter’s Music. Marta Effinger-Crichlow, New York City
College of Technology - CUNY
Whatever Happened to Maidie Norman?: Twentieth Century Arts Activist, African American Theatre Educator, and Hollywood
Actress. Eve Lambert, Albany State University
I am Renisha McBride. Renata Ferdinand, New York City College of Technology - CUNY
Commentator:
Renata Ferdinand, New York City College of Technology - CUNY
045.
10:00 am to 11:50 am
Panel Session
CARTER G. WOODSON:
THE PRESS AND POLITICS IN THE 1930S.
Georgia 10
Chair:
Burnis R Morris, Marshall University
Participants:
Carter G. Woodson’s newspaper columns, 1931-1937. Burnis R Morris, Marshall University
The Black press and the Democratic Party in the 1930s. Rob Rabe, Marshall University
Carter G. Woodson and political agenda-building during the 1930s. Carmen Manning-Miller, The Lincoln University, PA
Commentator:
Carmen Manning-Miller, The Lincoln University, PA
046.
10:00 am to 11:50 am
Library Session
DIGITIZING THE BLACK EXPERIENCE: BUILDING “DIGITAL HOWARD”
AND THE “PORTAL TO THE BLACK EXPERIENCE”.
Georgia 11
Chair:
Trichita Chestnut, National Archives and Records Administration
Participants:
“The Portal to the Black Experience.” Andrew T. Sulavik, Howard University
Building Digital Howard. Kenvi Phillips, Howard University
Digital Howard in Action. Lopez Matthews, Howard University
Commentator:
Trichita Chestnut, National Archives and Records Administration
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Thursday, SEPTEMBER 24, 2015
047.
10:00 am to 11:50 am
Panel Session
Georgia 12
THREE WOMEN SCHOLARS GUARDING GULLAH: HONORING WOODSON’S VISION
& DOCUMENTING CULTURAL HERITAGE IN THE SOUTH CAROLINA LOW COUNTRY.
Chair:
Emory S Campbell, Past Director of Penn Center
Participants:
Culture & Family: The Education of a Native Daughter. Delo Elizabeth Washington, Independent Scholar
Identity & Agency: Lessons from the Life of Robert Smalls. Fayth M. Parks, Georgia Southern University
Culture & Social Change. Beverly M John, Chicago State University
Commentators:
Fred Samuel Washington Jr, Independent Scholar
Mary LaFrance Ferguson, Beverly John
048.
2:00 pm to 3:50 pm
Roundtable Session
Georgia-2-A-V Room
BOOKER T.WASHINGTON- HIS IMAGE AND LEGACY AFTER 100 YEARS.
Chair:
John Bracey, University of Massachusetts - Amherst
Discussants:
Shawn Leigh Alexander, Kansas University
Kenneth Hamilton, Southern Methodist University
David H Jackson, Florida A&M University
049.
10:00 am to 11:50 am
Presidential Session
BLACK ART, ENTERTAINMENT, AND SPORTS:
THE DIALECTIC OF POLITICAL ACTIVISM.
Georgia 3-A-V Room
Chair:
Andra Gillespie, Emory University
Participants:
Discomfort & Art: A Dialectic in Mari Evans’ Ouevre. Althea Tait, SUNY Brockport
Participant Observer: The Documentary Photography of Jim Alexander. Candy Tate, Emory University
LeBron James, Sports and Racial Healing. Nathan McCall, Emory University
050.
10:00 am to 11:50 am
Private Session
Georgia 4-A-V Room
THE 5WS AND A H FOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE CAREER OPPORTUNITIES.
Participants:
Turkiya L Lowe, National Park Service
Edward Hightower, Clark Atlanta University
Shonda Shropshire, National Park Service
051.
10:00 am to 11:50 am
Roundtable Session
RETHINKING VIOLENCE IN THE FREEDOM STRUGGLE.
Chair:
John Higginson, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Discussants:
Adriane Lentz-Smith, History Department, Duke
Melynda x Price, University of Kentucky
Danielle McGuire, Wayne State University
Dianna Freelon-Foster, Southern Echo
Nan Elizabeth Woodruff, Pennsylvania State University
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Georgia 5-A-V Room
Thursday, SEPTEMBER 24, 2015
052.
10:00 am to 11:50 am
Panel Session
Georgia 6-A-V Room
W.E.B. DU BOIS’ DISCOURSE ON THE SOUL AS A HEURISTIC DEVICE
FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE IN HIGHER EDUCATION.
Chair:
Joseph Flynn, Northern Illinois University
Participants:
W.E.B. Du Bois’ Discourse on the Soul as a Heuristic Device for Social Justice in Higher Education. Sarah Lynne Frielink
Platonic and Freirean Interpretations of W.E.B. Du Bois’s “Of the Coming of John.” Kerry Burch, Northern Illinois University
Reviving W.E.B. Du Bois’ Legacy of Liberal Arts and the Humanities in Adult and Higher Education. Cornelius Gilbert, Northern
Illinois University
Commentator:
Cornelius Gilbert, Northern Illinois University
053.
10:00 am to 11:50 am
Panel Session
Georgia 9-A-V Room
DOING WOMANIST WORK (INVITED SESSION SPONSORED BY FIRE!!!).
Chair:
Marilyn Thomas-Houston, University of Florida
Participants:
Theorizing African Diaspora Womanism (Independent of European Diaspora Feminism). Dorothy Jane Randall Tsuruta,
San Francisco State University
Transformative Language Requires the Use of a Womanist Lens. Veta Irby-Ware, San Francisco State University
Womanist Approaches to Preserving the Lives of Black Males. Kevin L. Brooks, Ohio State University
Hiphop Womanist Inquiry. Dawn-Elissa Fischer, San Francisco State University
Commentator:
R. Scott Heath, Georgia State University
054.
10:00 am to 11:50 am
Panel Session
Savannah 1 (Level 2 Lobby)
ACTIVISM, CONSERVATISM, AND DESEGREGATION IN EAST TEXAS.
Chair:
Camesha Scruggs, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Participants:
Christia Adair: Texas Heroine. Chelsea Branch, Independent Scholar
Maintaining the Status Quo Ante: Dr. James G. Gee’s Internal Struggles as President of East Texas State University.
Katherine Gaskamp, Sam Houston
The Resistance, Actions, and Outcome: The Desegregation of Sam Houston State Teachers College. Carolyn A Carroll,
Sam Houston State University
Commentator:
Jeffery Littlejohn, Sam Houston State University
055.
10:00 am to 11:50 am
Panel Session
Savannah 2 (Level 2 Lobby)
AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY FORMS AND FUNCTIONS IN THE
POST-RECONSTRUCTION AMERICAN SOUTH.
Chair:
David Taft Terry, Morgan State University
Participants:
Black Women and Community Building in Post-Civil War U.S. History. Brandi C Brimmer, Morgan State University
Complicating White Supremacy in Post-Emancipation North Carolina: Henry Berry Lowrie and the Case of the Lumbee.
Charles L Chavis, Jr., Morgan State University
The Urban South and Jim Crow’s Rise: Re-Mapping Migration and Re-Aligning the Critical Turns. David Taft Terry, Morgan
State University
Commentator:
Natanya Duncan, Lehigh University
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Thursday, SEPTEMBER 24, 2015
056.
10:00 am to 11:50 am
Roundtable Session
Savannah 3 (Level 2 Lobby)
BETTING ON BLACK: TRIALS AND TRIUMPHS OF BLACK SCHOLARS
ENTERING INTO THE JOB MARKET.
Chair:
Armanthia Nicole Duncan, The University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Discussants:
Emahunn Raheem Ali Campbell, Washington and Lee Unviersity
K. T. Ewing, Tennessee State University
Sheena Harris, Tuskegee University
Julia Charles, Auburn University
056.1
057.
12:00 pm to 1:45 pm
SEE SESSION 012.
Panel Session
BEING MARY JANE IN AN EMPIRE FULL OF SCANDALS:
BLACK WOMEN IN AMERICAN POPULAR CULTURE.
Atlanta 3
Panel Session
FISK UNIVERSITY: RESEARCHING HISTORIC INCIDENTS
AND CONTEMPORARY ISSUES.
Atlanta 4
Chair:
Christina Kanu, Clark Atlanta University
Participants:
“From the Big House to the White House: Historical Narratives of Black Women’s Identity”. Ebony Perro, Clark Atlanta University
“It’s Handled: Olivia Pope, Womanism, and the Surrendering of Black women’s bodies.” Chyna Yvonne Davis,
Clark Atlanta University
Commentator:
Marcus Ta’von Haynes, Clark Atlanta University
058.
12:00 pm to 1:45 pm
Chair:
Ronald Mickens, Clark Atlanta University
Participants:
Fisk Fictions: Ruth Landes and Elmer Imes 1937-1941. Abby Gondek, Florida International University
African American women faculty and administrators during the presidencies of Thomas E. Jones and Charles S. Johnson, 1929-1956.
Linda Marie Perkins, Claremont Graduate University
For the Love of Money: Fisk University and the Stieglitz Art Collection, 1949-2012. M. Christopher Brown II, American Association
of State Colleges and Universities
Commentator:
Ronald Mickens, Clark Atlanta University
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Thursday, SEPTEMBER 24, 2015
059.
12:00 pm to 1:45 pm
Luncheon
EDUCATORS LUNCHEON.
Capital Ballroon Center and South
Participants:
Robert Stanton, National Park Service (Retired), Centennial Honorary Committee
Stanley Austin, National Park Service, Southeast Region
John Bracey, University of Massachusetts - Amherst, Centennial Honorary Committee
Greetings:
Daryl Michael Scott, Howard University & Executive Council, ASALH, Centennial President
Speaker:
Sonia Sanchez, Temple University--Emeritus
Invocation & Grace:
Iya Alake Akinsegun, Yoruba People
Emcee:
Cynne Simpson, WAGA-TV, Atlanta
Benediction:
Rev. Byron Thomas, Ben Hill United Methodist Church
060.
12:00 pm to 1:45 pm
Panel Session
Conference Room 125
BLACK INTERNATIONALISM, REPRESSION, AND RESISTANCE.
Chair:
David Mathew Walton, Michigan State University
Participants:
State Power, International Travel, and African Americans in the Cold War: Paul Robeson, Robert F. Williams, and Richard Gibson.
Richard M Mares, Michigan State University
Black Consciousness in Exile: The Experiences of Black Consciousness Exiles throughout the Diaspora during the Black
Consciousness Era. David Mathew Walton, Michigan State University
From Compton to Soweto: Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp a Butterfly and Post Black Power and Black Consciousness Realities in the
U.S. and South Africa. Michael Forbes, College of Wooster
Commentator:
Ahmad Rahman, University of Michigan - Dearborn
061.
12:00 pm to 1:45 pm
Panel Session
Conference Room 127
STRANGE FRUIT, BITTER SEEDS: THE COMPLEX SURVIVAL M.
Chair:
Reginald K Ellis, Florida A&M University
Participants:
Strange Fruit, Bitter Seeds: The Echoes of Lynching Violence in African American Families. Tameka Bradley Hobbs, Florida
Memorial University
Mother Taught Me Well: Ruth Logan Roberts, the Great Migration, and Keeping the Family Together. Daria Willis, Lee College
Strange Fruit in the Family: The Aftermath of the Lynching of Anthony Crawford. Doria Johnson, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Commentator:
Maureen Elgersman Lee, Hampton University
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Thursday, SEPTEMBER 24, 2015
062.
12:00 pm to 1:45 pm
Paper Session
PRESERVING AND PRESENTING THE PAST.
Conference Room 129
Paper Session
MIGRATION AND BLACK COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT.
Conference Room 131
Chair:
Adam Lee Cilli, University of Maine
Participants:
Memory in Action: The Role of Making Historical Collections Meaningful to Researchers. Sophia Sotilleo, Lincoln University
Possible Reconsideration to the Library of Congress Classification System’s Liberal Placements of African American Psychology and
African American Social Science. Eddie Hughes, Southern University
Sites Seen and Unseen: A Question of Legitimacy in African American Women’s Representation in National Park Service Historic
Sites. Alexandria Russell, University of South Carolina
Preserving the Past: The Office of the Grand Librarian in the Order of the Eastern Star (PHA), 1914-2014. Sibyl Moses, Library of
Congress
Commentator:
Adam Lee Cilli, University of Maine
063.
12:00 pm to 1:45 pm
Chair:
Emory S Campbell, Past Director of Penn Center
Participants:
African American YMCA’s and the Rosenwald Fund. Daniel R Acker, Public Historian
Black Before Bankruptcy: The 10 Most Important Sites in the Building of Black Detroit. Jamon Jordan, ASALH-Detroit, Vice
President; Founder & CEO of Black Scroll History & Tours
The Migration of African Americans to Northern California’s Bay Area since before Statehood. Jan Batiste Adkins, San Jose
Evergreen Community College District
Indiana Towns Communities and the (Re)production of Social Misery. Jennifer Sdunzik, Purdue University
Commentator:
Linda Diane Tomlinson, Fayetteville State University
064.
12:00 pm to 1:45 pm
Panel Session
BLACK MIGRANTS, METHODOLOGIES, AND MOBILITIES.
Georgia 10
Chair:
Huewayne Watson, Independent Scholar
Participants:
“Southern Memories: Excavating The Power of Post-1970 Return Narratives”. James Roane, Columbia University
“Reading the Black Body within Sartorial Performance.”. Brittney Nikel Taylor, Columbia University, IRAAS
“Traversing Transnational Black Identities: Afro-Latinas and the Resurgence of the Natural Hair Movement. ”. Brittaney N Graham,
Columbia University
“The Other African Americans: Race, Ethnicity and the Children of West African Immigrants.”. Dialika Sall
Commentator:
Claudrena Harold, University of Virginia
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Thursday, SEPTEMBER 24, 2015
065.
12:00 pm to 1:45 pm
Panel Session
Georgia 12
MIGRATIONS, MOBILIZATIONS, AND MOVEMENTS: FROM THE NEW NEGRO TO BLACK POWER.
Chair:
Freddie L. Parker, North Carolina Central University
Participants:
From Log Cabin to the Pulpit: William H. Robinson’s Postbellum Odyssey. Marcus P. Nevius, The Ohio State University
“Go To It, My Southern Brothers”: The Chicago Defender, Great Migration, and Construction of Urban Black Manhood. D’Weston
Haywood, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Ain’t No Love in the Heart of “Soul City”: The Early Life of Harvey Gantt as Soul City’s Planner and an Alternative for Black Power
1966-1980. Anthony Donaldson, University of Florida
Commentator:
Hasan Jeffries, Ohio State University
066.
12:00 pm to 1:45 pm
Paper Session
HAIR AND THE AESTHETICS OF BLACK FEMININITY.
Georgia 2 --AV Room
Chair:
Tanisha C Ford, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Participants:
Black Hair and Politicized Aesthetic Turns. Schillica Howard, Georgia State University
Fat, Black and Ugly: The Politics of the New Millennium Mammy. Ayondela McDole, Syracuse University
New Directions in Black Women’s Visual History. Kelli Morgan, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Tame Her Mane: The Perceptions of Natural Hair and its Effects on Black Women’s Self-Esteem and Relationships. Moriayo
Maripaz-Shenee Oduguwa, Calfornia State University, Fullerton Undergraduate
Commentator:
Tanisha C Ford, University of Massachusetts Amherst
12:00 pm to 1:45 pm
Panel Session
Georgia 3-A-V Room
067.
THE SLAVE COMMUNITY AT DEVEREUX MONTE VERDE PLANATION: ALL LINES LEAD TO TABBY AND
SCOTT.
Chair:
Joi Spencer, San Diego State University
Participants:
The Slave Community at the Monte Verdi Plantation: All lines lead to Tabby DeVereux (1787). Joleene Maddox Snider, Texas State
University
Stephen F. Austin University Features the DeVereux Family. Jeri Mills, Historian/Researcher
The Nadir of Race Relations in the U.S.: Survival through intelligence and ingenuity. James W Loewen, University of Illinois
The Impact of Scott and Tabby’s Monte Verdi Descendants, on Rusk County Texas During the early 1900s. Barbara Spencer Dunn,
DeVereux Family
Commentator:
Joi Spencer, San Diego State University
068.
12:00 pm to 1:45 pm
Panel Session
Georgia 5-A-V Room
RELIGION, SEXUALITY, AND BLACK LIBERATION AND THE BLACK CHURCH.
Participants:
Outsiders Within: Everyday Faith as a Site of Black Lesbian Activism. Monique Moultrie, Georgia State University
Rebellion through Religion: Henriette Delille and the Sisters of the Holy Family. Benedict Chatelain
The Pulpit, Platform and Press: Bishop Henry McNeal Turner and the Rhetoric of Freedom. Andre E. Johnson, Memphis Theological
Seminary
“A New Social Awakening”: Howard University’s Rankin Network and the 1956 Tallahassee Bus Boycott. Larry O. Rivers,
University of West Georgia
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069.
12:00 pm to 1:45 pm
Panel Session
Georgia 6-A-V Room
EARLY AFRICAN AMERICAN FILMS: LEISURE AND LIFE IN JIM CROW GEORGIA.
Chair:
Margaret Compton, Brown Media Archives, University of Georgia Libraries
Participants:
African American Life (Living, Working & Playing) at Pebble Hill Plantation: 1900s to 1940s. James “Jack” Hadley, The Jack
Hadley Black History Museum
The Discovery, Preservation, and Use of the John and Lillian Goodlett Films. Paul Crater, Kenan Research Center at the Atlanta
History Center
From Ball Field to Battlefield: Athletics and Military Service in the Wartime Work of J. Richardson Jones. Barbara McCaskill, Dept.
of English, University of Georgia
Commentators:
Margaret Compton, Brown Media Archives, University of Georgia Libraries
Pellom McDaniels III, Curator of African American Collections, Emory University
070.
12:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Participants:
Art Publishing and Distribution by Charles Bibbs
Association Book Exhibit
Auburn Avenue Research Library on African-American
Culture & History
Everyone’s Place
Farmers Insurance
Foundation International
Heritage International Fashions
Journal of African American History
Library Company of Philadelphia
McFarland Publishing
Middle Tennnessee State University
National Museum of American History
071.
12:00 pm to 1:45 pm
Exhibitors
EXHIBITORS.
Georgia 7, 8 and Pre-function Area (Exhibits)
National Park Service-Southeast Regional Office
Penguin Random House
retiredslaves.com
Robin Lofton
Scholars Choice
University of Arkansas Press
University of Georgia Press
University of Illinois Press
University of North Carolina Press
University Press Florida
Waldencorart Inc.
YBI African Apparel
Zee Crafts
Paper Session
ECONOMIC NATIONALISM AND RACIAL SELF-HELP.
Georgia 9-A-V Room
Participants:
Black Economics During the Obama Administration. Shawn Council, CCSY
Making Change Happen: The Legacy of African American Philanthropy. Erin H Moore, Community Investment Network
Marcus Garvey “The Father of Black Nationalism.” Christopher Harris, Phi Beta Sigma
“We Have a Business We Should Be Proud of”: Black Cooperative Enterprises in the Age of Jim Crow, 1920-1945. Delaina Price,
Yale University
Commentator:
Shirley Thompson, The University of Texas at Austin
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072.
12:00 pm to 1:45 pm
Panel Session
NEW VIEWS OF THE POST-CIVIL WAR SOUTH.
Savannah 2 (Level 2 Lobby)
Chair:
Amy Tillerson-Brown, Mary Baldwin College
Participants:
Black Electoral Power in the Post–Civil War United States: African American State Legislators, 1865–1915. Peter Wallenstein,
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Life under a New Order: Antebellum Free People of Color in Reconstruction North Carolina. Warren Milteer, Virginia Polytechnic
Institute and State University
Race and Criminality in Post-War Central Virginia. Amy Tillerson-Brown, Mary Baldwin College
Commentator:
Baiyina W. Muhammad, North Carolina Central University
072.1
SEE SESSION 048.
073.
2:00 pm to 3:50 pm
Panel Session
BLACK SEXUALITIES: TRANSFORMING THE UNTHINKABLE
AND UNIMAGINABLE INTO POWER.
Atlanta 1
Chair:
La’Neice Littleton, Clark Atlanta University
Participants:
“Maya and Karrine: Taking Back Respectability and Owning Pleasure”. Victoria Colston-Brooks, Clark Atlanta University
“Through the Gaze of Black Gays : The Neglected X Factor in the Quest for Freedom”. Ignace LaCott, Clark Atlanta University
“Spiritual-Erotic Agency and Atlanta Strippers: A Transformative Model for Expanding Consciousness, Identity and Africana
Liberation”. Rava Shelyn Chapman, Clark Atlanta University
Commentator:
Courtney Terry, Clark Atlanta University
074.
2:00 pm to 3:50 pm
Panel Session
BLACK TEACHERS AND THE PROGRESSIVE EDUCATION MOVEMENT:
THEIR VISIONS, THEIR WORKS, THEIR VOICES!
Atlanta 2
Chair:
Traki Taylor-Webb, Bowie State University
Participants:
The Meanings of Progress: Progressive Reform and Juvenile Justice in Virginia, 1915-1940. Lindsey Elizabeth Jones, University of
Virginia
A “Progressive” Alternative: The Educational Thought of Carter G. Woodson. Jarvis Ray Givens, UC Berkeley
Performance, Propaganda and the Politics of Respectability: The Progressive Era Plays of Nannie Helen Burroughs. Shantina
Jackson, University of California, Berkeley
The Practical Pedagogue: Mary McLeod Bethune’s Evolving Educational Philosophy, 1904-1920. Alexander Hyres, University of
Virginia
Commentator:
Traki Taylor-Webb, Bowie State University
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075.
2:00 pm to 3:50 pm
Panel Session
Atlanta 3
BEHIND EVERY HBCU: BLACK WOMEN TRANSFORMING EDUCATION,
POLITICAL ACTIVISM AND BEAUTY CULTURE PRIOR TO THE MODERN CIVIL RIGHTS ERA.
Chair:
Ashley Robertson, Bethune-Cookman University/Bethune Foundation
Participants:
African-Centered Education as a means To Economic Stability: A Nationalist View of Margaret Murray Washington. Sheena Harris,
Tuskegee University
White Racism, Black Beaches: Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune’s Fight for Social Justice in Florida. Ashley Robertson, Bethune-Cookman
University/Bethune Foundation
The Black Beauty Ambassador: Maryrose Reeves Allen & The Founding of the Department of Physical Education for Women at
Howard University. Kimberly Brown, Alabama State University
Commentator:
Arlisha Norwood, Howard University
076.
2:00 pm to 3:50 pm
Panel Session
Atlanta 4
BLACK WOMEN’S STRUGGLES DURING THE CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION ERA.
Chair:
LaShawn Harris, Michigan State University
Participants:
Held for Safekeeping: Black Women Imprisoned in Maryland during the Age of the Civil War. Sharita Jacobs Thompson, Independent
Scholar
“For a Time Such as This”: Enslaved Women, War and Freedom in Southern Louisiana and Low Country Georgia, 1861-1865. Karen B.
