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WELCOME TO THE 110TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE
The Association for the Study of African American Life and History® (ASALH) is proud to welcome you to its 110th Annual Meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, taking place from September 24th to 28th. With the theme “African Americans in Labor, ” this year’s conference will offer a vibrant program featuring scholarly sessions, workshops, historical tours, a dynamic film festival, authors’ book signings, exhibitor booths, cultural performances, networking opportunities, and much more
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Participant Index
Numbers following names indicate session numbers
Acey, Yvonne B., 243
Acosta Corniel, Lissette, 148
Adams, Ashley F., 094
Adams, Beatrice J, 019, 126, 153, 238
Adams, Jaminique, 122
Adams, John E., 003, 030, 057, 243, 296
Adams - Free Man of Color, Luther, 292
Addai, Adwoa, 279
Adekoya, Emillion, 208
Adelson, Laetitia, 122
Agezeh, Ovie Richard, 288
Agwu, Brittney, 011
Ahmed, Sumayya, 113
Ahmed, Veronica Coates, 169
Aiello, Thomas, 137
Ajamu, Veda, 267
Akbar, Maisha, 020
Aldridge, Andrew, 077
Alexander, Larry Kenneth, 024, 114
Alexander, Shawn L., 112
Ali-Goudlock, Madinah, 013, 076
Allen, Jody L., 219
Allen, Madge, 243
Allen, Marcus Anthony, 096
Allen, Todd, 205
Alridge, Derrick, 116, 179, 195, 275, 295
Alvarado, Jose, 072
Amaker, Arthur, 274
Amen, Kali-Ahset, 165
Amos, Dejah, 096
Anderson, Cassie, 236 Anderson, James D, 086 Anderson, James D., 195 Anderson, Marvin, 060
Anderson, Reynaldo, 041, 224, 246 Anderson, Sarah, 017
Andrews, Amelia Anne, 230 Andrews, Eleanor, 258
Anokye, A. Duku, 200 Archer, Rose, 204
Arenson, Adam, 191
Arkansas Press, The University of, 078
Arline-Bradley, Shavon, 287, 297 Armfield, Christy, 243
Asante, Marcus, 042
Ashaolu, Gloria Jesuyemi, 210
Asheeke, Toivo, 110
Ashley, John H., 003, 030
Atkinson, Barbara, 256
Atlanta, Visit, 078
Austin, Curtis, 068
Austin, Jeanelle, 060
Averett, Samantha, 134
Averette-Phillips, Omari, 118
Awolola, Olaolu, 160
Aziz, M., 080
Baer, Andrew, 064
Baham, Eva Semien, 009, 271
Bailey, Anne C., 165
Bailey, Trenton, 219
Baldwin, DeeDee, 201
Bannerman, Joseph, 011
Banton, Arthur, 064
Baraka, Ajamu, 294
Barnes, Kelli, 015
Barnes, Mollie, 152
Barnes, Riché, 192, 219
Barnes, Sirocus, 213
Baron, Lindamichelle, 021
Barrett, Logan, 227
Bartholomew, Malik, 009
Barton, Nathalie, 023
Bascomb, Lia T, 071, 163
Basile, Vincent, 010
Batzell, Rudi, 117, 261
Bauldwin, Amaya, 046
Baxter, Brandon, 063
Bayard, Marc, 245
Beatty, Adisa Vera L., 277
Bedasse, Monique, 194
Belt, Leia, 118
Bendolph, Angelia, 039
Benjamin Golden, Kathryn E, 214
Benton, Loron, 004, 071, 239
Berger, Jane, 245
Best, Felton O., 147
Bethune, Evelyn, 004, 034, 136, 154, 180
Bevel, Felicia, 199, 235
Biggs, Adam, 022
Bing, Charlea, 239
Birchmier, Chelsea, 064, 187, 273
Black, Ray, 010
Blackmer, Peter, 137, 219, 278
Blackmon, Doug, 190
Blackshear, Carolyn S., 243
Bland, Robert David, 177
Blyden, Nemata, 215
B Miller, Kim, 025
Boatner, Katie, 067
Bolsmann, Chris, 007
Bombo, Elijah, 073, 280
Bond, Beverly, 233
Boris, Eileen, 270
Bostick, Kamille Henry, 180
Boston, Martin Luther, 291
Boyd, Melba, 083
Bradley, Lisa, 180
Bradley, Stefan M., 036, 070
Branch of ASALH, Romare Bearden, 209
Brennan, Amanda, 076
Brewer, Herbert, 146, 215
Brimmer, Brandi C., 177
Bristow, Margaret Bernice Smith, 052, 156
Broadnax, Micha, 171
Brock, Lisa, 197
Brodie, Lyman, 243
Brodnax, David, 211
Brogdon, Anthony, 026
Brooks, Jessica, 272
Brooks, Robin, 085
Brooks, Jr, George B., 162
Brown, Arthur, 072 Brown, Barrye, 113
Brown, Candace S., 085
Brown, Carolyn, 182
Brown, Drew D., 137 Brown, Eddie, 160
Brown, Jocelyn, 274
Brown, Lisa, 166
Brown, Millicent E, 131
Brown, Ras MIchael, 110 Brown, Wanda K., 247
Brown Pellum, Kimberly, 120
Brown- Smith, Tailar, 180
Broyld, Daniel J., 015, 161 Bruce, Lucile, 087
Bruchko, Erica, 096
Brumfield, Elizabeth Jean, 076
Brunson, Takkara, 188
Brutus, Jean-Pierre, 167
Bryan, Benjamin, 063
Bryan, Carlos, 154
Bryant, Sherwin K., 038, 134, 168
Buchanan, Heather, 219
Buchanan, Kaela Iman, 047
Budhai, Chalisa, 192
Buffins, Mansur Ali, 166
Burden-Stelly, Charisse, 088, 107, 163
Burkes, Trice, 010
Burkholder, Zoe, 102
Burns, Keon A, 098
Burroughs, Dennis, 042
Burroughs Project, The Nannie Helen, 078
Burrowes, Carl Patrick, 193 Burton Steele, Alysia, 272
Bwa Mwesigire, Bwesigye, 029 by BMAK, Saxx Apparel, 078
Byfield, Judith, 182
Byfield, Natalie, 182
Bynes, Kiamsha, 123
Bynoe, Vivian, 180
Byrd, Brandon R., 029, 177
Cade, Anthony, 003, 030, 057
Cadeau, Sabine F, 261
Campbell, Kwadjo, 040 Canavera, Mark, 013
Carey, Harmon R., 042 Carey, Ida Lee, 243
Carey-Agyemang, Miya, 005
Carlson, Chuck, 007
Carney, Christina, 200 Carney, Christina, 219
Carr, Renatto, 187
Carter, David C., 061 Carter, Lana, 035, 136
Carter, Mickell, 250
Carter Johnson, Tenesha, 039, 157 Cassidy, Chas, 074
Castilla, Alisa, 269
Cathey, Arlinda Fair, 267
Cha-Jua, Sundiata Keita, 003, 030, 090, 170, 186, 206, 254, 294 Chambers, Glenn, 084
Chambers, Michael L., 131
Chambliss, Julian C, 189 Chapman, Rava Shelyn, 038
Chapman-Hilliard, Collette, 269
Chapple, Reginald, 131
Chennault, Ronald, 179
Cherry, Jacqueline, 051
Childress, DaNia, 113
Chisholm, Alex, 180
Choice, The Scholars, 078
Choudhury, Abinash Dash, 016
Chresfield, Michell, 177 Christian, Shawn, 229
Chunda, Elizabeth, 112
Ciceron, Moesha, 269
Civil Right History and Research, University of South Carolina-Center for, 078
Clark, Tanya, 041
Clemons, Kristal Moore, 179
Clemons, Too Black Joe, 187
Clothing, Afrique, 078
Coates, Kay, 096
Cobb, Charles, 170, 284
Cole, Eddie R., 195, 275, 295
Collins, Sam, 065
Collins, Tyrone, 032
Conservation Association, National Parks, 045
Conteh, Alhaji, 277
Conway, James, 027
Cooke, James Robert, 231
Cooke, Nicole, 093
Corporate Office, AARP, 078
Council, LaToya, 281
Courmon, Nick, 025
Covington-Ward, Yolanda, 215
Crafts, Zee, 078
Crawford, Vicki, 116, 283
Crenshaw, Kimberle, 287, 297
Crewe, Sandra Edmonds, 196
Crosby, Emilye, 203, 259
Crum, Melissa, 265
Crutchfield, Joshua, 155
Culbreath, Omar, 132
Cummings, Edna W, 111
Cunningham, Candace, 025, 184
Curry, Amir, 289
Cyrus, Sylvia Y., 003, 030, 044, 045, 057, 106, 129, 221, 243, 275, 296, 297
Dagbovie, Pero G., 174
Dailey, China, 268
Dalton, Miranda, 054
Dance, Eola Lewis, 193
Daniels, Maurice C., 116
Daniels-Ball, Lura, 105, 180
Darden, LaKeisha, 093
Davidson, Em, 072
Davis, Brian, 175
Davis, Christopher, 261
Davis, Crystal, 044, 089
Davis, Genevieve, 061
Davis, Jemilia S., 082
Davis, Jordyn, 046
Davis, Veronica, 039
Davis-Faulkner, Sheri, 270
Dayan, Jonathan, 273
Deas, Kendall, 103
Del, Evelyne, 040
Demery, Vergil, 217
Denmark, Rachel, 244
Dente, Louise, 216
Design, Cathy’s, 078
Dickinson, Michael, 157
Diehl, Aimee, 282
Diggs, Constance L., 091
Dirkson, Menika, 292
Dismukes, Ondra K., 013
Dixon-McKnight, O. Jennifer, 273
Djeli, Afrikan, 078
Domingo, Julio, 180
Donaldson, Bobby, 118, 131, 161
Donaldson, Le’Trice, 111, 175, 282
Dorman, Jacob, 050
Dorsey, Albert, 087, 201
Dorsey, Jeffrey, 132
Douglas, Andrew, 028
Drake, Russell, 033, 219
Draughn, Larry, 115
Duke, Eric, 057
Duncan, Erica, 029
Duncan, Kristen, 180
Duncan, Monique, 135
Duncan, Natanya P., 003, 030, 057, 088, 188, 219, 233
Dunlap, Broderick, 250
Dunn, Stephane, 183, 202
Duplessis, Chloe, 056
Durington, Matthew, 065
Durnell-Uwechue, Nannetta, 147
Durrett, Tasanee, 031
Dworkin, Ira, 212
Dyssou, Nanda, 253
Eaves, Shannon Camille, 150
Eddins, Crystal, 110
Edgar, Donna, 035
Edwards, Patriann, 037, 135
Ekeh, Greg, 038
Ellen, Asha, 053
Ellis, Erleen, 273
Ellis, Jeremiah, 031, 272
Ellis, Reginald K., 099, 155 Ellison, Jessica, 092
Emmert, Jessina, 112 England, Tanya, 091, 219
English, Bertis D, 129, 174
Erickson, Ansley, 086
Ervin, Keona Katrice, 043
Etienne, Leslie, 071, 090, 170, 297
Evans, Freddi Williams, 009, 271
Evans, Stephanie Y., 122, 150, 181
Ewing, K.T., 255
Fair, Alexandra Kathryn, 028
Faisal, Rashid, 178, 241
Falu, Rachael, 038, 239
Farmer, Ashley, 202, 251
Fashion, African High, 078
Fashions, Aziz, 078
Fashions, Heritage International, 078
Fawkes, Rosalie, 004
Felder, James L., 121
Felipe, Ashanty, 248
Ferrin, Tim, 141
Fielder, Tim, 041, 224
Fields, Whitney, 227
Fields-Black, Edda L., 219
Fields-Smith, Cheryl, 012
Figuero-Vásquez, Yomaira, 194 Firmin, Titus, 175
Flaherty, Karen, 219
Fleming, Julius B, 260
Flemming, Sophia Muriel, 016
Fletcher, Kami, 052
Fletcher, Paul, 256
Flores-Clemons, Raquel, 113
Flowe, Douglas James, 050, 227 Fong, Sarah, 051
Fonseca, Desmond, 250
Forbes, Yasmin, 092
Ford, Na’Imah, 120
Foreman, Deirdre, 003, 030, 091, 219, 243, 254
Fortado, Stephanie, 055, 064, 135, 163, 278
Fortenberry, Allen, 069
Foster, Letoshia, 027
Foster, Theodore R, 131 Fowler, Gwendolyn, 123
Fowler, William, 014
Francis, Theodore S., 261
Francis, Theodore, 084 Franklin, V.P., 174
Frazier, Nishani, 067, 246 Frazier, Valerie, 279
Freeman, Rodney E., 209
Freeman, Tyrone McKinley, 181
French, Scot A., 189
Frink, Xavier, 160
Frinks, Lucy Brenda, 243
Frye, Kayla J, 018
Frye, Kourtney, 018
Fuentes, Marisa J, 182
Gallagher, Sean, 252
Galloway, Tiana, 013, 121, 138
Gannaway, Jada, 210
Garcia, John J, 228
Gardner, Morris, 093, 183
Gardner, Roberta, 093
Gardner, Solomon, 100
Gardner, Tiffany, 100
Garrett-Scott, Shennette, 087, 233
Garrison, Isabella, 187
Gatson, Torren Leon, 168, 248
Gault, Erika, 207
Gault, Ntare Ali, 207
Gay, Shanequa M, 286
Gayle, Janette, 261
Gaytán Cuesta, Andrea, 235
Gemeda, Guluma, 011
Gentry, Charles, 031
George, Atim Eneida, 154, 240
George, Clarence, 291
Georgia Press, University of, 078
Gibbs, I’Maya, 169
Gibbs, Michelle Cowin, 189
Giles, Freda S., 230
Gillis, Hazel, 096, 243
Girardeau, Arnetta, 211
Glisson, Susan, 236
Glover, Mary Custis, 236
Glover, Vivian, 165
Godzinski, Michael, 009
Goldfield, Mike, 083
Goldman, Adria, 140
Goncalves, John, 067
Gosa, Jamaal W, 049, 213
Grace-Williams, Michelle, 076
Graham, Diedre, 039
Graves, Kelisha, 270
Gray, D. Ryan, 009
Gray, LaVerne, 093
Gray Houston, Karen, 219
Greason, Walter, 024, 041, 060, 114, 148, 167, 189, 219, 224, 246, 263
Green, Meghan L, 082
Greene, Clarreese, 288
Greene, Robert, 177
Greenwell, Ava Thompson, 240
Griffin, Derek Andrew, 011
Griffin, Willie, 118
Guillory, Monique, 009
Guzman, Will, 099, 219
Haager, Julia, 061
Haggler, Patricia, 021
Haines, Errin, 245
Hall, Kayla, 180
Halley, Brian, 101
Halsey, Jessica, 018, 133
Hamilton, Tikia K., 102, 295
Hamlin, Francoise N., 282
Hammack, Maria Esther, 252
Hammond, Stephen, 236
Haney, Bridget, 191
Hangan, Margaret, 200
Hardiman, Diamond, 139
Hardin, Zachary, 039, 068
Hardy, Everett, 297
Harold, Claudrena Nolanda, 255
Harper, Jim C., 195, 275
Harris, Alexa, 140
Harris, Christopher D., 098
Harris, Felecia C, 285
Harris, Jerome, 180, 243
Harris, Johari, 179
Harris, Kyle Quinton, 020
Harris, LaShawn, 084, 202, 219, 292
Harris, Leslie M., 186
Harris Hayes, Sheena, 202, 233
Hartman, Ian, 258
Hawk, Emily, 169
Haworth, Colette, 073, 280
Hayes, Michael, 180
Hayes, Worth Myrick-Harris, 132, 179
Haykal, Aaisha, 003, 030, 057, 093, 156, 185, 209, 243, 296, 297
Haynes, Imani, 072
Head, David L., 178, 241
Hearns, Fred, 090
Heffernan, Laura, 235
Helton, Laura, 229
Henderson, Edwin B., 055
Henderson, Tammy L. Sanders, 146
Herd-Clark, Dawn, 020
Herndon, Daisy B, 180
Herschthal, Eric, 214
Hewins-Maroney, Barbara, 118
Hewitt, Huey, 028
Hill, Carl Frederick, 098
Hill, Marbella Eboni, 281
Hill Butler, Deidre, 285
Hobbs, Tameka, 229
Hobson, Courtney, 236
Hobson, Maurice, 097, 116, 195, 219, 275
Hodges, Conor, 043
Holden, Vanessa, 150, 282
Holland, Regina, 092
Holmes, Jasmine, 087
Holmes, Melanie, 103, 212
Holness, Lucien, 098
Hopson, Cheryl R., 018
Horne, Gerald, 036, 088, 107, 193, 252
Horne, Odell, 130
House, Anton D., 054, 057, 156, 237, 293
House, Gloria, 172
Houseworth, Leslie, 204
Howard, Ashley, 057, 070, 107
Howard, Jasmin C, 238
Howard, Phillip, 142
Hozempa, Jacob, 112 Hughes, Sakina, 050
Humphrey, Theophilus, 180
Hungspruke, Christina, 224
Hunter, Tera W., 083 Huntley, Aria, 180 Hynes, Claire, 189
Igeleke, Ekundayo, 173 Iglehart, Hope, 230
IGWEDIBIA, ADAOMA EUGENIA, 038 Illinois Press, University of, 078
Imani, Jocelyn, 044
Ingram, Angela, 074
Ingram, Joshua, 173, 294 International, The Foundation, 078
Irvin, PM, 250
Isom, Deena A., 103, 219 issacs, yoni D, 047
Jackson, Andrea, 171
Jackson, David H, 099
Jackson, Eric R., 086, 119
Jackson, Eric, 065
Jackson, Evelyn, 057
Jackson, Kellie Carter, 080, 184, 284 Jackson, Regine, 071
Jackson, Ronald, 026
Jackson, Tanisha, 286
Jackson-Brown, Grace, 247 Jacobs, Sean, 007
James, Joy, 107
Janak, Jaden, 036
Javadi, Aaron Summer, 031
Jeffers-Coly, Phyllis, 171 Jefferson, La’Nora, 238
Jeffries, Hasan Kwame, 203
Jeffries Leonard, Kimberly, 003, 030
Jenkins, Charlotte A., 219
Jenkins, Jerry Rafiki, 016
Jenkins, William, 279
Jett, Felecia D., 243
Jewelry, Universal Love, 078
JImmeh, Joe, 151
Johnson, Aaron, 176, 219
Johnson, Aisha M., 003, 030, 057, 093, 156, 209, 231, 247, 268, 297
Johnson, Andre E., 014, 098, 130
Johnson, Charles Denton, 073, 280
Johnson, Donald Lee, 219
Johnson, Hannibal B., 258
Johnson, Karen Ann, 179
Johnson, Kenya, 136
Johnson, Marion, 026, 160
Johnson, Maude L., 243
Johnson, Moriah, 012
Johnson, Olivia, 126
Johnson, Otis, 063
Johnson, Violet Showers, 208
Jones, Donald M, 219
Jones, Jewel, 258
Jones, Joseph, 219
Jones, Kimberly, 157
Jones, Mattie, 219
Jones, Maureen, 113
Jones, Michelee Theresa, 237
Jones, Obe Lee, 274
Jones, Rhonda, 134
Jones, Ryan, 267
Jones, William, 245
Jones-Branch, Cherisse R., 233
Jordan, Jamon, 231
Jordan, Joshua, 026
Joseph, Peniel E., 184, 205, 219, 251
& Joyous Journeys, The African Outlets LLC, 078
Kalisik, Frank, 272
Keith, Celeste, 015
Kelley, Blair LM, 186
Kelly, William, 015
Kendi, Ibram X, 205, 251
Kerr-Ritchie, Jeffrey R., 212
Khaiphanliane, Aaliyah, 016
Kilgore, Brittney, 122
Kimble, Yasmene, 096
Kimble, Jr., Lionel, 003, 030, 156
Kindell, Tymesha-Elizabeth, 077
King, Chad, 080
King, Kenneth, 169
King, Kisha Bevane, 243
King, Shannon, 077, 292
Kitchens, Adria, 124
Klanderud, Jessica, 125
Knight, Anthony B., 190
Kornegay, Sean, 038, 217
Kossie-Chernyshev, Karen L., 181
Kruse, Beth, 087
Kutzler, Evan, 231
Kwoba, Brian, 088, 219, 255
LaBon, Aysha, 014
Laing, Justin, 049
Lande, Jonathan, 282
Langley, April Catherine Elizabeth, 103
Lanier, Walter J, 003, 030, 275
LaRoche, Cheryl J., 236
Lau, Peter F., 066
Lawler, Andrew, 252
Lawton, Bishop W., 137, 227, 278
LeFlore-Ejike, JoAnna, 251
Lehman, Christopher, 219
Leverette Hall, Tru, 199, 235
Levy, LaTaSha B., 256
Lewin, Camren Alexa, 137
Lewis, Allison M, 112 Lewis, Andrea, 102
Lewis, Cathleen Susan, 031
Lewis, Karen, 219
Lewis, Terrance Joshua, 011, 180
Lewis -Timmons, Monet, 239
Library Trust, HBCU Digital, 078
Lindsey, Donnie, 269
Lindsey, Howard, 178, 241
Lindsey, Lydia, 278
Lindsey, Treva, 005
Linker, Destiney Lynn, 227
Little, Mahaliah A, 097, 238
Littleton, LaNeice, 076
Logan, Georgiana, 180
London, Grace, 061
London, Lizette, 289
Long, Ameshia, 011
López Baquero, Constanza, 199
Losier, Toussaint, 043
Lowe, Geremy, 180
Lowe, Turkiya, 094
Lyn, Karl, 134
Mack, Willie, 278
Mackey, Timothy, 063
Maginn, Andrew, 212
Makalani, Minkah, 125, 194, 250
Manburg, Iris, 204
Mapp, James R., 219
Marcano, Chayanne, 065
March, Kyra, 018, 051, 123, 134
Marchiel, Rebecca K, 023
Marcum, Jade, 085
Marks, Claude, 172
Marsh, Jatisha, 014, 051, 211
Marshall, Cona, 249
Marshall Chapman, Sophia, 008
Martin, Myriah, 214
Martin, Waldo, 066
Maseru, Noble, 052
Masghati, Emily, 023, 264
Massachusetts Press, University of, 078
Massengale, CoCo, 011
McAllister, L. Greg, 200
McAllister, Paul Langston, 175
McCandless, Liam, 067
McCarl, Clayton, 235
McCarthy, Justine K., 064
McCaskill, Ari Ahmad, 137
McCaskill, Barbara, 152
McCloud, Rebekah, 180
McCorkindale, Deirdre, 191
McCray, Kenja, 219, 274, 283
McCray, Shirl, 243
McDowell, Nyabingha Zianni, 159
McDuffie, Erik S., 255
Mchie, Benjamin, 268
McInnis, Jarvis C, 260 McMillian, Kiyree, 053
McNeil, Adam X, 157
McPherson, Jane, 152, 230
McQueen, Dwight, 059, 299
Media, ASALH, 078
Medine, Carolyn J., 016
Meeks, Tomiko Michelle, 003, 030, 057, 169, 208
Merritt, Candice, 126
Middleton, Leontyne, 243
Miletsky, Zebulon Vance, 003, 030, 057, 060, 125, 184, 205, 246
Miller, Uzoma, 274
Milligan Garcia, Bianca, 074
Mincey, Arcilous, 219
Mislan, Cristina, 043
Mitchell, Allison Mashell, 153 Mitchell, Katie, 219
Mixon, Gregory Lamont, 118, 282
Modisa, LoRen LaDette, 082
Mohr, Ashley, 076
Momon, Tiffany, 248
Moncrease, Anita, 178, 241 Monroe, Kimberly, 277 Monroe, Jr., George, 100 Moore, Haley, 046
Moore, JoCora, 153
Moore, Julia Robinson, 285
Morgan, Alaina, 050
Morgan, James, 003, 030
Morris, DuJuan Anthony, 136 Morris, Naja, 035
Morrison, Brian, 165
Mosley, Paul, 063
Mosser, Gianna, 101
Moten, Crystal, 003, 030, 070, 181, 219
Moultrie, Monique, 048
Mount, Guy Emerson, 264
Mowatt, Rasul, 187
Muhammad, Nafeesa, 097, 140, 283
Murphy, Britney, 023
Murphy, Mary Elizabeth B., 270
Murphy, Ric, 236
Murray, Maxwell, 007
Murray, Tracy, 089
Murray Ross, Courtney, 228
Murugaiya, Sharanya, 076
Musgrove, George Derek, 047
Myburgh, Brittany, 180 Myers, Ardie, 180
Nachescu, Ileana, 225
Nadasen, Premilla, 225
Nagaraja, Tejasvi, 043