Cook Bell, Bowie State University
Southern Black Women, Widowhood, and the Meaning of Labor in Civil War Era North Carolina. Brandi C Brimmer, Morgan State
University
‘The Proceeds of My Own Labor’: Gender and Urban Freedom in the District of Columbia. Katherine Chilton, San Jose State
University
Commentator:
Jeffrey Kerr-Ritchie, Howard University
077.
2:00 pm to 3:50 pm
Roundtable Session
Atlanta 5
HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT: NEW DIRECTIONS IN BLACK FREEDOM STUDIES IN THE JIM CROW NORTH.
Chair:
Patrick Jones, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Discussants:
Zebulon Miletsky, Stony Brook University
Simon Balto, Ball State University
Crystal Moten, Dickinson College
Ashley M. Howard, Loyola University New Orleans
Mary Barr, Clemson University
078.
2:00 pm to 3:50 pm
Roundtable Session
THE OBAMA BLACK HISTORY ROUNDTABLE.
Chair:
Aram Goudsouzian, Universiry of Memphis
Discussants:
Daryl Anthony Carter, East Tennessee State University
William Jelani Cobb, University of Connecticut
David C. Carter, Auburn University
Marsha Barrett, Mississippi State University
Charles McKinney, Rhodes College
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Capital Ballroom North
Thursday, September 24, 2015
079.
2:00 pm to 3:50 pm
Roundtable Session
Capital Ballroom South
DR. FELIX ARMFIELD SERIES FOR EMERGING SCHOLARS SESSION III
OUR HEALTH IS OUR WEALTH: “SOMETIMES YOU JUST NEED TO DO YOU!”
Chair:
Shennette Garrett-Scott, University of Mississippi
Discussants:
Stephanie Evans, Clark Atlanta University
Shanesha Brooks-Tatum, Agnes Scott College
Deirdre Cooper-Owens, Queens College
Jacqueline McLeod, Metropolitan State University of Denver
080.
2:00 pm to 3:50 pm
Panel Session
BLACK ACTIVISM ON COLLEGE CAMPUSES.
Conference Room 123
Panel Session
SANKOFA: LOOKING BACK TO EDUCATE OUR FUTURE.
Conference Room 125
Chair:
Lloren Foster, Western Kentucky University
Participants:
The Need for Black Cultural Centers on College Campuses. Marcus Stubbs, Western Kentucky University
Organizing for Collective Action: A Model for Mobilizing the Collegiate Community. Andrea Daniels, Western Kentucky University
An End to the Era of Mass Incarceration: Educating Students about Their Legal Rights. Patience Mason, Western Kentucky University
Commentator:
Selena Sanderfer, Western Kentucky University
081.
2:00 pm to 3:50 pm
Chair:
Toniesha Taylor, Prairie View A & M University
Participants:
A History of the Presence: Oppression, Confinement and the Struggle for Transformation. Richard Lofton, Johns Hopkins University
How the Labyrinthine Alliance of Black Teachers Associations and the Association for the Study of Negro Life Advanced Century of
Public Education in Birmingham, Alabama. Tondra Loder-Jackson, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Madeline Stratton Morris and Black History in the Classroom. Michael Hines, Loyola University Chicago
Re-Reading and Imagining the Impact of the Miseducation of the Negro: Am Analysis of Woodson’s Words for Teachers. Adah
Randolph, Ohio University
Commentator:
Karen Johnson, University of Utah
082.
2:00 pm to 3:50 pm
Panel Session
Conference Room 127
THE MAN, THE MYTH, THE LEGEND: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES ON BLACK MALE TEACHERS.
Chair:
Ashley Woodson, University of Pittsburgh
Participants:
Male as Metaphor: A Counterstory of a Black, Transgender Male Pre-service Teacher. Ashley Woodson, University of Pittsburgh
Culturally Responsive Discourse, Black Male Teachers, and the Negotiation of Multiple Stakeholder Relationships. Chezare Warren,
Michigan State University
Black Men of the Classroom: An Exploration of how the Organizational Conditions, Characteristics, and Dynamics in Schools Affect
Pathways into the Profession, Experiences, and Retention. Travis Bristol, Stanford University
On Black Male Teachers as Human Kinds. Anthony L. Brown, University of Texas at Austin
Commentator:
Joyce E King, Georgia State University
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083.
2:00 pm to 3:50 pm
Paper Session
RACE, GENDER, AND EDUCATIONAL PHILOSOPHIES.
Conference Room 129
Paper Session
THE MISSION AND MEANING OF HBCUS.
Conference Room 131
Chair:
Cheryl Gooch, On Africa’s Land: The Forgotten Stories...
Participants:
An Historical View of African American Male Principals. Omar J. Salaam, The University of South Florida
Leading Ladies: An Examination of Black Female Administrators in Higher Education. DeWitt Scott, Chicago State University
Which Shall We Choose?: An Analysis of the Educational Philosophies of Anna Julia Cooper and Charlotte Hawkins Brown. ShaVonte’
Mills, Pennsylvania State University
Commentator:
Sandra Jowers-Barber, University of the District of Columbia Community College
084.
2:00 pm to 3:50 pm
Chair:
Malachi Thompson, University of Houston
Participants:
Mining Historically Black College Newspapers for History and Heritage. Pamela E. Foster, Afro-American Historical and Genelogical
Society
Southern Historically Black College and Universities: Moral Truth or Dare. Veronica Alease Davis, Independent Researcher
Through a Multi-Generational Lens: Reflections on One Family’s Black College Experience. Lakia M Scott, Baylor University
Commentators:
The audience
085.
2:00 pm to 3:50 pm
Panel Session
MATERIALS, MEMORY, PLACE:
THE PUBLIC HISTORY OF THE BLACK FREEDOM STRUGGLE.
Georgia 10
Chair:
Thomas L Bynum, Middle Tennessee State University
Participants:
“War people, that is how we must be”: Quilting the Black Freedom Struggle. Aleia M Brown, Middle Tennessee State University
In the Shadows of Freedom: Contextualizing 18th and 19th Century Charleston Slave Badges. Torren Gatson, Middle Tennessee State
University
“Saving the world, Slaying Monsters and Adventures: How African American women are craving a space in science fiction and
fantasy.”. Marquita Reed, Middle Tennessee State University
We Were There: Examining Place, Race, and Memory in New Town. Tiffany Momon, Middle Tennessee State University
Commentator:
Louis Woods, Middle Tennessee State University
086.
2:00 pm to 3:50 pm
Roundtable Session
Georgia 11
MORE THAN A FIRST: SHIRLEY CHISHOLM’S HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL LEGACY.
Chair:
Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Spelman College
Discussants:
Anastasia C Curwood, University of Kentucky
Zinga Fraser, Brooklyn College
Barbara Winslow, Brooklyn College
Niambi M Carter, Temple University
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087.
2:00 pm to 3:50 pm
Panel Session
HISTORICAL MEMORY AND CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVISM IN
THE AFRICAN AMERICAN TWENTIETH CENTURY.
Georgia 12
Chair:
Christopher Cameron, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Participants:
A Pragmatist Prelude to the Harlem Renaissance: Alain Locke’s Speeches to the Negro Historical Societies in 1911. David Weinfeld,
Queens College
African American Students in the Making of Black Studies at Harvard. Afrah Richmond, University of Bridgeport
African Americans and the 1970s New South. Robert Jerome Greene II, University of South Carolina
Commentator:
Christopher Cameron, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
088.
10:00 am to 11:50 pm
Workshop Session
Georgia 2-A-V Room
DR. FELIX ARMFIELD SERIES FOR EMERGING SCHOLARS SESSION I:
“AND WHO ARE YOU? WHAT DO YOU DO?”
Leaders:
John Bracey, University of Massachusetts - Amherst
Darlene Clark Hine, Northwestern University
James Stewart, Pennsylvania State University (Emeritus)
Derrick Alridge, University of Virginia
089.
2:00 pm to 3:50 pm
Presidential Session
Georgia 3-A-V Room
PLOTTING THE FUTURE OF HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES:
A FOCUSED DIALOGUE ABOUT TRANSPARENCY.
Participants:
The Current Status and Significance of Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Dr. Dorothy C. Yancy, President Emerita,
Johnson C. Smith University (Charleston, North Carolina) and Shaw University (Raleigh, North Carolina)
The Future of Historically Black Colleges: Projecting and Thinking Creatively. Dr. Jabari Simama, President, Georgia Piedmont
Technical College (Atlanta, GA)
Creating Institutional Structures and Processes: A Model for the Future. Dr. Mack H. Jones, Political Science, Clark Atlanta
University
Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Spelman College
Sponsor:
Southern Education Foundation
090.
2:00 pm to 3:50 pm
Panel Session
BORDERLANDS AND BORDERLINES: AFRICAN AMERICAN
AND AFRICAN CANADIAN LIVES ON THE LINE.
Georgia 4-A-V Room
Chair:
Jean Augustine, Commissioner, Province of Canada
Participants:
Mary and Henry Bibb, the “Voice of the Fugitive” in the Detroit River Borderland. Afua Cooper, Dalhousie University,
Colonial Slavery: Resistance and Cooperation in the US/Canada Borderland. Veta Smith Tucker, Grand Valley State University
(retired)
Open Wounds: A window into day-to-day experiences of Black steelworkers in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Claudine Bonner,
Arcadia University
Commentator:
Jean Augustine, Commissioner, Province of Canada
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091.
2:00 pm to 3:50 pm
Panel Session
Georgia 5-A-V Room
TRUTH & TRANSITION: ENVISIONING INTERPRETATION OF SLAVERY,
RESISTANCE, AND FREEDOM IN PUBLIC SPACES.
Chair:
Daryl Michael Scott, Howard University & Centennial President, ASALH
Participants:
Truth & Transition: Envisioning Interpretation of Slavery, Resistance, and Freedom in Public Spaces. Kimberly Mann, United
Nations; Francoise Verges, International Consultant; Spencer Crew, George Mason University; Robert Parker, National Park Service
United Nations Remembering Slavery Program. Kimberly Mann, United Nations
International Perspective: Committee for the Memory and History of Slavery. Francoise Verges, International Consultant
Planning & Partnership: Harriet Tubman National Monument. Robert Parker, National Park Service
Commentator:
Dann J. Broyld
092.
2:00 pm to 3:50 pm
Library Session
Georgia 6-A-V Room
1968 AND BEYOND: NEW OPPORTUNITIES IN CIVIL RIGHTS RESEARCH IN ATLANTA.
Chair:
Andrea Jackson, Archives Research Center, Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library
Discussants:
Traci JoLeigh Drummond, Georgia State University
Holly Smith, Spelman College
Derek Mosley, Archives Research Center, Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library
Gabrielle Dudley, Emory University
093.
2:00 pm to 3:50 pm
Participant:
Maurice J Hobson, Georgia State University
094.
Private Session
UNCF/MELLON PROGRAM.
Georgia 9-A-V Room
2:00 pm to 3:50 pm
Roundtable Session
Savannah 1 (Level 2 Lobby)
FEAR OF A BLACK PLANET: NEW PERSPECTIVES ON THE GLOBAL
BLACK POWER MOVEMENT AND ITS LEGACIES.
Chair:
Joshua Guild, Princeton University
Discussants:
Tanisha C Ford, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Kennetta Hammond Perry, East Carolina University
Quito Swan, Howard University
Joshua Guild, Princeton University
095.
2:00 pm to 3:50 pm
Roundtable Session
LITERACY IN AFRICAN AMERICAN LIVES.
Chair:
Concetta A. Williams, Chicago State University
Discussants:
Kelly Ellis, Chicago State University
Brenda Aghahowa, Chicago State University
Lydia Magras, Chicago State University
Sammie Burton, Chicago State University
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Savannah 2 (Level 2 Lobby)
Thursday, September 24, 2015
096.
2:00 pm to 3:50 pm
Panel Session
Savannah 3 (Level 2 Lobby)
MOVING FROM MARGIN TO CENTER: OUR LIVES MATTER TOO.
Chair:
Stephanie Yvonne Davis, University of North Florida
Participants:
Reimagining the Inferiority Complex in Black Women Leadership Roles. Christina Kanu, Clark Atlanta University
Barbaric Convention: Police Brutality Enforced Upon Black Women. Brittany Carter, Clark Atlanta University
At our Expense: Black Women & Sacrificial Motherhood. Chyna Yvonne Davis, Clark Atlanta University
Commentator:
Ebony Perro, Clark Atlanta University
097.
4:00 pm to 5:30 pm
Meeting
ASALH BUSINESS MEETING.
Georgia 2 --AV Room
Participants:
Daryl Michael Scott, Howard University & Centennial President, ASALH
Janet Sims-Wood, Bethel Dukes Branch of ASALH & Executive Council, ASALH
Zende Larmar Clark, Executive Council, ASALH National Secretary
Troy Thornton, Goldman Sachs & Co.& Executive Council, ASALH
Sylvia Cyrus, ASALH Executive Director
Annette Palmer, Morgan State Univerity & Executive Council, ASALH
Sheila Flemming-Hunter, Clark Atlanta University & Executive Council, ASALH
098.
5:30 pm to 7:30 pm
Film Festival Session
Georgia 13
MOUNTAINS THAT TAKE WINGS: ANGELA DAVIS & YURI KOCHIYAMA - A CONVERSATION ON LIFE,
STRUGGLES & LIBERATION, 97 MINUTES).
Chair:
Michelle Duster, Independent Scholar
099.
5:45 pm to 7:45 pm
Plenary Session
Capital Ballroom North
THE SCHOLARSHIP, ACTIVISM, AND INSTITUTIONAL WORK OF V.P. FRANKLIN.
Chair:
Derrick Alridge, University of Virginia
Presenters:
Mary Frances Berry, University of Pennsylvania
Sundiata Kieta Cha-Jua, University of Illinois
Pero Dagbovie, Michigan State University
James Stewart, Pennsylvania State University (Emeritus)
Bettye Collier-Thomas, Temple University
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100.
50
7:30 pm to 9:30 pm
Special Session
AUTHORS’ BOOK SIGNING.
Capital Pre-function
Participants:
Dell Ray Adams, A Walk in the Face of Life
Shawn Alexander, WEB DuBois An American Intellectual and Activist
Bailey-Bankston, Beneath the Bars of Justice
Richard Bailey, Neither Carpetbaggers nor Scalawags: Black Officeholders During the Reconstruction
of Alabama 1867-1878 • They Too Call Alabama Home: African American Profiles
Peter Bailey, Witnessing Brother Malcolm X: The Master Teacher A Memoir
Mary Frances Berry, We are Who We Say We Are
Evelyn Bethune, Bethune: Out of Darkness Into the Light of Freedom • Call & Response: The Grandchildren Reply
Carol Binta Nadeem, Civilized Blacks: Free American Negroes In The 1870’s Whose Lives Paralleled The Life Of Booker T. Washington
John Bracey, James Smethurst & Sonia Sanchez, SOS-Calling All Black People
LaTonya Branham, CultureSeek: Connecting to African and African American History
Erik Brooks, Tigers in the Tempest
Joan Cartwright, A History of African American Jazz and Blues • Amazing Musicwomen
Yasmin Carty, Proverbs and Phrases with Meanings
Farrell Chiles, African American: Warrant Officers... In service to Our Country
Bettye Collier-Thomas, Jesus, Jobs, and Justice
Willie Cooper, The Forgotten 14, Civil War Heroes
Constance W. Curry, Silver Rights
Marta Effinger-Crichlow, Staging Migrations Toward an American West: From Ida B. Wells to Rhodessa Jones
Maurice Daniels, Saving the Soul of Georgia: Donald L. Hollowell and the Struggle for Civil Rights
Tiffany A. Flowers, The Rooftop Club Books Series: Meet the Rooftop Club
Cheryl Gooch, On Africa’s Lands: The Forgotten Stories of Two Lincoln Educated Missionaries in Liberia
George Grant, In Honor Of... Libraries Named for African Americans
Donna Gray-Banks, Ilas Diamonds • Ilas Diamonds II
Will Guzman, Civil Rights in the Texas Borderlands: Dr. Lawrence A. Nixon & Black Activism
Janette Hoston-Harris, In Memoriam: Charles Harris Wesley
Tameka Hobbs, Democracy Abroad, Lynching at Home: Racial Violence in Florida
Karen January, Lessons Mama Never Taught Me What Every Woman Should Know
Ricky L. Jones, Black Haze Violence, Sacrifice, and Manhood in Black Greek-letter Fraternities
Nubia Kai, Kuma Malinke Historiography: Sundiata Keita to Almamy Samori Toure
Kathryn Kemp, Anointed To Sing The Gospel: The Levitical Legacy of Thomas A. Dorsey • Make Joyful Noise: A Brief History of Gospel
Music Ministry in America
Lionel Kimble, Jr., A New Deal for Bronzeville: Housing, Employment, and Civil Right In Black Chicago, 1935-1955
Barbara King, Transform Your Life, In TYL
Talitha LeFlouria, Chained in Silence: Black Women and Convict Labor in the New South
Josephine McCall, The Penalty for Success: My Father was Lunched in Lowndes County, Alabama
Barbara McCaskill, Love, Liberation, and Escaping Slavery: William and Ellen Craft in Cultural Memory • Running a Thousand Miles
for Freedom: The Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery. Introduction by Barbara McCaskill.
Kevin McGruder, Race and Real Estate; Conflict and Cooperation in Harlem, 1890 - 1920
Genna Rae McNeil, Witness Two Hundred Years of African-American Faith and Practice at the Abyssinian Baptist Church of Harlem,
New York
Edna Green Medford, Lincoln and Emancipation
Trimiko Melancon, Unbought and Unbossed: Transgressive Black Women, Sexuality, and Representation • Black Female Sexualities
Erin Gosser Mitchell, Born Colored Life Before Bloody Sunday
William Monnie, Selma And Its Aftermath: A Photographic Journey by Civil Rights Worker Bill Monnie
Aldon Morris, The Scholar Denied: D. W. B. Du Bois and the Birth of Modern Sociology
Tiyi Morris, Womanpower Unlimited and the Black Freedom Struggle in Mississippi
Tommie Morton-Young, Many Roads Traveled or Twenty years in Bondage
Premilla Nadasen, Household Workers Unite: The Untold Story of African American Women who Built a Movement
Echol Nix, In the Beginning: The Martin Luther King, Jr. International Chapel at Morehouse College
M. J. O’Brien, WE SHALL NOT BE MOVED
Alison Parker, Interconnections: Gender and Race in American History
Walter Rucker, Gold Coast Diasporas: Identity, Culture, and Power (Blacks in the Diaspora Series)
Donata Russell Ross, How I Broke Through Segregation to Launch a Business Empire by Herman Russell
Thursday, September 24, 2015
Sonia Sanchez, SOS—Calling All Black People
John Sharer, The Cockney Lad and Jim Crow
Janet Sims-Wood, Dorothy Porter Wesley at Howard University
Karen Sloan-Brown, A Reflection: What a Difference a Day Makes, What About 100 Years?
Daniel Smith, African Americans and Charleston: Histories Intertwined
Mattie Solomon, What Did Your Parents Do To You?
Peter Wallenstein, Race, Sex, and the Freedom to Marry: Loving v. Virginia
Glovinia Williams, Do You Believe God? If So It’s Time To Step Out On Faith, Life Applications For Kingdom Living
Phyllis Jean Williams, The Secret Legend of Three Kings
Sonja Williams, Word Warrior: Richard Durham, Radio and Freedom
Angela Williamson, Bakers Dozen
Barbara Winslow, Shirley Chisholm Catalyst for Change
101.
7:45 pm to 9:45 pm
Film Festival Session
ALICE WALKER: BEAUTY IN TRUTH BY PRATIBHA PARMAR, 84 MINUTES.
Georgia 13
Chair:
McKinley Melton, Gettysburg College
8:00 pm to 9:50 pm
Panel Session
Atlanta 2
102.
MAD BLACK PEOPLE BEING MAD: VIRALITY, MENTAL ILLNESS, AND RAGE IN AFRICAN AMERICAN LIFE.
Chair:
Lawrence Jackson, Emory University
Participants:
Turn That Shit Down: The Mutation of Radio Raheem in Popular Culture and Everyday Life. Gabriel Peoples, University of
Maryland, College Park
“To Say Nothing of My Soul”: Madness among African Americans in Slavery and Freedom. Diana Louis, Indiana University
“Choking Down That Rage”: Rage as The Existential Condition of Blackness. Shermaine Jones, Virginia Commonwealth University
Commentator:
Lawrence Jackson, Emory University
103.
8:00 pm to 9:50 pm
Paper Session
RACE AND SLAVERY FROM THE FOUNDING TO RECONSTRUCTION.
Atlanta 4
8:00 pm to 9:50 pm
Paper Session
CIVIL RIGHTS AND THE POLITICIZATION OF THE STRUGGLE FOR EQUALITY.
Atlanta 5
Chair:
Jennifer Harbor, University of Nebraska, Omaha
Participants:
An African American Perspective of Margaret Walker’s Jubilee. Alferdteen B. Harrison, Retired Prof.. of History
The Most Heinous Crime Ever Committed: Fortune and the Great Fire of Newport, Rhode Island. Tanya Mears, Worcester State
University
Black Legal Studies and the American Constitution. Wylie Jason Tidwell, Walden University
104.
Chair:
Maria Ximena Abello Hurtado, Afro-Am Department at University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Participants:
African Americans and the Newest South of the 1970s. Robert Jerome Greene II, University of South Carolina
Consequences of the Tax Reform Act of 1969 on the Black Freedom Movement. Evan Faulkenbury, University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill
The Second American Revolution- Abstract. Harvey J Smith, Sr., Innovative Diversity Presentations & Training
The Way Modern Organizations Think and Talk About Diversity. Lisa Oligmueller, Speaker
Commentator:
Louis Ray, Fairleigh Dickinson University
51
Thursday, September 24, 2015
105.
8:00 pm to 9:50 pm
Panel Session
BLACK IMAGES IN POPULAR MEDIA.
Conference Room 125
Chair:
Korey Brown, Prince George’s Community College
Participants:
“’Are Negro Girls Getting Prettier?’: Evolving Projections of Ideals and Images of Black Beauty in Ebony during the Black Power
Movement, 1965--1975.” Korey Brown, Prince George’s Community College
Baartman Revisited: Amber Rose and the Reclamation of the Black Female Form for Profit. Risikat Okedeyi, Prince George’s
Community College
“I’m Fear ‘New York’”: The Historical Redefinition of “The Brute Negro” in Dating Reality Television. John Randolph Tilghman,
Tuskegee University
Mammy in literature and film. Darren Wade, Howard University
Commentator:
Korey Brown, Prince George’s Community College
106.
8:00 pm to 9:50 pm
Paper Session
FAMILY, COMMUNITY, AND THE BLACK EXPERIENCE IN THE 20TH CENTURY.
Georgia 11
Chair:
Claudia D Nelson, Coppin State University
Participants:
“No More Park Sausages Mom Please”: Eating and Body Politics in 80s and 90s Hip Hop. Jerome Dotson, Jr, University of Arizona
Black Families to the Future: Learning From the Past to Thrive in Future. Karen J Cudjoe, University of Cincinnati
Creole Cuisine: “Dooky’s” As a Site of Black Resistance in New Orleans, Louisiana 1940-2015. Dellita Martin Ogunsola, University
of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB)
Growing Up in Alabama: Black, Male, and Poor, 1926-1947: A Memoir. Andrew Billingsley, Howard University
Commentator:
Valerie N. Adams-Bass, University of California, Davis
107.
8:00 pm to 9:50 pm
Panel Session
Georgia 2-A-V Room
THE MISEDUCATION OF BLACK STUDENTS: CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN EDUCATION.
Chair:
Cerri Annette Banks, Mount Holyoke College
Participants:
The Ivory Road to the Ivy League: Narrative Sense-Making of Students of Color in Elite Schools. Dominic Walker, Columbia
University in the City of New York
Silence in Educational Spaces. Ajua Kouadio, Columbia University in the City of New York
I Got a Story to Tell”: Youth Rap Verses as Critical Race Counter-Stories. Don Sawyer, Quinnipiac University
Commentator:
Cerri Annette Banks, Mount Holyoke College
108.
8:00 pm to 9:50 pm
Panel Session
CONFRONTING THE CRISIS: DEATH, REDRESS AND JUSTICE.
Georgia 4-A-V Room
Chair:
Brandi Hughes, University of Michigan
Participants:
This Dogged Rejoinder: Anne E. Moody’s Elegy Before the Master Narrative. Brandi Hughes, University of Michigan
Marks of Achievement: On (In)visible History and Public Mourning. Nicole Ivy, Indiana University
Black Anxiety: Confronting the Crisis of Anti-blackness in the 21st Century. Calvin Warren, George Washington University
Commentator:
Kimberly Juanita Brown, Harvard University
52
Thursday, September 24, 2015
109.
8:00 pm to 9:50 pm
Library Session
Georgia 5-A-V Room
HIDDEN NO MORE: A CENTURY OF DIGITIZED BLACK LIFE, HISTORY
AND CULTURE AT TUSKEGEE UNIVERSITY.
Chair:
Dana Ray Chandler, Tuskegee University
Discussants:
Juanita Roberts, Tuskegee University
Gail Samuel, Tuskegee University
Cheryl Ferguson, Tuskegee University
Dana Ray Chandler, Tuskegee University
SESSION CANCELLED
110.
8:00 pm to 9:50 pm
Paper Session
RACE, CRIME, AND STATE SUPERVISION.
Savannah 3 (Level 2 Lobby)
Chair:
Douglas Williams, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Participants:
Governor Rufus B. Bullock, Railroad Expansion and Convict Leasing in Post-Civil War Georgia. Edward Hightower, Clark Atlanta
University
Marijuana Policy in Seventies-Era New York: From Worse to Bad. Eugene Hillsman, Princeton University
The Making of African American Male Criminality: An Introduction. Michael D Royster, Prairie View A&M University
Commentator:
Douglas Williams, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
111.
9:00 pm to 11:00 pm
Reception
Capital Ballroon Center and South
CELEBRATING THE CENTENNIAL VOLUME OF THE
JOURNAL OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY RECEPTION (JAAH).
Emcee:
V. P. Franklin, University of New Orleans
Sponsor:
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Office of the Provost
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, College of Arts & Sciences
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Office of Diversity and Multicultural Affairs
West Virginia University Press
John Powell
53
Friday, September 25, 2015
FRIday, SEPTEMBER 25, 2015
112.
7:30 am to 6:20 pm
Registration
PRE-REGISTRATION 9/25.
113.
7:30 am to 6:00 pm
Registration
ON-SITE REGISTRATION 9/25.
114.
8:00 am to 9:30 am
Film Festival Session
BLACK JOURNAL, EXECUTIVE PRODUCER WILLIAM GRAVES, 60 MINUTES.
Rotunda Pre-registration Office
Georgia Registration Office
Georgia 13
Chair:
Cornelius Moore, California Newsreel
Reginald Ellis, Florida A&M University
Sponsor:
California Newsreel
115.
8:00 am to 6:30 pm
Participants:
Art Publishing and Distribution by Charles Bibbs
Association Book Exhibit
Auburn Avenue Research Library on African-American
Culture & History
Everyone’s Place
Farmers Insurance
Foundation International
Heritage International Fashions
Journal of African American History
Library Company of Philadelphia
McFarland Publishing
Middle Tennnessee State University
National Museum of American History
116.
Exhibitors
EXHIBITORS.
Georgia 7, 8 and Pre-function Area (Exhibits)
National Park Service-Southeast Regional Office
Penguin Random House
retiredslaves.com
Robin Lofton
Scholars Choice
University of Arkansas Press
University of Georgia Press
University of Illinois Press
University of North Carolina Press
University Press Florida
Waldencorart Inc.
YBI African Apparel
Zee Crafts
8:30 am to 9:50 am
Panel Session
BUILDING COMMUNITY THROUGH EDUCATION AND ECONOMICS.
Atlanta 1
Chair:
Sarita Davis, Georgia State University
Participants:
Embodying Blackness: Hiring Practices and Perceptions of African American Identity within African American Businesses. Lauren
Arrington, Georgia State University
Urban Fiction as a Pedagogical Tool. Jihad Uhuru, Georgia State University
Student Perspectives and Evaluations of African-Centered Educational Institutions. Kweku Vassall, Georgia State University
Commentator:
Sarita Davis, Georgia State University
54
Friday, September 25, 2015
117.
8:30 am to 9:50 am
Panel Session
I AM THE VESSEL: THE BLACK MIND AS A SITE OF RESISTANCE.
Atlanta 2
Chair:
Jennifer Williams, Temple University
Participants:
Ubuntu in The Flesh: An Africana Spiritual Reclamation of Servant Leadership Through African Spirituality and Ancestral Veneration.
Christopher Roberts, Temple University
The Community Kills Thyself: The Poison of The Closet of Omission. Matthew E. Simmons, Temple University
Reclaiming The Black Body From Allopathic Terrorism: A Luxocratic Approach. Jessica D.N. Hamilton, Temple University
Healing The Scars We Don’t See: (Re)Envisioning Culture As A Site Of Psychological Resistance and Reintegration. Raven M.
Moses, Temple University
Commentator:
Ifetayo Flannery, Temple University
118.
8:30 am to 9:50 am
Panel Session
Atlanta 3
A CENTURY OF CORRECTING BLACK MYTHS: CONSTRUCTING A POSITIVE BLACK IDENTITY.
Chair:
Lorenzo Herman, Clark Atlanta University
Participants:
Elucidating the Effects of Racialized Framing in the Media: The Power of Portraying a Negative Story. Kyle R. Fox, Clark Atlanta
University
Black Women’s Literature: The Construction of a Gendered Identity in the Last Century. Joyce White, Clark Atlanta University
Disrupting Eurocentric Theorizing: Challenging a Century of White Supremacist Feminisms. Moses Massenburg, Clark Atlanta
University
Commentator:
Bonnyeclaire Smith-Stewart, Clark Atlanta University
119.
8:30 am to 9:50 am
Workshop Session
ARCHIVES ARE THE FUTURE: PRESERVING YOUR LEGACY.
Atlanta 4
Panel Session
MARGARET WALKER: THIS IS MY CENTURY.
Atlanta 5
SESSION CANCELLED
Leaders:
Pellom McDaniels McDaniels III, Curator of African American Collections, Emory University
Patsy Fletcher, THREAD
Gina Paige, African Ancestry & Executive Council, ASALH
120.
8:30 am to 9:50 am
Chair:
Angela Daphne Stewart, Margaret Walker Center
Participants:
Margaret Walker: The Voice of the Invisible Woman in the Black Arts Movement. Robert Luckett, Jackson State University
“All I got to say”: Fictive Witnessing in Margaret Walker’s Jubilee. Eden Elizabeth Wales Freedman, Adams State University
Biographical/Historical Approach to Margaret Walker. Carolyn Jean Brown, Millsaps College
Text Mining and Quantitative Analysis: A New Way of “Reading” Margaret Walker. Seretha Wiliiams, Georgia Regents University
Commentator:
Alferdteen B. Harrison, Retired Prof.. of History
55
Friday, September 25, 2015
121.
8:30 am to 9:50 am
Panel Session
GULLAH GEECHEE CULTURE:
SEEKING THE FUTURE THROUGH THE PAST.
Conference Room 123
Paper Session
RACE AND THE SOUTHERN CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM.
Conference Room 125
Paper Session
RELIGION, ORALITY, AND BLACK FREEDOM RHETORIC.
Conference Room 127
Chair:
Althea Natalga Sumpter, The Art Institute of Atlanta
Participants:
The Elders Remember: An Oral History of the Past with Hopes for the Future. Althea Natalga Sumpter, The Art Institute of Atlanta
An Overview of Gullah as a Language. David B Frank, SIL International
Gullah: The Living Culture. Griffin Lotson, Sams Memorial Community Economic Development
Commentator:
Althea Natalga Sumpter, The Art Institute of Atlanta
122.
8:30 am to 9:50 am
Chair:
Ella J Davis, Wayne County Community College
Participants:
‘It’s Gonna be the Devil’: Civil Rights Protest and Black Criminality in Americus Georgia in 1965. Ansley L Quiros, University of
North Alabama
Police Brutality in the African American Community. Shawn Council, CCSY
Before Jim Crow: Convict Lease and the Limits of Liberalism in Reconstruction. Alexxa Leon, Bowdoin College; Patrick Rael,
Bowdoin College
The Social Reconstruction of Georgia: Transition at the Local Level. Joshua W Butler, Florida State University
“‘The Noblest and Cheapest Defense of States’: Ideology Underlying Prisons and Public Schooling in Postbellum Virginia”.
Alexander Hyres, University of Virginia
Commentator:
Frances Jones-Sneed, MCLA
123.
8:30 am to 9:50 am
Chair:
Andre E. Johnson, Memphis Theological Seminary
Participants:
“The Lord Will Make A Way Somehow: An Overview of Gospel Music.” Echol Lee Nix, Jr., Furman University
Black Power, Black Faith and Black Jesus: The Rhetoric and Theology of Rev. Albert Cleage, Jr. Earle Fisher, University of
Memphis/Rhodes College
Speaking Literacy: Henry McNeal Turner and the African American Lyceum Tradition. Andre E. Johnson, Memphis Theological
Seminary
The New Black Church Online: Black Youth and Technology. Erika Gault, Hilbert College
Commentator:
Tameka Bradley Hobbs, Florida Memorial University
56
Friday, September 25, 2015
124.
8:30 am to 9:50 am
Paper Session
RACE AND RACIAL VIOLENCE.
Conference Room 129
Meeting
2016 CONFERENCE PLANNING MEETING.
Conference Room 131
Chair:
Malachi Crawford, University of Houston
Participants:
Black Bodies [Dropping] in the Breeze: Black Spaces of Trauma [in America]. Aretina Hamilton, Ohio University, Department of
African American Studies
At What Cost? Hearing the Call for Help When American Black Leaders Oppressed Their Own. Cecelia Brooks, Oklahoma State
University
Jim Crow Moves West: White Supremacy in Multiracial California, 1850 - 1914. Camille Suarez, University of Pennsylvania
Violence and the “Race Card” in Twain and Faulkner. Wallis Tinnie, City of Miami
Commentators:
The audience
125.
8:30 am to 10:00 am
Participants:
Derrick Alridge, University of Virginia
Martha Biondi, Northwestern University & Executive Council, ASALH
Stephanie Evans, Clark Atlanta University
Cornelius Bynum, Purdue University & Executive Coucil, ASALH
Sylvia Y. Cyrus, Executive Director, ASALH
126.
8:30 am to 9:50 am
Panel Session
THE LEGACY OF CARTER G. WOODSON, VANGUARD FOR THE NEXT CENTURY.
Georgia 10
8:30 am to 9:50 am
Panel Session
BRING YOUR OWN BLACKNESS (BYOB): AUTHENTICITY, PERFORMATIVITY,
AND SELF-DEFINITION IN BLACK CULTURE.
Georgia 11
Chair:
Cheryl LaRoche, University of Maryland
Participants:
Carter G. Woodson--From Legacy to Vanguard: Black History Into the Future. Cheryl LaRoche, University of Maryland
Destination Freedom’s “Recorder of History”: A Radio Dramatization of Carter G. Woodson’s Life. Sonja Williams, Howard
University
The Influence of the Ideas and Thoughts of Carter G. Woodson on the Cultural and Educational Systems Outside the United States.
Wheeler Winstead, Howard University Center for African Studies
Commentators:
Sonja Williams, Howard University
Wheeler Winstead, Howard University Center for African Studies
127.
Chair:
Antiwan Walker, Georgia Gwinnet College
Participants:
Bildungs-Africana: Reading Colorism, Identity, and Adolescence in Black Women’s Autobiographies. Ebony Perro, Clark Atlanta
University
In Our Own Words: The Literary Interpretations of Black Womanhood in Poems and Prose. Chyna Yvonne Davis, Clark Atlanta
University
We’s Lives in the Ghetto and the Penthouse: An exploration of the ‘banished’ Representations of blackness in Erasure and A Visitation
of Spirits. Marcus Ta’von Haynes, Clark Atlanta University
Commentator:
Stephanie Yvonne Davis, University of North Florida
57
Friday, September 25, 2015
128.
8:30 am to 9:50 am
Roundtable Session
Georgia 12
PARTNERING WITH THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE TO INTERPRET CHARLES YOUNG
AND OTHER ICONIC FIGURES OF OHIO THE “FREEDOM STATE.”.
Chair:
Jewel Haskins, National Park Service
Discussants:
Charles Wash, National Afro- American Museum and Cultural Center
Brian George Shellum, Independent Historian
Joy Kinard, National Park Service
Robert Parker, National Park Service
129.
8:30 am to 9:50 am
Panel Session
THE AFROFUTURIST CITY.
Georgia 2 --AV Room
Panel Session
CITIZENS, DENIZENS AND EXILES: DIASPORIC SUBJECTS,
RACE AND THE STATE IN JAMAICA, CUBA AND BRITAIN.
Georgia 3-A-V Room
Paper Session
RACE AND THE POLITICS OF SPACE.
Georgia 4-A-V Room
Chair:
Walter Greason, ICMG
Participants:
Destroy and Rebuild: Displacement in the Suburban Planner’s Imagination. Walter Greason, ICMG
The Comic Book City: The Making, Re-Making, and Un-Making of the American City. Julian Chambliss, Rollins College
The Interactive, Organic Metropolis. John Jennings, University of Buffalo
Commentator:
Walter Greason, ICMG
130.
8:30 am to 9:50 am
Chair:
Eric D. Duke, Clark Atlanta University
Participants:
Consuelo Serra y Herédia in New York City: An Alternate View of the Cuban Immigrant Experience. Takkara Brunson, Morgan State
University
These Feminine Hands: Maymie DeMena Aiken and the Task of Jamaican Citizenship. Natanya Duncan, Lehigh University
African American Dreams, Cuban Realities: Robert F. Williams’ Exile in Cuba. Devyn Spence Benson, Louisiana State University
David Oluwale and the Crime of Policing Blackness in Postwar Britain. Kennetta Hammond Perry, East Carolina University
Lyn Hughes, A. Philip Randolph Pullman Porter Museum, Paper: The Making of the Pullman National Monument: The Struggle for
Authentic Representation of Pullman Porters & African American Cultural History
Commentator:
Minkah Makalani, University of Texas at Austin
131.
8:30 am to 9:50 am
Chair:
Oscar R Williams, SUNY Albany
Participants:
“Urban Renewal or Negro Removal:” Stories of Atlanta’s Historic Buttermilk Bottom Community. John E. Williams, Georgia State
University
Finding Home: Representations of Black Chicago at Mid-Century. Amani Morrison, UC Berkeley
Restrictive Covenants, Biopolitics, and the Great Migration. Lisa Young, Purdue University
Commentator:
Kevin Greene, The University of Southern Mississippi
58
Friday, September 25, 2015
132.
8:30 am to 9:50 am
Panel Session
Georgia 5-A-V Room
PUBLISHING WITHOUT WALLS: EBLACK STUDIES AND A NEW COLLABORATION
FOR DIGITAL PUBLISHING (INVITED SESSION SPONSORED BY FIRE!!!).
Chair:
Ronald W Bailey, University of Illinois
Participants:
Digital Tools and Black Studies: An Overview. Ronald W Bailey, University of Illinois
Building a Collaboration to Support Digital Publishing: The Case of the University of Illinois. Harriett Green, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign
Digital Tools and Publishing Opportunities: The Case of Fire!!! The Multimedia Journal in Black Studies. Marilyn Thomas-Houston,
University of Florida
Commentator:
Sandra Pheonix, Executive Director, HBCU Library Alliance
133.
8:30 am to 9:50 am
Paper Session
BLACK FEMININITY/SEXUALITY.
Georgia 6-A-V Room
Paper Session
VISUALIZATIONS OF A BLACK AESTHETICS.
Georgia 9-A-V Room
Chair:
Nishani Frazier, Miami (OH) University
Participants:
Anaconda Feminism: Nicki Minaj, Consumption, and Instagram Reproductions. Aria S. Halliday, Purdue University
Big Mama’s Blues: Willie Mae Thornton, Female Masculinity, and the Lavender Scare of the 1950s. Tyina Steptoe, University of
Arizona
From Aunt Jemima to Beyonce: Twitter, Consumer Agency, and the Transformation of the Black Female Image. Patricia Davis,
Georgia State University
Sexualized Resistance: Black Women’s Agency through the Erotic and Dance. Sydney-Paige Patterson, New York University
Literature Brave Enough to Fuck with the Grays: Hip-Hop Feminism and Street Lit. Jacinta Renee Saffold, University of
Massachusetts
Commentators:
The audience
134.
8:30 am to 9:50 am
Chair:
Fenobia Dallas, Saginaw Valley State University
Participants:
“Joyce J. Scott and the Sculptural Grotesque.” Phoebe Wolfskill, Indiana University
Covered in a Movement: Civil rights narrative and Black identity on Ebony covers in 1964. Lynsey Marie Saunders, University of
Florida
Empowering People and Shaping Identities: Art Examines a Century (1914-2014) in African American Life and History. Pearlie Mae
Johnson, Pan-African Studies University of Louisville
Samuel M. Plato: An Outstanding Architect of the 20th Century. Judith C. Owens-Lalude, j. camille culltural academy
The Ganaways, A Story of Faith, Hope and Love. Brenda D Fredericks, None
Commentator:
Fenobia Dallas, Saginaw Valley State University
59
Friday, September 25, 2015
135.
8:30 am to 9:50 am
Panel Session
Savannah 1 (Level 2 Lobby)
DIASPORA AND BLACK NATIONALISM: RETENTIONS, PRACTICES,
AND (MIS)UNDERSTANDINGS.
Chair:
Jamae Morris, Georgia State University
Participants:
Complementary and Alternative Medicine Usage among Rural African Americans living in the South. Roman Johnson, Georgia State
University
African, Like Me? Gambian Perceptions of African Americans Claiming an “African” or “Pan-African” Identity. Ife Madzimoyo,
Georgia State University
Garveyism and the Southern Black Church. Andy Reid, Georgia State University
Commentator:
Jamae Morris, Georgia State University
136.
8:30 am to 9:50 am
Workshop Session
Savannah 2 (Level 2 Lobby)
FROM THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT TO FERGUSON: A TEACH-IN TO EXPLORE
THE WAYS WE BEND OUR PRIVILEGE TO BRING ABOUT CHANGE.
Leaders:
Karsonya (Kaye) Wise Whitehead, Loyola University Maryland
Conra Gist, University of Arkansas
Joseph Flynn, Northern Illinois University
Regina Lewis, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
137.
8:30 am to 9:50 am
Panel Session
Savannah 3 (Level 2 Lobby)
THE FIRE THIS TIME:
TEACHING FERGUSON AT THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY.
Chair:
Crystal Sanders, Pennsylvania State University
Participants:
What’s Going On?: Exploring Historical Ethical Analyses in Contemporary Social Movements. AnneMarie Mingo, Pennsylvania
State University
Every Ghetto, Every City: Theorizing Anti-Black Racism and State Violence in the Classroom. Courtney Desiree Morris,
Pennsylvania State University
Collaboration and Digital Technology as Pedagogical Practice. Tyler Sperrazza, Penn State University
Commentator:
Paul C Taylor, Pennsylvania State University
138.
9:00 am to 12:50 pm
Facilitated by Kiamsha Youth Empowerment
139.
North Atlanta High School
9:45 am to 11:30 am
Film Festival Session
LIVING THINKERS: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BLACK WOMEN
IN THE IVORY TOWER BY ROXANA WALKER-CANTON, 75 MINUTES.
Chair:
Natanya Duncan, Lehigh University
60
Special Session
YOUTH DAY.
Georgia 13
Friday, September 25, 2015
140.
10:00 am to 11:50 am
Library Session
PRESERVING THE BEATS: COLLECTING HIP HOP AND HOUSE MUSIC.
Atlanta 1
10:00 am to 11:50 am
Atlanta 2
Chair:
Aaisha Haykal, Chicago State University
Discussants:
Timothy Anne Burnside, Smithsonian Institution NMAAHC
Andrea Jackson, Archives Research Center, Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library
Charles Matlock, The Modern Dance Music Research and Archiving Foundation
Chianta Dorsey, Amistad Research Center
Lauren G. Lowery, Modern Dance Music and Archiving Foundation
141.
Roundtable Session
ALAIN LOCKE SEMINAR.
Chair:
Randal Maurice Jelks, University of Kansas
Participant:
Lost in a Kiss? The Sexual Victimization of the Black Male during Jim Crow read through Eldridge Cleaver’s The Book of Lives and
Soul on Ice. Tommy Curry, Texas A & M University
Discussants:
Floyd Hayes, Johns Hopkins University
Utz McKnight, University of Alabama
John E. Drabinski, Amherst College
James Haile, Bucknell
Rondee Gaines, Miami University
142.
10:00 am to 11:50 am
Panel Session
FROM ANNA JULIA COOPER TO DOROTHY PITTMAN HUGHES:
MOTHERHOOD AND CHILD CARE ACTIVISM, 1890-1970.
Atlanta 3
10:00 am to 11:50 am
Panel Session
SEEK AND YE SHALL FIND: SOME WOODSON AND ASALH RECORD SOURCES.
Atlanta 4
Chair:
Francoise Hamlin, Brown University
Participants:
From a “Painful, Patient, and Silent” Enslavement to an “Enlightened Motherhood”: Shifting Political Constructions of Black
Motherhood During the Nineteenth Century. Crystal Lynn Webster, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Community Agency and the Professionalization of Child Care and Social Work in Boston, 1945-1975. Julie de Chantal, University of
Massachusetts Amherst
With Her Fist Raised: Dorothy Pitman Hughes and the Activist’s Life. Laura Lovett, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Commentator:
Francoise Hamlin, Brown University
143.