Nance, Nichole, 013
Neal, Ronald Brian, 076
Nelson, Angela Marie, 135
Neville, Helen, 206
Newby, Ashley, 249
Newby, Jessica A., 249
Newell, Margaret, 125
Newman, Christopher, 212
New Orleans Studies, Midlo Center for, 078
Newsome, Frederick V., 219
Newsreel, Third World, 078
Nichols, Casey, 225
Nichols, Patrick Kekoa, 154
Nichols, Se’Maj, 046
Nicholson, Andre, 140
Nicol, Donna J., 219
Nirde, Adrienne, 165
Norwood, Christopher, 229
Nwadi, Sopuruchukwu, 052
Oakley, Blake, 069
O’Brien, Michael J., 231 of Florida, University Press, 078 of Mississippi, University Press, 078
Ogbar, Jeffrey, 095, 219
Okoli, Chinaza Amaeze, 228
Okwandu, Udodiri, 028
Oliver, Keisha, 076, 268
Onaci, Edward, 057, 080, 172
Onuoha, Alexandria C., 281
Osei, Johari, 068
Ossa, Luisa Marcela, 148
Outler, Anthony, 264
Oyarzun, Yesmar, 022
Packer, Tiffany, 120
Parker, Alison M., 005
Parker, Jason, 154
Parker, Kai, 264
Parker, Robert, 072
Parker-Redmond, Sonjia, 019
Parks, Erin, 046
Pate, Thomas, 104
Patterson, Robert J, 085
Patterson, Valerie L., 208
Pauling, Deysha, 136
Payne, Samantha, 029
Pegues, Krystion, 098
Perkins, Kendric, 180
Perkins, Robert, 054
Perkins Smith, Jessica, 201
Perry, Brea, 294
Perry, Michiel, 040
Person, Tahnija, 180
Peters, Victoria, 192
Peterson, Zachary, 071
Petties, Michelle, 257
Phelps Jackson, Tijuani, 239
Phillips, Kay E, 086, 119
Phillips, Mary, 202, 219
Phillips, Sierra, 068, 181
Phillips-Cunningham, Danielle T, 102, 270
Piehler, Kurt, 111
Pierre, Robert, 142
Pinchback-Johnson, Allyce, 213, 226
Pinkard, Donald, 243
Pittman, Chadra Dalan, 003, 030
Pittman, LaShawnDa L., 196, 239
Polite, DJ, 061
Poole, Deandre J., 147
Pope, James Déke, 083
Potorti, Mary E, 180
Powell-Williams, Juanita, 090
Pratcher, Anthony, 162, 200
Presenter, Fourth, 267
Preservation Project, HBCU Radio, 171 Press, Columbia University, 078
Press, Pathfinder, 078
Press, The University of Chicago, 078
Press, University of South Carolina, 078
Press Exhibits, University of North Carolina, 078
Pressly, Paul Moffatt, 219
Price, Bri’Ann, 122
Price, Keiara, 123, 157
Prieto, Leon, 096
Procope Bell, Danielle, 281
Ptahsen-Shabazz, R.A., 075
Purdy, Erin, 229
Quade, Brianna, 237
Rambsy, Kenton, 097
Ramsey, Sonya, 285
Randall, Jamirika, 279
Redd, Lexi, 279
Redmond, Sonjia Parker, 219
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Reid, Joy, 287, 297
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Riley Jr., Leonard, 244
Ringel, Paul, 180
Ritchie, Thomas, 231
Roane, J.T., 214
Roberts, Andrea R, 180
Roberts, Joseph, 248
Robinson, Deborah, 247
Rochester Press, University of, 078
Rogers, Justin, 199
Rogers, Milton, 132
Rolark Barnes, Denise, 003, 030
Rome-Taylor, Tokie M, 286
Rooks, Noliwe, 102
Ross, Cheyenne, 289
Ross, Jordan, 062
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Roy, Ariel, 094, 161
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Rucker, Jessica A., 153, 203, 259 Ruff, Duan, 010
Russell, Alexandria, 005
Russell, Tashieka Adjoa, 180 Rye, Jr., Eddie, 256
Sahmedu, Seshat Eumel, 051
Salow, Jessica, 200
Salter, Krewasky, 111
Sanders, Amber, 279
Sanders, Crystal R., 003, 030, 057, 086, 102, 156, 204, 260, 295
Sanders-Senu, LaRonda, 140
Sankofa, Neith, 048
Scanlan, Sophia, 240
Schechter, Patricia A., 061
Schlabach, Betsy, 096
Schwalbe, Emily A, 168 Scott, Aishah, 022
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Scott, Jermaine, 007
Scott, Michelle, 104, 188, 219
Scruggs, Camesha, 003, 030, 297
Seals, Jason, 149
Seidemann, Ryan, 009
Seidler, Margaret, 032, 219
Sembe, Karina, 160
Serafini, Sidonia, 152
Seraile, William, 216
Service History Project, National Park, 078
Sewell, Jon, 237
Sewell, Regina, 048
Shakir, Ameenah, 120
Shannon, Jerry, 230
Shaw, Todd C, 103, 232
Shelton, Jason, 130
Shepherd, Anita M., 003, 030, 185, 243, 296, 297
Sherley, Eshe, 225
Silas, DeShaun, 012
Sillen, Andrew, 219
Simmons-Bennett, Adreonna Nicole, 057
Simmons-Thorne, Naomi, 157
Simms, Jill-Capri, 130
Simone, Tika, 266
Simpson, Gaynell, 196
Sims, Christopher, 180, 268
Sims-Alvarado, F. Karcheik, 095
Siracusa, Anthony C., 284
Sloboda, Agatha, 119
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Smith, Jana, 009, 271
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Smith, Tanisha, 137, 162
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Snipes, Pat, 138
Solutions, LLC, Seeking Insights for, 078
Soucek, Jonathan, 055
Soylu, Mary, 180
Spears, Alan, 044
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Spence, Cynthia Neal, 097
Stanier, Will, 180
Stanley, Rosalind Caldwell, 268
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Stephens, Donna Y, 190
Stephens, Ronald Jemal, 288
Stewart, Bonnyeclaire Smith, 219
Stewart, James Benjamin, 179
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Stewart, Stanely, 053
St. Louis, Annyah, 047
Stokes, Brandon, 187
Stokes-Brown, Quenton, 142
Store, ASALH, 078
Stovall, Calvin, 219
Strawn, Jessica, 009
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SCHEDULE AT A GLANCE
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2025
8:00 a.m.
Conference Registration
Redwood Pre-Function Area - M1 North Tower Registration CheckIn
8:30 a.m.
Pre-Conference African American Heritage Bus Tour
Motor Lobby - Tour Bus Loading Area South Tower
9:00 a.m.
Executive Council Private Work Session
Birch - AV Atrium Level South Tower
10:15 a.m.
“Telling Our Own: Biography as a Tool of Black Historical Preservation. Part II.”
Pine - AV Atrium Level South Tower
Creating their Own Worlds: The Insurgent Education Practices of Black Girls’ and Women’s Clubs
Spruce - AV Atrium Level South Tower
Sankofa Chicago: The Labor of Teaching Truth in a Time of Erasure
Maple A - AV Atrium Level South Tower
Black Soccer in the United States: Diasporic Formations, Migrations, and Labors in the Twentieth Century
Maple B - AV Atrium Level South Tower
Bridging Generations—Engaging Gen Z in African American History Through Deliberative Forums
Maple C- AV Atrium Level South Tower
The Cultural Repatriation of Nineteen African Americans from Leipzig, Germany to New Orleans, Louisiana Oak- AV Lobby Level South Tower
Learn it to the younguns: African American Male Academics
Laboring for the Next Generation
Dogwood A - AV M1 North Tower
“The Right to Learn: Black Educational Struggles from SelfDirected Freedom to Systemic Fight” Dogwood B - AV M1 North Tower
"Flipping the Script": How Black Families Use Homeschooling to Redefine Black Domesticity on Their Terms"
Cottonwood A - AV M1 North Tower
“Redefining the #BlackJob: Labor, Justice, and Legacy in African American Workspaces”
Hickory-AV M3 North Tower
“Telling Our Own: Biography as a Tool of Black Historical Preservation. Part I.”
Hazelnut - AV M3 North Tower
Ready Set Revolution: Preparing for the Commemoration of America 250 in 2026
Int'l Ballroom B-AV - M2 North Tower Plenary Sessions
From the Global to the Human Soul: Problems and Possibilities in Black Labor
Int'l Ballroom C - AV - M2 North Tower Sessions
12:00 P.M.
Reclaiming African Culinary Labor: Teaching African Heritage Cooking for Community Health and Empowerment
Pine- AV Atrium Level South Tower
The Griot Lives On: Black Storytelling, Memory, and Literary Lineage
Spruce- AV Atrium Level South Tower
Children of the Struggle: Tuskegee, Black Intra-South Migration, and the Civil Rights Generation
Maple A-AV Atrium Level South Tower
Commemorating the 110th anniversary of the Fort Valley Ham and Egg Show, 1916-2026
Maple B- AV Atrium Level South Tower
Empowering the Uncertified: Black Women’s Grassroots Teacher Training and Leadership
Maple C- AV Atrium Level South Tower
In Protest and Practice: Black Labor in the Fight for Health Justice
Oak - AV Lobby Level South Tower
Mediating Black Labor: Grassroots Organizing, the Nonprofit Sector, and the Politics of Reform
Dogwood A - AV M1 North Tower
Was racial slavery illegal under English law?
Dogwood B - AV M1 North Tower
Social Media and Black Ingenuity
Cottonwood A - AV M1 North Tower
“Beneath the Magnolia: Black Lives, Labor, and Pollution in the Southern Landscape”
Hazelnut - AV M3 North Tower
Health Gaps and Roadblocks: How Racism, COVID-19,
Historical Mental-Health Disparities, and New Policy Shifts
Are Shaping Nursing, Public Health, and Teaching the Next Generation
Hickory-AV M3 North Tower
The Many Meanings of Labor: Anarchist, Social, and Reproductive (1879-1990)
Int'l Ballroom B-AV - M2 North Tower Plenary Sessions
Worldmaking Across Centuries
Int'l Ballroom C- AV - M2 North Tower Sessions
1:00 p.m.
Executive Council Meeting
Birch - AV Atrium Level South Tower
2:15 p.m.
“Tides, Mines, and Assembly Lines: The Journey of Black Labor in Shaping Economic Landscapes”
Pine - AV Atrium Level South Tower
Teacher Development Workshop with Arts-Based Learning
Spruce - AV Atrium Level South Tower
Leadership, Labor, and Legacy: Lessons from The Owl and the Great Tree for Community Resilience
Maple A - AV Atrium Level South Tower
Intergenerational Algorithms and Critical Conversations
Maple B - AV Atrium Level South Tower
Black Imprints and Speculative Visions: Labor, Memory, and Representation in Visual and Print Culture
Maple C - AV Atrium Level South Tower
A Hine-Horne Book Roundtable: Stefan Bradley's If We Don't Get It: A People's History of Ferguson
Oak - AV Lobby Level South Tower
Ori at Work: African Spiritual Technologies of Black Labor, Resistance, and Resilience
Dogwood A- AV M1 North Tower
“Verse as Vessel: Black Poetic Labor, Memory, and Liberation”
Dogwood B- AV M1 North Tower
“The Burden of Exceeding Expectations: Black Labor, Emotional Toll, and Community Resilience”
Cottonwood A- AV M1 North Tower
Black History, Black Studies, and Afrofuturism
Hickory - AV M3 North Tower
The Labor of Storytelling: How Black Narratives Shape
Public Policy and Economic Power
Hazelnut - AV M3 North Tower
African Roots/American Fruits: Re-Presenting the Middle Passage’s Empowering Legacy
Int'l Ballroom B-AV - M2 North Tower Plenary Sessions
Roundtable — 'Race, Labor, and Wars at Home'
Int'l Ballroom C- AV - M2 North Tower Sessions
4:00 p.m.
“The Fire Now! How Budgets and Policies are Undermining Preservation of the African American Experience
Int'l Ballroom B-AV - M2 North Tower Plenary Sessions
6:00 p.m.
Opening Reception
Int'l Ballroom D- M2 North Tower Meal Functions
7:00 p.m.
Oral History Research: Black Women and NCCU Alumna
Pine - AV Atrium Level South Tower
UMBC Graduate Student Panel on Black Politics
Spruce - AV Atrium Level South Tower
“Zavobe Oyen’ike” (The Wise Womb Deserves Honor and Care)
Maple B - AV Atrium Level South Tower
“We All We Got”: Exploring Black Radical Tradition through Black Educational Excellence and Media Culture at Dr. Carter Woodson Academy
Maple C - AV Atrium Level South Tower
Hidden Histories: African American Hidden Histories: Prisons, Circuses, Magic, and Extraterrestrials
Oak- AV Lobby Level South Tower
Pushed, Policed, and Professional: Black Women Navigating Labor from Slavery to STEM
Dogwood A- AV M1 North Tower
“Keeping the Culture, Healing the People: Black Labor and the Architecture of Health”
Dogwood B- AV M1 North Tower
The Perfect Gift
Cottonwood A- AV M1 North Tower
“Defining the Frame: Black Manhood, Media, and the Struggle for Recognition”
Hazelnut- AV M3 North Tower
“Leading the Game: Black Leadership in Sports, Politics, and Intellectual Life”
Int'l Ballroom B-AV - M2 North Tower Plenary Sessions
The Centennial State and Black Coloradans
Int'l Ballroom C- AV - M2 North Tower Sessions
8:30 p.m.
Academic Program Committee Meeting
Spruce- AV Atrium Level South Tower
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2025
7:00 A.M.
Conference Registration
Redwood Pre-Function Area- M1 North Tower Registration Check-In
7:30 A.M.
Atlanta Heritage Bus Tour
Motor Lobby - Tour Bus Loading Area South Tower
8:30 A.M.
Anti-Racism: Five Years after George Floyd and Breonna Taylor
Birch - AV Atrium Level South Tower
Intersectional Ideas and Third World Consciousness, 19001990
Pine - AV Atrium Level South Tower
From Periphery to Center: New Directions in Black Greek Letter Organization History
Spruce - AV Atrium Level South Tower
The Origin, Evolution and Impact of the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA) Local 1414 in Savannah
Maple A-AV Atrium Level South Tower
Architecture, Activism, and the Black Urban Experience: Struggles for Space and Survival
Maple B - AV Atrium Level South Tower
The Statue of Liberty is Black: Perspectives from a Volatile Research Project
Maple C - AV Atrium Level South Tower
Teaching the History of the Civil Rights Movement: Reflections on Two Decades NEH Summer Institutes
Oak - AV Lobby Level South Tower
Remembering and Memorializing Black Labor: Public History as Preservation and Policy-Making
Dogwood A - AV M1 North Tower
“Prepared to Lead: Black Power, Community Struggle, and the Infrastructure of Liberation”
Dogwood B - AV M1 North Tower
Student HBCU Archival Research
Cottonwood A - AV M1 North Tower
A Hine-Horne Book Roundtable: Ashley Howard's Midwest Unrest: 1960s Urban Rebellions and the Black Freedom Movement
Int'l Ballroom A- AV M2 North Tower (Presidential Sessions)
“Dignity in the Dust: Global Black Labor at the Crossroads of Empire and Industry”
Juniper - AV M2 North Tower
TITAN: The Legacy of Reginald F. Lewis..."Why should white guys have all the fun?"
Cypress - M2 North Tower
Documenting African American Life in Indian Woods, North Carolina
Sycamore - M2 North Tower
Forged in Steel: African American Lives in Chicago’s Calumet Region
Hazelnut - AV M3 North Tower
Telling Our Stories: Expanding the Narrative on Inclusive Education At Home and Abroad
Hickory - AV M3 North Tower
Woodson Lightning Round Session #1
Int'l Ballroom B-AV - M2 North Tower Plenary Sessions
Echoes of the City: Race, Popular Culture, and Urban Space in 20th Century America
Int'l Ballroom C-AV - M2 North Tower Sessions
9:00 A.M.
Thursday Int'l Ballroom EF Exhibits
Int'l Ballroom EF- M2 North Tower
9:30 A.M.
10.000 Black Men Named George (2002), Dir: Robert Townsend
Magnolia - AV M2 North Tower
10:15 A.M.
"Having Our Own Backs": The Past and Present State of Black Self- and Community Defense
Birch - AV Atrium Level South Tower
ACLS Key Session Placeholder
Pine - AV Atrium Level South Tower
Black Motherscholarship Within and Beyond the Academy:
Reconceptualizing Radical Futurity
Spruce- AV Atrium Level South Tower
Carter Woodson and the Centrality of Black Labor for the Founders of African American Social Science
Maple A - AV Atrium Level South Tower
Author Meets Engaged Readers: Quito Swan's "Born a Sufferah Dancehall Music's Insurgent Soundscapes"
Maple B - AV Atrium Level South Tower
Death and Grief Among Black Communities
Maple C - AV Atrium Level South Tower
Scholars’ Roundtable: Black Public High Schools, 1870-1970
Oak - AV Lobby Level South Tower
Black Narratives of Self-Determination in NineteenthCentury Mississippi
Dogwood A - AV M1 North Tower
Building Harlem's Global World: Lessons from Hubert Harrison and the Women of Universal Negro Improvement Association
Dogwood B - AV M1 North Tower
Standing Up Pullman: Teaching Authentic Coalition Building to Preserve Black and Labor Histories
Cottonwood A - AV M1 North Tower
Reportback on ASALH 2025 Freedom Schools
Int'l Ballroom A- AV M2 North Tower (Presidential Sessions)
Black Power Black Poison: The Southern Plantation, Foreign-Born Black Movement of the Great Migration, Labor Stress and Burnout
Juniper- AV M2 North Tower
From Strike to Strategy: Using History Habits of Mind to Examine Black Labor Organizing
Cypress- M2 North Tower
When They Dare to Be Powerful: The Legacy of Black Women in Librarianship
Sycamore- M2 North Tower
Bringing Economic Agency to Black Atlanta: The Legacy of the Herndons and Black Economics in Atlanta,1867-1877
Hickory-AV M3 North Tower
Telling Our Stories: The National Park Service and ASALH
Advancing African American Civil Rights History
Hazelnut- AV M3 North Tower
Woodson Lightning Round #2
Int'l Ballroom B-AV - M2 North Tower Plenary Sessions
Scholars Transforming the Academy: Histories Created, Reimagined, and Retold
Int'l Ballroom C- AV - M2 North Tower Sessions
12:00 P.M.
"I Have Been Treated As If I were Not a Man:" Exploring the Post-Bellum State Colored Conventions
Maple B- AV Atrium Level South Tower
Emmett J. Scott: “The only man who could walk on snow without leaving footprints”
Oak- AV Lobby Level South Tower
The Montpelier Descendants Committee (MDC): An International Model for Descendant-led History-Telling and Academic Research Focused on Black Intelligentsia
Dogwood B- AV M1 North Tower
Book Publishing 101
Cottonwood A- AV M1 North Tower
A Labor of Love: New Perspectives on the History of Black Teachers from Jim Crow through School Desegregation
Int'l Ballroom A- AV M2 North Tower (Presidential Sessions)
(Re)Defining American Greatness: An Interdisciplinary Analysis of the U.S. Past, Present, and Afro-Futurism
Juniper- AV M2 North Tower
Graduate Student Trends in African American History: Black Labor Narratives in Maryland
Hazelnut- AV M3 North Tower
The Roads We've Traveled History Project and Other Tools for Branch Fundraising
Hickory-AV M3 North Tower
Thursday Luncheon
Int'l Ballroom D- M2 North Tower Meal Functions
2:15 P.M.