Chair:
Annette Palmer, Morgan State Univerity & Executive Council, ASALH
Participants:
Carter G. Woodson and Nannie Helen Burroughs--Sources Relating to their Efforts to Combat Miseducation. Lasean Robinson
Robinson, Morgan State University
Advocacy Beyond the Academy: Carter G. Woodson and the Afro Newspaper. Baiyina W. Muhammad, North Carolina Central
University
Woodson: Historian, Collector and Businessman. Debra Newman Ham, Morgan State University
Commentator:
Amy Tillerson-Brown, Mary Baldwin College
61
Friday, September 25, 2015
144.
10:00 am to 11:50 am
Roundtable Session
AFRICAN AMERICAN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY: THE STATE OF THE FIELD.
Atlanta 5
Chair:
Christopher Cameron, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Discussants:
Derrick Alridge, University of Virginia
Mia Bay, Rutgers University
Brandon Byrd, Mississippi State University
Jessica Marie Johnson, Michigan State University
145.
10:00 am to 11:50 am
Panel Session
Conference Room 123
INTERRACIAL COOPERATION: ONE OF THE DOMINANT RACE
RELATIONS PHILOSOPHIES OF THE INTERWAR YEARS.
Chair:
Cherisse Jones Branch, Arkansas State University
Participants:
“Embodying Interracial Ideals”. Curtis Evans, University of Chicago Divinity School
“A Real Insight” Black Women’s Support for Interracial Cooperation. Lauren Kientz Anderson, Luther College
“They Don’t Dance or Sing Like We Do”: Interracialism in Theory and Practice in the Interwar Rural South. Robert Hunt Ferguson,
Western Carolina University
Commentator:
Cherisse Jones Branch, Arkansas State University
10:00 am to 11:50 am
Roundtable Session
Conference Room 125
146.
HBCUS, MENTORING, AND THE RESILIENCE NEEDED FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN TO ADVANCE (IN)
STEM.
Chair:
Deirdre Cobb-Roberts, University of South Florida
Discussants:
Vonzell Agosto, University of South Florida
Deirdre Cobb-Roberts, University of South Florida
Traki Taylor-Webb, Bowie State University
Shetay Ashford, University of South Florida
Maniphone Dickerson, University of South Florida
Jessica Alyce Wilson, University of South Florida
147.
10:00 am to 11:50 am
Paper Session
Conference Room 127
BLACK POWER BEYOND THE BORDERS OF THE UNITED STATES.
Chair:
Laura Warren Hill, Bloomfield College
Participants:
“We Need a Mau Mau”: Malcolm X Transnationalism and Legacies. Mickie Mwanzia Koster, University of Texas
Black Power in India: Caste, Dalits, and Party People. Jeanelle Kevina Hope, University of California, Davis
National Sincerity and the Performance of Black Nationalism and Diasporic Citizenship. Lia T. Bascomb, Georgia State University
Commentator:
Laura Warren Hill, Bloomfield College
62
Friday, September 25, 2015
148.
10:00 am to 11:50 am
Paper Session
Conference Room 129
EXAMINING THE MECHANICS OF PROTEST AND INTERRACIAL COOPERATION.
Chair:
Wesley G. Phelps, Sam Houston State University
Participants:
Basketball, Books, and Brotherhood: DeWitt Clinton High School as a scholastic model of African American leadership and interracial
cooperation 1945-1950. Arthur Banton, Purdue University
Rap: Rapid Application of Politics: Hip Hop in Select Young Adult Novels. Margaret Bernice Smith Bristow, Pearson Education
Assessment Company
Rethinking black student protest: Student Protest at North Carolina Central University 1930-1947. Brian Robinson, University of
South Carolina
Commentator:
Wesley G. Phelps, Sam Houston State University
149.
10:00 am to 11:50 am
Paper Session
Conference Room 131
BLACK EDUCATORS, BLACK STUDIES, AND HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES.
Chair:
Dwight Watson, Texas State University
Participants:
An Inquiry Into Black History And African Studies. Richard Ford, Society of Sanofi and Hatata
Education, Technology and Black Culture. Chy’na Nellon, Helping Engage Art
The Black Music Educators of the Twin Cities. Yolanda Yvette Williams, University of Minnesota
The Unheard Stories of Teacher Integration in the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Area. Leta Hooper, University of MassachusettsAmherst
Understanding Today’s HBCUs through Student Perspectives, Enrollment Trends, and Leadership Models. Lakia M Scott, Baylor
University; DeWitt Scott, Chicago State University
Commentators:
The audience
150.
10:00 am to 11:50 am
Roundtable Session
STYLIN’: A CENTURY OF FASHION AND BEAUTY POLITICS IN THE DIASPORA.
Georgia 10
10:00 am to 11:50 am
Paper Session
RACE, CITIZENSHIP, AND MILITARY SERVICE IN THE 20TH CENTURY.
Georgia 11
Chair:
Tiffany Gill, University of Delaware
Discussants:
Siobhan Carter-David, Southern Connecticut State University
Tanisha C Ford, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Catherine McKinley, NYU Gallatin
Kadari Taylor-Watson, Purdue University
Tamara Walker, University of Pennsylvania
Brandi Summers, Virginia Commonwealth University
151.
Chair:
Kevin Greene, The University of Southern Mississippi
Participants:
Double Victory Discs: African American Contributions to the Americanization of Europe in WWII. Kevin Greene, The University of
Southern Mississippi
How service to country has been the cornerstone for black life and presence in America. Robert Isaac Williams, Member ASALH
“Black Bodies and Bordertown Cultures: African American GIs, Military Police and State Power in the Trans-Mississippi Southwest
during the Second World War”. Dr. Robert Franklin Jefferson, University of New Mexico
In the face of the Dragon. Alan Laird, Gold Coast Railroad Museum African American Experience Exhibit
Commentator:
Latangela Lajuan Crossfield, Clark Atlanta University
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152.
10:00 am to 11:50 am
Roundtable Session
Georgia 12
GENDERING THE CARCERAL STATE: AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN, HISTORY, AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE.
Chair:
Kali Gross, The University of Texas - Austin
Discussants:
Cheryl Hicks, University of North Carolina Charlotte
Sowande Mustakeem, Washington University in St. Louis
Talitha LeFlouria, Florida Atlantic University
Christina Greene, University of Wisconsin at Madison
153.
10:00 am to 11:50 am
Roundtable Session
THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT: THE STATE OF THE FIELD.
Georgia 2 --AV Room
Chair:
Michael Blum, Jarvis Chrisitan College
Discussants:
Hasan Jeffries, Ohio State University
Danielle McGuire, Wayne State University
Emilye Crosby, SUNY Geneseo
Charissa Threat, Spelman College
Brian Purnell, Bowdoin College
154.
10:00 am to 11:50 am
Presidential Session
Georgia 3-A-V Room
YOU VOTED – SO, NOW WHAT? A PRIMER ON CIVIC ENGAGEMENT
WITH YOUR ELECTED OFFICIALS.
Moderator:
Rashad Richie, CBS, Atlanta Radio
Presenters:
Representative Kimberly Alexander, Georgia House of Representatives
Representative Virgil Fludd, Minority Caucus Chair, Georgia House of Representatives
Representative Billy Mitchell, Minority Caucus Vice-Chair, Georgia House of Representatives
Representative Howard Mosby, Georgia House of Representatives
Representative Roger Bruce, Georgia House of Representatives
155.
10:00 am to 11:50 am
Roundtable Session
NEW DIRECTIONS IN AFRICAN AMERICAN URBAN HISTORY.
Chair:
Rhonda Williams, Case Western University
Discussants:
Clarence Lang, University of Kansas
Shannon King, The College of Wooster
Shirletta J. Kinchen, University of Louisville
Maurice J Hobson, Georgia State University
Kwame Holmes, University of Colorado-Boulder
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Georgia 4-A-V Room
Friday, September 25, 2015
156.
10:00 am to 11:50 am
Special Session
CONVERSATION AMONG ASALH PRESIDENTS:
REFLECTING ON 100 YEARS.
Georgia 6-A-V Room
Panel Session
NEW SCHOLARSHIP ON THE BLACK PRESS:
FROM THE NADIR TO THE NEW NEGRO.
Georgia 9-A-V Room
Chair:
Robert L. Harris, Cornell University (Emeritus)
Commentator:
Robert L. Harris, Cornell University (Emeritus)
Participants:
Janette Hoston-Harris, ASALH Former President
Sheila Flemming-Hunter, Clark Atlanta University & Executive Council, ASALH
Bettye Gardner, Coppin State University & Executive Council, ASALH
James Stewart, Pennsylvania State University (Emeritus) & Executive Council, ASALH
John Fleming, ASALH Former President
William Harris, ASALH Former President
Samuel DuBois Cook, ASALH Former President
157.
10:00 am to 11:50 am
Chair:
Kim Gallon, Purdue University
Participants:
“Teach Your Daughters”: Black Girlhood and Mrs. N. F. Mossell’s Advice Column in The New York Freeman. Nazera Wright,
University of Kentucky
Charles Stewart (aka Col. J. O. Midnight): A Forgotten Voice from the Early 20th Century Black Press. Mitch Kachun, Western
Michigan University
More than Romare’s Mother: Bessye Bearden as New Negro Journalist. Jacqueline C. Jones, Francis Marion University
Commentator:
Kim Gallon, Purdue University
158.
10:00 am to 11:50 am
Workshop Session
Savannah 1 (Level 2 Lobby)
FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES FROM UNDERGRAD TO FULL PROFESSOR.
Leaders:
Michelle R. Scott, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Lawrence Morehouse, Florida Education Fund
Lee Bynum, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Ula Taylor, University of California UC Berkeley
159.
10:00 am to 11:50 am
Roundtable Session
Savannah 2 (Level 2 Lobby)
CASE STUDIES -- A PREVIEW OF THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES’
BLACK HISTORY GUIDE (PART 1 OF 2).
Chair:
Tina L Ligon, National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
Discussants:
Netisha Currie, National Archives
Damani Davis, National Archives
Trichita Chestnut, National Archives and Records Administration
Tina L Ligon, National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
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160.
10:00 am to 11:50 am
Panel Session
Savannah 3 (Level 2 Lobby)
CIVIL RIGHTS FOR THE 21ST CENTURY: DECODING THE PRESENT WITH THE PAST.
Chair:
Martha Biondi, Northwestern University & Executive Council, ASALH
Participants:
“Make D.C. Mean Democracy’s Capital”: Desegregating School Facilities and Playgrounds. Tikia Kenise Hamilton, Princeton
University
Sex and Civil Rights: Racism, Homophobia and the Political Efficacious Strategies of the Black Freedom Struggle. Jennifer D. Jones,
Department of Gender and Race Studies, University of Alabama
Law, Order and Social Justice’: Black Republicans and the Battle for Alternative Solutions, 1968-1974. Leah Wright Rigueur,
Harvard Kennedy School
Commentator:
Martha Biondi, Northwestern University & Executive Council, ASALH
161.
11:45 am to 1:15 pm
Film Festival Session
FURIUOS FLOWER III: SEEDING THE FUTURE OF AFIRCAN AMERICAN POETRY
BY JOANNE GABBIN AND JUDITH MCCRAY, 58 MINUTES.
Georgia 13
Chair:
Michelle Duster, Independent Writer
Althea Tait, SUNY Brockport
Sponsor:
California Newsreel
162.
12:00 pm to 1:45 pm
Meeting
ABWH MEETING.
Atlanta 1
163.
12:00 pm to 1:45 pm
Panel Session
STOLEN CHILDHOOD: SLAVE YOUTH IN
NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICA – CONTRIBUTION AND IMPACT.
Atlanta 2
Chair:
Jacqueline McLeod, Metropolitan State University of Denver
Participants:
About “Stolen Childhood: Slave Youth in Nineteenth-Century America.” Brenda Stevenson, University of California, Los Angeles
(UCLA)
About “Stolen Childhood: Slave Youth in Nineteenth-Century America.” Loren Schweninger, University of North Carolina at
Greensboro
About “Stolen Childhood: Slave Youth in Nineteenth-Century America.” Diane Mutti Burke, University of Missouri-Kansas City
Commentators:
Norrece Jones, Virginia Commonwealth University (Emeritus)
Daniel Littlefield, University of South Carolina
164.
12:00 pm to 1:45 pm
Paper Session
AFRICAN AMERICANS DURING THE COLD WAR.
Atlanta 3
Chair:
Omar J. Salaam, The University of South Florida
Participants:
Shaping the African American Anti-Nuclear Movement: African American Campaigns against Nuclear Weapons and Energy, 19451995. Aubrey Underwood, Clark Atlanta University
The Case Against the Council: Communist-Front or Black Internationalist Organization? Alhaji Conteh, Howard University
Commentator:
Omar J. Salaam, The University of South Florida
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Friday, September 25, 2015
165.
12:00 pm to 1:45 pm
Panel Session
WHAT IS BLACK CULTURE AND WHO DECIDES: SUBVERSIVE REPRESENTATION
AND AESTHETIC DISRUPTION IN BLACK ARTISTIC EXPRESSIONS.
Atlanta 4
Chair:
Cerri Annette Banks, Mount Holyoke College
Participants:
Message Confusion: Understanding Linguistic Representation and Vernacular Masking in Paul Laurence Dunbar’s Humor through the
Comedy of Key and Peele. Spencer Kuchle, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Aesthetic Disruption and Ontological Doubt in Kara Walker’s Harper’s Pictorial of the Civil War (Annotated). Lynn Pasquerella,
Mount Holyoke College
“‘I was waitin’ fo you at tha doh’: Editing Foxxxxy, Beyond Scared Straight, and Digital Technologies”. Le’Mil Eiland, University of
Pittsburgh
Commentator:
Cerri Annette Banks, Mount Holyoke College
166.
12:00 pm to 1:45 pm
Roundtable Session
Atlanta 5
HOW CIVIL RIGHTS VIOLATIONS OCCURRING WITH THE FEDERAL SECTOR LEAD TO ADVERSE
HEALTH AND WEALTH CONSEQUENCES THROUGHOUT THE US BLACK POPULATION.
Chair:
Arthuretta H Martin, The Coalition for Change
Discussants:
Tanya Ward Jordan, The Coalition for Change
David j Grogan, The Coalition for Change
Michael McCray, General Counsel-Federally Employed Women Legal Education Fund
Zena Crenshaw-Logal, Power Over Poverty Under Laws of America Restored
167.
12:00 pm to 1:45 pm
Luncheon
CARTER G. WOODSON LUNCHEON.
Capital Ballroon Center and South
Participants:
Leona Barr-Davenport, Atlanta Business League
Representative Roger Bruce, Georgia House of Representatives, Centennial Honorary Committee
Peter Aman, Bain & Company, Centennial Honorary Committee
Speaker:
Lonnie Bunch, National Museum of African American History and Culture
Invocation:
Mark Ogunwale Lomax, 1st Afrikan Presbyterian Church
Emcee:
Chesley McNeil, WXIA 11Alive
Remarks:
Daryl Michael Scott, Howard University & Centennial President, ASALH
Entertainment:
Spelman College Jazz Ensemble
Benediction:
Msgr. Edward Branch, AUC Lyke House Catholic Center
Acknowledgments:
Sylvia Cyrus, Executive Director, ASALH
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Friday, September 25, 2015
168.
12:00 pm to 1:45 pm
Paper Session
Conference Room 123
RACE, SLAVERY, AND THE DYNAMICS OF SOCIAL CONTROL.
Participants:
“Systematic Oppression and Social Control: Examining the Constraints of Slavery in the Urban British Atlantic, 1680-1807.” Michael
Dickinson, University of Delaware
Freedom on the Frontier: Liberty, Land, and Labor in the Choctaw Nation. Derrick D. McKisick, Texas A&M University - Commerce
One Hundred Years of “The Worst Sort of Lynching”: Black Christ Figures in the American South. Julia M Robinson, UNC Charlotte
“Politeness and Obliging Manners”: Race, Gender, and Accommodation in Davenport, 1830-1900. David Brodnax, Trinity Christian
College
“Redefining Slavery as a National Institution: Freed Blacks, Roger Taney and Sharp v. Allein, 1830-1840”. Patricia Reid, University
of Dayton
169.
12:00 pm to 1:45 pm
Paper Session
PRINT MEDIA AND BLACK FREEDOM STRUGGLES.
Conference Room 125
Paper Session
RACE, GENDER, AND BLACK FEMINISM.
Conference Room 127
Poster Session
ASALH POSTER PRESENTATION.
Conference Room 129
Chair:
Malachi Crawford, University of Houston
Participants:
Black Heroes, White Innocence and Civic Pride: Change and Continuity in Newspaper Narratives of Greensboro’s Sit-Ins, 1960-2010.
Isabell Lola Moore, UNCG
Claude Barnett and the Lagos Conference. Ramla Marie Bandele, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis
Louis Austin, the Carolina Times, and the Black Freedom Struggle in North Carolina, 1954-1971. Jerry Gershenhorn, North Carolina
Central University
Commentators:
Audience
170.
12:00 pm to 1:45 pm
Participants:
100 Years and Beyond: Historical Truths of the Origination of Black Feminism. Latoya Johnson, University of North Georgia
Black Lesbian Motherhood: Reconstructing Reproductive Justice in Black Feminism. Chyna Yvonne Davis, Clark Atlanta University
The Middle Ground: Enslaved Black Women and White Mistresses in Antebellum South. Ricardo J Edwards, Tuskegee University
“To Make Us Real for Ourselves”: The Self Documentation of Second Wave Black Feminists. Nitoshia L. Ford, Dominican
University Graduate School of Library and Information Science
Chair:
Kathleen Bethel, Northwestern University
Commentators:
Audience
171.
12:00 pm to 1:45 pm
Participants:
Blood for a “New Rising Sun.” Alan Laird, Gold Coast Railroad Museum African American Experience Exhibit
Seeking GBM: Mapping Queer Sexualities. Matthew Kinlow, Ohio University
Judge:
Justin Isaac Rogers, University of Mississippi
Tahirah Akbar-Williams, University of Maryland Libraries
Kelly Hilton, Davidson College
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Friday, September 25, 2015
172.
12:00 pm to 1:45 pm
Panel Session
Conference Room 131
AFRICAN AMERICAN MALES, SOCIAL IDENTITIES AND SOCIAL PATHOLOGIES:
IMPLICATIONS FOR EDUCATION AND SOCIETY.
Chair:
M. Christopher Brown II, American Association of State Colleges and Universities
Participants:
The Brother Code: Manhood and Masculinity among African American Males in College. T. Elon Dancy, University of Oklahoma
Revisiting The Brownies’ Book: W.E.B. DuBois and Black Male Youth Representation. James Earl Davis, Temple University
Black Male Student Leaders at Predominantly White Universities: Stories of Power, Persistence and Preservation. Bryan Keith
Hotchkins, University of Utah
Cultural Aesthetics and Faculty Improvisation: Designing Pedagogy to Engage African American Boys and Men. Roland Walker
Mitchell, Louisiana State University
Commentator:
M. Christopher Brown II, American Association of State Colleges and Universities
173.
12:00 pm to 1:45 pm
Panel Session
CIVIL RIGHTS, BLACK POWER, AND AFRICAN AMERICAN EDUCATION.
Georgia 10
Chair:
Dionne Danns, Indiana University
Participants:
More Than Cookies and Crayons: Head Start Programs and African American Freedom Empowerment in Mississippi, 1965-1968.
Crystal Sanders, Pennsylvania State University
Barbara Sizemore and the Politics of Black Educational Achievement, 1963-1975. Elizabeth Todd-Breland, University of Illinois
Chicago
Courageous Navigation: African American Students at an Elite Private School in the South, 1967-1972. Michelle A. Purdy,
Washington University in St. Louis
Commentator:
V. P. Franklin, University of California, Riverside
174.
12:00 pm to 1:45 pm
Roundtable Session
Georgia 11
THE BLACK SPATIAL IMAGINARY: A CONVERSATION ABOUT BLACK GEOGRAPHIES.
Chair:
Akil Houston, Ohio University, Department of African American Studies
Discussants:
Aretina Hamilton, Ohio University, Department of African American Studies
LaToya Eaves, Middle Tennessee State University
Priscilla McCutcheon, University of Connecticut
Sydney Joslin-Knapp, Ohio University, Department of African American Studies
175.
12:00 pm to 1:45 pm
Panel Session
TRANSATLANTIC, TRANSNATIONAL, AND TRANS-GENERATIONAL
APPROACHES TO STUDYING THE AFRICAN DIASPORA.
Georgia 12
Chair:
Manoucheka Celeste, University of Nevada Las Vegas
Participants:
Transatlantic Feminisms: Exploring Black Women’s Studies in the 21st Century. Cheryl R. Rodriguez, University of South Florida
Mucamas and Mulatas: Black Brazilian Feminisms, Representations, and Ethnography. Erica Lorraine Williams, Spelman College
Traveling Blackness: Race, Gender, and Citizenship. Manoucheka Celeste, University of Nevada Las Vegas
Caribbean Women Writers: An Anthology. Julia Lee, University of Nevada Las Vegas
Commentator:
Stephanie Evans, Clark Atlanta University
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Friday, September 25, 2015
176.
12:00 pm to 1:45 pm
Roundtable Session
Georgia 2 --AV Room
BARAKA’S BLUES PEOPLE AT 50: RACE, RHYTHM, AND VIEWS
IN THE STUDY OF AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSIC CULTURE TODAY.
Chair:
Birgitta Joelisa Johnson, University of South Carolina
Discussants:
Regina Bradley, Armstrong State University
Aja Burrell Wood, The New School
Alisha Jones, Indiana University
Birgitta Joelisa Johnson, University of South Carolina
Fredara M Hadley, Oberlin University
177.
12:00 pm to 1:45 pm
Roundtable Session
SPELMAN WOMEN/BLACK LIVES.
Georgia 3-A-V Room
Chair:
Noliwe Rooks, Cornell University
Discussants:
Tayari Jones, Rutgers University, at Newark
Pearl Cleage, Alliance Theatre
Riché Richardson, Cornell University
Donna Akiba Sullivan Harper, Spelman College
178.
12:00 pm to 1:45 pm
Roundtable Session
Georgia 4-A-V Room
TRUTH & TRANSITION: A ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION FOR HISTORIANS AND ARTISTS
ON INTERPRETING SLAVERY, RESISTANCE AND FREEDOM THROUGH THE ARTS.
Chair:
Kellie Carter-Jackson, Hunter College
Discussants:
Alexis Peskine, Alexis Peskine Projects
Michael Platt, Michael Platt Studio
Helene Faussart, Les Nubians
Delfeayo Marsalis, DMarsalis Productions
179.
12:00 pm to 1:45 pm
Library Session
ASALH INFO PROFESSIONALS MEETING.
180.
12:00 pm to 1:45 pm
Film Festival Session
Georgia 6-A-V Room
HEALING HISTORY: THE DOCUMENTARY - A JOURNEY OF AFRICAN CENTERED EDUCATION
IN THE US AND BERMUDA.
Chair:
Melodye Micere Van Putten, Black History Works, Inc.
Commentators:
Theodore and Elsie Erwin, Educators to Africa
Melodye Micere Van Putten, Black History Works, Inc.
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Georgia 5-A-V Room
Friday, September 25, 2015
181.