Towards a Theory of Liberation: The State of Black Radicalism Today
Int'l Ballroom B-AV - M2 North Tower Plenary Sessions
3:00 P.M.
Fourth Convening and Live Radio Broadcast- "Today with Dr. Kaye"
Dogwood A- AV M1 North Tower
3:50 P.M.
The Pruitt-Igoe Myth (2011), Dir. Chad Freidrichs
Magnolia- AV M2 North Tower
4:00 P.M.
New Perspectives and Expanded Histories of African Americans in the Lowcountry and Caribbean pre-1875
Birch- AV Atrium Level South Tower
A Hine-Horne Book Roundtable: Colonel Edna Cumming's A Soldier's Life: A Black Woman's Rise from Army Brat to Six Triple Eight Champion
Pine- AV Atrium Level South Tower
The Unrelenting Labor of Black Journalists, Fancy Girls, Opera Singers, and Wrestlers in Dangerous Times
Spruce- AV Atrium Level South Tower
Sustaining Black Archives
Maple A-AV Atrium Level South Tower
Something Old, Something New: The Criminal Enslavement of 500,000 Black Colonials and Afrofuturism in the 21st Century
Maple B - AV Atrium Level South Tower
A Litany of Labor: The Soundtrack of Black Musical Innovation and Intellectual Resistance
Maple C - AV Atrium Level South Tower
"Mary Frances Early and Myra Elliott: The Fight to End Segregation in Higher Education in Georgia Oak - AV Lobby Level South Tower
New Books on African Americans and Labor
Dogwood B - AV M1 North Tower
Race, Work, Community, and Resistance: Black People at Work, In Service, and Resisting Cottonwood A - AV M1 North Tower
Community Forum: Black Public High Schools, 1870-1970
Int'l Ballroom A - AV M2 North Tower (Presidential Sessions)
Teaching as Technology in the Age of AI Juniper - AV M2 North Tower
Rehabilitating Historic African American Schools
Cypress - M2 North Tower
Ink and Action: Six Black Feminist Voices of The_Collective Rewriting the World
Sycamore - M2 North Tower
Facilitating Health Equity Dialogues: Using Theater to Transform Communities
Hickory-AV M3 North Tower
Harnessing the Maternal: Black Women, Reproductive Labor, and Activism
Hazelnut- AV M3 North Tower
Anti-Blackness and Passing: Biracial/Mixed Race Identity and the Black Community in the 21st Century
Int'l Ballroom B-AV - M2 North Tower Plenary Sessions
Ar’n’t I a Woman? : Reflections on Black Women’s Lives and Labors After Forty Years
Int'l Ballroom C - AV - M2 North Tower Sessions
6:00 P.M.
Thursday Night Out Bus Load
Motor Lobby - Tour Bus Loading Area South Tower
6:15 P.M.
Booker’s Place: A Mississippi Story (2012), Dir. Raymond De Felitta
Magnolia- AV M2 North Tower
6:30 P.M.
Thursday Night Out & Journal Of African American History Reception
University Student Center
7:00 P.M.
“Politics, Preaching, and the Future of Black Faith: Reimagining Labor and Leadership in the Black Church”
Birch - AV Atrium Level South Tower
Where Do We Go From Here? Lessons Learned and Strategies for Teaching, Researching, and Preserving Civil Rights History
Pine - AV Atrium Level South Tower
Seeking and Finding Power in Protest, Land, and Beauty
Spruce - AV Atrium Level South Tower
"James A. Emanuel: A Poet in Exile" Film
Maple A-AV Atrium Level South Tower
“Inheriting the Struggle: Black Youth, Kinship, and the Labors of Survival”
Maple B- AV Atrium Level South Tower
“Innovating History: Black Religiosity, Cultural Spaces, and the Power of Preservation”
Maple C- AV Atrium Level South Tower
“Modern by Design: Black Innovation, Resistance, and Leadership in the Digital Age”
Dogwood A- AV M1 North Tower
“Fighting for the Block: Black Community Formation, Culture, and Collective Power”
Int'l Ballroom A- AV M2 North Tower (Presidential Sessions)
“Reclaiming the Narrative: The Urgent Necessity of Black History in Education and Justice” Cypress- M2 North Tower
Reckoning with the History of Philanthropic Institutions: A Case Study of What is Owed to Black Communities Sycamore- M2 North Tower
Cultural Productions, Black Audiences, and Mass Media: Interrogating Narratives and Amplifying Voices Hazelnut- AV M3 North Tower
The Legacy of Ella Jenkins, the First Lady of Children's Music Hickory-AV M3 North Tower
"54 Miles to Home" & "African History in Lisbon, Portugal" Int'l Ballroom B-AV - M2 North Tower Plenary Sessions
8:30 P.M.
Killer of Sheep (1978), Dir. Charles Burnett Magnolia- AV M2 North Tower
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2025
7:00 A.M.
Conference Registration
Redwood Pre-Function Area- M1 North Tower Registration Check-In
8:00 A.M.
Friday Int'l Ballroom EF Exhibits Int'l Ballroom EF- M2 North Tower
8:30 A.M.
“A Woman’s Work is Never Done”: Gender, Labor, & Justice in the Atlantic World in the 17th, 18th, & 19th Centuries
Birch- AV Atrium Level South Tower
The Cost of Labor, The Fight for Justice: Perspectives on the 2024 US Presidential Campaign
Pine- AV Atrium Level South Tower
Afro-Latinx History and the Black Caribbean
Spruce- AV Atrium Level South Tower
Through Their Eyes: Stories of Anti-Blackness
Maple A-AV Atrium Level South Tower
Association of Black Women Historians Annual Business Meeting
Maple B- AV Atrium Level South Tower
Black Working Class Struggles Against Neoliberalism In the African Diaspora
Maple C- AV Atrium Level South Tower
Black Women, Education, and the Radical Work of Citizenship in the Rural American South
Oak - AV Lobby Level South Tower
Black Women’s Work: Understanding Local Organizing Traditions Within the Civil Rights Movement
Dogwood A- AV M1 North Tower
“Allied Forces: Black Women, Global Labor, and the Politics of Military Equity”
Dogwood B- AV M1 North Tower
Black Expression as Resistance: Art, Faith, and Activism in the 20th Century
Cottonwood A- AV M1 North Tower
2026 Conference Planning Meeting
Int'l Ballroom A- AV M2 North Tower (Presidential Sessions)
“Stolen Futures: Reproductive Labor, Separation, and the Business of Slavery”
Juniper- AV M2 North Tower
Documenting Family Stories: A Hands-On Workshop for Preserving Black Heritage
Cypress - M2 North Tower
Limitation to Liberation: Activating the Power Within Sycamore - M2 North Tower
“Nations Within Nations: Diasporic Memory and the Politics of Pan-African Belonging”
Hazelnut - AV M3 North Tower
Preserving Civil Rights in Uncertain Times: Partnerships, Programming, and Promotion through ASALH
Hickory - AV M3 North Tower
“Roots and Rivers: Black Ecologies of Healing, Justice, and Environmental Vision”
Int'l Ballroom B-AV - M2 North Tower Plenary Sessions
The Life and Legacy of Robert L. Allen
Int'l Ballroom C- AV - M2 North Tower Sessions
9:00 A.M.
Sorry to Bother You (2012), Dir. Boots Riley
Magnolia- AV M2 North Tower
10:15 A.M.
State of African American Historical and Cultural Preservation: Charting a Collective Defense
Pine- AV Atrium Level South Tower
Workforce and Human Resource Development (HRD): Stolen Black Labor in the Age of AI
Spruce- AV Atrium Level South Tower
New Jersey Reparations Council
Maple A - AV Atrium Level South Tower
“Black Public Histories of the Lower Cape Fear (North Carolina)”
Maple B - AV Atrium Level South Tower
“From Soul to Stage: Black Cultural Power, Performance, and the Politics of Healing”
Maple C - AV Atrium Level South Tower
A Discussion on the History of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee's Freedom Schools with Charles Cobb, Jr.
Oak - AV Lobby Level South Tower
Black Memory in the Digital Age: Preserving, Curating and Making Accessible African American Archives through Digital Collections
Dogwood A - AV M1 North Tower
Crusaders for Justice: Robert & Mabel Williams' Memoirs and Their Value for the Twenty-First Century
Dogwood B- AV M1 North Tower
Theory Thursdays - Political Education to Challenge AntiAfrikan Disinformation
Cottonwood A- AV M1 North Tower
"Participating in the Legacy of Carter G. Woodson: The Significance of Publishing in The Journal of African American History."
Int'l Ballroom A- AV M2 North Tower (Presidential Sessions)
Black Military Service in the Twentieth Century: Race, Remembrance, and Resistance
Juniper- AV M2 North Tower
Averting the White Gaze: Black Students’ Narratives and Counter-Narratives as Paths to Liberation
Cypress - M2 North Tower
The Civil War and the Black Past: An African American Intellectual History Roundtable
Sycamore - M2 North Tower
Cornelius Henderson "Hidden Figure": Chief Structural Engineer the Ambassador Bridge and the Detroit –Windsor Tunnel
Hazelnut- AV M3 North Tower
Liberation and Education: Perspectives on Black Educational Thought
Hickory - AV M3 North Tower
Poster Session
Int'l Ballroom Foyer- M2 North Tower
The ABWH Booklist: A Discussion of Black Women's Historiography
Int'l Ballroom B-AV - M2 North Tower Plenary Sessions
Toward Black Healing: The Uses of Autobiography and Biography in Finding Wellness
Int'l Ballroom C- AV - M2 North Tower Sessions
12:00 P.M.
Issues in Social Justice and Sports Through the Lens of College Football
Oak - AV Lobby Level South Tower
Framing The "Freedom Season": A Meditation on 1963
Int'l Ballroom C- AV - M2 North Tower Sessions
John Blassingame Luncheon
Int'l Ballroom D- M2 North Tower Meal Functions
2:15
P.M.
The Legacy and Scholarship of Joe William Trotter, Jr.
Int'l Ballroom B-AV - M2 North Tower Plenary Sessions
4:00
P.M.
Teaching, Torture, and Terror: Black Bodies Under Siege in Historical Context
Birch - AV Atrium Level South Tower
We Live in Pictures & Words: Finding the Labors of Black Women in Non-Traditional Archives
Pine - AV Atrium Level South Tower
The Town That Freedom Built: Black Labor, Black Townships, and Afrofuturist Imaginaries
Spruce - AV Atrium Level South Tower
Chattahoochee Brick Company & Conviction Leasing: A Community's Memorial Project
Maple A - AV Atrium Level South Tower
Mobility, Opportunity, and Choice: A Black Family's Journeys to Oberlin, Canada, Kansas City, and California
Maple B - AV Atrium Level South Tower
Black Strategic Mothering and (Re)productive Labor in the Afterlives of Slavery
Maple C - AV Atrium Level South Tower
Sovereignty in Black: Atlantic Africans and the Quest for Freedom
Oak - AV Lobby Level South Tower
Black Studies in a Dark Conjuncture
Dogwood A - AV M1 North Tower
Holding Aloft Vistas of Purple and Gold: Writing the History of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity
Dogwood B - AV M1 North Tower
Safety Net Experiences among Family Safety Nets: Social Welfare Policies and Social Support Among African American Grandmothers Raising Their Grandchildren
Cottonwood A - AV M1 North Tower
Howard Mellon Workshop: Social Justice and Labor
Int'l Ballroom A - AV M2 North Tower (Presidential Sessions)
Clara’s Fruit (2025), Dir. Matthew Morgan; Hollywood Shuffle (1987), Dir. Robert Townsend
Magnolia - AV M2 North Tower
Africana Studies and Digital, Public, and Environmental Humanities at UNF, Part I
Juniper - AV M2 North Tower
Fruits of our Labor: Black Arizonans Built The American Southwest Cypress - M2 North Tower
“Until it is Faced”: Using Primary Sources to Tell the Story of Civil Rights in Mississippi Sycamore - M2 North Tower
A Labor of Freedom, Then and Now with the Movement History Initiative
Hickory - AV M3 North Tower
Book Roundtable: Mary Phillips, Black Panther Woman: The Political and Spiritual Life of Ericka Huggins Hazelnut - AV M3 North Tower
The Burdens and Benefits of Black Women's Labor as Activism
Int'l Ballroom B-AV - M2 North Tower Plenary Sessions
A Hine-Horne Book Roundtable: Peniel Joseph's Freedom Season: How 1963 Transformed America's Civil Rights Revolution
Int'l Ballroom C- AV - M2 North Tower Sessions
6:15 P.M.
Kufundisha: A Framework for ASALH Freedom Schools
Int'l Ballroom A- AV M2 North Tower (Presidential Sessions)
7:00 P.M.
Assault on the 14th: The Challenge for Freedom & Slam Buffalo: Inside the Njozi Petry Slam Experience: Documentaries
Birch - AV Atrium Level South Tower
“Gentility, Labor, and Reality: Unpacking Black Immigrant Experiences in Twentieth-Century America”
Pine - AV Atrium Level South Tower
Information Professionals of ASALH (IP of ASALH) Meeting and Are You A Librarian? The Untold Story of Black Librarians
Spruce - AV Atrium Level South Tower
Stories Yet Untold: Biography As a Vehicle for Excavating New Histories, Methods, Possibilities in Black Women’s History.
Maple A - AV Atrium Level South Tower
“Reclaiming Roots and Resistance: New Interventions in African American Popular History”
Maple B- AV Atrium Level South Tower
New Directions in the African Diaspora
Maple C - AV Atrium Level South Tower
“Together We Can!” Reinforcing the Legacy of Black STEM Identities through Community Cultural Wealth and Culturally Relevant Pedagogy.
Oak - AV Lobby Level South Tower
Energy, Climate, & Insurgent Ecologies: New Directions in Black Environmental History
Dogwood A - AV M1 North Tower
Black Transnational Histories: Visions of Liberia, Echoes across the Atlantic
Dogwood B - AV M1 North Tower
African American History & Hair-tage: The Struggle for Natural Cultural Expression
Cottonwood A - AV M1 North Tower
“Somebody Take Me!” Labor and Other Themes in Ryan Coogler’s Sinners
Juniper- AV M2 North Tower
Make a Simple Frame Version of the Ghanaian Talking Drum, the Dondo
Cypress- M2 North Tower
Authors Book Signing
Int'l Ballroom Foyer- M2 North Tower
7:30 P.M.
Union (2024) (With Guest Chris Smalls), Dirs. Brett Story, Stephen T. Maing
Magnolia- AV M2 North Tower
8:00 P.M.
Friday Reception
Int'l Ballroom D- M2 North Tower Meal Functions
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2025
7:30 A.M.
Conference Registration
Redwood Pre-Function Area- M1 North Tower Registration Check-In
8:00 A.M.
Saturday Int'l Ballroom EF Exhibits
Int'l Ballroom EF- M2 North Tower
8:30 A.M.
The Continent and the Diaspora since 1994
Birch - AV Atrium Level South Tower
Everyday Struggles, Everyday Resistance: The Labor of Black Feminist Organizing in the 1960s and 1970s
Pine - AV Atrium Level South Tower
Building on Strong Legacies: The Ancestral Throughline of Black Education Activism in Pittsburgh
Spruce- AV Atrium Level South Tower
“Debilitated by Design: Race, Gender, and the Machinery of Incarceration”
Maple A - AV Atrium Level South Tower
Freedom Making: Black Literary and Material Cultures in Early America
Maple B - AV Atrium Level South Tower
"Reveal The Beauty": The Literature and Art of the Harlem Renaissance
Maple C - AV Atrium Level South Tower
Reese Street in Athens, Georgia: An African American Neighborhood’s Fight to Retain Community and Identity
Oak - AV Lobby Level South Tower
“Libraries, Mergers, and Memory: Uncovering Untold Civil Rights Histories”
Dogwood A - AV M1 North Tower
A Hine-Horne Book Roundtable: Augustus Wood's Class
Warfare in Black Atlanta: Grassroots Struggles, Power, and Repression Under Gentrification
Dogwood B - AV M1 North Tower
African Americans and Labor: The Legacy of Work and Social Justice
Cottonwood A - AV M1 North Tower
Advancing Black Strategists Initiative Session
Int'l Ballroom A- AV M2 North Tower (Presidential Sessions)
Africana Studies and Digital, Public, and Environmental Humanities at UNF, Part II
Juniper - AV M2 North Tower
Finding Our Voice: The Family Circle of Arlington House
Cypress - M2 North Tower
"Sounds of Blackness: Music, Memory, and Labor in the Making of Popular Culture”
Sycamore- M2 North Tower
“There Is Always Work to Do”: Black Women and the Making of the Black South
Chestnut- M3 North Tower
Hidden Figures in Plain Sight: Black Women in the Professions of Television News, Sportswriting and Foreign Service
Hickory-AV M3 North Tower
“Keepers and Creators: Archiving Black Womanhood Through Story, Spirit, and Survival”
Hazelnut- AV M3 North Tower
The Black Church, Inkster Project, UAW, Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP) and Henry Ford
Int'l Ballroom C- AV - M2 North Tower Sessions
9:00 A.M.
Ava Greenwell Film Festival: Hearing Silences: 50 Years of Black Women Faculty at Northwestern University (2025) & Mandela in Chicago (2021)
Magnolia - AV M2 North Tower
Branch Meeting & ASALH Member Remembrance Ceremony
Int'l Ballroom B - AV - M2 North Tower Plenary Sessions
10:15 A.M.
Black Power on the Docks: Charleston's International Longshoremen's Union
Birch - AV Atrium Level South Tower
Black Public Workers and the Dignity of Labor
Pine - AV Atrium Level South Tower
A Decade of Black Erasure: Social Media since 2015
Spruce - AV Atrium Level South Tower
Findings and Implications from the National Survey on Black History Month Programming in Public Libraries
Maple A-AV Atrium Level South Tower
From Absence to Action: Black Craftspeople, Public History, and the Power of Collaboration
Maple B - AV Atrium Level South Tower
Reworking Black Archives: History, Method, and Memory in African American Life
Maple C - AV Atrium Level South Tower
Black Internationalism and US Imperialism during the Cold War
Oak- AV Lobby Level South Tower
Our Black Shining Prince: Malcolm X at 100 Dogwood A- AV M1 North Tower
1776 and the Revolt Against British Rule
Dogwood B- AV M1 North Tower
Mastering Media as a Black Scholar
Cottonwood A- AV M1 North Tower
Amplifying the Voices of Generation Next, Promoting the Future of ASALH
Int'l Ballroom A- AV M2 North Tower (Presidential Sessions)
Hubert Harrison: Forbidden Genius of Black Radicalism
Juniper - AV M2 North Tower
Untold Stories and Living Legacies of Affirmative Action: Commemorating Arthur Fletcher - "Father of Affirmative Action"
Cypress - M2 North Tower
Emotional Eating as Labor: Rewriting the Narrative for Healing and Resilience
Sycamore - M2 North Tower
A Pipeline Of Black History Connecting Alaska and Oklahoma: A Roundtable Discussion Sponsored By The 400 Years of African American History Commission
Chestnut - M3 North Tower
New Cultural, Political, and Intellectual Histories of HBCUs: A Book Conversation between Crystal R. Sanders and Jarvis C. McInnis
Hickory - AV M3 North Tower
Toolkit Workshop on the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC): the Organizing Tradition and Freedom Teaching
Hazelnut - AV M3 North Tower
Transnational Transactions: Labor Dynamics in the Early 20th Century Circum-Caribbean
Int'l Ballroom C- AV - M2 North Tower Sessions
11:00 A.M.
The Killing Floor (1984); Dir. Bill Duke
Magnolia- AV M2 North Tower
12:00 P.M.
Preserving Historic Black Communities
Birch - AV Atrium Level South Tower
Schooling the Empire: Global Histories of African American Education
Spruce - AV Atrium Level South Tower
“Sis, That’s Not Your Job": Building Boundaries to Break Burnout”
Maple B - AV Atrium Level South Tower
Sound, Story, and Black Rest: A Healing Workshop on Wellness as Resistance
Maple C - AV Atrium Level South Tower
The Corporate Equity Center: Leveraging the Power of Place and History to Combat Racial Bias and Drive Change
Oak - AV Lobby Level South Tower
“The Labor of Healing: Collective Memory, Movement, and Care in Black Communities”
Dogwood B- AV M1 North Tower
Integrating Black Psychology and Black History
Consciousness to Foster Professional Socialization among Black Graduate Students
Int'l Ballroom A- AV M2 North Tower (Presidential Sessions)
Broaching Burroughs: New Insights into the Organizing and Legacies of Nannie Helen Burroughs
Juniper - AV M2 North Tower
Laboring and Labor Pangs: Forging the Culture of South Louisiana
Cypress - M2 North Tower
The Fabric of Freedom: Black Women's Political Labor in Everyday Life
Sycamore - M2 North Tower
“Grit and the Ground We Stand On: Histories of Black Working-Class Resistance”
Chestnut - M3 North Tower
Fugitive Pedagogy in the Era of Project 2025: Faculty Guide for Resistance in Higher Education
Int'l Ballroom C- AV - M2 North Tower Sessions
"An Unusual Emphasis on Scholarship: Carter G. Woodson. Omega Psi Phi, and the Power of Black History."
Int'l Ballroom D - M2 North Tower Meal Functions
2:00 P.M.
Black Radical Labor Festival: Finally Got the News! (1970), League of Revolutionary Black Workers & Wildcat At Mead (1972), The October League
Magnolia - AV M2 North Tower
2:15 P.M.
Global Ties, Radical Struggles: Pan-Africanism, Labor, and Anti-Imperialism in the 20th Century
Birch - AV Atrium Level South Tower
“Radical Dreams, Revolutionary Labors: Black Struggle and the Politics of Freedom”
Pine - AV Atrium Level South Tower
Labor of Love: The 1967 Legacy Program at the College of Charleston and Study Abroad
Spruce - AV Atrium Level South Tower
Indian Woods, North Carolina: Reclaiming Community History through US Census Data
Maple A - AV Atrium Level South Tower
The Politics of Black Femininity in the Twenty-First Century Maple B - AV Atrium Level South Tower
Launching the new Journal of Black Military Studies
Maple C - AV Atrium Level South Tower
Fostering Fresh Perspectives on African Americans’ Labor, Leadership, & Activism: Twentieth-Century Black Women’s History & the Archive
Oak - AV Lobby Level South Tower
Violence and Nonviolence in African American History
Dogwood A- AV M1 North Tower
Moving On Up: Black Women Navigate New Professional Worlds in Desegregated America from the 1960s to the Present
Dogwood B- AV M1 North Tower
Art as Communal Praxis: Black Women’s Visual Ecosystems in Atlanta
Cottonwood A- AV M1 North Tower
#SayHerName: Black Women's Stories of Police Violence and Public Silence. Kimberlé Crenshaw and the Say Her Name Mothers Network. MODERATED BY KARSONYA WISE WHITEHEAD
Int'l Ballroom A- AV M2 North Tower (Presidential Sessions)
Setting the Record Straight: Black Activism, Labor, and Communication in the Civil Rights and Cold War Eras"
Juniper- AV M2 North Tower
The Stakes Of Black Study: The Politics, Premises, People, and Possibilities
Cypress- M2 North Tower
Labor History Meets Black History: A Conversation Between ASALH and LAWCHA
Sycamore - M2 North Tower
Unpacking the Homecoming
Chestnut- M3 North Tower
Black Conservative Thought and Black Ethnocentrism
Hickory-AV M3 North Tower
Honoring Black Life - New Histories of Policing, and Police Brutality
Hazelnut- AV M3 North Tower
Radical Black Organizing for Liberation in the face of MAGA's Project 2025 Repression
Int'l Ballroom B-AV - M2 North Tower Plenary Sessions
A Hine-Horne Book Roundtable: Crystal Sanders' A Forgotten Migration: Black Southerners, Segregation Scholarships, and the Debt Owed to Public HBCUs
Int'l Ballroom C- AV - M2 North Tower Sessions
4:00 P.M.
Annual Business Meeting
Int'l Ballroom B-AV - M2 North Tower Plenary Sessions
7:30 P.M.
ASALH Annual Awards Banquet
Int'l Ballroom D- M2 North Tower Meal Functions
8:00 P.M.
Fannie Lou Hamer’s America (2022), Dir. Joy Elaine
Davenport
Magnolia - AV M2 North Tower
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2025
8:30 A.M.
Post-Conference African American Heritage Bus Tour Motor Lobby - Tour Bus Loading Area South Tower
001. 8:00 am to 8:00 pm
SESSION SCHEDULE
Wednesday, September 24, 2025
002. 8:30 am to 3:00 pm
Participant:
Deirdre Foreman, Carter G. Woodson Branch of ASALH
Aaisha Haykal, Charleston Area Branch ASALH
Walter J Lanier, African American Leadership Alliance Milwaukee
James Morgan, Morgan State University
Denise Rolark Barnes, The Washington Informer Newspaper
David Mathew Walton
Anthony Cade, Department of Veterans Affairs
Natanya P. Duncan, Queens College City University of New York
Aisha M. Johnson
Lionel Kimble, Jr., Organizing ASALH George Cleveland Hall Branch
Tomiko Michelle Meeks, Howard University
Daryl Michael Scott, Godwin House Publishers
Augustus Wood, Chair of the Academic Program Committee
John E. Adams
John H. Ashley, Bethel Dukes Branch of ASALH
Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua
Kimberly Jeffries Leonard
Zebulon Vance Miletsky, Manhattan Branch of ASALH
Crystal Moten, Obama Foundation
Chadra Dalan Pittman
Crystal R. Sanders, Dr. Edna McKenzie Branch of ASALH
Camesha Scruggs, Central Connecticut State University
Anita M. Shepherd, James Weldon Johnson Branch of ASALH Jacksonville, FL
Karsonya Wise Whitehead, Loyola University-Department of Communication
Carlton Eugene Wilson, North Carolina Central University
Sylvia Y. Cyrus, ASALH Membership Department
004. 10:15 am to 11:45 am
Chair:
Loron Benton, University of South Carolina
Participants:
Woodson Family Truth-Telling: A Labor of Love, Repair and Modeling. Craig D. Woodson; Elizabeth Woodson, Reckon With Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune and Her Impact on the Social Clubs of Her Era. Evelyn Bethune, Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune Family Legacy Inc
W.E.B. Du Bois, American Sociology, and the Sociological Canon. Jordan Williams He Came to Lend Support. Rosalie Fawkes, Fawkes Digital Library and Archives
005. 10:15 am to 11:45 am
Panel Session Spruce- AV Atrium Level South Tower
CREATING THEIR OWN WORLDS: THE INSURGENT EDUCATION PRACTICES OF BLACK GIRLS’ AND WOMEN’S CLUBS.
Chair:
Treva Lindsey, The Ohio State University
Participants:
Creating Safe Spaces and Resisting Erasure: Named Memorials in the Jim Crow Era. Alexandria Russell
For Phillis and Clarissa: Girls’ Work and the Early Civil Rights Activism of Washington, D.C.’s Phyllis Wheatley YWCA. Miya Carey-Agyemang
Sustaining a Movement: Naming, Celebrity, and Longevity in Black Girls’ and Women’s Clubs. Alison M. Parker, University of Delaware
Commentator:
Kimberly Wallace-Sanders
006. 10:15 am to 11:45 am
Presenter:
Media Session
Maple A-AV Atrium Level South Tower
SANKOFA CHICAGO: THE LABOR OF TEACHING TRUTH IN A TIME OF ERASURE.
Vanessa Wright, Tellers Untold LLC
Moderator:
Vanessa Wright, Tellers Untold LLC
Commentator:
Vanessa Wright, Tellers Untold LLC
007. 10:15 am to 11:45 am
Panel Session
Maple B- AV Atrium Level South Tower
BLACK SOCCER IN THE UNITED STATES: DIASPORIC FORMATIONS, MIGRATIONS, AND LABORS IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY.
Chair:
Jermaine Scott, Florida Atlanta University
Participants:
Soccer in the Chocolate City: Lincoln Phillips and the Diasporic Formation of the Washington Darts. Jermaine Scott, Florida Atlanta University
David Julio, Football, Migration, and Black South African Identity. Sean Jacobs, The New School
Ace, Jomo and Kaizer: South African soccer stars in the North American Soccer League. Chris Bolsmann, California State University - Northridge
Trailblazer: Gil Heron and Black soccer in the Midwest USA. Chuck Carlson, Chicago House Athletic Club, Historian; Maxwell Murray, Community and Youth Programs Coordinator Detroit City FC
008. 10:15 am to 11:45 am Workshop
Maple C- AV Atrium Level South Tower
BRIDGING GENERATIONS—ENGAGING GEN Z IN AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY THROUGH DELIBERATIVE FORUMS.
Leader:
Sophia Marshall Chapman, Jackson Public Schools
009. 10:15 am to 11:45 am
Roundtable Oak- AV Lobby Level South Tower
THE CULTURAL REPATRIATION OF NINETEEN AFRICAN AMERICANS FROM LEIPZIG, GERMANY TO NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA.
Chair:
Malik Bartholomew, Dillard University
Presenters:
Eva Semien Baham, Charles Deslondes Branch of New Orleans
Freddi Williams Evans, Charles Deslondes Branch of New Orleans
Michael Godzinski, Archaeologist for the City of New Orleans
D. Ryan Gray, Midlo Center for New Orleans Studies
Monique Guillory, President, Dillard University
Jana Smith
Ryan Seidemann, The University of New Orleans
Jessica Strawn, City of New Orleans
Joan Rhodes, D. W. Rhodes’ Funeral Home
010. 10:15 am to 11:45 am Panel Session
LEARN IT TO THE YOUNGUNS: AFRICAN AMERICAN MALE ACADEMICS LABORING FOR THE NEXT GENERATION.
Chair:
Vincent Basile, Colorado State University
Participants:
Beyond the Classroom, Faculty Student Engagement to Increase Persistence. Ray Black, Colorado State University Post 9/11 Black Veterans navigating the GI Bill in Higher Education. Trice Burkes, Colorado State University K12 Teacher Training for Mastery, Supporting Highly Qualified Culturally Relevant Teaching. Duan Ruff, Colorado State University
Commentator:
Ray Black, Colorado State University
011. 10:15 am to 11:45 am
Paper Session
“THE RIGHT TO LEARN: BLACK EDUCATIONAL STRUGGLES FROM SELF-DIRECTED FREEDOM TO SYSTEMIC FIGHT.”
Chair:
Joseph Bannerman, Clark Atlanta University
Participants:
African American Struggle for Education in the Vehicle City. Guluma Gemeda, University of Michigan-Flint Rebels to Panthers: “Balanced” School Initiatives in Chattanooga and the Making of White Flight. Derek Andrew Griffin, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
As the South Goes…So Goes the Nation: A Systematic Review of Black Teachers Pedagogical Practices in the American South. Terrance Joshua Lewis; Brittney Agwu, University of Alabama School Funding Inequality and Educational Outcomes Among Minority Students in the U.S. Ameshia Long, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
Self-directed learning as self-determination: A textual analysis of learning in narratives from formerly enslaved people. CoCo Massengale, Utah State University
012. 10:15 am to 11:45 am Roundtable
Cottonwood A- AV M1 North Tower
“FLIPPING THE SCRIPT”: HOW BLACK FAMILIES USE HOMESCHOOLING TO REDEFINE BLACK DOMESTICITY ON THEIR TERMS.”
Chair:
Cheryl Fields-Smith, Athens Branch of ASALH (GA)
Presenters:
Cheryl Fields-Smith, Athens Branch of ASALH (GA)
Moriah Johnson, Loyola University
DeShaun Silas, Georgia Black Home Educators Network
013. 10:15 am to 11:45 am
Chair:
Paper Session
Hazelnut- AV M3 North Tower
“TELLING OUR OWN: BIOGRAPHY AS A TOOL OF BLACK HISTORICAL PRESERVATION. PART I..”
Tiana Galloway, University of South Carolina at Columbia
Participants:
Juanita Jackson Mitchell: Baltimore’s Lady of the Law. Nichole Nance, Morgan State University /Dept. of History and Geography
Three Facets of Henry J. Maxwell’s Leadership: Union Soldier, Businessman, and Freedmen’s Bureau Educator. Mark Canavera, University of South Carolina
Cracking the Code Post Jim Crow: Dr. James Goudlock and the Labor of Liberation at Friendship College, Rock Hill, SC. Madinah Ali-Goudlock, Dr. Goudlock Legacy
Black Women’s Labor: A Dance Manifesto in Sonia Sanchez’s A Blues Book for Blue Black Magical Women. Ondra K. Dismukes
014. 10:15 am to 11:45 am
Paper Session
Hickory-AV M3 North Tower
“REDEFINING THE #BLACKJOB: LABOR, JUSTICE, AND LEGACY IN AFRICAN AMERICAN WORKSPACES.”
Chair:
Jatisha Marsh, Georgia State University
Participants:
“What is a #blackjob?: The imperative of an oppositional gaze for interrogating racialized productive justice in the U.S. Aysha LaBon, Georgia State University
Southern Pacific Railroad’s Discrimination of its Black Patrons and Employees in the 1950s, 60s, 70s, and later. William Fowler, Independent Scholar
“Pointing to a Fuller Work”: A History of African American Public Address Scholarship Prior to 1960. Andre E. Johnson, University of Memphis
John Baptiste Stradford: One of the Many Heroes of Black Wall Street. Frederick Williams, Omega Psi Phi
015. 10:15 am to 11:45 am
Chair:
Roundtable Int’l Ballroom B-AV - M2 North Tower Plenary Sessions
READY SET REVOLUTION: PREPARING FOR THE COMMEMORATION OF AMERICA 250 IN 2026 .
Daniel J. Broyld
Presenters:
Taylor Monet Thornton
Kelli Barnes, Mellon Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow
William Kelly
Celeste Keith, Claiming Freedom
016. 10:15 am to 11:45 am
Chair:
Panel Session Int’l Ballroom C- AV - M2 North Tower Sessions
FROM THE GLOBAL TO THE HUMAN SOUL: PROBLEMS AND POSSIBILITIES IN BLACK LABOR.
Carolyn J. Medine, University of Georgia- Institute for African American Studies
Participants:
The 10 Plagues of Capitalism and the Blackening of the World: Derrida and Mbembe Rethink Marx. Carolyn J. Medine, University of Georgia- Institute for African American Studies
Black American Entrepreneurship and Labor: A Cultural Analysis of Aaron McGruder’s The Boondocks. Aaliyah Khaiphanliane, University of Georgia
Black Hustling in a Lovecraftian Whitopia: Victor LaValle’s The Ballad of Black Tom. Jerry Rafiki Jenkins, University of Georgia, Institute for African American Studies
These Women’s Work: Intergenerational Spiritual Labor in Toni Morrison’s Beloved. Sophia Muriel Flemming, University of
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24,
Georgia, Institute for African American Studies
On the Interior/Exterior Realms of Labor: Reading Philosophical Quest(s) of “Slave” Selfhood in Oxherding Tale. Abinash Dash Choudhury, University of Georgia, Institute for African American Studies
017. 12:00 pm to 1:45 pm
12:00pm
Workshop
Pine- AV Atrium Level South Tower
RECLAIMING AFRICAN CULINARY LABOR: TEACHING AFRICAN HERITAGE COOKING FOR COMMUNITY HEALTH AND EMPOWERMENT.
Leader:
Sarah Anderson, Oldways Preservation Trust
018. 12:00 pm to 1:45 pm
Chair:
Paper Session
Spruce- AV Atrium Level South Tower
THE GRIOT LIVES ON: BLACK STORYTELLING, MEMORY, AND LITERARY LINEAGE.
Kyra March, Rutgers University-New Brunswick
Participants:
Claiming the Narrative: Folklore, Identity, and the Politics of Preservation. Morgan White, North Carolina Central University -History Department
“The Women Gather: Building a Network to Embrace Black Women Writers..” Jessica Halsey, Emory University; Tyechia Thompson, Virginia Tech
“Now Women Remember Everything:” Black Women Writers and Writing Black Women. Kayla J Frye, Auburn University; Kourtney Frye, University of Tennessee- Knoxville
Lemuel Haynes and the Black Polemical Essay: The Inception of an African American Literary Tradition in the New World. Jarvis Young, University of Arkansas
Alice Walker and “The Jackson Years”: A Meditation on Creative Writing, Region, Historical Time, and Labor. Cheryl R. Hopson, Roanoke College
019. 12:00 pm to 1:45 pm
Media Session
Maple A-AV Atrium Level South Tower
CHILDREN OF THE STRUGGLE: TUSKEGEE, BLACK INTRA-SOUTH MIGRATION, AND THE CIVIL RIGHTS GENERATION.
Presenter:
Beatrice J Adams
Commentator:
Sonjia Parker-Redmond, California State University East Bay, Professor Emeritus
020. 12:00 pm to 1:45 pm
Roundtable
Maple B- AV Atrium Level South Tower
COMMEMORATING THE 110TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FORT VALLEY HAM AND EGG SHOW, 1916-2026.
Chair:
Kyle Quinton Harris
Presenters:
Dawn Herd-Clark
Kymara Sneed, Mississippi University for Women
Maisha Akbar, Fort Valley State University
021. 12:00 pm to 1:45 pm
Panel Session
Maple C- AV Atrium Level South Tower
EMPOWERING THE UNCERTIFIED: BLACK WOMEN’S GRASSROOTS TEACHER TRAINING AND LEADERSHIP.
Chair:
Patricia Haggler, CUNY York College
Participants:
“’Home Girls’: National Baptist Publishing Board Sunday School Congress and Teacher Training in the Rural South.” Patricia Haggler, CUNY York College
“Breaking Barriers: Adelaide Sanford’s Legacy in Empowering Uncertified Black Educators.” Lindamichelle Baron, City University of New York
Building Pre-Service Educators: Transformative Pedagogy through Poetry and Technology. Lindamichelle Baron, City University of New York
022. 12:00 pm to 1:45 pm
Chair:
Panel Session
Oak- AV Lobby Level South Tower IN PROTEST AND PRACTICE: BLACK LABOR IN THE FIGHT FOR HEALTH JUSTICE.
Adam Biggs, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Participants:
Fighting HIV/AIDS and COVID-19 in Black America. Aishah Scott, Providence College
Black Doctors and the Fight against Early-20th Century Racial Science. Adam Biggs, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Black Dermatologists and the Making of an Inclusive Dermatology for the 21st Century. Yesmar Oyarzun, Brandeis University
023. 12:00 pm to 1:45 pm
Panel Session
Dogwood A- AV M1 North Tower
MEDIATING BLACK LABOR: GRASSROOTS ORGANIZING, THE NONPROFIT SECTOR, AND THE POLITICS OF REFORM.
Chair:
Rebecca K Marchiel, University of Mississippi
Participants:
No Trespassing: Volunteers in Service to America Among Migrant Labor Camps, 1964-1972. Britney Murphy, Charles A. Brown Branch of Birmingham
Structural Renovations: Tenant Unions and Racial Inequality in the Era of the Chicago Freedom Movement. Nathalie Barton, Postdoctoral Fellow, History Department, Vanderbilt University
Managing Race: Robert C. Weaver, Labor, and the Expert Turn in Community Action. Emily Masghati, Penn State Erie
Commentator:
Rebecca K Marchiel, University of Mississippi
024. 12:00 pm to 1:45 pm
Chair:
WAS RACIAL SLAVERY ILLEGAL UNDER ENGLISH LAW?
Walter Greason, Macalester College/Graphic History Company
Presenters:
Larry Kenneth Alexander, Ida B. Wells Center on American Exceptionalism and Restorative Justice
James Brewer Stewart
Walter Greason, Macalester College/Graphic History Company
025. 12:00 pm to 1:45 pm
Presenters:
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SOCIAL MEDIA AND BLACK INGENUITY.
Kim B Miller, Multidisciplinary Performing Artist
Nick Courmon, Performing Artist and Graduate Student
Leader:
Candace Cunningham, University of Arkansas
026. 12:00 pm to 1:45 pm
Paper Session Hazelnut- AV M3 North Tower
“BENEATH THE MAGNOLIA: BLACK LIVES, LABOR, AND POLLUTION IN THE SOUTHERN LANDSCAPE.”
Chair:
Marion Johnson, Phila-Montco Branch of ASALH
Participants:
Slaves Owned a Business. Anthony Brogdon, Strong Productions
Making Jim Crow Pay: Charles Harry Anderson’s Racial Progress during the Nadir Period. Ronald Jackson, Jacksonville University “Industrial Unionism, Democracy, and Black Workers in Mobile, Alabama, 1937-1942”. Robert Woodrum, Perimeter College of Georgia State University
Breathing In Justice: Counterstories About the Effects of Pollution in Historic Black Communities in Cancer Alley, Louisiana. Joshua Jordan
027. 12:00 pm to 1:45 pm
Panel Session
Hickory-AV M3 North Tower HEALTH GAPS AND ROADBLOCKS: HOW RACISM, COVID-19, HISTORICAL MENTAL-HEALTH DISPARITIES, AND NEW POLICY SHIFTS ARE SHAPING NURSING, PUBLIC HEALTH, AND TEACHING THE NEXT GENERATION.
Chair:
James Conway, Dallas College
Participants:
How Structural Racism and Policy Rollbacks Deepen Mental Health Gaps in Black Communities. Letoshia Foster, Unaffiliated Advancing Black Women in Public Health Research: Confronting Structural Exclusion, Pandemic Pressures, and Anti-DEI Undermining. Melva Thompson-Robinson
Commentators:
Melva Thompson-Robinson
Letoshia Foster, Unaffiliated
028. 12:00 pm to 1:45 pm
Chair:
Panel SessionInt’l Ballroom B-AV - M2 North Tower Plenary Sessions
THE MANY MEANINGS OF LABOR: ANARCHIST, SOCIAL, AND REPRODUCTIVE (1879-1990).
Huey Hewitt, Harvard University
Participants:
The Labor Question in Black Anarchist Thought: A Generational Split. Huey Hewitt, Harvard University ‘Shocked Me by The Truth of My Own Rhetoric’: The Black Panther Party and eugenic state violence, 1966-1976. Alexandra Kathryn Fair
Restoring Reproductive Labor: Elizabeth B. Davis, Postpartum Psychoses, and Family Planning in Black Harlem, 1960 - 1970. Udodiri Okwandu, Rutgers University
“Work Your Category!” House-structured Ballroom Culture‘s Gender and Performance Categories as Sites of Informal Labor Under duress. Victor Ultra Omni, Emory University
Commentator: Andrew Douglas, Morehouse College
029. 12:00 pm to 1:45 pm
Chair:
Brandon R. Byrd, Vanderbilt University
Participants:
Panel Session Int’l Ballroom C- AV - M2 North Tower Sessions WORLDMAKING ACROSS CENTURIES.
Worldmaking and Sustaining Community in the Midst of a Revolutionary Black Atlantic. Erica Duncan, New York University Worldmaking and the Meaning of Freedom in the Post-Emancipation United States. Samantha Payne, College of Charleston
Maya Angelou’s Worldmaking in Egypt and Ghana (1961 - 1965). Bwesigye Bwa Mwesigire, California State University Dominguez Hills
Commentator:
Brandon R. Byrd, Vanderbilt University
030. 1:00 pm to 3:30 pm
Presenter:
Meeting
EXECUTIVE COUNCIL MEETING.