12:00 pm to 1:45 pm
Panel Session
CARTER G. WOODSON AND BLACK THEATRE HISTORY.
Georgia 9-A-V Room
Chair:
Sandra Adell, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Participants:
Twentieth Century Black Theatre: The Early Years. Sandra Adell, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Carter G. Woodson and Educational Theatre. Freda Scott Giles, University of Georgia
In the Shadow of the Harlem Renaissance: African American Women Artists of Washington, D.C. Kathy A Perkins, Department of
Dramatic Art, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Commentator:
Amma Ghartey-Tagoe Kootin, University of Colorado-Boulder
182.
12:00 pm to 1:45 pm
Paper Session
RACE, GENDER, ACTIVISM, AND MUSIC.
Savannah 1 (Level 2 Lobby)
Chair:
Dr. Robert Franklin Jefferson, University of New Mexico
Participants:
Black Identity and Narratives of Loss in the Civil Rights Era: “They took the drums away!”. Eric D Wright, Valencia College, Osceola
Campus
Jazz: The Unmasked Rhetoric. Joan Cartwright, Women in Jazz South Florida, Inc.
Put It Where the Goats Can Get It: Joe Madison and Activist Talk Radio. David Alvin Canton, Connecticut College
Saving Black Lives Through Rhythm Was His Business: Jimmie Lunceford’s Mission. Ronald Cortez Herd II, The W.E. A.L.L. B.E.
Group INC.
Southern-AfroFuturistics: Outkast, Atlanta and Afrofuturism. Maurice J Hobson, Georgia State University
Commentator:
Zebulon Miletsky, Stony Brook University
183.
12:00 pm to 1:45 pm
Roundtable Session
Savannah 2 (Level 2 Lobby)
CASE STUDIES -- A PREVIEW OF THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES’ BLACK HISTORY GUIDE (PART 2 OF 2).
Chair:
Netisha Currie, National Archives
Discussants:
Tina L Ligon, National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
Shane B. Walsh, University of Maryland, College Park
Wanda Williams, National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
Netisha Currie, National Archives
184.
12:00 pm to 1:45 pm
Panel Session
RESISTANCE.
Savannah 3 (Level 2 Lobby)
Chair:
Monique Earl-Lewis, Morehouse College
Participants:
Revolt, Reparations and the National Association of Black Students (NABS): An Oral History Interview with Gwendolyn M. Patton.
Richard D. Benson II, Spelman College
Fantastical Resistance: Screening the Black Body from The Legend of Nigger Charley to Django. Stephane Dunn, Morehouse College
Moses Dickson Dickson’s Knights of Liberty Movement in Light of Recent Scholarship on African Diasporic Cultural Transformation
and Resistance. Samuel T. Livingston, Morehouse College
Commentator:
Corrie Claiborne, Morehouse College
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185.
Chair:
1:30 pm to 3:00 pm
Film Festival Session
VEL PHILLIPS: DREAM BIG DREAMS BY DIRECTOR/PRODUCER
ROBERT TRONDSON, 57 MINUTES.
Georgia 13
Patrick Jones, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
186.
2:00 pm to 3:50 pm
Panel Session
THE BLACK INTELLECTUAL TRADITION
IN THE UNITED STATES IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY.
Atlanta 1
Roundtable Session
CHARLES H. WESLEY SEMINAR.
Atlanta 2
Roundtable Session
SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING IN THE 21ST CENTURY.
Atlanta 3
Chair:
Larry L. Rowley, University of Michigan
Participants:
Pan-Africanism in the Earlier Twentieth Century. Wilson Moses, Pennsylvania State University
The Republic of New Afrika, Independence Struggle and International Solidarity During the Black Power Era. Edward Onaci,
Ursinus College
Black Conservatism. LaTasha B. Levy, Assistant Professor, University of Virginia
Black Public Intellectuals in the Literary Imagination: A Contemporary History. Marlo David, Purdue University
Commentator:
Cornelius Bynum, Purdue University & Executive Coucil, ASALH
187.
2:00 pm to 3:50 pm
Chair:
Evelyn Higginbotham, Harvard University & Executive Council, ASALH
Participant:
Overturning Dred Scott: Race and Rights in Antebellum America. Martha S. Jones, University of Michigan
Discussants:
Jeffrey Kerr-Ritchie, Howard University
Leslie M. Harris, Emory University
Patricia Reid, University of Dayton
Steven Hahn, University of Pennsylvania
Thavolia Glymph, Duke University
Tony Frazier, North Carolina Central University
Jessica Millward, University of California, Irvine
188.
2:00 pm to 3:50 pm
Chair:
LaShawn Harris, Michigan State University
Discussants:
Pero Dagbovie, Michigan State University
Rhonda Williams, Case Western University
Randal Maurice Jelks, University of Kansas
Talitha LeFlouria, Florida Atlantic University
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Friday, September 25, 2015
189.
2:00 pm to 3:50 pm
Panel Session
RECONSIDERING PAN-AFRICANISM IN THE BLACK POWER MOVEMENT.
Atlanta 4
2:00 pm to 3:50 pm
Atlanta 5
Chair:
Yohuru Williams, Fairfield University
Participants:
Black Zion in the Rainforest: African-American Radicals, Guyana, and the Perils of Postcoloniality. Russell Rickford, Cornell
University
Africa House Inc.: Black Power and Pan-Africanism in Los Angeles, 1967-1975. Ashley Farmer, Duke University
Pan-Africanism in Print: Black Booksellers and the Business of Literary Black Power. Joshua Clark Davis, University of Baltimore
Commentator:
Yohuru Williams, Fairfield University
190.
Workshop Session
AIM: ACTUALIZING AND INTERPRETING THE MISSION
(SUSTAINABILITY FOR ASALH’S SECOND CENTURY).
Leaders:
Greer Charlotte Stanford-Randle, ASALH/ Paul Laurence Dunbar Branch at Dayton, OH & Executive Council, ASALH
Omope Carter Daboiku, ASALH/ Paul Laurence Dunbar Branch at Dayton, OH
Mark S. Jackson, ASALH/ Manasota Branch
LaNesha DeBardelaben, Michigan State University
191.
2:00 pm to 3:50 pm
Paper Session
Conference Room 123
AFRICAN CULTURAL CONNECTIONS THROUGHOUT THE DIASPORA.
Chair:
Claudia D Nelson, Coppin State University
Participants:
Forget Me Not - Reconciling the (Dis)Connectedness Among and Between African Americans and Africans”. Claudia D Nelson,
Coppin State University
Making Connections: J.B. Murray and Africa. Licia Ellen Clifton-James, University of Missouri-Kansas City
The Canary Archipelago Islanders Of Louisiana: The Black Islanos. Elaine Vigne, Independent Scholar
Commentator:
Margaret Bernice Smith Bristow, Pearson Education Assessment Company
192.
2:00 pm to 3:50 pm
Panel Session
Conference Room 125
THE FORT VALLEY HAM AND EGG SHOW: REVITALIZING THE COMMUNITY
THROUGH AGRICULTURE, THE ARTS AND CULTURE.
Chair:
Dawn J. Herd-Clark, Fort Valley State University
Participants:
The Call for Agrarian Reform: The Origin of the Fort Valley Ham and Egg Show. Kyle Harris, Florida State University
Otis O’Neal: The Father of the Ham Show. Dawn J. Herd-Clark, Fort Valley State University
Folk Music At Its Best: Ham and Eggs With A Side of Music. Cynthia Madison, Fort Valley State University
Margret Toomer: The Mother of the Egg Show. Kymara J. Sneed, Fort Valley State University
Commentators:
Kyle Harris, Florida State University
Dawn J. Herd-Clark, Fort Valley State University
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Friday, September 25, 2015
193.
2:00 pm to 3:50 pm
Panel Session
Conference Room 127
BLACK WOMEN’S ORGANIZATIONAL QUILTING IN THE DEPRESSION ERA.
Chair:
Erik McDuffie, University of Illinois
Participants:
“‘You may begin furnishing us with eggs as soon as possible’: Nannie Helen Burroughs and Cooperative Economics in the Great
Depression.” Angela Hornsby-Gutting, Missouri State University
“’Mrs. T, they say you belong to the NAACP…and that you are critical:’ Mary Church Terrell’s 1930s Organizational Work”. Alison
M. Parker, College at Brockport, State University of New York
“’I had learned all kinds of ways to make things happen:’ Sue Bailey Thurman’s Activism in the Search for Common Ground”.
Brandy Thomas Wells, The Ohio State University
Commentator:
Peter Eisenstadt, Howard Thurman Papers
194.
2:00 pm to 3:50 pm
Paper Session
MEMORY AND COMMEMORATION OF THE BLACK PAST.
Conference Room 129
Chair:
Tony B Lowe, University of Georgia
Participants:
Is It Time for a Black National Historic Trust? Daniel R Acker, Public Historian
The Slave Ship Replica Project and the International Decade for People of African Descent. Gene S Tinnie, City of Miami Virginia
Key Beach Park Trust
Opportunities Missed, Taken, and Taken Away: Principle, Expedience, and Memorializing in Historic Black Public Address.
Katherine Scott Sturdevant, Pikes Peak Community College; Stephen Collins, Pikes Peak Community College
Commentator:
Tony B Lowe, University of Georgia
195.
2:00 pm to 3:50 pm
Paper Session
Conference Room 131
INDEPENDENCE AND BLACK LIBERATION THROUGHOUT THE DIASPORA.
Chair:
Kelly Hilton, Davidson College
Participants:
Educating for Freedom: William X Schienman, Tom Mboya, and the Struggle for an Independent Kenya. Andrew Juan Rosa, Faulty
Pétion of Port-au-Prince
. Andrew Wyatt Maginn, Howard University
The Emergence and Impact of Mario Moorhead and His Grassroots Political Party, 1969-1986. Derick Antony Hendricks, Morgan
State University
“Freedom Yes, Apartheid No!”: Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. and the American Anti-Apartheid Movement. David Mathew Walton,
Michigan State University
Commentator:
Kelly Hilton, Davidson College
196.
2:00 pm to 3:50 pm
Presidential Session
MAKING MODERN ATLANTA: A CITY OF RE-INVENTION.
Presenters:
Maurice J Hobson, Georgia State University
Regina Bradley, Armstrong State University
Anita Law Beaty, Activist
Karl Barnes, Atlanta Urban and Regional Planner
Mack Wilbourn, Mack II
US Ambassador Andrew J Young, The Andrew J. Young Foundation
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Georgia 10
Friday, September 25, 2015
197.
2:00 pm to 3:50 pm
Panel Session
LEGACIES: LESSONS FROM CARTER G. WOODSON AND
THE ASNLH FOR K-12 EDUCATION IN THE 21ST CENTURY.
Georgia 11
Chair:
Ida Jones, Howard University Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
Participants:
Exploring the Curriculum Theorizing of Carter G. Woodson. Anthony L. Brown, University of Texas at Austin
Deracialized Black History: An Examination of K-12 School Curriculum. Keffrelyn D. Brown, University of Texas at Austin
The State of African American History: A Woodsonian Approach to Black History K-12 Policy. LaGarrett King, Clemson University
Teaching Race and the Color Line in U.S. History: Lessons from Yesterday’s Association for Today’s Schools. Jeffrey Aaron Snyder,
Carleton College
Commentator:
Carl Grant, University of Wisconsin
198.
2:00 pm to 3:50 pm
Roundtable Session
Georgia 12
EDUCATING AFRICAN AMERICAN CHILDREN TODAY: WHAT DID ASA G. HILLIARD, III SAY.
Chair:
Patricia Hilliard-Nunn, University of Florida
Discussants:
Kenneth Nunn, University of Florida
T’Shaka Bailey, Georgia State University
Hakim Hilliard-Nunn, The Hilliard Firm
Patricia Hilliard-Nunn, University of Florida
199.
2:00 pm to 3:50 pm
Panel Session
Georgia 2 --AV Room
BREAKING BOUNDARIES BLACK WOMEN’S RADICAL ACTIVISM AND POLITICS.
Chair:
Bettye Collier-Thomas, Temple University
Participants:
There is a Science and Art to Making a Successful Revolution: A History of Black Women’s Radicalism in the Third World Women’s
Alliance. Assata Kokayi, Northwestern University; Prudence Cumberbatch, Brooklyn College; Zinga Fraser, Brooklyn College
Juanita Jackson Mitchell: Radicalism and Traditionalism in Race Leadership. Prudence Cumberbatch, Brooklyn College
A Road Less Travelled Black Congressional Women’s Radical Politics. Zinga Fraser, Brooklyn College
Commentator:
Zinga Fraser, Brooklyn College
200.
2:00 pm to 3:50 pm
Presidential Session
Georgia 3-A-V Room
MINORITY HEALTH AND HEALTHCARE: YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW.
Chair:
Dr. Louis W. Sullivan, President Emeritus, Morehouse School of Medicine
Participants:
The Long Journey to Health Equity in America. Dr. Louis W. Sullivan, President Emeritus, Morehouse School of Medicine
The Education of African American Health Professionals. Dr. Valerie Montgomery Rice, President and Dean, Morehouse School of
Medicine
Cardiovascular Disease in African Americans. Dr. Elizabeth Ofili, Professor of Medicine and Chief, Division of Cardiology
Morehouse School of Medicine
Advances in Cancer Care in Minority Populations. Dr. Otis Brawley, Chief Medical Officer American Cancer Society
Development and Functioning of the Brain. Peter MacLeish, Director, The Neuroscience Institute Morehouse School of Medicine
Strategies for Health Promotion and the Prevention of Disease. Dr. David Satcher, Director, the Satcher Leadership Institute
Morehouse School of Medicine
U.S. Health System Reform and The Affordable Care Act. William Toby, Director, Health Care Financing Administration
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201.
2:00 pm to 3:50 pm
Panel Session
Georgia 4-A-V Room
POLICIES, POLITICS, AND PRIDE IN THE BLACK SPORT CENTURY:
NEW PERSPECTIVES IN THE HISTORY OF AFRICAN AMERICAN ATHLETICS.
Chair:
Adrian Burgos, The University of Illinois
Participants:
The Historian of Black College Football: The Legacy of Eric “Ric” Roberts. Derrick White, Dartmouth College
Sport and the Making of Modern Black Conservatism. Tyran Kai Steward, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
Racial Bias: The Black Athlete and the Early War on Drugs. Theresa Runstedtler, American University
202.
2:00 pm to 3:50 pm
Roundtable Session
Georgia 5-A-V Room
SPARKING THE GENIUS IN ACTION:
EXPLORING WOODSON’S LEGACY THROUGH THE BLACK HISTORY BULLETIN.
Chair:
La Vonne Neal, Northern Illinois University
Discussants:
Karsonya (Kaye) Wise Whitehead, Loyola University Maryland
Sarah Lynne Frielink
Conra Gist, University of Arkansas
Joseph Flynn, Northern Illinois University
Alicia Moore, Southwestern University
Rebecca Hunt, Northern Illinois University
203.
2:00 pm to 3:50 pm
Roundtable Session
Georgia 6-A-V Room
OUR EXPERIENCES AS ANTHOLOGY EDITORS-DOS, DON’T, AND INTERESTING STORIES.
Chair:
Tiffany Gill, University of Delaware
Discussants:
Michael Ezra, Sonoma State University
Peniel Joseph, Tufts University
Komozi Woodard, Sarah Lawrence College
Jeanne Theoharis, Brooklyn College
Laura Warren Hill, Bloomfield College
204.
2:00 pm to 3:50 pm
Roundtable Session
FOREVER SUPER: BLACK MACHO AND THE MYTH
OF THE SUPER WOMAN: 35 YEARS LATER.
Chair:
Stacey Patton, Chronicle for Higher Education
Discussants:
Michele Wallace, Graduate Center of the City University of New York
Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Spelman College
Kali Gross, The University of Texas - Austin
Treva Lindsey, Ohio State University
Brittney Cooper, Rutgers University
Natanya Duncan, Lehigh University
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Georgia 9-A-V Room
Friday, September 25, 2015
205.
2:00 pm to 3:50 pm
Panel Session
Savannah 1 (Level 2 Lobby)
BLACK EDUCATION, DESEGREGATION, AND PRIVATE SCHOOLS.
Chair:
Traki Taylor-Webb, Bowie State University
Participants:
“Catholic Philanthropies and African American Catholic Schools”. Katrina Marie Sanders, The University of Iowa
“Dual Benefits: White Philanthropy, African American Students, and the Desegregation of Elite K-12 Private Schools”. Michelle A.
Purdy, Washington University in St. Louis
“We Were from All Over Town”: Maintaining Racial Friendships at Desegregated Chicago Schools. Dionne Danns, Indiana
University
Commentator:
Linda Marie Perkins, Claremont Graduate University
206.
2:00 pm to 3:50 pm
Roundtable Session
Savannah 2 (Level 2 Lobby)
SUSTAINING AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES: LEADERSHIP OF DEPARTMENTS,
PROGRAMS, AND CENTERS IN THE 21ST CENTURY.
Chair:
Erin N. Winkler, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Discussants:
Deidre Hill Butler, Union College
William Jelani Cobb, University of Connecticut
Stephanie Evans, Clark Atlanta University
Valerie Grim, Indiana University-Bloomington
207.
2:00 pm to 3:50 pm
Panel Session
Savannah 3 (Level 2 Lobby)
INCLUDING STUDENTS IN ORAL HISTORY PROJECTS:
PRESERVING BLACK HISTORY FOR ANOTHER CENTURY.
Chair:
Harry Okoh, Atlanta Metropolitan State College
Participants:
Southern Narratives of War: Atlanta Branch Veterans’ History Project. Candy Tate, Emory University
Revisiting Oyotunji Village. Kenja R McCray, Atlanta Metropolitan State College
Taking “Black Lives Matter” to CNN: An Oral History of AUC Student Protest Amid the Failure to Indict in the Killing of Mike
Brown. Tara Lake, Independent Scholar
Slave Grandchildren Remember. Pamela E. Foster, Afro-American Historical and Genelogical Society; Learotha Williams, Tennessee
State University
Commentator:
Frank Johnson, Atlanta Metropolitan State College
208.
Chair:
3:15 pm to 4:30 pm
Film Festival Session
THE BEECH EXPERIEMENT: A SUCCESS STORY OF URBAN
REHABILITATION BY KENNETH SCOTT, 44 MINUTES.
Georgia 13
Keeanga Yamahtta Taylor, Princeton University
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Friday, September 25, 2015
209.
4:00 pm to 4:30 pm
Special Session
ASALH AWARDS PROGRAM.
Atlanta 1
Participants:
Janet Sims-Wood, Bethel Dukes Branch of ASALH & Executive Council, ASALH
Barbara Spencer Dunn, DeVereux Family
Emcee:
Dorothy F Bailey, PG County Branch of ASALH & Executive Council, ASALH
Gina Paige, African Ancestry & Executive Council, ASALH
Awardee:
Daryl Michael Scott, Howard University & Centennial President, ASALH
Sheila Flemming-Hunter, Clark Atlanta University & Executive Council, ASALH
Cheryl Hicks, University of North Carolina Charlotte
210.
4:45 pm to 6:45 pm
Plenary Session
Capital Ballroom North
WHO STOLE THE SOUL?’: BLACK MUSIC AND THE STRUGGLE
FOR EMPOWERMENT IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY.
Chair:
Fanon Che Wilkins, Doshisha University
Participants:
‘Holding on to Dollars Til them Eagles Grin’: The Battle for Economic Ownership and Authenticity in Black Early Vaudeville Theater,
1900-1929. Michelle R. Scott, UMBC
‘Thank You for Talking To Me Africa:’ SOLAR Records and the Quest for Pan-African Economic Cooperation. Scot Brown, UCLA
‘Everybody Wants to Sing My Blues, Nobody Wants to Live My Blues’: Deconstructing Narratives of Race, Culture and Power in
Black Music Scholarship’. Portia Maultsby, Indiana University
‘Who Stole the Soul?’: Music and Black Empowerment in the 1970s - A Personal Narrative. James Mtume, Grammy Award Winning
Musician & Songwriter
211.
4:45 pm to 6:15 pm
Film Festival Session
OLD SOUTH, 54 MINUTES.
Georgia 13
Film Festival Session
THIS LITTLE LIGHT OF MINE: THE LEGACY OF FANNIE LOU
HAMER BY ROBIN N. HAMILTON, 26 MINUTES.
Georgia 13
Chair:
Cherisse Jones-Branch, Independent Scholar
212.
6:30 pm to 7:30 pm
Chair:
Shenette Garrett-Scott, University of Mississippi
213.
7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Workshop Session
ARTS INTEGRATION: HISTORICALLY SPEAKING.
Leaders:
Agnolia Beatrice Gay, Jacksonville James Weldon Johnson Branch
Chy’na Nellon, Helping Engage Art
Georgia Hudson, Helping Engage Arts
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Atlanta 1
Friday, September 25, 2015
214.
7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Panel Session
BLACK CHRISTIAN NATIONALISM AND THE BLACK FREEDOM STRUGGLE.
Atlanta 2
7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Panel Session
CHANGING THE ARCHETYPES: AFRICANA WOMEN
ARE HOMEPLACE, LIBERATION, AND THE FUTURE.
Atlanta 3
Panel Session
READING AND TEACHING THE SOULS OF BLACK FOLK.
Atlanta 4
Chair:
Reginald K Ellis, Florida A&M University
Participants:
Martin Delany’s Political Theories on Race, Religion, and Coloniialism. Sylvester Johnson, Northwestern University
Bishop Henry McNeal Turner: A Black Christian Nationalist of the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries.” David H Jackson, Florida
A&M University
Albert B. Cleage Jr. and the Politics of Black Christian Nationalism. Darius J. Young, Florida A&M University
Commentator:
Ameenah Shakir, Florida A&M University
215.
Chair:
Jennifer Williams, Temple University
Participants:
Africana Women are Homeplace: (Re)centering Africana Women as Sites of Liberation. Donela Wright, Temple University
Assata Shakur: Afrikan Diasporic Revolutionary Philosophy and the Continuum of the Black Radical Tradition. Ifetayo Flannery,
Temple University
Encoding Liberation: Akirachix and Black Girls Code designing an Africana Future. Jennifer Williams, Temple University
Commentator:
Mikana Scott, Temple University
216.
7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Chair:
Nadine V. Nadine V. Wedderburn, SUNY Empire State College
Participants:
“Using Material Culture to Teach The Souls of Black Folk “. Whitney Battle-Baptiste, University of Massachusetts – Amherst
“Teaching a Close Reading of the Text”. Frances Jones-Sneed, MCLA
“ Teaching The Sorrow Songs in The Souls of Black Folk”. MaryNell Morgan-Brown, SUNY – Empire State College
Commentator:
Nadine V. Nadine V. Wedderburn, SUNY Empire State College
SESSION CANCELLED
217.
7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Panel Session
“TRUE, I GOT MORE FANS”: BLACKNESS AND THE
SPECTACULAR PERFORMANCE OF AFFINITY.