Karsonya Wise Whitehead, Loyola University-Department of Communication
Participant:
Deirdre Foreman, Carter G. Woodson Branch of ASALH
Aaisha Haykal, Charleston Area Branch ASALH
Walter J Lanier, African American Leadership Alliance Milwaukee
James Morgan, Morgan State University
Denise Rolark Barnes, The Washington Informer Newspaper
David Mathew Walton
Anthony Cade, Department of Veterans Affairs
Natanya P. Duncan, Queens College City University of New York
Aisha M. Johnson
Lionel Kimble, Jr., Organizing ASALH George Cleveland Hall Branch
Tomiko Michelle Meeks, Howard University
Daryl Michael Scott, Godwin House Publishers
Augustus Wood
John E. Adams
John H. Ashley, Bethel Dukes Branch of ASALH
Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua
Kimberly Jeffries Leonard
Zebulon Vance Miletsky, Manhattan Branch of ASALH
Crystal Moten, Obama Foundation
Chadra Dalan Pittman
Crystal R. Sanders, Dr. Edna McKenzie Branch of ASALH
Camesha Scruggs, Central Connecticut State University
Anita M. Shepherd, James Weldon Johnson Branch of ASALH Jacksonville, FL
Carlton Eugene Wilson, North Carolina Central University
Sylvia Y. Cyrus, ASALH Membership Department
Chair:
“TIDES, MINES, AND ASSEMBLY LINES: THE JOURNEY OF BLACK LABOR IN SHAPING ECONOMIC LANDSCAPES.”
Shirley Timmons, Clemson University
Participants:
Tides of Freedom: How Black Maritime Labor Charted Routes to Economic Liberation. Tasanee Durrett, TasaneeArt
“Black Labor in San Antonio, Texas: Navigating the Color Line in a Southwestern Metropolis.” Charles Gentry, City of San Antonio
Black Coal Mining in Rich Hill, Missouri, 1888: Mortality, Migration, and the Shaping of Economic Landscapes. Aaron Summer Javadi
Black Labor and the Aerospace Industry in Delaware. Cathleen Susan Lewis, Smithsonian Institution National Air and Space Museum
Echoes of the Factory Floor: Black Women and the Twin Cities Ordnance Plant Legacy. Jeremiah Ellis
032. 2:15 pm to 3:45 pm
Presenters:
Workshop Spruce- AV Atrium Level South Tower
TEACHER DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP WITH ARTS-BASED LEARNING.
Margaret Seidler, Charleston Area Branch ASALH
Tyrone Collins, Charleston Area Branch ASALH
Leader:
Tyrone Collins, Charleston Area Branch ASALH
033. 2:15 pm to 3:45 pm
Workshop
Maple A-AV Atrium Level South Tower
LEADERSHIP, LABOR, AND LEGACY: LESSONS FROM THE OWL AND THE GREAT TREE FOR COMMUNITY RESILIENCE.
Leader:
Russell Drake, Exordium Communications LLC
034. 2:15 pm to 3:45 pm
Chair:
Workshop
Maple B- AV Atrium Level South Tower
INTERGENERATIONAL ALGORITHMS AND CRITICAL CONVERSATIONS.
Evelyn Bethune, Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune Family Legacy Inc
Leader:
Dr. Maya Taylor, Eagles Economic CDC dba Arrow Youth Leadership Council International
035. 2:15 pm to 3:45 pm
Paper Session
Maple C- AV Atrium Level South Tower
BLACK IMPRINTS AND SPECULATIVE VISIONS: LABOR, MEMORY, AND REPRESENTATION IN VISUAL AND PRINT CULTURE.
Chair:
Lana Carter, University of Central Florida
Participants:
Bearing Witness: Black Artists on the Emotional and Physical Toll of Labor. Eden Reff-Presco Shaping the American Workforce: Johnson Publishing’s Influence on African American Labor. Donna Edgar; Naja Morris Color Struck: A Historiographical Film Study of Colorism and The Works of Oscar Micheaux. Chenita White, University of North Carolina Wilmington Piercing the Veil on Both Sides: Visually Representing Afrofuturism in Ryan Coogler’s Sinners. Sade Williams
036. 2:15 pm to 3:45 pm
Special Book Panel
Oak- AV Lobby Level South Tower
A HINE-HORNE BOOK ROUNDTABLE: STEFAN BRADLEY’S IF WE DON’T GET IT: A PEOPLE’S HISTORY OF FERGUSON.
Discussants: Gerald Horne
Jaden Janak, St. Olaf College
Author:
Stefan M. Bradley, Amherst College
037. 2:15 pm to 3:45 pm
Workshop
Dogwood A- AV M1 North Tower
ORI AT WORK: AFRICAN SPIRITUAL TECHNOLOGIES OF BLACK LABOR, RESISTANCE, AND RESILIENCE.
Presenter:
Patriann Edwards, Georgia State University
Leader:
Patriann Edwards, Georgia State University
038. 2:15 pm to 3:45 pm
Paper Session
Dogwood B- AV M1 North Tower
“VERSE AS VESSEL: BLACK POETIC LABOR, MEMORY, AND LIBERATION.”
Chair:
Sherwin K. Bryant, Rice University - Center for African and African American Studies
Participants:
Remember Phillis Wheatley’s “On Recollection”: An Examination of an Instructional Incantation for Feminine Creative Labor. Rava Shelyn Chapman, The Butterfly Effecta Company
The Complexity of Blackness: Audre Lorde’s Poetic Reflections on African American Life and History.” ADAOMA EUGENIA IGWEDIBIA; Greg Ekeh, Department of Educational Foundations, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka
Dr. Margaret Walker: “Female, Black, and Free.” Sean Kornegay, North Carolina Central University
The comparison of labor between Richard Wright and Robert Lewis Stevenson. Rachael Falu, Morgan State University; Mark Smith, University of North Alabama
039. 2:15 pm to 3:45 pm
Paper Session
Cottonwood A- AV M1 North Tower
“THE BURDEN OF EXCEEDING EXPECTATIONS: BLACK LABOR, EMOTIONAL TOLL, AND COMMUNITY RESILIENCE.”
Chair:
Tenesha Carter Johnson, Bard Graduate Center
Participants:
Labor in “The Styx”: Memories of a Black Community on Palm Beach. Wallis Hamm Tinnie, ASALH South Florida, Inc.
Good Time Railroad Man: The Journey to Reconstruct the Life of Lang Williams. Shawn Lamar Williams
The Invisible Burden: African Americans, Emotional Labor, and the Toll of Workplace Inequity. Angelia Bendolph, Mobile AL Branch; Diedre Graham, Mobile AL Branch
Polytechnic Progression: The Influence of Hampton Institute on Industrial Labor and African American Education During the Industrial Revolution. Veronica Davis, Echoes of Hampton
Creation of a Black Public School System: Black Public Schools in Jim Crow Kentucky, 1924-1954. Zachary Hardin, University of Louisville
040. 2:15 pm to 3:45 pm Workshop
Hazelnut- AV M3 North Tower
THE LABOR OF STORYTELLING: HOW BLACK NARRATIVES SHAPE PUBLIC POLICY AND ECONOMIC POWER.
Presenters:
Evelyne Del, ForeSight Communications
Kwadjo Campbell, Presenter
Michiel Perry, Presenter
Leader:
Courtney Young, Presenter
041. 2:15 pm to 3:45 pm
Chair:
Roundtable
Hickory-AV M3 North Tower
BLACK HISTORY, BLACK STUDIES, AND AFROFUTURISM.
Walter Greason, Macalester College/Graphic History Company
Presenters:
Walter Greason, Macalester College/Graphic History Company
Tanya Clark, Morehouse College
Tim Fielder, Graphic History Company
Reynaldo Anderson
042. 2:15 pm to 3:45 pm
Roundtable Int’l Ballroom B-AV - M2 North Tower Plenary Sessions
AFRICAN ROOTS/AMERICAN FRUITS: RE-PRESENTING THE MIDDLE PASSAGE’S EMPOWERING LEGACY.
Chair:
Harmon R. Carey, Afro-American Historical Society of Delaware
Presenters:
Gene Tinnie, ASALH South Florida, Inc.
Marcus Asante
Dennis Burroughs, Middle Passage Ship Replica Project
043. 2:15 pm to 3:45 pm
Chair:
Roundtable Int’l Ballroom C- AV - M2 North Tower Sessions
ROUNDTABLE — ‘RACE, LABOR, AND WARS AT HOME’.
Keona Katrice Ervin, University of Missouri
Presenters:
Tejasvi Nagaraja, Cornell University
Toussaint Losier
Cristina Mislan
Conor Hodges, Yale University
044. 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm Plenary SessionInt’l Ballroom B-AV - M2 North Tower Plenary Sessions
“THE FIRE NOW! HOW BUDGETS AND POLICIES ARE UNDERMINING PRESERVATION OF THE AFRICAN AMERICAN EXPERIENCE.
Presenters:
Jocelyn Imani, Trust for Public Land
Robert Stanton, US Department of the Interior
Sylvia Y. Cyrus, ASALH Membership Department
Alan Spears, National Parks Conservation Association
Moderator:
Crystal Davis, National Parks Conservation Association
045. 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm Reception Int’l Ballroom D- M2 North Tower Meal Functions OPENING RECEPTION.
Greetings:
Karsonya Wise Whitehead, Loyola University-Department of Communication
Emcee:
Sylvia Y. Cyrus, ASALH Membership Department
Sponsor:
National Parks Conservation Association, National Parks Conservation Association 7:00pm
046. 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm Panel Session Pine- AV Atrium Level South Tower ORAL HISTORY RESEARCH: BLACK WOMEN AND NCCU ALUMNA.
Participants:
A Lasting Legacy: Mrs. Queen Scarborough. Haley Moore, North Carolina Central University
Dana G. Jones Story. Sydney Walker, North Carolina Central University - Psychology Department
If We Don’t Tell Our Story, Who Will: The Life and Work of Claudine Daye Lewis. Jordyn Davis, North Carolina Central University
Deindustrialized and Dispossessed: Race, Labor, and Urban Decline in Milwaukee. Amaya Bauldwin, North Carolina Central University - Political Science Department
Presentation on Shelvia Dancy. Erin Parks, North Carolina Central University - Political Science Department
Paper on Nastasia Watkins. Se’Maj Nichols, North Carolina Central University
047. 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm
Chair:
Panel Session
Spruce- AV Atrium Level South Tower
UMBC GRADUATE STUDENT PANEL ON BLACK POLITICS.
George Derek Musgrove, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Participants:
“African American Clubwomen’s Mutual Aid Labor in The Woman’s Era.” Annyah St. Louis, UMBC
“‘Euel Lee Marches On’”: The CPUSA, the NAACP, and the Struggle to Represent Black Labor in Maryland, 1931 to 1934. yoni D issacs, UMBC
“The Impact of Desegregation on the National Newspapers Publishers Association.” Kaela Iman Buchanan, UMBC
048. 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm
Presenters:
Media Session Maple B- AV Atrium Level South Tower
“ZAVOBE OYEN’IKE” (THE WISE WOMB DESERVES HONOR AND CARE).
Neith Sankofa, Georgia State University Alumni
Regina Sewell
Commentator: Monique Moultrie
049. 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm
Workshop Maple C- AV Atrium Level South Tower
“WE ALL WE GOT”: EXPLORING BLACK RADICAL TRADITION THROUGH BLACK EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE AND MEDIA CULTURE AT DR. CARTER WOODSON ACADEMY.
Presenter:
Jamaal W Gosa
Leader:
Justin Laing, Iota Phi Foundation of Omega Psi Phi
050. 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm Roundtable
Oak- AV Lobby Level South Tower
HIDDEN HISTORIES: AFRICAN AMERICAN HIDDEN HISTORIES: PRISONS, CIRCUSES, MAGIC, AND EXTRATERRESTRIALS.
Chair: Jacob Dorman
Presenters:
Sakina Hughes, University of Southern Indiana
Douglas James Flowe
Alaina Morgan, University of Southern California
Participant: Jacob Dorman
051. 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm
Paper Session
Dogwood A- AV M1 North Tower
PUSHED, POLICED, AND PROFESSIONAL: BLACK WOMEN NAVIGATING LABOR FROM SLAVERY TO STEM.
Chair: Kyra March, Rutgers University-New Brunswick
Participants:
The True Labor of Forced Slave Trade Maternal Labor. Regina Vincent-Williams, JCV Communications From the Mammy to the Domestic Worker to the Teacher: How Black Women’s Labor has Historically been Undervalued and Linked to Motherhood. Jacqueline Cherry, North Carolina Central University -History Department It’s Postpartum Up-pression, Not Depression: A Labor of Liberation. Seshat Eumel Sahmedu Laboring Against the Current: Black Women’s Experiences Navigating STEM Education and Workforce Entry. Jatisha Marsh,
Georgia State University
Reform and Refusal in “Scalloptown”: Black Women and Social Work in Southern New England. Sarah Fong, Tufts University
052. 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm
Paper Session
Dogwood B- AV M1 North Tower
“KEEPING THE CULTURE, HEALING THE PEOPLE: BLACK LABOR AND THE ARCHITECTURE OF HEALTH.”
Chair:
Shirley Timmons, Clemson University
Participants:
Black Death Care Work: The Labor of Keeping the Culture. Kami Fletcher Through the Atlantic to the Pacific: Medicine, Race, and Epidemic Crisis in 1793 Pennsylvania. Sopuruchukwu Nwadi, West Virginia University
Labor Justice and Economic Equity: A Case for Sustainable Longevity and Development for the African American Community. Noble Maseru, University of Pittsburgh Schools of Health Sciences
Surviving the Odds: An Analysis of the Role of Community and Culture in Labor. Margaret Bernice Smith Bristow, Hampton Roads Branch of ASALH
053. 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm
Presenters:
Deitrah Taylor
Kiyree McMillian, The Historic Douglass Theatre
Asha Ellen, Producer The Perfect Gift
Commentator:
Stanely Stewart, Producer The Perfect Gift
054. 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm
Chair:
Media Session
Cottonwood A- AV M1 North Tower
Paper Session
Hazelnut- AV M3 North Tower
“DEFINING THE FRAME: BLACK MANHOOD, MEDIA, AND THE STRUGGLE FOR RECOGNITION.”
Anton D. House
Participants:
Manhood in Black Ink: How Editor Nick Chiles and Attorney Elisha Scott Defined Black Manhood in the Topeka Plaindealer. Jeffery Williams
“Social and Historical Dynamics Impacting Black Identity: Examining Black Males’ Journeys through Workforce Development Programs.” Miranda Dalton, North Carolina State University
Black Misandry: Barriers of Acceptance in Society, Education, and Labor Markets. Robert Perkins, North Carolina Central University
055. 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm
Paper SessionInt’l Ballroom B-AV - M2 North Tower Plenary Sessions
“LEADING THE GAME: BLACK LEADERSHIP IN SPORTS, POLITICS, AND INTELLECTUAL LIFE.”
Chair: Stephanie Fortado, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Participants:
From Pulpit to Pavement: William Holmes Borders and the Pursuit of Black Labor Justice. William J Smith
Dr. E. B. Henderson: The Grandfather of Black Basketball. Edwin B. Henderson, Tinner Hill Heritage Foundation
Harnessing “Mechanical Genius”: Speculative Labor and the Laboratory Spirit in African American Thought. Jacob R Walters, Stetson University
“Everybody Wants to Rule the World”: Jesse Jackson, Economic Justice, and the Rainbow Coalition’s Electoral Turn in the 1980s. Jonathan Soucek
056. 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm
Roundtable Int’l Ballroom C- AV - M2 North Tower Sessions
Presenters:
Chloe Duplessis, History Colorado Center
Ani Steele, History Colorado Center 8:30pm
057. 8:30 pm to 10:30 pm
Participant:
Augustus Wood
THE CENTENNIAL STATE AND BLACK COLORADANS.
Adreonna Nicole Simmons-Bennett, Romare Bearden Branch of ASALH of Charlotte, NC
Anthony Cade, Department of Veterans Affairs
Natanya P. Duncan, Queens College City University of New York
Eric Duke, Clark Atlanta University-The Department of African American Studies, Africana Women’s Studies and Hi
Anton D. House
Ashley Howard, University of Iowa
Aisha M. Johnson
Tomiko Michelle Meeks, Howard University
Edward Onaci, Ursinus College
Crystal R. Sanders, Dr. Edna McKenzie Branch of ASALH
Daryl Michael Scott, Godwin House Publishers
Albert Russell Thompson
Zebulon Vance Miletsky, Manhattan Branch of ASALH
Aaisha Haykal, Charleston Area Branch ASALH
Karsonya Wise Whitehead, Loyola University-Department of Communication
David Mathew Walton
John E. Adams
Sylvia Y. Cyrus, ASALH Membership Department
Evelyn Jackson
Sponsor:
Dwight McQueen,
Chair:
Walter Greason, Macalester College/Graphic History Company THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25,
Presenters:
Marvin Anderson, Reconnect Rondo
Jeanelle Austin, Rise and Remember
Zebulon Vance Miletsky, Manhattan Branch of ASALH
061. 8:30 am to 9:50 am
Chair:
Panel Session
Pine- AV Atrium Level South Tower
INTERSECTIONAL IDEAS AND THIRD WORLD CONSCIOUSNESS, 1900-1990.
Patricia A. Schechter
Participants:
Anti-Colonial Feminisms: Afro-Puerto Rican Women’s Radicalism under the Influence of U.S. Empire. DJ Polite, Augusta University
Teacher Training for Sex Education: Understanding Eugenics and the Social Hygiene Movement at HBCUs and Teachers Colleges. Julia Haager, Western Carolina University
Black Women and the Pill: Toni Cade Bambara and Frances Beale’s Debate over Birth Control and Black Motherhood. Grace London
Transformative Origins of Reproductive Justice in New York City, 1960s-1990. Genevieve Davis, Portland State University
Commentator:
David C. Carter
062. 8:30 am to 9:50 am
Panel Session
Spruce- AV Atrium Level South Tower
FROM PERIPHERY TO CENTER: NEW DIRECTIONS IN BLACK GREEK LETTER ORGANIZATION HISTORY.
Chair: Marquis Taylor
Participants:
“Just for What Does Your Sorority Really Stand?:” Reconsidering Black Sorority Women and sorority-sponsored service in the 20th century”. Brooke Thomas, The University of Alabama
Noble Manhood and Womanhood: Black Fraternities and Sororities and Southern Expansion, 1907-1936. Marquis Taylor, Northwestern University
The Politics of Black Greek-letter Organizations and Morehouse College during the Interbellum, 1919 – 1939. Jordan Ross, University of Pennsylvania
063. 8:30 am to 9:50 am
Roundtable
Maple A-AV Atrium Level South Tower
THE ORIGIN, EVOLUTION AND IMPACT OF THE INTERNATIONAL LONGSHOREMEN’S ASSOCIATION (ILA) LOCAL 1414 IN SAVANNAH.
Chair:
Otis Johnson
Presenters:
Otis Johnson
Paul Mosley, ILA LOCAL 1414
Timothy Mackey, ILA LOCAL 1414
Brandon Baxter
Benjamin Bryan, ILA LOCAL 1414
064. 8:30 am to 9:50 am
Paper Session
Maple B- AV Atrium Level South Tower
ARCHITECTURE, ACTIVISM, AND THE BLACK URBAN EXPERIENCE: STRUGGLES FOR SPACE AND SURVIVAL.
Chair:
Chelsea Birchmier
Participants:
The Roxbury Murders: Social Movements and Violence Against Black Women and Girls in 1979 Boston. Andrew Baer, University of Alabama, Birmingham
Building Cleveland: Black Labor and the Passage and Dismantling of the “Fannie Lewis Law.” Stephanie Fortado, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Understanding and Addressing Resource Underutilization in Bronx Communities. Justine K. McCarthy
The Harlem Playground (Child Care) Movement, 1934-1945. Arthur Banton
065. 8:30 am to 9:50 am
Chair:
Roundtable Maple C- AV Atrium Level South Tower
THE STATUE OF LIBERTY IS BLACK: PERSPECTIVES FROM A VOLATILE RESEARCH PROJECT.
Eric Jackson, Northern Kentucky University
Presenters:
Matthew Durington, Towson University
Sam Collins, Towson University
Chayanne Marcano, Independent Researcher
066. 8:30 am to 9:50 am
Roundtable Oak- AV Lobby Level South Tower
TEACHING THE HISTORY OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT: REFLECTIONS ON TWO DECADES NEH SUMMER INSTITUTES.
Chair:
Melissa Stuckey, University of South Carolina
Presenters:
Waldo Martin, University of California-Berkeley
Patricia Sullivan, University of South Carolina
Peter F. Lau, The Metropolitan Career and Technical High School
Larissa Michele Smith, Longwood University
067. 8:30 am to 9:50 am Key Session
Dogwood A- AV M1 North Tower
REMEMBERING AND MEMORIALIZING BLACK LABOR: PUBLIC HISTORY AS PRESERVATION AND POLICYMAKING.
Chair:
Nishani Frazier, Miami University of Ohio
Participants:
“Uncovering the Money: Capitalist Systems in the New Orleans Slave Trade.” Liam McCandless, North Carolina State University
“New Bedford Uprising: Black Power, Black Labor, and Rebellion.” John Goncalves, North Carolina State University
The Life and Times of the Philadelphia Black Wobblies. Katie Boatner, North Carolina State University, Public History
068. 8:30 am to 9:50 am
Paper Session
Dogwood B- AV M1 North Tower
“PREPARED TO LEAD: BLACK POWER, COMMUNITY STRUGGLE, AND THE INFRASTRUCTURE OF LIBERATION.”
Chair:
Zachary Hardin, University of Louisville
Participants:
“Black Workers Take the Lead:” Peoples College, Fisk University, and Black/African Liberation in the early 1970s. Christopher Tinson, Saint Louis University
For Us, By Us: The People’s War on Poverty in North Minneapolis. Sierra Phillips
The Fire This Time: Black Preparedness, and the Politics of Survival in the Black Freedom Struggle. Curtis Austin, Arizona State University
Freedom’s Blood Money: When Revolution Becomes Labor. Johari Osei, Arizona State University
069. 8:30 am to 9:50 am
Panel Session
Cottonwood A- AV M1 North Tower
STUDENT HBCU ARCHIVAL RESEARCH.
Chair:
David Mathew Walton
Participants:
Uncovering Legacy: Engaging Undergraduates with HBCU History through Archival Research at Lincoln University of Missouri. David Mathew Walton Before the Whistle: Reexamining the Origins and Impact of Lincoln University of Missouri Football Prior to 1921. Blake Oakley, Lincoln University of Missouri Educating the Educators: The History and Legacy of Teacher Training at Lincoln University of Missouri. Allen Fortenberry, Lincoln University of Missouri
070. 8:30 am to 9:50 am Special Book Panel Int’l Ballroom A- AV M2 North Tower (Presidential Sessions)
A HINE-HORNE BOOK ROUNDTABLE: ASHLEY HOWARD’S MIDWEST UNREST: 1960S URBAN REBELLIONS AND THE BLACK FREEDOM MOVEMENT.
Participant:
Ashley Howard, University of Iowa
Stefan M. Bradley, Amherst College
Naomi R. Williams
Crystal Moten, Obama Foundation
071. 8:30 am to 9:50 am Paper Session Juniper- AV M2 North Tower “DIGNITY IN THE DUST: GLOBAL BLACK LABOR AT THE CROSSROADS OF EMPIRE AND INDUSTRY.”
Chair:
Loron Benton, University of South Carolina
Participants:
Tubal Uriah “Buzz” Butler: Fighting Empire and the Oilfields Workers’ Trade Union (OWTU) in Trinidad. Leslie Etienne, Joseph T. Taylor Branch of ASALH
African Trade Unionism: A. Philip Randolph, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, and African Liberation. Zachary Peterson Holding Still in a Changing World: 20th Century Speightstown, Barbados. Lia T Bascomb
Haiti and the Dignity of Black Labor. Regine Jackson, Morehouse College
“Toxic Toil:” Black Workers and Their Proximity to Poison. Ajanae Willis
072. 8:30 am to 9:50 am
Chair:
Roundtable
Cypress- M2 North Tower
TITAN: THE LEGACY OF REGINALD F. LEWIS...”WHY SHOULD WHITE GUYS HAVE ALL THE FUN?”
Robert Parker, The Reginald F. Lewis Museum
Presenters:
Imani Haynes, Reginald F. Lewis Museum
Em Davidson, Reginald F. Lewis Museum
Jose Alvarado, Reginald F. Lewis Museum
Terry Taylor, Reginald F. Lewis Museum
Arthur Brown, Reginald F. Lewis Museum
073. 8:30 am to 9:50 am
Chair:
Panel Session
Sycamore- M2 North Tower
DOCUMENTING AFRICAN AMERICAN LIFE IN INDIAN WOODS, NORTH CAROLINA.
Charles Denton Johnson, North Carolina Central University
Participants:
Reconstruction Era Impacts on African American Residents of Indian Woods. Elijah Bombo, North Carolina Central University
Trends in Family Relations, Employment and Land Ownership in Indian Woods, 1880-1910. Zoe Young, North Carolina Central University
The Women of Indian Woods: Personal Reflections on Life in Indian Woods. Colette Haworth
Commentator:
Arwin Smallwood, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University-Department of History
074. 8:30 am to 9:50 am Roundtable
Chair:
Hazelnut- AV M3 North Tower
FORGED IN STEEL: AFRICAN AMERICAN LIVES IN CHICAGO’S CALUMET REGION.
Angela Ingram, Chicago Public Library
Presenters:
Sharon Wyatt Odem, Chicago Public Library
Chas Cassidy, Chicago Public Library
Bianca Milligan Garcia, Chicago Public Library
075. 8:30 am to 9:50 am Panel Session
Hickory-AV M3 North Tower
TELLING OUR STORIES: EXPANDING THE NARRATIVE ON INCLUSIVE EDUCATION AT HOME AND ABROAD.
Chair:
Annette Teasdell, Clark Atlanta University | School of Education
Participants:
The Legacies of Elizabeth Evelyn Wright and Mary McLeod Bethune: Establishing HBCUs To Empower Today’s Youth. Annette Teasdell, Clark Atlanta University | School of Education
Black Podium Power: Tommie Smith, John Carlos and Their Olympic Protest. Annette Teasdell, Clark Atlanta University | School of Education; R.A. Ptahsen-Shabazz, Nassau Community College
Expanding the Narrative on Inclusive Education Around the World: A Senegalese Journey. Annette Teasdell, Clark Atlanta University | School of Education
076. 8:30 am to 9:50 am Lightning RoundInt’l Ballroom B-AV - M2 North Tower Plenary Sessions WOODSON LIGHTNING ROUND SESSION #1.
Participants:
Archiving Black Atlanta: Self-Determining Preservation and Community Collaborations in Black Atlanta. LaNeice Littleton, Atlanta History Center
A Seat at the Table: Black Women in Leadership Positions in PWI’S vs. HBCU’S. Shaleace NIchelle Towns
Beyond Exploitation: Black Panther’s Afrofuturist Reclamation of Labor. Sharanya Murugaiya
Bibliophilia as Labor: Charles L. Blockson (1933-2023) Legacy. Keisha Oliver, Pennsylvania State University
Black Army Nurses and Federal Service During the Civil War. Ashley Mohr
Black Men and White Wealth: Labor and Politics in an Era of Economic Nationalism. Ronald Brian Neal, Wake Forest University
Black Women Who Taught Me: Black Feminism and Bibliotherapy. Michelle Grace-Williams
Cracking the Code Post Jim Crow: Dr. James Goudlock and the Labor of Liberation at Friendship College, Rock Hill, SC. Madinah Ali-Goudlock, Dr. Goudlock Legacy
Creative Reflections on African Americans and Labor: Using AI and Art to Illuminate Contributions. Elizabeth Jean Brumfield Hip-Hop Dance: Art, Labor or Culture? An Expression of Urban Histories and Experiences. Department of Africana Studies the University of Arizona, Department of Africana Studies, The University of Arizona “Homemaker and Careerist”: Black Women and Labor, 1945-1960. Amanda Brennan, Vassar College
077. 8:30 am to 9:50 am
Panel Session
Int’l Ballroom C- AV - M2 North Tower Sessions
ECHOES OF THE CITY: RACE, POPULAR CULTURE, AND URBAN SPACE IN 20TH CENTURY AMERICA.
Chairs:
Derrick E. White, University of Kentucky
Carl Suddler, Emory University
Participants:
Framing Criminality: The Racial Politics of Ace Harlem, Youth Delinquency, and the Postwar Comic Book Scare. Andrew Aldridge, Emory University
Between the Goalposts: Race, Resistance, and the Rise of Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium, 1965 – 1984. Tymesha-Elizabeth Kindell, Emory University
From the Great Migration to Major League Reintegration: The Cultural Influence of the Kansas City Monarchs. Jayden TrawickJunta, Emory University
Commentator:
Shannon King, Fairfield University
EXHIBITOR:
Zee Crafts
University of Massachusetts Press, University of Massachusetts Press
Columbia University Press, Columbia University Press
University of North Carolina Press Exhibits, University of North Carolina Press (Exhibits)
Wayne State University Press, Wayne State University Press
University of South Carolina Press
University Press of Mississippi, University Press of Mississippi
The Foundation International, The Foundation International African High Fashion
Afrique Clothing, Afrique Clothing
University Press of Florida, University Press of Florida
The University of Chicago Press, The University of Chicago Press
Cathy’s Design, Cathy’s Global University of Illinois Press, University of Illinois Press (Exhibits)
Vanderbilt University Press
Egyptian Harvest Rejuvenation Cream, Egyptian Harvest Rejuvenation Cream Seeking Insights for Solutions, LLC
The Scholars Choice, The Scholars Choice
Universal Love Jewelry, Universal Love Jewelry
Pathfinder Press, Pathfinder Press
Heritage International Fashions, Heritage International Fashions
Aziz Fashions, Aziz Fashions
Saxx Apparel by BMAK, Saxx Apparel by BMAK
ASALH Store
National Park Service History Project
The University of Arkansas Press, The University of Arkansas Press
ASALH Media
Visit Atlanta
The Nannie Helen Burroughs Project, The Nannie Helen Burroughs Project
Louisiana State University Press
The African Outlets LLC and Joyous Journeys, Sun City Events and Entertainment
University of Georgia Press, University of Georgia Press
University of Virginia Press, University of Virginia Press
University of Rochester Press, University of Rochester Press
HBCU Digital Library Trust, HBCU Digital Library Trust
AARP Corporate Office, AARP-Corporate Office
Afrikan Djeli
Third World Newsreel
University of South Carolina-Center for Civil Right History and Research, University of South Carolina-Center for Civil Right History and Research
Midlo Center for New Orleans Studies, Midlo Center for New Orleans Studies
9:30am
10.000 BLACK MEN NAMED GEORGE (2002), DIR: ROBERT TOWNSEND.
080. 10:15 am to 11:45 am
10:15am
Roundtable
Birch- AV Atrium Level South Tower
“HAVING OUR OWN BACKS”: THE PAST AND PRESENT STATE OF BLACK SELF- AND COMMUNITY DEFENSE.
Chair:
Edward Onaci, Ursinus College
Presenters:
M. Aziz, University of Washington
Kellie Carter Jackson, Wellesley College
Chad King, National African American Gun Association
081. 10:15 am to 11:45 am
082. 10:15 am to 11:45 am
Key Session Pine- AV Atrium Level South Tower
ACLS KEY SESSION PLACEHOLDER.
Roundtable Spruce- AV Atrium Level South Tower
BLACK MOTHERSCHOLARSHIP WITHIN AND BEYOND THE ACADEMY: RECONCEPTUALIZING RADICAL FUTURITY.
Chair:
LoRen LaDette Modisa
Presenters:
Crystasany R Turner, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Meghan L Green, Erikson Institute
Jemilia S. Davis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Tiffany Wiggins, North Carolina Central University
Regina G Williams, North Carolina Central University
083. 10:15 am to 11:45 am
CARTER WOODSON AND THE CENTRALITY OF BLACK LABOR FOR THE FOUNDERS OF AFRICAN AMERICAN SOCIAL SCIENCE.
Chair:
Tera W. Hunter, Princeton University, History and Department of African American Studies
Presenters:
Joe W. Trotter, Carnegie Mellon University Dept. of History
Melba Boyd, Wayne State University, Department of African American Studies
James Déke Pope
Mike Goldfield, University of Washington
084. 10:15 am to 11:45 am
AUTHOR MEETS ENGAGED READERS: QUITO SWAN’S “BORN A SUFFERAH DANCEHALL MUSIC’S INSURGENT SOUNDSCAPES.”
Chair:
LaShawn Harris, Journal of African American History (Pero Dagbovie)
Presenters:
Quito Swan, The George Washington University
Glenn Chambers, Michigan State University
Theodore Francis, Abilene Christian University
085. 10:15 am to 11:45 am
DEATH AND GRIEF AMONG BLACK COMMUNITIES.
Chair:
Robin Brooks, Dr. Edna McKenzie Branch of ASALH
Participants:
From Anticipatory Grief to the Other Side of Mourning. Robert J Patterson, Georgetown University
Womanist Wear: Activist Witnessing, Archival Care, and Memory Work in Community Organizing. Kimberly Thomas McNair, Stanford University
Death in the Heart of the Movement. Jade Marcum
Trends in Cause-specific Mortality among Black Persons with Alzheimer’s Disease. Candace S. Brown, UNC Charlotte
Commentator:
Robin Brooks, Dr. Edna McKenzie Branch of ASALH
086. 10:15 am to 11:45 am
Chair:
Roundtable
Oak- AV Lobby Level South Tower
SCHOLARS’ ROUNDTABLE: BLACK PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOLS, 1870-1970.
Amber Wiley, University of Oklahoma
Presenters:
James D Anderson
Ansley Erickson, Teachers College, Columbia University
Crystal R. Sanders, Dr. Edna McKenzie Branch of ASALH
Participant:
Eric R. Jackson, Margaret and Robert Garner Cincinnati Branch of ASALH
Kay E Phillips
087. 10:15 am to 11:45 am
Chair:
Panel Session
Dogwood A- AV M1 North Tower
BLACK NARRATIVES OF SELF-DETERMINATION IN NINETEENTH CENTURY MISSISSIPPI.
Shennette Garrett-Scott, Association of Black Women Historians
Participants:
Emptying Her Master’s Pockets: The WPA Narratives and a New Archival Practice. Jasmine Holmes, Mississippi Department of Archives and History
“She hired her time and hired me”: Black Women’s Commercial Networks and Value Systems in Antebellum Mississippi. Nicole Viglini, UNC Charlotte
“He was called upon to go; and he must go”: African American Community Resistance in Reconstruction Mississippi. Beth Kruse, American Conservation Experience
Mr. Smith Goes to Jackson: How a Young Mississippi State Representative Embodied Freedom During Reconstruction, 1874-1875. Lucile Bruce, Wesleyan University
Commentator:
Albert Dorsey, Jackson State University
088. 10:15 am to 11:45 am
Key Session
Dogwood B- AV M1 North Tower
BUILDING HARLEM’S GLOBAL WORLD: LESSONS FROM HUBERT HARRISON AND THE WOMEN OF UNIVERSAL NEGRO IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION.
Chair:
Gerald Horne
Presenters:
Brian Kwoba, University of Memphis
Natanya P. Duncan, Queens College City University of New York
Ula Yvette Taylor, University of California Berkeley Charisse Burden-Stelly
089. 10:15 am to 11:45 am Workshop
Cottonwood A- AV M1 North Tower
STANDING UP PULLMAN: TEACHING AUTHENTIC COALITION BUILDING TO PRESERVE BLACK AND LABOR HISTORIES.
Presenters:
Charles Alan Spears, National Parks Conservation Association
Tracy Murray, Historic Pullman Empowerment Organization
Leader:
Crystal Davis, National Parks Conservation Association
090. 10:15 am to 11:45 am
Chair:
Leslie Etienne, Joseph T. Taylor Branch of ASALH
Presenters:
Fred Hearns
Leslie Etienne, Joseph T. Taylor Branch of ASALH
Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua
RoundtableInt’l Ballroom A- AV M2 North Tower (Presidential Sessions)
REPORTBACK ON ASALH 2025 FREEDOM SCHOOLS.
Jada Wright-Greene, Manasota ASALH, Inc.
Juanita Powell-Williams, James Weldon Johnson Branch of ASALH Jacksonville, FL
Commentator:
Karsonya Wise Whitehead, Loyola University-Department of Communication
091. 10:15 am to 11:45 am
Panel Session Juniper- AV M2 North Tower
BLACK POWER BLACK POISON: THE SOUTHERN PLANTATION, FOREIGN-BORN BLACK MOVEMENT OF THE GREAT MIGRATION, LABOR STRESS AND BURNOUT.
Chair:
Deirdre Foreman, Carter G. Woodson Branch of ASALH
Participants:
The “Big House”: Plantation Prominence or Peril. Deirdre Foreman, Carter G. Woodson Branch of ASALH
Spiced Roads: Examining Caribbean and African Migration, Labor and Enterprise In New York City (1890-1940). Constance L. Diggs
Building Resilience in the Workforce: Using Lifestyle Medicine and Journaling to Combat Stress and Burnout. Tanya England, NYS Education Department
Commentator: Joyya Smith
092. 10:15 am to 11:45 am Workshop
Cypress- M2 North Tower FROM STRIKE TO STRATEGY: USING HISTORY HABITS OF MIND TO EXAMINE BLACK LABOR ORGANIZING.
Presenters:
Destiny Warrior, NCHE
Jessica Ellison, NCHE
Regina Holland, NCHE
Leader:
Yasmin Forbes, National Council for History Education (NCHE)
093. 10:15 am to 11:45 am
Chair: THURSDAY,
Roundtable
Sycamore- M2 North Tower
WHEN THEY DARE TO BE POWERFUL: THE LEGACY OF BLACK WOMEN IN LIBRARIANSHIP.
Aaisha Haykal, Charleston Area Branch ASALH
Presenters:
Nicole Cooke
LaVerne Gray, Syracuse University
LaKeisha Darden, St. Philip’s College
Roberta Gardner, Kennesaw State University
Morris Gardner
Commentator:
Aisha M. Johnson
094. 10:15 am to 11:45 am
Workshop
Hazelnut- AV M3 North Tower
TELLING OUR STORIES: THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE AND ASALH ADVANCING AFRICAN AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS HISTORY.
Chair:
Ariel Roy, Association for the Study of African American Life and History
Presenter:
Turkiya Lowe, National Park Service - Chief Historian
Leader:
Ashley F. Adams, National Park Service
095. 10:15 am to 11:45 am Roundtable
Hickory-AV M3 North Tower
BRINGING ECONOMIC AGENCY TO BLACK ATLANTA: THE LEGACY OF THE HERNDONS AND BLACK ECONOMICS IN ATLANTA,1867-1877.
Participant:
Jeffrey Ogbar
F. Karcheik Sims-Alvarado
096. 10:15 am to 11:45 am
Participants:
Lightning RoundInt’l Ballroom B-AV - M2 North Tower Plenary Sessions
WOODSON LIGHTNING ROUND #2.
James Weldon Johnson Branch of ASALH Branch Programs and Activities - September 2024 - August 2025. Hazel Gillis, James Weldon Johnson Branch of ASALH
Listening to Liberation: Hair as Resistance in Black Autonomy. Yasmene Kimble
Masters and Servants: Black Barbers in Antebellum Baltimore. Marcus Anthony Allen, Organizing Triad NC Branch of ASALH Observing the Dynamics: Black labour and cultural taxation. Kay Coates
Reparative Cataloging: How the African American Subject Funnel Enhances Research in Black Studies. Erica Bruchko, Emory University; Deseree Stukes, University of North Carolina at Chapel H
Self-Determination, Survival, and Human Rights: From Paul to Black Liberation. Michael D. Royster, Prairie View Agricultural and Mechanical University
Slavery did not end; it morphed and continued as mass incarceration of Black men. Dejah Amos, Adler University
Some intellectual precursors of critical race theory. Randall Webber, Louisville, Kentucky Carter G. Woodson Branch of ASALH Sullivan, King, and the Struggle for Racial and Economic Justice for Black Workers. Leon Prieto, Clayton State University
The role of Social Work’s “Hidden” Black Founders in Social Movements. Kelechi Wright
We Wear the Mask: Labor, Love and Business at the Douglass Theatre. Deitrah Taylor Work in the Wake of Plessy v. Ferguson. Betsy Schlabach, Lawrence University
097. 10:15 am to 11:45 am
Chair:
Roundtable Int’l Ballroom C- AV - M2 North Tower Sessions
SCHOLARS TRANSFORMING THE ACADEMY: HISTORIES CREATED, REIMAGINED, AND RETOLD.
Cynthia Neal Spence, Spelman College
Presenters:
Kenton Rambsy
Maurice Hobson, Georgia State University Africana Studies
Vincent D. Willis
Nafeesa Muhammad, Spelman College
Mahaliah A Little, University of California, Irvine
12:00pm
098. 12:00 pm to 1:45 pm Roundtable
“I HAVE BEEN TREATED AS IF I WERE NOT A MAN:” EXPLORING THE POST-BELLUM STATE COLORED CONVENTIONS.
Chair:
Andre E. Johnson, University of Memphis
Presenters:
Kimberley N Travers, Memphis Theological Seminary
Christopher D. Harris, University of Memphis
Carl Frederick Hill, University of Memphis
Krystion Pegues, University of Memphis
Keon A Burns, Penn State University
Lucien Holness, Penn State University
099. 12:00 pm to 1:45 pm Panel Session
EMMETT J. SCOTT: “THE ONLY MAN WHO COULD WALK ON SNOW WITHOUT LEAVING FOOTPRINTS.”
Chair:
Darius J Young, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University
Participants:
Emmett J. Scott: His Early Life, 1873-1897. Will Guzman
Emmett J. Scott: The Tuskegee University Years, 1897-1917. David H Jackson, North Carolina Central University
Emmett J. Scott: The Howard University Years, 1919-1957. David H Jackson, North Carolina Central University; Will Guzman
Commentator:
Reginald K. Ellis, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University
THE MONTPELIER DESCENDANTS COMMITTEE (MDC): AN INTERNATIONAL MODEL FOR DESCENDANT-LED HISTORY-TELLING AND ACADEMIC RESEARCH FOCUSED ON BLACK INTELLIGENTSIA.
Chairs:
George Monroe, Jr., The Montpelier Descendants Committee
Tiffany Gardner, One World Exchange
Presenter:
Solomon Gardner, The Collegiate School
Presenters:
Brian Halley, University of Massachusetts Press
Stephanie Williams, Wayne State University
Gianna Mosser, Vanderbilt University Press
12:00 pm to 1:45 pm
SCHOOL DESEGREGATION.
Chair:
Noliwe Rooks, Cornell University
Presenters:
Zoe Burkholder, Montclair State University
Tikia K. Hamilton, Loyola University Chicago
Andrea Lewis, Spelman College
Danielle T Phillips-Cunningham
Crystal R. Sanders, Dr. Edna McKenzie Branch of ASALH
103. 12:00 pm to 1:45 pm
Panel Session
Juniper- AV M2 North Tower
(RE)DEFINING AMERICAN GREATNESS: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY ANALYSIS OF THE U.S. PAST, PRESENT, AND AFRO-FUTURISM.
Chair:
Melanie Holmes, University of South Carolina at Columbia
Participants:
“His labor made him free”: Black Labor Discrimination, DEI, and New Directions for African American Self-Determination.
Melanie Holmes, University of South Carolina at Columbia
The History of Education in South Carolina Through the Lens of the Black Experience: Modeling PK-12 Education That Reflects American Greatness. Kendall Deas, University of South Carolina
Internalized Whiteness Ideologies and Their Harm Across Racial and Ethnic Groups: A Theory of Whiteness and Crime Approach.
Deena A. Isom, University of South Carolina
Repoliticizing the Word: The Laboring Black Woman Poet, Prophet, and Politician. April Catherine Elizabeth Langley, University of South Carolina
“Help Us to Make America Great Again”: Octavia Butler, Black Freedom, and the 21st Century U.S. Constitutional Order. Todd C Shaw, Department of African American Studies, University of South Carolina
104. 12:00 pm to 1:45 pm Panel Session
Hazelnut- AV M3 North Tower
GRADUATE STUDENT TRENDS IN AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY: BLACK LABOR NARRATIVES IN MARYLAND.