Atlanta 5
Chair:
Grace Gipson, University of California, Berkeley
Participants:
Media, Film, and Protest Theater: On documentary and image making in Black Radical Movements. Kimberly McNair, University of
California, Berkeley
Killing for Kicks: Conspicuous Consumption, Gratuitous Violence and Media (Mis) Representations of Sneaker Culture. Christina
Bush, UC Berkeley
“It’s A Man Thing, Gina!”: Negotiating Race, Memory and Gender Politics in Martin. Patrick Johnson, Universitiy of California,
Berkeley
Cosplaying While Black: Performances of Transcodability in Digital Culture. Grace Gipson, University of California, Berkeley
Commentator:
Regina Bradley, Armstrong State University
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218.
7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Panel Session
Conference Room 123
SCANDALOUS: GENDER, POWER, AND SEXUALITY IN SCANDAL.
Chair:
Le’Trice Donaldson, The University of Memphis
Participants:
Olivia Pope: Breaking the Spell of the “Magic Negro”. Jervette RaShaun Ward, University of Alaska Anchorage
THE REEL AINT REAL: Scandal and black female equality. Armanthia Nicole Duncan, The University of Massachusetts-Amherst
I Am the Hell and the High Water: Black Masculinities and Body Politics in Scandal. Derrick Lanois, Georgia State University
Commentator:
Sheena Harris, Tuskegee University
219.
7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Panel Session
Conference Room 125
THE CHALLENGE OF TEACHING RACE AND RACISM AT A
PREDOMINANTLY WHITE/HISPANIC SERVING INSTITUTION ON THE WEST COAST.
Chair:
Donna J Nicol, California State University Fullerton
Participants:
Black Names: Race and Perceptions of Course Value. Natalie Graham, California State University, Fullerton
Teaching Blackness from Multiracial Feminism at a PWI/HSI Institution on the West Coast. Donna J Nicol, California State
University Fullerton
Commentator:
Fenobia Dallas, Saginaw Valley State University
220.
7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Panel Session
Conference Room 127
COLLEGE DAYS SWIFTLY PASS BY: BLACK COLLEGIATE PERFORMERS,
PRODUCERS, AND CULTURAL PRODUCTION.
Chair:
Le’Mil Eiland, University of Pittsburgh
Participants:
“Howard Players versus Paul Robeson: Representing the American Negro Abroad”. Marvin McAllister, University of South CarolinaColumbia
“Have We Woke Up Yet?: Choreographing the Persistence of Intra-Racism (with Compliments to Spike Lee)”. Faedra Carpenter,
University of Maryland-College Park
Recovering Narratives: Examining Black Women Theatre Artists at Historically Black Colleges. Khalid Long, University of
Maryland-College Park
Strolling on College Campuses: Performing Diaspora Through Gestures in Dance. Le’Mil Eiland, University of Pittsburgh
Commentator:
Faedra Carpenter, University of Maryland-College Park
221.
7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Paper Session
RACE, BIOGRAPHY, AND LEGACY.
Georgia 12
Participants:
Good-Will Ambassador with Cookbook. Allison B Horrocks, University of Connecticut
Serving Under Fire: Postmaster Isaiah H. Lofton of Hogansville. Tony B Lowe, University of Georgia
The Contribution of African Americans to Economics: The Case of A.L. Harris and P.A. Wallace. Enrico Beltramini, Notre Dame de
Namur University
The Narratives of Samuel J. Battle. Matthew Guariglia, University of Connecticut
Commentator:
Derrick White, Dartmouth College
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222.
7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Workshop Session
Georgia 2 --AV Room
THE ADVENT OF TTCS - TRUTHTELLING & TRUSTBUILDING COMMISSIONS.
Leaders:
Theophus “Thee” Smith, Emory University Religion Department
Andrew “Andy” Sheldon, SheldonSinrich, Inc.
Blair Rothstein, Register Financial
223.
7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Panel Session
LOCAL NARRATIVES OF POLICING, PUNISHMENT,
AND THE POLITICS OF COMMUNITY CONTROL.
Georgia 5-A-V Room
Film Festival Session
THE E-WORD: A DOCUMENTARY ON THE EBONICS DEBATE.
Georgia 6-A-V Room
Chair:
Toussaint Losier, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Participants:
“Incident at Mosque Number 7”: The Nation of Islam and a Community-Oriented Self-Defense from Police Brutality. Rasul Miller,
University of Pennsylvania
“A Jail Without Bars”: Winston Moore, Cook County Jail and the Local Origins of Mass Incarceration. Melanie Newport, Temple
University
“Crime Waves”: Land Fraud, Juvenile Delinquency, and the Politics of Community Control in Phoenix, Arizona. Anthony Pratcher II,
University of Pennsylvania
Commentator:
Donna Murch, Rutgers-New Brunswuck
224.
7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Chair:
Lionel Kimble, Chicago State University & Executive Council, ASALH
Participant:
The E-Word: A Documentary on the Ebonics Debate. Jonathan I Gayles, Georgia State University
225.
7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Workshop Session
Georgia 9-A-V Room
HOME, HISTORY, ARCHITECTURE, & PRESERVATION OF THE LAST CENTURY.
Leaders:
Richard Dozier, Tuskegee University
Joy Kinard, National Park Service
William Stanley III, Stanley Love-Stanley Architects PC
Brent Leggs, National Trust for Historic Preservation
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Friday, September 25, 2015
226.
7:00 pm to 10:00 pm
Participants:
Loretta Parham, AUC Robert Woodruff Library
Cynthia Spence, UNCF/Mellon Foundation
Stephanie Evans, Clark Atlanta University
Michael Julian Bond, Atlanta City Council
Jacquelyn Rouse, Georgia State University
Tanisha Ford, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Francille Wilson, University of Southern California
Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Harvard University
Closing Remarks:
Clarissa Myrick-Harris, Morehouse College
Emcee:
Kathleen Phillips-Lewis, Spelman College
227.
Reception
FRIDAY NIGHT OUT.
AUC Robert Woodruff Library
7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Panel Session
Savannah 1 (Level 2 Lobby)
WE WHO ARE JAPANESE AFRICAN AMERICANISTS: INTELLECTUAL
AUTOBIOGRAPHIES OF JAPAN BLACK STUDIES ASSOCIATION (JBSA) MEMBERS.
Chair:
Gerald Horne, University of Houston
Participants:
It Was Coincidence but Not Coincidence: My Thirty Years of Studying and Teaching African American Literature in Japan. Azusa
Nishimoto, Aoyama Gakuin University (Japan)
The Role of International Scholars in African American Studies: Teaching and Studying African American History from a Japanese
Perspective. Fumiko Sakashita, Ritsumeikan University (Japan)
“A Journey Toward Blackness”: Reflections on the Presence of the Other Japan, Then and Now. Yuichiro Onishi, University of
Minnesota
Commentator:
Gerald Horne, University of Houston
228.
7:45 pm to 10:15 pm
Film Festival Session
Georgia 13
THE BLACK PANTHERS: VANGUARD OF THE REVOLUTION BY STANLEY NELSON, 90 MINUTES (REGISTERED
CONVENTIONEERS ONLY).
Chair:
Robyn Spencer, Lehman College
229.
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10:00 pm to 11:55 pm
Special Session
POETRY SLAM.
Savannah 2 & 3
Saturday, September 26, 2015
SATURday, SEPTEMBER 26, 2015
230.
8:00 am to 2:00 pm
Registration
CONVENTION REGISTRATION.
231.
8:00 am to 9:40 am
Film Festival Session
THE UNTOLD STORY OF EMMETT TILL, 70 MINUTES.
Georgia Registration Office
Georgia 13
Chair:
Telisha Bailey, University of Mississippi
Sponsor:
March on Washington Film Festival
232.
8:00 am to 5:00 pm
Participants:
Art Publishing and Distribution by Charles Bibbs
Association Book Exhibit
Auburn Avenue Research Library on African-American
Culture & History
Everyone’s Place
Farmers Insurance
Foundation International
Heritage International Fashions
Journal of African American History
Library Company of Philadelphia
McFarland Publishing
Middle Tennnessee State University
National Museum of American History
233.
8:30 am to 9:50 am
Exhibitors
EXHIBITORS.
Georgia 7, 8 and Pre-function Area (Exhibits)
National Park Service-Southeast Regional Office
Penguin Random House
retiredslaves.com
Robin Lofton
Scholars Choice
University of Arkansas Press
University of Georgia Press
University of Illinois Press
University of North Carolina Press
University Press Florida
Waldencorart Inc.
YBI African Apparel
Zee Crafts
Panel Session
POLITICS OF BLACK CRIME AND PROTEST.
Atlanta 2
Chair:
Shannon King, The College of Wooster
Participants:
“White Women Forced to Live in Negro Dives”: Black Men and “White Slavery” in New York City’s Interracial Sex Trade. Douglas
Flowe, Washington University in St. Louis
Boiled Boyfriends and Scalded Spouses: Love, Pain, and Devious Behaviors in Twentieth Century Black America. Lauren Henley,
University of Texas at Austin
The Next Stage in the Struggle: Civil Rights Activists as Political Staffers. Marsha Barrett, Mississippi State University
“Burn This Bitch Down”: Louis Head, Ferguson, and the Criminal Politics of Black Grief. Corinne Wohlford, Fontbonne University
Commentator:
Shannon King, The College of Wooster
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234.
8:30 am to 9:50 am
Panel Session
Atlanta 3
FROM THE COSBY SHOW TO BLACK-ISH AND EMPIRE: BLACK FAMILY REPRESENTATION VS REALITY.
Chair:
Tammy Henderson, UMBC
Participants:
Black Middle Class Flight and its Effects on the Urban Black Community. Kenneth Childs, University of Maryland Baltimore County
The Migrant Family: An Afrocentric Perspective. Amir Ali, University of Maryland Baltimore County; Tammy Henderson, UMBC
The Effects of Police Brutality on the Health of the Black Family. Ronald Stubblefield, New York University Law School
Commentator:
Tammy Henderson, UMBC
235.
8:30 am to 9:50 am
Roundtable Session
Atlanta 4
RETHINKING BLACK HISTORY: NIKE, BLACK MASCULINITY AND SNEAKER CULTURE IDENTITY.
Chair:
Billy Boyd Smith, Purdue University
Discussants:
Aria S. Halliday, Purdue University
Ivan Jackson, Purdue University
Kadari Taylor-Watson, Purdue University
Billy Boyd Smith, Purdue University
8:30 am to 9:50 am
Panel Session
Atlanta 5
236.
SPIRITED AND SPIRITUAL: BLACK WOMEN’S POLITICAL ORGANIZING IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY.
Chair:
John Higginson, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Participants:
Spiritual Not Superstitious: Black Women and Geechee Grassroots Organizing in Liberty County, Georgia, 1943-1950. Felicia
Jamison, University of Massachusetts Amherst
A Radical Vision for Human Rights: Loretta Ross, Transnational Feminism, and Reproductive Justice. Destiney Lynn Linker,
University of Massachusetts Amherst
A Matter of Choice: African American Women’s Reproductive Autonomy in the Early Twentieth Century. Joie Campbell, University
of Massachusetts Amherst
Commentator:
Jeanne Theoharis, Brooklyn College
237.
8:30 am to 11:45 am
Meeting
ASALH BRANCH WORKSHOP.
Capital Ballroom North
Participants:
Janet Sims-Wood, Bethel Dukes Branch of ASALH & Executive Council, ASALH
Barbara Spencer Dunn, DeVereux Family
Sylvia Y. Cyrus, Executive Director, ASALH
Daryl Michael Scott, Howard University & Centennial President, ASALH
Greer Charlotte Stanford-Randle, ASALH/ Paul Laurence Dunbar Branch at Dayton, OH & Executive Council, ASALH
Zende Larmar Clark, Executive Council, ASALH National Secretary
Dorothy F Bailey, PG County Branch of ASALH & Executive Council, ASALH
Johnnieque Blackmon Love, University of Maryland Libraries
Monroe Little, Executive Council, ASALH
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238.
8:30 am to 9:50 am
Panel Session
Conference Room 123
THE REVOLUTIONARIES SHAPING THE REVOLUTION: HIP HOP AS A MEDIUM FOR BLACK WOMEN’S
LIBERATION.
Chair:
Rosa Clemente, UMass Amherst
Participants:
Black Motherhood through the eyes of a Revolutionary. Chyna Yvonne Davis, Clark Atlanta University
Don’t Drink the Pickle Juice: An Examination into the Feminism of Nicki Minaj. Marcus Ta’von Haynes, Clark Atlanta University
Homegirls: Helping, Healing, and Holding Each Other Down. Victoria Colston-Brooks, Clark Atlanta University
Commentator:
Courtney Terry, Clark Atlanta University
239.
8:30 am to 9:50 am
Paper Session
EDUCATION, ACHIEVEMENT, AND COMMUNITY ACTIVISM.
Conference Room 125
Paper Session
BLACK MASCULINITY AND SEXUAL IDENTITY.
Conference Room 127
Paper Session
BLACK WOMEN AND INCARCERATION.
Conference Room 129
Participants:
Arts Integration, Education and Community Orginizing. Chy’na Nellon, Helping Engage Art; Agnolia Beatrice Gay, Jacksonville
James Weldon Johnson Branch
Better to Have than to Have Not: Black History Knowledge, Career Aspirations and Academic Performance. Valerie N. Adams-Bass,
University of California, Davis; Collette Chapman-Hilliard, College of Staten Island, City University of New York (CUNY)
Sustained Inequality: African-American Education in a “Post-Racial” Nation. Daniel R Davis, Kennedy-King College
Teaching Black Lives Matter: Using African American History to Empower Future Leaders. Amani Marshall, Georgia State
University
For-profit Education and the Black Community. Wylie Jason Tidwell, Walden University
240.
8:30 am to 9:50 am
Chair:
Randal Maurice Jelks, University of Kansas
Participants:
Black Social Fathers. Serie McDougal, San Francisco State University
Not Power and Not Domination: Making Masculinities in the Mississippi Movement. Francis Gourrier, University of WisconsinMadison
Return of the Mack! Black Male Empowerment in 1970s Blaxploitation Cinema. Joshua Kondwani Wright, University of Maryland
Eastern Shore
241.
8:30 am to 9:50 am
Chair:
Ella J Davis, Wayne County Community College
Participants:
Assault on Black Bodies: Women and Forced Sterilization in California Prisons. Arcadia LeVias, University at Albany
Black Women’s Narrative of Incarceration and Freedom. Natosha Briscoe, Clark Atlanta University
Samuel F. Yette Warned Us about Mass Abortion and Incarceration. Pamela E. Foster, Afro-American Historical and Genelogical
Society
Commentator:
Ethan Staten Roy, North Carolina Central University
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242.
8:30 am to 9:50 am
Paper Session
Conference Room 131
CIVIL RIGHTS AND BLACK INSTITUTIONAL LIFE, PRE-20TH CENTURY.
Chair:
Frances Jones-Sneed, MCLA
Participants:
African Lodge #1: Prince Hall Freemasonry and African Liberation in America. JEFFERY MENZISE, Morgan State University
An Integrated View: Leadership Development, Institutional Analysis, and the Prince Hall Masonic Tradition. Michael Washington,
Union Institute & University
Making Black Lives Matter at the Nadir: Black Institutional Culture in Early Twentieth Century Atlanta. Shirley Thompson, The
University of Texas at Austin
Commentator:
Frances Jones-Sneed, MCLA
243.
8:30 am to 9:50 am
Panel Session
CONNECTING CENTURIES OF BLACK LIFE, HISTORY,
AND CULTURE AT THE LIBRARY COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA.
Georgia 10
Chair:
Erica Armstrong Dunbar, University of Delaware
Participants:
Carter G. Woodson and African American Education in the Long Nineteenth Century. Kabria Baumgartner, College of Wooster
Criminalizing Black Life in Colonial and Early Republic Literature. Emahunn Raheem Ali Campbell, Washington and Lee Unviersity
Bearing Witness: The Portraits of Early African American Ministers. Aston Gonzalez, Salisbury University
Thrills: On the Affective Lifeworld of the 19th Century Sex Trade. Emily Owens, Visiting Scholar, American Academy of Arts and
Sciences
Commentator:
Erica Armstrong Dunbar, University of Delaware
244.
8:30 am to 9:50 am
Panel Session
LIFE, LIBERTY, AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS:
EXPLORING THE MYTH OF RACIAL EQUALITY IN THE UNITED STATES.
Georgia 11
Chair:
Carolyn Calloway Thomas, Indiana University
Participants:
Divide and Conquer: The Emergence of the Color Line in the 20th Century. Erica Cooper, Roanoke College
Death at the Hands of Persons Known: Justifying Hate and the 1992 Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill. Sharoni Little, University of Southern
California
The Politics of Representation: Contesting Race, Voting Rights, and Privilege. Naomi Warren, University of Southern California
Commentator:
Carolyn Calloway Thomas, Indiana University
245.
8:30 am to 9:50 am
Panel Session
PATTERNS OF BLACK AGENCY IN THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY ATLANTIC.
Georgia 12
Chair:
William Alexander, Norfolk State University
Participants:
Freedom Seekers in 19th-Century Virginia. Cassandra Newby-Alexander, Norfolk State University
Canga li”: African American Ideas about the Reopening the African Slave Trade. Kay Wright Lewis, Norfolk State University
Francophone Black Consciousness between the Haitian Revolution and Négritude: Vastey, Linstant, and Firmin. William Alexander,
Norfolk State University
Commentator:
Cathy Jackson, Norfolk State University
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246.
8:30 am to 9:50 am
Film Festival Session
Georgia 2 --AV Room
RAZ BABAA AARON IBN PORI PITTS: PORTRAITS OF A REVOLUTIONARY ARTIST.
Chair:
Nubia Kai, University of Maryland-Baltimore
247.
8:30 am to 9:50 am
Panel Session
Georgia 3-A-V Room
THE NEGRO IN SPORTS: PROMISES, LIMITATIONS, AND UNSETTLED DEBATES, 1900—1970.
Chair:
Dexter Blackman, Loyola Marymount University
Participants:
“African American Interscholastic and Intercollegiate Sport and the Problem of Professionalization, 1900—1930,”. J. Anthony
Guillory, UMass Amherst
“The Most Misunderstood Person in American Sport History: Adolph Rupp and the Complicated Politics of Integration.” Jamal
Ratchford, Colorado College
“The Negro Athlete and Victory”: Athletics and Athletes as Advancement Strategies in Black America, 1890s-1930s. Dexter
Blackman, Loyola Marymount University
Commentators:
J. Anthony Guillory, UMass Amherst
Jamal Ratchford, Colorado College
248.
8:30 am to 9:50 am
Roundtable Session
WHO IS BLACK?: AFRICAN AMERICANS IN CONVERSATION
WITH PUERTO RICANS ABOUT BLACKNESS.
Georgia 4-A-V Room
Chair:
Omar Eaton-Martinez, Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History
Discussants:
Jason Nichols, University of Maryland, College Park
Mayra Santos, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras
Zaira Rivera Casellas, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras
Mirerza Gonzalez Velez, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras
249.
8:30 am to 9:50 am
Roundtable Session
Georgia 5-A-V Room
TRANSNATIONAL RACIAL STRUGGLES IN SOUTH AFRICA AND NORTH AMERICA.
Chair:
Tracy Hucks, Davidson College
Discussants:
Daniel W. Aldridge, III, Davidson College
Kelly Hilton, Davidson College
Laurian Bowles, Davidson College
Flanagan Brenda, Davidson Copllege
Alice Wiemers, Davidson College
Caroline Fache, Davidson College
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8:30 am to 9:50 am
Panel Session
Georgia 6-A-V Room
THE VISUAL CULTURE OF THE MODERN CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT.
Chair:
Nikki Brown, University of New Orleans
Participants:
“The history that’s buried and forgot”: Images of Birmingham and Civil Rights Movement Consensus Narratives. Julie Buckner
Armstrong, University of South Florida
“Discovering Hunger in America” The Politics of Race and Hunger in Photography, 1965-75”. Laurie Green, University of Texas, Austin
“‘Based on a True Story:’ Remembering Civil Rights”. Bryan Jack, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
The New Orleans School Crisis from Black and White Photographers. Nikki Brown, University of New Orleans
Commentator:
Nikki Brown, University of New Orleans
251.
8:30 am to 9:50 am
Panel Session
Georgia 9-A-V Room
UNCOVERING NEW ORLEANIANS’ AFRICAN DIASPORIC CULTURE:
EXPLORATIONS OF MARDI GRAS INDIAN CULTURE.
Chair:
Tiyi Morris, Ohio State University
Participants:
Mardi Gras Indian Queens: The Backbone, Not the Background, of a Unique Tradition. Lenise Alexandra Sunnenberg
Mardi Gras Indian Suits: Finding Empowerment Through Black History and Art. Ashley Theodore, Ohio State University
Mardi Gras Indians: A Story That Runs Deeper. Rian Hamadnalla Awad, Ohio State University
Mardi Gras Indians: Exploring the Intersection of History, Community, and Culture in a Unique Tradition. Torah M Silvera,
Ohio State University
Mardi Gras Indians: Hurricane Katrina Could Not Stop Them. Angela Whipple, The Ohio State University
Commentator:
Tiyi Morris, Ohio State University
252.
8:30 am to 9:50 am
Roundtable Session
Savannah 1 (Level 2 Lobby)
USING THE ‘N-WORD’ TODAY: WHERE ARE WE, AND WHERE SHOULD WE BE HEADING?
Chair:
Ronald Chennault, DePaul University
Discussants:
Kristal Moore Clemons, Florida A&M University
Charlton Copeland, University of Miami
Rodney Hopson, George Mason University
James Peterson, Lehigh University
253.
8:30 am to 9:50 am
Panel Session
Savannah 2 (Level 2 Lobby)
THE LONG STRUGGLE FOR BLACK LIVES: SHADES OF FEMALE ACTIVISM 1960-2015.
Chair:
Linda Diane Tomlinson, Fayetteville State University
Participants:
“’How We Gon’ Make A Black Nation Rise?’ Theorizing ‘African-Centered Mothering’ in New Afrika”. Asantewa Sunni-Ali, University
of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
“Transformative Politicized Activist Leadership in Atlanta, Georgia, 1964-1974: Dorothy Bolden, Ella Mae Brayboy and Pearlie Dove”.
Christy Garrison-Harrison, Clark Atlanta University
“‘Education Didn’t Mean a Degree, It Means How We Serve Our Race and All Humanity’: Women’s Cultural Nationalist Activism and
the Campus-Community Connection, 1967-1981”. Kenja R McCray, Atlanta Metropolitan State College
“’Nothing without a Woman or a Girl:’ Women in the Nation of Islam, 1960-1975.” Nafeesa Haniyah Muhammad, Georgia State
University
Commentator:
Natanya Duncan, Lehigh University
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8:30 am to 9:50 am
Panel Session
Savannah 3 (Level 2 Lobby)
UNDERSTANDING SLAVERY AND EMANCIPATION IN THE DEEP SOUTH, 1830S-1865.
Chair:
Miller William Boyd III, University of Mississippi
Participants:
Reassessing the Invisible Institution: Enslaved People’s Spiritual Lives in the Antebellum Southern Hill Country of Mississippi.