Chair:
Michelle Scott, UMBC
Participants:
An Analysis of African American Blacksmithing in Colonial Chesapeake Maryland. Amina Thiam, UMBC
African American Veterans in Maryland: A Case Study of Struggle and Labor after the American Civil War. Thomas Pate, UMBC Finding Freedom and Oppression in an Oyster: Race, Labor, Violence, and Environment with Black Watermen on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, 1865-1900. Noah Ulrich, UMBC
Commentator:
Michelle Scott, UMBC
105. 12:00 pm to 1:45 pm Workshop Hickory-AV M3 North Tower
THE ROADS WE’VE TRAVELED HISTORY PROJECT AND OTHER TOOLS FOR BRANCH FUNDRAISING.
Leader:
Lura Daniels-Ball, Our Authors Study Club Branch of ASALH
106. 12:00 pm to 1:45 pm Luncheon Int’l Ballroom D- M2 North Tower Meal Functions
THURSDAY LUNCHEON.
Greetings:
Karsonya Wise Whitehead, Loyola University-Department of Communication
Emcee:
Sylvia Y. Cyrus, ASALH Membership Department
107. 2:15 pm to 3:45 pm
Plenary SessionInt’l Ballroom B-AV - M2 North Tower Plenary Sessions TOWARDS A THEORY OF LIBERATION: THE STATE OF BLACK RADICALISM TODAY.
Presenters:
Charisse Burden-Stelly
Gerald Horne
Akinyele Umoja, Georgia State University African American Studies
Joy James, Williams College
Moderator:
Ashley Howard, University of Iowa 3:00pm
108. 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm
FOURTH CONVENING AND LIVE RADIO BROADCAST- “TODAY WITH DR. KAYE.”
Presenter:
Karsonya Wise Whitehead, Loyola University-Department of Communication 3:50pm
109. 3:50 pm to 5:00 pm ASALH Film Festival
AV M2 North Tower THE PRUITT-IGOE MYTH (2011), DIR. CHAD FREIDRICHS. 4:00pm 110. 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm
NEW PERSPECTIVES AND EXPANDED HISTORIES OF AFRICAN AMERICANS IN THE LOWCOUNTRY AND CARIBBEAN PRE-1875.
Chair:
Toivo Asheeke
Participants:
The Gullah-Geechee Wars, 1715-1870. Toivo Asheeke Women, Self-liberation and the Intra-American Slave Trade. Crystal Eddins Black Hunters, Maroons, and Fugitive Geographies in the South Carolina Lowcountry. Ras MIchael Brown
111. 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm Special Book Panel
Level South
A HINE-HORNE BOOK ROUNDTABLE: COLONEL EDNA CUMMING’S A SOLDIER’S LIFE: A BLACK WOMAN’S RISE FROM ARMY BRAT TO SIX TRIPLE EIGHT CHAMPION.
Chair:
Kurt Piehler, N/A
Discussants:
Le’Trice Donaldson, Auburn University
Krewasky Salter
Author:
Edna W Cummings, Cummings and Cummings, LLC
112. 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm Panel Session
THE UNRELENTING LABOR OF BLACK JOURNALISTS, FANCY GIRLS, OPERA SINGERS, AND WRESTLERS IN DANGEROUS TIMES.
Chairs:
Allison M Lewis, Greater Kansas City Black History Study Group (ASALH Branch)
Shawn L. Alexander, The University of Kansas-African and African American Studies
Participants:
The Labor and Spatial Movements of Fancy Girls in Antebellum New Orleans. Jessina Emmert, University of Kansas
No One Asks What the Role of a Journalist is in a Movement: Hoyt Fuller, The Black Arts Movement and the Negro Digest/Black World. Elizabeth Chunda
Spinarooni: Booker T. Huffman, Hulk Hogan, and the Night White Nationalism Broke Kayfabe. Jacob Hozempa, University of Kansas
The Death of DEI: Black Opera in the Fight Against American Fascism. Allison M Lewis, Greater Kansas City Black History Study Group (ASALH Branch)
113. 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm
Chair:
Roundtable Maple A-AV Atrium Level South Tower
SUSTAINING BLACK ARCHIVES.
DaNia Childress, College of Charleston Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture
Presenters:
Barrye Brown, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture The New York Public Library
Maureen Jones, The Moorland-Spingarn Research Center at Howard University
Sumayya Ahmed, Black Metropolis Research Consortium
Raquel Flores-Clemons, Black Metropolis Research Consortium, Chicago Public Library
114. 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm
Roundtable
Maple B- AV Atrium Level South Tower
SOMETHING OLD, SOMETHING NEW: THE CRIMINAL ENSLAVEMENT OF 500,000 BLACK COLONIALS AND AFROFUTURISM IN THE 21ST CENTURY.
Chair:
Larry Kenneth Alexander, Ida B. Wells Center on American Exceptionalism and Restorative Justice
Presenter:
Walter Greason, Macalester College/Graphic History Company
115. 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm
Workshop Maple C- AV Atrium Level South Tower
A LITANY OF LABOR: THE SOUNDTRACK OF BLACK MUSICAL INNOVATION AND INTELLECTUAL RESISTANCE.
Leader:
Larry Draughn, Guilford County Schools
116. 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm
Media Session Oak- AV Lobby Level South Tower
“MARY FRANCES EARLY AND MYRA ELLIOTT: THE FIGHT TO END SEGREGATION IN HIGHER EDUCATION IN GEORGIA.
Presenter:
Vicki Crawford, Morehouse College
Moderator:
Maurice C. Daniels, Athens Branch of ASALH (GA)
Derrick Alridge, University of Virginia
Commentators:
Chris Strickland, Georgia State University
Maurice Hobson, Georgia State University Africana Studies
117. 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm
Roundtable
Dogwood B- AV M1 North Tower
NEW BOOKS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS AND LABOR.
Chair:
Joe W. Trotter, Carnegie Mellon University Dept. of History
Presenters:
Rudi Batzell, Lake Forest College
Augustus Wood
Naomi R. Williams
118. 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm
Panel Session
Cottonwood A- AV M1 North Tower
RACE, WORK, COMMUNITY, AND RESISTANCE: BLACK PEOPLE AT WORK, IN SERVICE, AND RESISTING.
Chair:
Bobby Donaldson, University of South Carolina-Center for Civil Right History and Research
Participants:
The Community Men of the North Carolina and South Carolina Militias, 1865-1885. Gregory Lamont Mixon, Romare Bearden Branch of ASALH of Charlotte, NC
Erased Histories, Enduring Inequities: The Legacy of Sundown Practices in Iowa. Leia Belt, University of California Merced “A stumbling block”: Black Knights of Labor and Race in Atlanta. Omari Averette-Phillips, UC Davis
Black Nursing in Omaha, Nebraska: Fortitude and Determination. Barbara Hewins-Maroney, University of Nebraska Omaha
Trezzvant W. Anderson and Black Press Activism During World War II, 1942-1945. Willie Griffin, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte
119. 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm
Presenter:
Agatha Sloboda
Leader:
Key SessionInt’l Ballroom A- AV M2 North Tower (Presidential Sessions)
COMMUNITY FORUM: BLACK PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOLS, 1870-1970.
Amber Wiley, University of Oklahoma
Commentators:
Eric R. Jackson, Margaret and Robert Garner Cincinnati Branch of ASALH Kay E Phillips
120. 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm
Chair:
Panel Session
TEACHING AS TECHNOLOGY IN THE AGE OF AI.
Juniper- AV M2 North Tower
Na’Imah Ford, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University
Participants:
Curating Our Own Stories, On Our Own Terms: Public History Exhibitions and the Making of Student Activists in Research and Storytelling. Tiffany Packer, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University
Get Ready with Me: Black Women, Beauty Regimins, and The Art of Self Regard before Social Media. Kimberly Brown Pellum, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University
To Train a Black Army: Creating the FAMU School of Business and Industry. Ameenah Shakir, University of Houston
121. 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm
Chair:
Panel Session
Cypress- M2 North Tower
REHABILITATING HISTORIC AFRICAN AMERICAN SCHOOLS.
Larissa Michele Smith, Longwood University
Participants:
“Reconstructing Education: Research into the Freedmen Schoolhouse in Smithfield, NC.” Tiana Galloway, University of South Carolina at Columbia
“Historic Preservation in Uncertain Times: Rehabilitating Elizabeth City State University’s Rosenwald School and Principal’s House.” Melissa Stuckey, University of South Carolina
“What is happening at South Carolina’s Oldest Black High School Building: Lincoln High School?” James L. Felder
122. 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm
Chair:
Roundtable
Sycamore- M2 North Tower
INK AND ACTION: SIX BLACK FEMINIST VOICES OF THE_COLLECTIVE REWRITING THE WORLD.
Brittney Kilgore
Presenters:
Laetitia Adelson, University of Georgia
Kiana WIllis, University of Georgia
Bri’Ann Price, University of Georgia
Jaminique Adams, University of Georgia
Commentator:
Stephanie Y. Evans, Georgia State University
123. 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm
Chair:
Panel Session
Hazelnut- AV M3 North Tower
HARNESSING THE MATERNAL: BLACK WOMEN, REPRODUCTIVE LABOR, AND ACTIVISM.
Kiamsha Bynes, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
Participants:
Rethinking Reproductive Strategies in the Antebellum Era: Black Women and Infanticide in Nineteenth-Century Virginia. Keiara Price, Rutgers University - New Brunswick By Force or By Fire: Black Mother’s Fight Against the Apprenticeship System During Reconstruction. Kyra March, Rutgers University-New Brunswick Labor of Love? Mother Power, Reproductive Labor, and the Welfare Rights Movement. Gwendolyn Fowler, Rutgers UniversityNew Brunswick
124. 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm Workshop
Leader:
Hickory-AV M3 North Tower
FACILITATING HEALTH EQUITY DIALOGUES: USING THEATER TO TRANSFORM COMMUNITIES.
Adria Kitchens, Out of Hand Theater
125. 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm
Roundtable Int’l Ballroom B-AV - M2 North Tower Plenary Sessions
ANTI-BLACKNESS AND PASSING: BIRACIAL/MIXED RACE IDENTITY AND THE BLACK COMMUNITY IN THE 21ST CENTURY.
Chair:
Jessica Klanderud, Berea College
Presenters:
Jessica Klanderud, Berea College
Noel Voltz, Case Western Reserve University
Zebulon Vance Miletsky, Manhattan Branch of ASALH
Minkah Makalani, Johns Hopkins University
Margaret Newell, Ohio State University
126. 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm
Key Session Int’l Ballroom C- AV - M2 North Tower Sessions
AR’N’T I A WOMAN? : REFLECTIONS ON BLACK WOMEN’S LIVES AND LABORS AFTER FORTY YEARS.
Chair:
Cinnamon Williams, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Presenters:
Candice Merritt, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Beatrice J Adams
Olivia Johnson, Emory University 6:00pm
127. 6:00 pm to 6:15 pm Tour Motor Lobby- Tour Bus Loading Area South Tower
THURSDAY NIGHT OUT BUS LOAD. 6:15pm
128. 6:15 pm to 8:15 pm
ASALH Film Festival
Magnolia- AV M2 North Tower
BOOKER’S PLACE: A MISSISSIPPI STORY (2012), DIR. RAYMOND DE FELITTA. 6:30pm
129. 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm Reception University Student Center
THURSDAY NIGHT OUT AND JOURNAL OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY RECEPTION.
Participant:
Bertis D English, Harper Councill Trenholm Branch of Montgomery
Greetings:
Karsonya Wise Whitehead, Loyola University-Department of Communication
Emcee:
Sylvia Y. Cyrus, ASALH Membership Department 7:00pm
130. 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm
Paper Session
Birch- AV Atrium Level South Tower
“POLITICS, PREACHING, AND THE FUTURE OF BLACK FAITH: REIMAGINING LABOR AND LEADERSHIP IN THE BLACK CHURCH.”
Chair:
Kendra Woodfolk-Anthony, Morgan State University
Participants:
Power, Sex, Race, and the 2024 United Methodist Church General Conference. Odell Horne, Evangelical Seminary Between Healing and Hiding: Mental Health and Labor in the Black Church. Ashley Wells, Washington State University, School of Languages, Cultures, and Race
An Exploratory Study of Church Discord: The Root, The Research, The Remedy. Jill-Capri Simms, Plumb Line Consulting LLC Nondenominational Protestants: Do They More Closely Resemble Mainline, Evangelical, or Black Protestants in RELTRAD? Jason Shelton, University of Texas at Arlington “Preaching Will Move the People Sooner or Later”: Bishop Henry McNeal Turner and the Rhetorical Pedagogy of Preaching. Andre E. Johnson, University of Memphis
131. 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm
Roundtable
Pine- AV Atrium Level South Tower
WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? LESSONS LEARNED AND STRATEGIES FOR TEACHING, RESEARCHING, AND PRESERVING CIVIL RIGHTS HISTORY.
Chair:
Bobby Donaldson, University of South Carolina-Center for Civil Right History and Research
Presenters:
Michael L. Chambers
Theodore R Foster
Rebekah Turnmire, University of South Carolina-Center for Civil Right History and Research
Millicent E Brown, Independent Historian and Museum Consultant, Lightbright, LLC
Reginald Chapple, National Park Service--Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historical Park
132. 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm
Chair:
Panel Session
Spruce- AV Atrium Level South Tower
SEEKING AND FINDING POWER IN PROTEST, LAND, AND BEAUTY.
Worth Myrick-Harris Hayes, Morehouse College
Participants:
Pearls in Power: Gendered Protest in A Respectable Revolution. Jeffrey Dorsey, Morehouse College
“He Got Forty Acres and a Mule, Where Mine”: Examining Culture, Customary Law, and Land Sovereignty within the Clarendon County African American Community. Omar Culbreath, Morehouse College
Painted Power: The History and Impact of Black Men in Makeup. Milton Rogers, Morehouse College
Commentator:
Worth Myrick-Harris Hayes, Morehouse College
133. 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm
Presenter:
Tyechia Thompson, Virginia Tech
Commentator:
Jessica Halsey, Emory University
134. 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm
Chair:
Media Session
Maple A-AV Atrium Level South Tower
“JAMES A. EMANUEL: A POET IN EXILE” FILM.
Paper Session
Maple B- AV Atrium Level South Tower
“INHERITING THE STRUGGLE: BLACK YOUTH, KINSHIP, AND THE LABORS OF SURVIVAL.”
Sherwin K. Bryant, Rice University - Center for African and African American Studies
Participants:
Newises and the Parade. Samantha Averett, City Colleges of Chicago
Healing Beyond the Hustle: Black Young Adults and the Labor of Economic Repair. Karl Lyn, University of MassachusettsAmherst
By Force or By Fire: Black Youth and their Kin’s Fight Against the Apprenticeship System During Reconstruction. Kyra March, Rutgers University-New Brunswick
Laboring Under Uplift: Black Childhood, Industrial Education, and Carceral Power in the Jim Crow South. Rhonda Jones
135. 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm
Paper Session
Maple C- AV Atrium Level South Tower
“INNOVATING HISTORY: BLACK RELIGIOSITY, CULTURAL SPACES, AND THE POWER OF PRESERVATION.”
Chair:
Stephanie Fortado, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Participants:
If These Walls Could Talk – Hauntology, Institutionalized Antiblackness, and Transformative Praxis in Cultural Spaces. Idalia Wilmoth, Indiana University, Black Student Union
Ori at Work: African Spiritual Technologies of Black Labor, Resistance, and Resilience. Patriann Edwards, Georgia State University
Freedom Braids: The History, Preservation, and Ingenuity of African Hair Braiding. Monique Duncan, Sweet Pea Books
Of Hustlers and Labor in Good Times. Angela Marie Nelson, Bowling Green State University
The Fire was my Rage Made Manifest: Examining the Resourceful Use of Black Religiosity in Lovecraft Country. Renee Richardson, Prairie View Agricultural and Mechanical University
136. 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm
Chair:
Paper Session
Dogwood A- AV M1 North Tower
“MODERN BY DESIGN: BLACK INNOVATION, RESISTANCE, AND LEADERSHIP IN THE DIGITAL AGE.”
Lana Carter, University of Central Florida
Participants:
Technology Is Not the Devil: Empowering African American Women of Faith in Business Through Digital Innovation*. Evelyn Bethune, Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune Family Legacy Inc
We’ve Been the Code: Womanism as a Theory for the Future of Labor. Kenya Johnson, Morgan State University
African American Leadership and the Modernization of Raleigh-Durham International Airport. Deysha Pauling, North Carolina Central University -History Department
Harry Pace, Black Swan, and the Birth of Black Owned Electronic Entertainment. DuJuan Anthony Morris
137. 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm
Paper Session Int’l Ballroom A- AV M2 North Tower (Presidential Sessions)
“FIGHTING FOR THE BLOCK: BLACK COMMUNITY FORMATION, CULTURE, AND COLLECTIVE POWER.”
Chair:
Bishop W. Lawton
Participants:
Swimming While Black: Race, Resistance and the Pursuit of Leisure and Recreation in 1950s Baltimore. Tanisha Smith, Morgan State University
The People’s Housing: The Stella Wright Rent Strike and Community Control of Public Housing. Ari Ahmad McCaskill, Albion College; Peter Blackmer, Eastern Michigan University
The Proud Jewel of the Eastside: The Drew League’s Role in Strengthening Community and Culture. Drew D. Brown, University of Florida
The White Bastard on the School bus: Worth County, Georgia’s School Boycott, 1968-1969. Thomas Aiello, Valdosta State University
Alfredda C. Delaney and Her Fight to Revitalize Mechanicsville. Camren Alexa Lewin, University of Tennessee Knoxville
138. 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm
Paper Session
Cypress- M2 North Tower
“RECLAIMING THE NARRATIVE: THE URGENT NECESSITY OF BLACK HISTORY IN EDUCATION AND JUSTICE.”
Chair:
Tiana Galloway, University of South Carolina at Columbia
Participants:
American Dreams and Nightmares: A Comparative Analysis of Postbellum American Historical Narratives. Anna Sumner, Trinity Washington University
Should Black History Be Taught in High School? Paris Wilkins, North Carolina Central University -History Department
Changing the Trajectory for Black St. Louis Students: The Implementation of Black History by Julia Davis, 1920-1980. Jamilah Whiteside
$200 Billion a Year: White Appropriation of Black Labor and How We Redress It. Elizabeth Woodson, Reckon With Before the Middle Passage: The Rich and Diverse History of African Americans Before the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Pat Snipes, Before Slavery Experience
139. 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm Roundtable Sycamore- M2 North Tower
RECKONING WITH THE HISTORY OF PHILANTHROPIC INSTITUTIONS: A CASE STUDY OF WHAT IS OWED TO BLACK COMMUNITIES.
Chair:
Trey Withers, National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy
Presenters:
Trey Withers, National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy
Diamond Hardiman, Free Press
140. 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2025
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CULTURAL PRODUCTIONS, BLACK AUDIENCES, AND MASS MEDIA: INTERROGATING NARRATIVES AND AMPLIFYING VOICES.
Chair:
Nafeesa Muhammad, Spelman College
Presenters:
Adria Goldman, University of Mary Washington
Alexa Harris, Norfolk State University
LaRonda Sanders-Senu, Middle Georgia State University
Andre Nicholson, Middle Georgia State University
141. 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm
M3 North Tower THE LEGACY OF ELLA JENKINS, THE FIRST LADY OF CHILDREN’S MUSIC.
Chair: Gayle Wald
Presenters:
Tim Ferrin
Traci Todd
Gayle Wald
142. 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm
Presenters:
Robert Smith, Alabama State University
Quenton Stokes-Brown, Wake Forest
Moderator: Phillip Howard
Commentator: Robert Pierre
146. 8:30 am to 9:50 am
Panel Session
Birch- AV Atrium Level South Tower
“A WOMAN’S WORK IS NEVER DONE”: GENDER, LABOR, AND JUSTICE IN THE ATLANTIC WORLD IN THE 17TH, 18TH, AND 19TH CENTURIES.
Chairs:
Felicia Yvonne Thomas
Daryl Michael Scott, Godwin House Publishers
Participants:
The Curious Work of Justice in 17th Century Colonial Virginia: The Extraordinary Life of Elizabeth Key. Tammy L. Sanders Henderson
Black Women’s Intellectual Work in 18th Century Massachusetts. Felicia Yvonne Thomas
The Life and Legacy of Jane Waring Roberts: Gender, Power, and Black Nationhood in the 19th Century Atlantic World. Herbert Brewer, Morgan State University
147. 8:30 am to 9:50 am
Panel Session
Pine- AV Atrium Level South Tower
THE COST OF LABOR, THE FIGHT FOR JUSTICE: PERSPECTIVES ON THE 2024 US PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN.
Chair:
Nannetta Durnell-Uwechue, Florida Atlantic University
Participants:
The Cost of Labor, The Fight for Justice: Historical, Philosophical and Religious Perspectives on the 2024 US Presidential Campaign. Felton O. Best, Central Connecticut State University
The Cost of Labor, The Fight for Justice: Communicative Perspectives on the 2024 US Presidential Campaign. Nannetta DurnellUwechue, Florida Atlantic University
The Cost of Labor, The Fight for Justice: Political Perspectives on the 2024 US Presidential Campaign. Deandre J. Poole, Florida Atlantic University
The Cost of Labor, The Fight for Justice: Pedagogical Perspectives on the 2024 US Presidential Campaign. Angela Rhone, Florida Atlanta University
Commentator:
Felton O. Best, Central Connecticut State University
148. 8:30 am to 9:50 am Workshop Spruce- AV Atrium Level South Tower
AFRO-LATINX HISTORY AND THE BLACK CARIBBEAN.
Chair:
Walter Greason, Macalester College/Graphic History Company
Presenters:
Walter Greason, Macalester College/Graphic History Company
Lissette Acosta Corniel
Luisa Marcela Ossa
Leader:
Luisa Marcela Ossa
149. 8:30 am to 9:50 am
Presenter:
Jason Seals, Merritt College
Commentator:
Jason Seals, Merritt College
150. 8:30 am to 9:50 am
ASSOCIATION OF BLACK WOMEN HISTORIANS ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING.
Chair:
Vanessa Holden, University of Kentucky
Presenter:
Shannon Camille Eaves, College of Charleston
Leader:
Stephanie Y. Evans, Georgia State University
151. 8:30 am to 9:50 am
Chair:
Panel Session
Maple C- AV Atrium Level South Tower
BLACK WORKING CLASS STRUGGLES AGAINST NEOLIBERALISM IN THE AFRICAN DIASPORA.