Justin Isaac Rogers, University of Mississippi
“Shall I Continue to Feed Them?”: The Origins of Federal Contraband Policy in the Arkansas Delta, 1862-1863. Roy Wisecarver,
Texas A&M University
Experiences of Self-Emancipated African Americans in Mississippi Contraband Camps, 1862-1865. Kristin Bouldin, university of
Mississippi
Commentator:
Shennette Garrett-Scott, University of Mississippi
255.
10:00 am to 11:50 am
Panel Session
Atlanta 2
BLACK POLITICS IN THE POST-CIVIL RIGHTS METROPOLIS: LEFT, RIGHT, AND CENTER.
Chair:
Brett Gadsden, Emory University
Participants:
From Protest to Entrepreneurism: Leon H. Sullivan, Opportunities Industrialization Centers Inc., and Black Economic Empowerment
in the United States. Jessica Ann Levy, Johns Hopkins University
“What Do I Do When Capital Goes on Strike?”: Kenneth Cockrel, DARE, and the Dilemmas of Black Governance in Detroit. Austin
McCoy, University of Michigan
Elephants on Sweet Auburn: Atlanta’s Black Republicans at the Dawn of Post-Civil Rights Era. Danielle Lee Wiggins, Emory
University
Commentator:
Francoise Hamlin, Brown University
256.
10:00 am to 11:50 am
Library Session
AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN IN THE ACADEMY: THREE GENERATIONS,
THREE PERSPECTIVES, AND WHAT BRINGS AND HOLDS US TOGETHER?
Atlanta 3
Chair:
Lionel Kimble, Chicago State University & Executive Council, ASALH
Discussants:
Johnnieque Blackmon Love, University of Maryland Libraries
Tahirah Akbar-Williams, University of Maryland Libraries
Asma Neblett, University of Maryland
Karen Jefferson, Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library
257.
10:00 am to 11:50 am
Panel Session
Atlanta 4
HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT: AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN AND THE RECLAMATION OF “SPACE.”
Chair:
Natanya Duncan, Lehigh University
Participants:
Ona Judge: The President’s Runaway Slave Woman. Erica Armstrong Dunbar, University of Delaware
“Half in Shadow: The Life and Legacy of Nellie Y. McKay.” Shanna Green Benjamin, Grinnell College
“African American Women in the Shadow of Outer Space: Black Women and the making of NASA”. Duchess Harris, Macalester
College; Margot Lee Shetterly, The Human Computer Project Inc
Commentator:
Natanya Duncan, Lehigh University
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258.
10:00 am to 11:50 am
Panel Session
Atlanta 5
BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE: SEARCHING FOR BLACK WOMEN’S REDEMPTION IN
CONTEMPORARY CULTURE AND FICTION.
Chair:
Sika Dagbovie-Mullins, Florida Atlantic University
Participants:
Unsung Ways of Knowing in Contemporary Neo-Slave Narratives. Regis Marlene Mann, Florida Atlantic University
Comedic Transgressions: Black Women Performing Slavery in the Twenty-First Century. Sika Dagbovie-Mullins, Florida Atlantic
University
Sister Saviors: Black Women as Support Networks for Incarcerated Black Males. Nghana Lewis, Tulane University
Commentator:
Pero Dagbovie, Michigan State University
259.
10:00 am to 11:50 am
Paper Session
RACE AND PSYCHOLOGICAL/MEDICAL SCIENCE.
Conference Room 123
Panel Session
RACE AND SEXUALITY IN FICTIONAL NARRATIVES.
Conference Room 125
Chair:
Deborah Moorhead, Nicholls State University
Participants:
African American Environmental Nostalgia: Collective Social-Ecological Memories. Douglas Williams, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign; Robin Jarrett, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Politicizing Medical Education: Race/Gender and the Redefinition of Medical Professionalization, 1968-1973. Ameenah Shakir,
Florida A&M University
The Strange History and Career of Drapetomania: The Mania that Caused Negro Slaves to Runaway, 1851-1865. Dann J. Broyld
“Healthcare Diplomacy: ELAM and the African-American Experience”. Kwasi Densu, Florida A & M University
“They had a lounge we had a locker room”: Black Women Hospital Workers in Charleston. Jewell Debnam, Michigan State
University
Commentator:
Claudia D Nelson, Coppin State University
260.
10:00 am to 11:50 am
Chair:
Latangela Lajuan Crossfield, Clark Atlanta University
Participants:
Beyond Westeros: Fantasizing Blackness in the Fantasy Genre. Dexter Gabriel, SUNY-Stony Brook
Life Upon These Shores: Robert Hayden’s “Middle Passage” and Samuel R. Delany’s Atlantis: Model 1924. Lavelle Porter,
New York City College of Technology, CUNY
The Inability to Uncage the Myth: An Analysis of James Baldwin’s Black Female Characters. Tiffani J Smith, Claremont Graduate
University
Commentator:
Tiffani J Smith, Claremont Graduate University
261.
10:00 am to 11:50 am
Panel Session
Conference Room 127
BLACK MASCULINITY: PERFORMANCE, HEALTH, AND COLORISM.
Chair:
Jonathan I Gayles, Georgia State University
Participants:
Black Men and Gender Minstrelsy. Brittany Sessions, Georgia State University
The Intersection of Black Masculine Identity and Mental Health. Jasmine Thomas, Georgia State University
He’s Dark, Dark: Exploring Colorism among Black Males. Edlin Veras, Georgia State University
Commentator:
Jonathan I Gayles, Georgia State University
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262.
10:00 am to 11:50 am
Roundtable Session
Conference Room 129
“BLACK WOMEN HISTORIANS IN TEXAS AND THEIR CROSS-GENERATIONAL MEMORIES,
FROM THE 1980S TO THE PRESENT”.
Chair:
Karen Kossie-Chernyshev, Texas Southern University
Discussants:
Bernadette Pruitt, Sam Houston State University
Yvonne Davis Frear, San Jacinto College
Antrece Baggett, Houston Community College-Southeast
Shennette Garrett-Scott, University of Mississippi
263.
10:00 am to 11:50 am
Panel Session
Conference Room 131
CLAIMING GEOGRAPHIES OF FREEDOM: SLAVERY AND RESISTANCE
IN THE ANTEBELLUM SOUTH AND SOUTHWEST.
Chair:
Catherine Clinton, University of Texas at San Antonio
Participants:
‘Go, You Are Free’”: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Gendering of Native American Slaveholding in Antebellum Oklahoma and
Texas. Nakia D Parker, University of Texas at Austin
“Moved and Seduced by the Instigation of the Devil”: Enslaved Women and Infanticide in the 19th Century American South. Signe
Peterson Fourmy, University of Texas at Austin
Commentator:
Sasha Turner, Quinnipiac University
10:00 am to 11:50 am
Panel Session
Georgia 10
264.
PRESERVING AND PRESENTING OUR HISTORY WITH TRADITIONAL AND DIGITAL MEDIA PLATFORMS.
Chair:
TaKeia Anthony, Edward Waters College, Jacksonville, Florida
Participants:
Preparing and Presenting Oral Histories. Angela Williamson, ASALH JWJ Branch, Clay County Historic Preservation Board,
Southern New Hampshire University
Storytelling: Linking the Past to the Present. Sameila Adams, ASALH James Weldon Johnson Branch
Artistic Expressions in Cultural History. Laurence Walden, Jazz Art Decor
Commentators:
Abraham J. Williamson, Harvard Law School
Ricci DeForest, W.E.R.D. Radio, Madame C.J. Walker Museum Atlanta, Georgia
265.
10:00 am to 11:50 am
Panel Session
W. E. B. DU BOIS: MAN AND THEORIST.
Georgia 11
Chair:
Rava Shelyn Chapman, Clark Atlanta University
Participants:
High Hope and Fixed Purpose: Frederick Douglass and the Talented Tenth on the American Plantation. La’Neice Littleton, Clark
Atlanta University
Harlem Voices: Colorism and Multiple Consciouness in New Negro Fiction. Ebony Perro, Clark Atlanta University
Hypocrisy in the Life of W. E. B. Du Bois: Reconstructing Selective Memory. Bonnyeclaire Smith-Stewart, Clark Atlanta University
Commentator:
Courtney Terry, Clark Atlanta University
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266.
10:00 am to 11:50 am
Panel Session
OBAMA, RACE, AND RHETORIC.
Georgia 12
Chair:
Ronald Chennault, DePaul University
Participants:
Rhetoric vs. Reality: A Discourse Analysis of President Obama’s Views on Teachers Versus His Teacher Reform Initiatives. Karen
Johnson, University of Utah
Obama, Post-Racialism and the New American Dilemma. Zebulon Miletsky, Stony Brook University
Are African American Students the Only Ones Who Make Excuses? Obama’s Commencement Addresses at Morehouse and Barnard.
Ronald Chennault, DePaul University
Commentator:
Derrick Alridge, University of Virginia
267.
10:00 am to 11:30 am
Film Festival Session
ORDINARY PEOPLE, EXTRAORDINARY DEEDS, 60 MINUTES.
Georgia 13
Chair:
Crystal Sanders, Pennsylvania State University
Panelists:
Mary Liuzzo Lillieboe, Yvette Johnson, Sarah Collins Rudolph
Sponsor:
March on Washington Film Festival
268.
10:00 am to 11:50 am
Roundtable Session
Georgia 2 --AV Room
SOS--CALLING ALL BLACK PEOPLE-BLACK ARTS MOVEMENT ARTISTS,
ACTIVISTS AND IMPACT.
Chair:
James Smethurst, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Discussants:
Candy Tate, Emory University
John Bracey, University of Massachusetts - Amherst
Sonia Sanchez, Temple University--Emeritus
Jim Alexander, Artist
269.
10:00 am to 11:50 am
Presidential Session
Georgia 3-A-V Room
CIVIL RIGHTS AND CIVIL WRONGS: THE SHAPING OF BLACK LIFE, HISTORY AND
CULTURE IN AMERICA THROUGH THE EYES OF THREE GENERATIONS.
Chair:
Christi Griffin, The Ethics Project
Participants:
Civil Rights and Civil Wrongs: The Shaping of Black Life, History and Culture in America through the Eyes of Three Generations.
US Ambassador Andrew J Young, The Andrew J. Young Foundation
Civil Rights and Civil Wrongs: The Shaping of Black Life, History and Culture in America through the Eyes of Three Generations.
Dr. Bernard Lafayette, The Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Civil Rights and Civil Wrongs: The Shaping of Black Life, History and Culture in America through the Eyes of Three Generations.
Christi Griffin, The Ethics Project
Commentator:
Redditt Hudson, The Ethics Project, Co-Founder, National Coalition of Law Enforcement Officers for Justice (NCLEOJ)
Panelists:
Mary Liuzzo Lillieboe, Yvette Johnson, Sarah Collins Rudolph
Sponsor:
March on Washington Film Festival
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10:00 am to 11:50 am
Panel Session
Georgia 4-A-V Room
INTERNATIONALIZING THE BLACK EXPERIENCE:CULTURE, POLITICS, AND HISTORY.
THIS SESSION DEDICATED TO THE UNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL DECADE FOR PEOPLE
OF AFRICAN DESCENT 2015-2024. THEMES: RECOGNITION, JUSTICE, AND DEVELOPMENT.
Chair:
Tiffany Ruby Patterson, Vanderbilt University
Participants:
Making the Invisible Visible: Portraying the Global African Diaspora.” Sheila Walker, United Nations
“Hang your conscience on a peg’: The African National Congress and NAACP’s Efforts to Delegitimize the World Bank’s Loans to
Apartheid South Africa, 1948-1953. Carol Anderson, Emory University
The Other Americans: Black Women Ex-Patroits in Europe. Tracy D Sharpley-Whiting, Vanderbilt University
World History in Blackface: Impact of Black People on World History. Tiffany Ruby Patterson, Vanderbilt University
Commentator:
Darlene Clark Hine, Northwestern University
271.
10:00 am to 11:50 am
Roundtable Session
SPORTS HISTORY AS CIVIL RIGHTS HISTORY.
Georgia 5-A-V Room
Chair:
Aram Goudsouzian, Universiry of Memphis
Discussants:
John Matthew Smith, Georgia Tech
Eric Allen Hall, Georgia Southern University
Pellom McDaniels III, Emory University
Louis Moore, Grand Valley State University
Theresa Runstedtler, American University
272.
10:00 am to 11:50 am
Panel Session
Georgia 6-A-V Room
BUILDING THE BLACK METROPOLIS: AFRICAN AMERICAN ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN CHICAGO.
Chair:
Robert Weems, Wichita State University
Participants:
King of Selling: The Rise and Fall of S.B. Fuller. Clovis Semmes, University of Missouri-Kansas City
The Politics of the Drive-Thru Window: Chicago’s Black McDonald’s Operators and the Demands of Community. Marcia Chatelain,
Georgetown University
Jim Crow Organized Crime: Black Chicago’s Underground Economy in the Twentieth Century. Will Cooley, Walsh University
Positive Realism: Thomas Burrell and the Development of Chicago as a Center for Black-Owned Advertising Agencies. Jason P.
Chambers, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Commentator:
Robert Weems, Wichita State University
273.
10:00 am to 11:50 am
Panel Session
Georgia 9-A-V Room
SLAVERY AND SEXUALITY: NEW DIRECTIONS IN THE HISTORY OF SLAVERY.
Chair:
Deborah Gray White, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
Participants:
“Clothing Carnal Knowledge: Designing, Masking and Revealing Sexuality in the Slave Female’s Costume”. Brenda Stevenson,
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
“Enchained Masculinity: African American Men of the Slave South”. Leslie M. Harris, Emory University
“Liberty’s Pains and Pleasures: Enslaved Women’s Sexuality, Resistance, and Freedom in the Revolutionary Era”. Barbara
Krauthamer, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Commentator:
Daina Ramey Berry, University of Texas-Austin
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10:00 am to 11:50 am
Panel Session
Savannah 1 (Level 2 Lobby)
NOVEL APPROACHES TO TEACHING THE MODERN CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT.
Chair:
Ava Purkiss, University of Virginia
Participants:
‘A Share of all Remembering’: Teaching the Civil Rights Movement in the Round. Deborah E. McDowell, University of Virginia
Mapping Local Struggle: Digital, Fictional and Archival Geographies in the Classroom. Laura E. Helton, Penn State University
Education for Liberation: Two Models of Freedom School Praxis. Nicole Burrowes, Brown University
Commentator:
LaTasha B. Levy, University of Virginia
275.
10:00 am to 11:50 am
Panel Session
Savannah 2 (Level 2 Lobby)
BLACK WOMEN’S HISTORICAL SOURCES: NEW PERSPECTIVES, NEW DIRECTIONS.
Chair:
Sharita Jacobs Thompson, Independent Scholar
Participants:
“They were a Danger to Themselves”: Black Women, Involuntary Commitment and the Michigan Mental Hygiene System during the
Early 20th Century. Shelby Pumphrey, Michigan State University
“I Don’t Have Time for the Folly of Racism”: Merze Tate and the Pioneering of Black Women Students at Predominately White
Universities in the Midwest. LaNesha DeBardelaben, Michigan State University
Worthy Daughters of the Soil: Benevolence and the American West Indian Ladies Aid Society, 1915-1936. Janelle Edwards,
Michigan State University
Commentator:
Shannon King, The College of Wooster
276.
10:00 am to 11:50 am
Panel Session
Savannah 3 (Level 2 Lobby)
STEPPING OUTSIDE OF NORMATIVE NARRATIVES:
MUSIC, PATRIOTISM, ANARCHISM, AND VISUAL ARTS.
Chair:
Lia T. Bascomb, Georgia State University
Participants:
Feelin’ Myself: Narrative Experiences of Female Hip Hop Artists. Jessie Feigert, Georgia State University
Give Me Liberty: Dark Horse Comic, Martha Washington-An Afrofuturistic Reimagined Black American Icon. Grace Gipson,
University of California, Berkeley
Grown Folks Don’t Need Government: A Case for African Anarchism in Black Liberation Efforts. John Horhn, Georgia State
University
Soul: From Music to the Visual Arts. Danielle Rosenthal, Georgia State University
Commentator:
Lia T. Bascomb, Georgia State University
277.
Chair:
11:45 am to 1:45 pm
Film Festival Session
Georgia 13
NESHOBA: THE PRICE OF FREEDOM BY MICKI DICKOFF & TONY PAGANO, 86 MINUTES.
Nan Woodruff, Pennsylvania State University
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278.
12:00 pm to 1:45 pm
Panel Session
MOVEMENT LEGACIES: BLACK POWER SPEAKS TO THE 21ST CENTURY.
Atlanta 2
12:00 pm to 1:45 pm
Panel Session
EDUCATIONAL JUSTICE, PROTEST SONGS, AND MASS INCARCERATION: A SURVEY
AND CRITIQUE OF THE AFRICAN AMERICAN STRUGGLE FOR JUSTICE.
Atlanta 3
12:00 pm to 1:45 pm
Panel Session
RACIAL DISCRIMINATION IN TEXAS’S CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM.
Atlanta 4
12:00 pm to 1:45 pm
Panel Session
UNCOVERING FORGOTTEN BRIDGES: COUNTERCULTURE, COMMUNITY BUILDING
AND MIGRATION IN THE 20TH CENTURY.
Atlanta 5
Chair:
Edward Onaci, Ursinus College
Participants:
The Changing Same: Urban Communities and Rebellion Aftermath. Ashley M. Howard, Loyola University New Orleans
“No Strings Attached?”: The Legacy of Black Power’s Church-Based Funding. Kerry Pimblott, University of Wyoming
Funding the “Revolution”: Black Power. White Church Money and the Financial Architects of Black Radicalism 1966 – 1976.
Richard D. Benson II, Spelman College
Commentator:
Stephanie Seawell, Illinois Labor History Society
279.
Chair:
Ronald Jemal Stephens, Purdue University
Participants:
Unlocking the Golden Door of Freedom: Booker T. Washington as a Pioneer of Educational Justice. Keturah Nix, Purdue University
African American Artists in the Global Fight for Justice:Black Music and the Framing of Protest Songs during the Anti-Apartheid
Struggle. Jonathan Richard Freeman, Purdue University
Prison nation: Lies, corporate ties, and the pursuit of pursuit of Profit: Re-Imaging the Privatization of Prisons and the 21st Century
Mass Incarceration Crisis. Na’eemah Webb, Purdue University
Commentator:
Ronald Jemal Stephens, Purdue University
280.
Chair:
Maco L. Faniel, Rutgers University
Participants:
The Execution of Adrian Johnson: Social Reaction to the Racial Discrimination of “Old Sparky.” Elizabeth Neucere, Sam Houston
State University
The War on Drugs in Houston: Lee Brown’s Crackdown on Crack. Michael “Gradie” Norman, Sam Houston State University
Use of Force Reforms in the Texas Department of Corrections. Corey Ryan, Sam Houston State University
Commentator:
Jeffery Littlejohn, Sam Houston State University
281.
Chair:
Glenn Chambers, Michigan State University
Participants:
From White Panthers to Rainbow Peoples: Counterculture, Black Power and Coalition building in Southeast Michigan. Ryan Huey,
Michigan State University
Crossing Racial Lines Through Print Media: The Black Panther Party and the August 29th Movement. Eddie Bonilla, Michigan State
University
Where Have All The Jobs Gone: Push back to Igbo Migration in British Southern Cameroon. James Blackwell, Michigan State
University
Commentator:
Glenn Chambers, Michigan State University
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12:00 pm to 1:45 pm
Luncheon
ABWH LUNCHEON.
283.
12:00 pm to 1:45 pm
Luncheon
JOHN BLASSINGAME LUNCHEON.
Capital Ballroom North
Capital Ballroon Center and South
Participants:
LeVar Burton, Actor
Donata Russell Ross, CEO, Concessions International (Atlanta, GA) and Centennial Honorary Committee Member
Speaker:
Daryl Michael Scott, Howard University & Centennial President, ASALH
Invocation and Grace:
Rev. Frank Brown, Concerned Black Clergy of Metropolitan Atlanta, Inc
Benediction:
Rev. Lawrence Edward Carter, Morehouse College
Emcee:
Tiffany Cochran-Edwards, The Cochran Firm
Entertainment:
Wesley International School Choir
Announcement of Partnership between ASALH and the Black Classics Press to Republish Associated Publishers Works.
284.
12:00 pm to 1:45 pm
Paper Session
PAN AFRICANISM.
Conference Room 123
Chair:
Emory S Campbell, Past Director of Penn Center
Participants:
A Sterling Legacy: The Impact of Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois on African Politics and History. Uraina N Pack, Independent Scholar
Dreaming of Algiers in Babylon: Black Radicalism and the Fight for a Unified African Continent. Paraska Lorraine Tolan,
University of Pennsylvania
Carving Out A New Life: Design Motifs of the Surinam Maroon Arts. David Michael Jamison, Miami University -- MIddletown
Quicksand: The Slow Demise of Black Social Science, Kelly Harris, Chicago State University
Commentator:
Emory S Campbell, Past Director, Penn Community Center
285.
12:00 pm to 1:45 pm
Paper Session
HISTORIOGRAPHY, ORAL HISTORY, AND RACIAL HERITAGE.
Conference Room 131
Chair:
Linda Diane Tomlinson, Fayetteville State University
Participants:
Charles Chesnutt: North Carolina Writer Fathers Smith College’s First Black Students, Parts 1 & 2. Pamela E. Foster, Afro-American
Historical and Genelogical Society
Preserving the Legacy: An Oral History of The Dr. Carter G. Woodson Museum. Sean Dickerson, University of South Florida;
Vonzell Agosto, University of South Florida
Principles of Malinke Historiography. Nubia Kai, University of Maryland-Baltimore
The Southern Literary Renaissance of Lillian B. Horace. kYmberly Mieshia Dionne Keeton, Lincoln University - Missouri
Commentator:
Linda Diane Tomlinson, Fayetteville State University
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286.
12:00 pm to 1:45 pm
Panel Session
WHAT’S LEFT IN THE BLACK FREEDOM STRUGGLE?
Georgia 10
Film Festival Session
WEDNESDAYS IN MISSISSIPPI: WOMEN’S MINISTRY
OF PRESENCE DURING FREEDOM SUMMER 1964.
Georgia 2 --AV Room
Chair:
Dayo Gore, University of California San Diego
Participants:
The Drifters’ Guide to “The American Negro”: Revolutionary Formations at the Crossroads of Great Migrations. W. Chris Johnson,
University of Memphis
Harlem, Havana and Hanoi: Robert Des Verney and Black radical political culture in the 1960s. Robyn Spencer, Lehman College
A Tendency Towards Naked Power: C. L. R. James and the Limits of National Self-Determination in the Black Freedom Movement.
Minkah Makalani, University of Texas at Austin
Commentator:
Dayo Gore, University of California San Diego
287.
12:00 pm to 1:45 pm
Chair:
Tiyi Morris, Ohio State University
Commentators:
Tiyi Morris, Ohio State University
Marlene McCurtis, Wednesdays in Mississippi Film Project
Debbie Harwell, University of Houston
SESSION CANCELLED
288.
12:00 pm to 1:45 pm
289.
12:00 pm to 1:45 pm
Meeting
Roundtable Session
RACIAL SEMANTICS, WHITE ANGST AND THE FEAR
OF BLACKNESS IN OBAMA’S POST RACIAL AMERICA.
Georgia 3-A-V Room
Georgia 4-A-V Room
Chair:
Aretina Hamilton, Ohio University, Department of African American Studies
Discussants:
Akil Houston, Ohio University, Department of African American Studies
LaToya Eaves, Middle Tennessee State University
Bayyinah S. Jeffries, Department of African American Studies, Ohio University
Priscilla McCutcheon, University of Connecticut
Stephany Rose, University of Colorado Colorado Springs
Sydney Joslin-Knapp, Ohio University, Department of African American Studies
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290.
12:00 pm to 1:45 pm
Panel Session
Georgia 6-A-V Room
HEALTH AND WELLNESS ADVOCACY: A NEW PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT PATHWAY FOR
AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES (INVITED SESSION SPONSORED BY FIRE!!!).
Chair:
Ronald W Bailey, University of Illinois
Participants:
#BlackGirlsRun: Promoting Positive Health and Wellness Outcomes Using Social Media. Felicia Harris, University of HoustonDowntown
Racial Discrimination and Mental Health: Exploring Variations in the Family Context. Sharde McNeil Smith, Department of African
American Studies, University of Illinois
Black Women and their Health: An Agenda for Research. Jamae Morris, Georgia State University
Obstacles and Options to Faith-based HIV Service Delivery to Low-Income Inner City Residents: Perspectives of Black Clergy with
Commuter Congregations. Sarita Davis, Georgia State University
Commentators:
Akinyele Umoja, Georgia State Universeity
Safiya Omari, Associate Vice President for Research, Jackson State University,
291.
12:00 pm to 1:45 pm
Panel Session
Georgia 9-A-V Room
AN INTEGRATED APPROACH TO PROMOTING CULTURAL HERITAGE AT HBCU:
EXPLORING THE NEXUS BETWEEN THE LIBRARY, ACADEMY AND PUBLIC HISTORY.
Chair:
Cedric Davis, Alabama State University
Participants:
The National Center for the Study of Civil Rights and African American Culture: A Hub for Public Outreach and Programming.
Dorothy Walker, Alabama State University
The University Archives: A Symbiotic Relationship with the Library, National Center, and the History and Political Science
Department. Howard Overton Robinson, Alabama State University
The Academy: The History and Political Science Department and its relativity to the National Center. Dorothy Autrey, Alabama State
University
Establishing a Cultural Learning Place as a Library Model for Preserving Cultural Heritage and Public History at Alabama State
University. Janice Franklin, Alabama State University
Commentator:
Mitzi Townes, Alabama State University
292.
12:00 pm to 1:45 pm
Panel Session
Savannah 3 (Level 2 Lobby)
CIVIL RIGHTS AND BEYOND: THE BATTLE FOR SOCIAL, LEGAL,
AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE IN THE DEEP SOUTH, 1940S-1970S.
Chair:
Telisha D Bailey, University of Mississippi
Participants:
“They Had the Brains but They Didn’t Have the Expertise”: African American Women’s Health Care Providers at the Taborian
Hospital, 1940s-1950s Katrina Sims. Katrina R Sims, University of Mississippi
White, Black, and Blue: The Battle over Black Police, Professionalization, and Police Brutality in Birmingham, Alabama, 1963-1967.
Bryan Kessler, university of Mississippi
Commentator:
Daphne Chamberlain, Tougaloo College
98
Saturday, September 26, 2015
293.
2:00 pm to 3:50 pm
Panel Session
Atlanta 2
EXPLORING THE POLITICAL AND INTELLECTUAL IMAGINATION OF W. E. B. DU BOIS.
Chair:
Stephanie Shaw, Ohio State University
Participants:
“The Problem of Haiti as it Stands Today:” W. E. B. Du Bois on the U.S. Occupation of Haiti, 1915-1934. Brandon Byrd, Mississippi
State University
“I Am Ashamed of My Own Lack of Foresight”: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Troubled Legacy of World War I. Chad Williams, Brandeis
University
Out of Touch or Visionary?: W. E. B. Du Bois, Self-Segregation and the NAACP. Shawn Leigh Alexander, WEB Dubois An American
Intellectual and Activist
Commentator:
Stephanie Shaw, Ohio State University
294.
2:00 pm to 3:50 pm
Panel Session
UNRAVELING THE CHAINS: BLACK WOMANHOOD
AND THE BOUNDARIES OF GENDER AND FREEDOM.
Atlanta 3
Panel Session
CONNECTING BLACK POWER IN THE AFRICAN DIASPORA.
Atlanta 4
Roundtable Session
BLACK STUDIES AND BLACK POLITICS IN CHICAGO.
Atlanta 5
Chair:
Manisha Sinha, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Participants:
“‘As much as I love freedom, I do not like to look upon it:’ Buying Freedom in Harriet Jacobs’ Narrative.” Julia Wallace Bernier,
University of Massachusetts Amherst
“‘The Fair Daughters of Africa:’ Abolitionism, Black Feminism, and the Politics of Respectability”. Nneka Dennie, University of
Massachusetts Amherst
“’Her voice is charming, her manner refined:’ Black Womanhood, Respectability, and Frances Ellen Watkins’ Anti-Slavery Lectures”.
Johanna Maria Ortner, UMass Amherst
Commentator:
Manisha Sinha, University of Massachusetts Amherst
295.
2:00 pm to 3:50 pm
Chair:
Quito Swan, Howard University
Participants:
Civil Rights and Black Power Movement in New Orleans, Louisiana. Greg Bosworth, Southern University and A&M College
‘We Have Done Black Things Today...Will You?’ New Concept Development Center and the Chicago Black Power Education
Project.” Worth Kamili Hayes, Tuskegee University
Marshall “Eddie” Conway, Black Power In Baltimore, and Political Prisoners in American Memory. John Randolph Tilghman,
Tuskegee University
Black Power and Pan-Africanism in Trinidad Revisited. Godrey Vincent, Tuskegee University
Commentator:
Quito Swan, Howard University
296.
2:00 pm to 3:50 pm
Chair:
Jeffrey Helgeson, Texas State University
Discussants:
Martha Biondi, Northwestern University & Executive Council, ASALH
Keeanga Yamahtta Taylor, Princeton University
Lionel Kimble, Chicago State University & Executive Council, ASALH
Marcia Chatelain, Georgetown University
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Saturday, September 26, 2015
297.
2:00 pm to 3:50 pm
Roundtable Session
STOKELY CARMICHAEL: HIS LIFE AND LEGACY.
Capital Ballroom North
Chair:
Aram Goudsouzian, Universiry of Memphis
Discussants:
Ashley Farmer, Duke University
W. Chris Johnson, University of Memphis
Yohuru Williams, Fairfield University
Peniel Joseph, Tufts University
Charles E. Cobb, Independent Scholar
298.
2:00 pm to 3:50 pm
Workshop Session
TEACHING THE SOULS OF BLACK FOLK.
Conference Room 123
Leaders:
Frances Jones-Sneed, MCLA
MaryNell Morgan-Brown, SUNY – Empire State College
Whitney Battle-Baptiste, University of Massachusetts – Amherst
Nadine V. Nadine V. Wedderburn, SUNY Empire State College
299.
2:00 pm to 3:50 pm
Paper Session
Conference Room 125
RACE AND THE DYNAMICS OF MALE/FEMALE RELATIONSHIPS.
Chair:
Tera Eva Agyepong, DePaul University
Participants:
AARMS: The African American Relationships and Marriage Strengthening Curriculum for African American Relationships Courses
and Programs. Patricia Dixon, Georgia State University
Conservative Gender Roles in Black Communities. Kelli Boyd, Cal State Fullerton
For the Love of Black Men. Chyna Yvonne Davis, Clark Atlanta University
Commentator:
Tera Eva Agyepong, DePaul University
300.
2:00 pm to 3:50 pm
Paper Session
BLACK URBAN COMMUNITIES AND RACIAL IDENTITY.
Conference Room 127
Chair:
Amilcar Shabazz, University of Massachusetts
Participants:
Cisco Kid Has Something to Say: WAR’s Cosmopolitan Response to Ghetto Life. Travis K. Lacy, University of Nevada, Reno
Crafting the “New American Minority,” Nixon, Black Progress, & America’s War on Poverty, 1969-1972. Danielle St. Julien,
Binghamton University
Forged by Fire: Detroit’s Riots & Rebellions and How Chaos Created a Community. Jamon Jordan, ASALH-Detroit, Vice President;
Founder & CEO of Black Scroll History & Tours
‘Suburban Renewaled’: Revising the Great Migration Narrative. Chad Montrie, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Commentator:
Amilcar Shabazz, University of Massachusetts
100
Saturday, September 26, 2015
301.
2:00 pm to 3:50 pm
Roundtable Session
Conference Room 129
PRECARITY AND THE BLACK MIDDLE CLASS IN THE POST-RACE ERA.
Chair:
Simone Drake, Ohio State University
Discussants:
Simone Drake, Ohio State University
Devin Fergus, Ohio State University
Adia Harvey Wingfield, Georgia State University
L’Heureux Lewis-McCoy, The City College of New York
Dwan Simmons, Kennesaw State University
Andrea Gillespie, Emory University
302.
2:00 pm to 3:50 pm
Paper Session
BLACK WOMEN’S ACTIVISM.
Conference Room 131
Chair:
Kevin Greene, The University of Southern Mississippi
Participants:
“Now is the Time to Plan for your Future”: Sarah Spencer Washington and the Black Freedom Struggle in New Jersey, 1913-1953.
Hettie V Williams, Monmouth University
Daughters of Ida B. Wells-Barnett: African American Womens’ Activism during the Civil Rights Movement in Chicago. William
Horatio Adams, University of Kansas
I Am Woman: examining the activism of Bennett College women from 1958-1961. Jasmin Howard, Ohio State University
Moms Mabley and the Civil Rights Movement. Sarah Wolk, UC Riverside
Commentator:
Shirley Thompson, The University of Texas at Austin
303.
2:00 pm to 3:50 pm
Roundtable Session
Georgia 10
AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY AND BLACK STUIDES OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES.
Chair:
V. P. Franklin, University of California, Riverside
Discussants:
Gerald Horne, University of Houston
Sheila Walker, United Nations
Jean Augustine, Commissioner, Province of Canada
V. P. Franklin, University of California, Riverside
304.
2:00 pm to 3:50 pm
Workshop Session
DR. FELIX ARMFIELD SERIES FOR EMERGING SCHOLARS: SESSION II :
THE ACT OF BEING AN ACADEMIC: HOW CAN I HELP YOU?
Georgia 11
Leaders:
Ula Taylor, University of California UC Berkeley
Jessica Marie Johnson, Michigan State University
Melanye Price, Rutgers University
Jessica Millward, University of California, Irvine
101
Saturday, September 26, 2015
305.
2:00 pm to 3:50 pm
Panel Session
ABILITY, LEADERSHIP, AND REMEMBRANCE STORIES:
UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH PATHS IN BLACK HISTORY.
Georgia 12
Chair:
Michelle R. Scott, UMBC
Participants:
Black Women in the West: Agency and Authority. Raquel Grinage, UMBC
Able, Black, Female: Representations of Sojourner Truth in Theories of Embodiment. Camille Bethune-Brown, UMBC/ American
University
Remembering Randolph: Race and the Fight Against World War II Segregation in Civil Service. Jennifer Montooth, UMBC
Southern Sisterhood: Race, Gender, and Power in the Baptist Church. Jordan Weddington, UMBC
Commentator:
Michelle R. Scott, UMBC
306.
2:00 pm to 4:00 pm
Film Festival Session
BADDDDD SONIA SANCHEZ BY ATTIE, GOLDWATER & GORDON, 90 MINUTES.
Georgia 13
Chair:
Sonya Sanchez, Temple University (Emeritus)
Sponsor:
California Newsreel
307.
2:00 pm to 3:50 pm
Library Session
Georgia 2 --AV Room
AFRICANA INFORMATION PROFESSIONALS COLLABORATING, NETWORKING
AND SUPPORTING ASALH BRANCHES.
Chair:
Johnnieque Blackmon Love, University of Maryland Libraries
Discussants:
Sharon E. Robinson, Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History/Central Library
Vivian Fisher, Enoch Pratt Free Library
Akilah Nosakhere, New Mexico State University Library
Doretha Williams, George Washington University
308.
2:00 pm to 3:50 pm
Presidential Session
Georgia 3-A-V Room
AFRICAN AMERICANS AND GLOBAL WEALTH IN THE 21ST CENTURY.
Chair:
James Stewart, Pennsylvania State University (Emeritus)
Participants:
Building Family Wealth. Donata Russell Ross, CEO, Concessions International (Atlanta, GA)
New Challenges and Opportunities in the Global Economy. Thomas “Danny” Boston, Georgia Tech University
Growing Changes in Capital for Businesses and Global Relationships in the African Diaspora. John Hope Bryant, CEO, Operation
Hope (Atlanta, GA)
Dr. Ronald Johnson, Clark Atlanta University
102
Saturday, September 26, 2015
309.
2:00 pm to 3:50 pm
Panel Session
Georgia 4-A-V Room
STRENGTHS AND VULNERABILITIES IN BLACK WOMEN’S MENTAL HEALTH:
TRANSFORMATIONS BETWEEN VICTIMIZATION AND VOICE.
Chair:
Stephanie Evans, Clark Atlanta University
Participants:
The Reality of TV: The Influence of Media Images on Black Women’s Mental Health. Nsenga Burton, Clark Atlanta University
Selfies, Subtweets, & Suicide: Social Media as a Mediator and Agitator of Mental Health for Black Women. Joy Bradford, Clark
Atlanta University
Transgenerational Journey: Child Sex Trafficking and the Plight of the Black Girl and Mother. Sharnell Myles, youthSpark, Inc.
From the Margins: Sacred Space as a Means of Empowerment for Women and Girls. Kanika Bell-Thomas, Clark Atlanta University
Commentator:
Nsenga Burton, Clark Atlanta University
310.
2:00 pm to 3:50 pm
Panel Session
SACRED AND PROFANE: THE FUNK/SPIRIT,
PENTECOSTAL MUSIC, AND THE NASTY GROOVE.
Georgia 5-A-V Room
Panel Session
THE OLD HISTORY OF THE NEW JIM CROW:
RACE AND A CENTURY OF MASS INCARCERATION.
Georgia 6-A-V Room
Chair:
Randal Maurice Jelks, University of Kansas
Participants:
“‘Runnin’ From the Devil’: The Ohio Players and Sonic Representations of the Devil and Hell.”. Scot Brown, UCLA
“Reverend Utah Smith: Faith, Funk, and Pentecostal Music Practices.” Anndretta Lyle, UCLA
“Are You Funkified?: The Choreopoetics of Sly and the Family Stone”. Tony Bolden, University of Kansas
311.
2:00 pm to 3:50 pm
Participants:
What ‘Humane’ Meant to Reconstruction-Era Prison Reformers: Defining a Moral Incarceration Regime after the Civil War Prison
Atrocities? Elaine Franz Parsons, Duquesne University
“Subjected to still greater punishment”: Testimonial Incapacity as a Collateral Consequence of Criminal Conviction in the 19th
Century South. Pippa Holloway, Middle Tennessee State University
The New Jim Crow: The Latest Manifestation Of An Old Strategy Using Narcotics To Racialize. Maco L. Faniel, Rutgers University
Protesting Medicine Behind Bars: Prisoners’ and Patients’ Activism in the 1970s. Anne E. Parsons, University of North Carolina at
Greensboro
Chair:
Elizabeth Hinton, Harvard University
Commentator:
Heather Ann Thompson, University of Michigan
312.
2:00 pm to 3:50 pm
Panel Session
DR. CARTER G. WOODSON AND DR. MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE:
A DYNAMIC DUO FOR THEIR PEOPLE.
Georgia 9-A-V Room
Chair:
Sheila Flemming-Hunter, Clark Atlanta University & Executive Council, ASALH
Participants:
The Carter Woodson-Mary McLeod Bethune Duo: His Assistance to Her. Elaine M. Smith, Independent Scholar
Re-examining the Global Impact of Carter Woodson and Mary McLeod Bethune through National Historic Sites. Joy Kinard,
National Park Service
Mary McLeod Bethune and Carter G. Woodson: Quid Pro Quo? Sheila Flemming-Hunter, Clark Atlanta University & Executive
Council, ASALH
103
Saturday, September 26, 2015
313.
2:00 pm to 3:50 pm
Roundtable Session
Savannah 1 (Level 2 Lobby)
IN KEEPING WITH WOODSON: WORKING ACROSS DISCIPLINES
IN AFRICANA STUDIES AT LEHIGH UNIVERSITY.
Chair:
James Peterson, Lehigh University
Discussants:
Susan Kart, Lehigh University
Darius Williams, Lehigh University
Natanya Duncan, Lehigh University
314.
2:00 pm to 3:50 pm
Panel Session
Savannah 2 (Level 2 Lobby)
FROM SLAVERY TO FREEDOM: BLACK WOMEN IN THE AMERICAS.
Chair:
Noelle Trent, University of Maryland College
Participants:
Black Women in Sixteenth Century La Española (1502-1606). Lissette Acosta Corniel, CUNY Dominican Studies Institute
“Save My Mother Gentlemen, If You Kill Me”: Genocidal Violence towards African American Women During the Civil War. Kay
Wright Lewis, Norfolk State University
Black Women and The Bureau’s Transportation Program in the Nation’s Capital. Sharita Jacobs Thompson, Independent Scholar
Commentator:
Ana Lucia Araujo, Howard University
315.
2:00 pm to 3:50 pm
Roundtable Session
Savannah 3 (Level 2 Lobby)
PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE: THE JOURNEY OF THE AFRICAN AMERICAN
STUDIES PROGRAM AT CLAYTON STATE UNIVERSITY.
Chair:
LaJuan Simpson-Wilkey, Clayton State University
Discussants:
Eric Bridges, Clayton State University
Cynthia McKinney, Clayton State University
Shannon Cochran, Clayton State University
Tamika Blount, Clayton State University
316.
4:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Plenary Session
Capital Ballroom North
GIVE LIGHT AND PEOPLE WILL FIND THE WAY: THE FUTURE OF THE FIELD OF BLACK WOMEN’S STUDIES.
Chair:
Natanya Duncan, Lehigh University
Discussants:
Farah Griffin, Columbia University
Faye V. Harrison, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jessica Marie Johnson, Michigan State University
Tiffany Gill, University of Delaware
Tiffany Ruby Patterson, Vanderbilt University
Alondra Nelson, Columbia University
317.
4:15 pm to 6:45 pm
Film Festival Session
Georgia 13
MUMIA: LONG DISTANCE REVOLUTIONARY BY STEPHEN VITTORIA, 120 MINUTES.
Chair:
Kenja McCray, Atlanta Metropolitan State College
317.1
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6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
ASWH Graduate Reception
Fandangles Restaurant , Lobby Level.
Saturday, September 26, 2015
318.
7:00 pm to 8:55 pm
Film Festival Session
JESSIE OWENS BY STANLEY NELSON, 85 MINUTES.
Georgia 13
Chair:
Pellon McDaniels III, Emory University
319.
7:30 pm to 10:00 pm
Banquet
ASALH AWARDS GALA.
Participants:
Moses Massenburg, Clark Atlanta University
Akinyele Umoja, Georgia State Universeity
Sheila Flemming-Hunter, Clark Atlanta University and Chair,
National Centennial Committee.
Charles Bibbs, ASALH Artist-In-Residence
Martin Mitchell, Mitchell Harpos Syphoe
Capital Ballroon Center and South
Daryl Michael Scott, Howard University & Centennial
President, ASALH
Dorothy Bailey, ASALH Awards Committee Co-Chair
Gina Paige, ASALH Awards Committee Co-Chair
Amina King, Introduction of Speaker
Sylvia Cyrus, ASALH Executive Director
Janet Sims-Wood, ASALH Vice President for Membership
Speaker:
Susan L Taylor, National CARES Mentoring Movement, Co-Chair, Centennial National Honorary Committee
Invocation & Grace:
Bishop John Hurst Adams, ASALH Centennial Committee
Benediction:
Rev. William Flippin, Greater Piney Grove Baptist Church
Emcee:
Blayne Alexander, WXIA/11Alive
Entertainment:
Positive Arts Movement.
Award Recipients:
Dr. David Levering-Lewis, New York University, Carter G. Woodson Scholars Medallion Recipient
The Honorable John Lewis, GA 5th Congressional District, John Hope Franklin Centennial Lifetime Achievement Award
SUNday, September 27, 2015
SUNday, SEPTEMBER 27, 2015
320.
8:00 am to 9:30 am
Breakfast
ASALH ECUMENICAL BREAKFAST.
Capital Ballroom South
Participant:
Henrietta Antonin, Atlanta Life Insurance Company (Retired)
Invocation and Grace:
Bishop Carolyn Tyler Guidry, Elected and Consecrated Bishop African Methodist Episcopal Church
Benediction:
Rev. Ayana Madzimoyo, Shrine of the Black Madonna of the Pan African Orthodox Christian Church
Emcee:
Alexis Scott, Former Publisher, Atlanta Daily World
Keynote Speaker:
Rev. C.T. Vivian, C.T. Vivian Leadership Institute
Entertainment:
Wheat Street Baptist Church, Inspirational Sounds of Praise
321.
10:00 am to 2:30 pm
Tour International Blvd. Portico (Bus departure area) Level 1
POST-CONFERENCE AFRICAN AMERICAN HERITAGE BUS TOUR.
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90TH ANNUAL
BLACK HISTORY Month Luncheon
& Featured Authors Event
February 20, 2016
Authors Event: 10 a.m. - 12:30 pm • Luncheon: 12:30p.m.
Renaissance Washington Hotel
999 Ninth Street NW • Washington, D.C. 20001
202-898-9000
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On behalf of the 1.6 million members of the American Federation of
Teachers, we salute the Association for the Study of African
American Life and History for its century of proclaiming the
centrality of African Americans in the making of American history.
As ASALH celebrates its centennial, the AFT joins with you in
reaffirming the belief of ASALH founder Carter G. Woodson
that historical truth will crush falsehoods and open the way to racial
equality, opportunity and democracy for all.
Across America, the AFT is working with parents, community leaders
and allies like ASALH to reclaim the promise of public education to
help all children succeed. We are united in our shared commitment to
reclaiming the promise of an America that values equity in its policies
and equality in its practices—a nation that embraces the history and
the contributions of all its people.
Randi Weingarten
president
Lorretta Johnson
secretary-treasurer
Mary Cathryn Ricker
executive vice president
The American Federation of Teachers is a union of 1.6 million professionals that champions fairness; democracy;
economic opportunity; and high-quality public education, healthcare and public services for our students, their families
and our communities. We are committed to advancing these principles through community engagement, organizing,
collective bargaining and political activism, and especially through the work our members do.
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