John Tilghman, Tuskegee University
Participants:
Black Workers and the Class Struggle in Trinidad and Tobago. Godfrey Vincent, Tuskegee University
The Inner Harbor, Black Working Class, and the Coming of Neoliberalism. John Tilghman, Tuskegee University
Firestone, Rubber Plantations, and Black Workers in Liberia. Joe JImmeh, Tuskegee University
Commentator:
Godfrey Vincent, Tuskegee University
152. 8:30 am to 9:50 am
Panel Session
Oak- AV Lobby Level South Tower
BLACK WOMEN, EDUCATION, AND THE RADICAL WORK OF CITIZENSHIP IN THE RURAL AMERICAN SOUTH.
Chair:
Barbara McCaskill, Athens Branch of ASALH (GA)
Participants:
“In Her Own Words: Amoretta Daise’s ‘Memory’ of the First Years at Penn School.” Mollie Barnes, University of South Carolina Beaufort
“Cultures of Advice: Mrs. C. J. Calloway and The Negro Farmer.” Sidonia Serafini, Appalachian State University
“Real Estate and Rural Education: Judia Jackson Harris, Landownership, and Literacy.” Jane McPherson, University of Georgia School of Social Work
Commentator:
Barbara McCaskill, Athens Branch of ASALH (GA)
153. 8:30 am to 9:50 am Key Session
Dogwood A- AV M1 North Tower
BLACK WOMEN’S WORK: UNDERSTANDING LOCAL ORGANIZING TRADITIONS WITHIN THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT.
Chair:
Beatrice J Adams
Participants:
“She’d do whatever is necessary”: Black Women and Florida’s Civil Rights Movement in Reflection. Allison Mashell Mitchell, Assistant Professor, Africana Studies Department, University of Notre Dame
“To Become a Part of a Society that is Meaningful”: The Ella Jo Baker Intentional Community Cooperative and the DC Housing Cooperative Movement. Jessica A. Rucker, University of Maryland College Park
“To Serve My People: Modjeska Monteith Simkins and the Local Roots of Activism in Columbia, South Carolina.” JoCora Moore, Elizabeth City State University
“One of The Sleepless Ones:” The Activism and Autobiographies of Mississippi Freedom Fighter Mrs. Winson Hudson. Christina J Thomas
154. 8:30 am to 9:50 am Paper Session
Dogwood B- AV M1 North Tower
“ALLIED FORCES: BLACK WOMEN, GLOBAL LABOR, AND THE POLITICS OF MILITARY EQUITY.”
Chair:
Kendra Woodfolk-Anthony, Morgan State University
Participants:
Playing the Angels’ Game: Preserving the Laborlore of Black Foreign Service Women. Atim Eneida George, Antioch University
Breaching the Color Line: Afro-Asian Alliances and Racial Capitalism in Hawaiʻi’s Wartime Labor Economy. Patrick Kekoa Nichols, The University of Georgia
“Uncle Sam on Miguel Street: Port-of-Spain, World War II, and the Battle of the Black Atlantic.” Jason Parker, Texas Agricultural and Mechanical University
Bridging the Gap: Advancing Equity and Support for African American Veterans in Civilian Life. Carlos Bryan, North Carolina Central University - Social Work
Dr. Bethune, Eleanor Roosevelt, and A. Philip Randolph: Strategic Alliances Advancing Military Equity, 1933–1945. Evelyn Bethune, Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune Family Legacy Inc
155. 8:30 am to 9:50 am
Chair:
Panel Session
Cottonwood A- AV M1 North Tower
BLACK EXPRESSION AS RESISTANCE: ART, FAITH, AND ACTIVISM IN THE 20TH CENTURY.
Marquita Reed, Tennessee State University -Brown-Daniel Library
Participants:
Tongues of Fire. Aaron Treadwell, Middle Tennessee State University
“Open the prison gate”: Safiya Bukhari, The Black Liberation Army, and the Prison Poetry of Abolition. Joshua Crutchfield, Northwestern University
Voices of Change: Cultural Activism in the Black Freedom Struggle, 1950s-1970s. Marquita Reed, Tennessee State University -Brown-Daniel Library
Commentator:
Reginald K. Ellis, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University
156. 8:30 am to 9:50 am
Participant:
MeetingInt’l Ballroom A- AV M2 North Tower (Presidential Sessions) 2026 CONFERENCE PLANNING MEETING.
Karsonya Wise Whitehead, Loyola University-Department of Communication
Margaret Bernice Smith Bristow, Hampton Roads Branch of ASALH
Aaisha Haykal, Charleston Area Branch ASALH
Aisha M. Johnson
Augustus Wood
Daryl Michael Scott, Godwin House Publishers
Lionel Kimble, Jr., Organizing ASALH George Cleveland Hall Branch
Crystal R. Sanders, Dr. Edna McKenzie Branch of ASALH
Anton D. House
157. 8:30 am to 9:50 am Paper Session
Chair:
Juniper- AV M2 North Tower
“STOLEN FUTURES: REPRODUCTIVE LABOR, SEPARATION, AND THE BUSINESS OF SLAVERY.”
Tenesha Carter Johnson, Bard Graduate Center
Participants:
Managerial Maternalism: Gender, Slavery, and the Domestic Workplace. Keiara Price, Rutgers University - New Brunswick
On Slavery and Alienation: Rethinking the Marxist View of Alienated Labor. Naomi Simmons-Thorne, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Love, Loss, and The Auction Block: The Domestic Slave Trade in Urban America. Michael Dickinson
The Slightest Blow in Anger Might Be Cruelty: Class and racial capitalism in reproductive labor. Kimberly Jones, University of Denver
“stole my Child from me and Sent it to Virginia”: Black Mothers and the Separation of Children in the Revolutionary South. Adam X McNeil, Rutgers University-New Brunswick
158. 8:30 am to 9:50 am
Workshop
Cypress- M2 North Tower
DOCUMENTING FAMILY STORIES: A HANDS-ON WORKSHOP FOR PRESERVING BLACK HERITAGE.
Presenters:
David G. Wilkins, Manasota Branch of ASALH
Lois B. Wilkins, Manasota Branch of ASALH
Leader:
Ebony Wilkins, National Louis University
159. 8:30 am to 9:50 am
Leader:
Workshop
Sycamore- M2 North Tower
LIMITATION TO LIBERATION: ACTIVATING THE POWER WITHIN.
Nyabingha Zianni McDowell
160. 8:30 am to 9:50 am
Paper Session
Hazelnut- AV M3 North Tower
“NATIONS WITHIN NATIONS: DIASPORIC MEMORY AND THE POLITICS OF PAN-AFRICAN BELONGING.”
Chair:
Marion Johnson, Phila-Montco Branch of ASALH
Participants:
Crossing Borders and Color Lines: How a Brazilian Soldier Became a Poster Child for U.S. Abolitionism. Karina Sembe, Boston University
Justice and Reconciliation: From Henry Highland Garnet to Harvey Johnson. Xavier Frink, Jackson State University
Ekimogun Cultural Festival: A Transnational Nexus for Ondo Hometown Associations in 20th Century North America. Olaolu Awolola, Morgan State University
Avenging Chief Sam: A Missing Back-to-Africa Movement across Galveston’s Commemorative Landscape. Eddie Brown, Independent Scholar Freedom, Polysemous Freedom:. Monique Wimby, Emory University
161. 8:30 am to 9:50 am
Roundtable
Hickory-AV M3 North Tower
PRESERVING CIVIL RIGHTS IN UNCERTAIN TIMES: PARTNERSHIPS, PROGRAMMING, AND PROMOTION THROUGH ASALH.
Chair:
Ariel Roy, Association for the Study of African American Life and History
Presenters:
Bobby Donaldson, University of South Carolina-Center for Civil Right History and Research
Daniel J. Broyld
162. 8:30 am to 9:50 am Paper SessionInt’l Ballroom B-AV - M2 North Tower Plenary Sessions “ROOTS AND RIVERS: BLACK ECOLOGIES OF HEALING, JUSTICE, AND ENVIRONMENTAL VISION.”
Chair:
Tanisha Smith, Morgan State University
Participants:
Nourish the Soul, Nourish the Soil: Black Women’s Connection to Nature as Healing. Zaree Ross, Georgia State University
Roots of Abolition Ecologies: Du Bois’s Environmental Vision in the Wake of the Mississippi Flood. David Strickler, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
An Ancient Science : Aquaculture, Integrated Agriculture, and the African Diaspora. Anthony Pratcher; George B. Brooks, Jr, NxT Horizon, LLC
Upon a Silver Salver: Water, Hospitality, and the Habits of Lady Justice. Theron Wilkerson, Auburn University
163. 8:30 am to 9:50 am
Key Session Int’l Ballroom C- AV - M2 North Tower Sessions
THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF ROBERT L. ALLEN.
Moderator:
Stephanie Fortado, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Participant:
Charisse Burden-Stelly
Ula Yvette Taylor, University of California Berkeley
Lia T Bascomb 9:00am
164. 9:00 am to 11:00 am ASALH Film Festival Magnolia- AV M2 North Tower SORRY TO BOTHER YOU (2012), DIR. BOOTS RILEY. 10:15am
165. 10:15 am to 11:45 am Roundtable Pine- AV Atrium Level South Tower STATE OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL PRESERVATION: CHARTING A COLLECTIVE DEFENSE.
Chair:
Brian Morrison, The William J. Watkins, Sr. Educational Institute
Presenters:
Kali-Ahset Amen, Atlanta Branch of ASALH
Anne C. Bailey
Vivian Glover, South Carolina African American Commission
Adrienne Nirde, NC African American Heritage Commission
166. 10:15 am to 11:45 am Panel Session Spruce- AV Atrium Level South Tower
WORKFORCE AND HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT (HRD): STOLEN BLACK LABOR IN THE AGE OF AI.
Chair:
Lisa Brown, Texas Agricultural and Mechanical University - College Station
Participants:
1 Workforce and Human Resource Development (HRD) Stolen Black Labor in the Age of AI. Lisa Brown, Texas Agricultural and Mechanical University - College Station; Mansur Ali Buffins, Boston Public Schools
2 Workforce and Human Resource Development (HRD) Stolen Black Labor in the Age of AI. Lisa Brown, Texas Agricultural and Mechanical University - College Station
3 Workforce and Human Resource Development (HRD) Stolen Black Labor in the Age of AI. Mansur Ali Buffins, Boston Public Schools
Commentator:
Mansur Ali Buffins, Boston Public Schools
167. 10:15 am to 11:45 am Workshop Maple A-AV Atrium Level South Tower NEW JERSEY REPARATIONS COUNCIL.
Leaders:
Jean-Pierre Brutus, New Jersey Institute for Social Justice
Walter Greason, Macalester College/Graphic History Company
168. 10:15 am to 11:45 am
Panel Session Maple B- AV Atrium Level South Tower “BLACK PUBLIC HISTORIES OF THE LOWER CAPE FEAR (NORTH CAROLINA).”
Chair:
Tara White, Harper Councill Trenholm Branch of Montgomery
Participants:
Foreshore Plantation Archaeology in Brunswick County, NC.” Emily A Schwalbe, Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin; Tyanna West, North Carolina Central University; Sherwin K. Bryant, Rice University - Center for African and African American Studies; Tara White, Harper Councill Trenholm Branch of Montgomery; Torren Leon Gatson, Middle Tennessee State University
Black Labor in Maritime North Carolina. Tyanna West, North Carolina Central University
Black Histories of Brunswick County: Mapping the Present along the Black Cape Fear.” Sherwin K. Bryant, Rice UniversityCenter for African and African American Studies
Commentator:
Torren Leon Gatson, Middle Tennessee State University
169. 10:15 am to 11:45 am Paper Session
Maple C- AV Atrium Level South Tower
“FROM SOUL TO STAGE: BLACK CULTURAL POWER, PERFORMANCE, AND THE POLITICS OF HEALING.”
Chair:
Tomiko Michelle Meeks, Howard University
Participants:
Blues So Deep: An Afrofuturist and Black Feminist Examination of Healing in The Deep. Veronica Coates Ahmed
The Utility of Beef: Tracing Black Artistic Conflict from Baldwin and Malcolm X to Kendrick and Drake. Kenneth King
Karamu House: A Vehicle for Cleveland’s Black Arts Movement. I’Maya Gibbs, W.E.B. DuBois Department of Afro-American Studies, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
“We Can Dance About It”: Community Engagement, Cultural Pride, and Creative Labor in HBCU Dance Programs. Emily Hawk, Department of History, Dickinson College
170. 10:15 am to 11:45 am
Key Session
Oak- AV Lobby Level South Tower
A DISCUSSION ON THE HISTORY OF THE STUDENT NON-VIOLENT COORDINATING COMMITTEE’S FREEDOM SCHOOLS WITH CHARLES COBB, JR.
Chair:
Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua
Presenters:
Charles Cobb, SNCC Veteran
Augustus Wood
Leslie Etienne, Joseph T. Taylor Branch of ASALH
Presenters:
MEMORY IN THE DIGITAL AGE: PRESERVING, CURATING AND MAKING ACCESSIBLE AFRICAN AMERICAN ARCHIVES THROUGH DIGITAL COLLECTIONS.
Andrea Jackson, Black Metropolis Research Consortium
Micha Broadnax, Harvard University
HBCU Radio Preservation Project, HBCU Radio Preservation Project
Doretha K. Williams, National Museum of African American History and Culture
Phyllis Jeffers-Coly, Diasporic Soul
10:15 am to 11:45 am
CRUSADERS FOR JUSTICE: ROBERT AND MABEL WILLIAMS’ MEMOIRS AND THEIR VALUE FOR THE TWENTYFIRST CENTURY.
Chair:
Edward Onaci, Ursinus College
Presenters:
Akinyele Umoja, Georgia State University African American Studies
Claude Marks, Freedom Archives
Gloria House, University of Michigan-Dearborn and Wayne State University
173. 10:15 am to 11:45 am
Workshop Cottonwood A- AV M1 North Tower
THEORY THURSDAYS - POLITICAL EDUCATION TO CHALLENGE ANTI-AFRIKAN DISINFORMATION.
Leaders:
Joshua Ingram, Black Men Build Ekundayo Igeleke, Black men Build
174. 10:15 am to 11:45 am
WorkshopInt’l Ballroom A- AV M2 North Tower (Presidential Sessions)
“PARTICIPATING IN THE LEGACY OF CARTER G. WOODSON: THE SIGNIFICANCE OF PUBLISHING IN THE JOURNAL OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY.”
Presenters:
Bertis D English, Harper Councill Trenholm Branch of Montgomery
Pero G. Dagbovie, Michigan State University- Department of History
V.P. Franklin
175. 10:15 am to 11:45 am Panel Session
Juniper- AV M2 North Tower
BLACK MILITARY SERVICE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: RACE, REMEMBRANCE, AND RESISTANCE.
Chair:
Le’Trice Donaldson, Auburn University
Participants:
Unequal Schools, Unequal Service: How Educational Segregation Shaped Black Military Life on the Cold War Home Front. Brian Davis, Florida State University
Black Soldiers, Psychiatry, and the Issue of Maladjustment during World War II. Paul Langston McAllister Off Limits: The U.S. Army’s Fair Housing Campaign in the D.C. Metro. Titus Firmin, University of Kansas
Commentator:
Le’Trice Donaldson, Auburn University
176. 10:15 am to 11:45 am Workshop
Cypress- M2 North Tower
AVERTING THE WHITE GAZE: BLACK STUDENTS’ NARRATIVES AND COUNTER-NARRATIVES AS PATHS TO LIBERATION.
Leader:
Aaron Johnson, Archetype Consulting
177. 10:15 am to 11:45 am Roundtable
Sycamore- M2 North Tower
THE CIVIL WAR AND THE BLACK PAST: AN AFRICAN AMERICAN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY ROUNDTABLE.
Chair:
Robert David Bland, University of Tennessee Knoxville
Presenters:
Brandi C. Brimmer
Brandon R. Byrd, Vanderbilt University
Robert Greene
Michell Chresfield, Cornell University
178. 10:15 am to 11:45 am Panel Session
Hazelnut- AV M3 North Tower
CORNELIUS HENDERSON “HIDDEN FIGURE”: CHIEF STRUCTURAL ENGINEER THE AMBASSADOR BRIDGE AND THE DETROIT –WINDSOR TUNNEL.
Chair:
David L. Head, ASALH Detroit Branch
Participants:
Cornelius Langston Henderson, Sr., 1887 – 1976: The Early Life. Howard Lindsey, ASALH Detroit Branch; Anita Moncrease, ASALH Detroit Branch; David L. Head, ASALH Detroit Branch; Rashid Faisal, ASALH-Detroit
Cornelius Henderson “Hidden Figure”: International Footprints at the Canadian Bridge Company (CBC). David L. Head, ASALH Detroit Branch
Cornelius Henderson “Hidden Figure”: Making History on the Detroit Side of the Boarder. Anita Moncrease, ASALH Detroit Branch; Howard Lindsey, ASALH Detroit Branch; David L. Head, ASALH Detroit Branch; Rashid Faisal, ASALH-Detroit
Cornelius Henderson, The Talented Tenth, and the Ambassador Bridge. Rashid Faisal, ASALH-Detroit; Anita Moncrease, ASALH Detroit Branch; Howard Lindsey, ASALH Detroit Branch; David L. Head, ASALH Detroit Branch
179. 10:15 am to 11:45 am
Chairs:
Panel Session
Hickory-AV M3 North Tower
LIBERATION AND EDUCATION: PERSPECTIVES ON BLACK EDUCATIONAL THOUGHT.
Derrick Alridge, University of Virginia
Ronald Chennault, DePaul University
Participants:
“‘To Recreate an Afrikan Mind’: New Concept Development Center and Black Power Education in Chicago.” Worth Myrick-Harris Hayes, Morehouse College
“Anna Julia Cooper and Septima Poinsette Clark: Adult Education for Freedom, Racial Advancement, and Political Activism.” Karen Ann Johnson
Mind Stayed on Freedom: The History and Legacy of the Childrens Defense Fund Freedom Schools® Program.” Kristal Moore Clemons, Children’s Defense Fund
“‘I Got a Lot to Be Mad About’: The Anti-Blackness of Social Emotional Learning and Paths to Liberation.” Johari Harris
“Education for Liberation in Black/Africana Studies and African-centered Education.” James Benjamin Stewart, Manasota Branch of ASALH
180. 10:15 am to 11:45 am Poster Session Int’l Ballroom Foyer- M2 North Tower POSTER SESSION.
Participants:
A Crisis Within the Crisis: Attrition of Black Male Educators. Michael Hayes, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
“A Seat at the Table: A Collection of Oral Histories Exploring the Intersection of Labor and Culinary Traditions.” Marquita Reed, Tennessee State University -Brown-Daniel Library
Black Health in Appalachia: Coal Mining in West Virginia and the Associated Health Outcomes for African Americans. Georgiana Logan, Marshall University
Black Labor Universal. Christopher Sims, Intercultural Leadership Institute
Black on the Homefront - Highlighting the Black Experience During WWII. Tashieka Adjoa Russell, Recent Graduate, Museum Studies Master of Arts program, Southern University at New Orleans
Charleston Area Branch ASALH Celebrating 30 years- Preserving,Promoting and Protecting Black History. Jerome Harris, Charleston Area Branch ASALH
Creative Labor, Collective Memory: Expanding Access to African American Art History. Brittany Myburgh; Mary Soylu Designing Freedom: Black Press Labor from Reconstruction to the Black Arts Movement. Kayla Hall, Athens Branch of ASALH (GA)
Everyday Labor of Black History. Ardie Myers, Bethel Dukes Branch of ASALH
In Conversation: Spotlight on African American Life and History. Rebekah McCloud, Central Florida Dorothy Turner Johnson Branch of ASALH
Ishmael, Minny, and Elizabeth Keith: Following a Family from Enslavement to Freedom, 1842-1851. Will Stanier, University of Georgia Libraries
Liberty in Ink: Bondage and Freedom at the Press. Angelica Williams, University of South Carolina-Center for Civil Right History and Research
Necessity as Invention: Black Entrepreneurial Labor and the fight for Economic Agency in Atlanta. Theophilus Humphrey, Georgia State University - African American Studies
Preserving the Narrative: Black Rap and Black Student Life During the Early Years of Integration at USC. Julio Domingo, University of South Carolina-Center for Civil Right History and Research
Rising through Resistance: Black Women’s Pursuit of Higher Education. Aria Huntley, North Carolina Central University
SEIU Black Security Officers’ Unionization Campaign in Los Angeles, A Landmark Example of How Labor Organizing Can Be a Tool for Racial and Economic Justice. Lura Daniels-Ball, Our Authors Study Club Branch of ASALH
Shemancipation: African American Women’s Experience of Turning 50. Lisa Bradley, Henry Ford College
Silenced Narratives: Epistemicide and the Threat to Black Cultural Memory. Vivian Bynoe, Georgia Southern University
Southern Roots: Racial Capitalism, Biopower, and the Scientific Birth of Violence Epidemiology in U.S. Public Health. Geremy Lowe, University of California, San Francisco
“The bridges that carried us over”: Centering Political Strategies and Tactics in Teaching the Black Freedom Struggle. Mary E Potorti, MCPHS University
The Friendship and Collaborative Accomplishments of Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune and Eleanor Roosevelt. Evelyn Bethune, Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune Family Legacy Inc
“The Importance of Historical Truth” - The Port Chicago explosion and the atomic bomb. Daisy B Herndon, The PCW Project (Port Chicago Witness)
The Jeanes Education and Arts Initiative. Paul Ringel, High Point University; Kamille Henry Bostick, Center for Racial Equity in Education; Virginia Summey
The Outsider Preservation Initiative: Participatory Research Approaches to Place Documentation and Regeneration. Andrea R Roberts, University of Virginia
The Paulinian Age: Black Queen to Move, the Story of an Enslaved Woman’s Path to Freedom and Social Rights. Kendric Perkins, Historic New Orleans Collection
We Dance to Be Seen: Divine Feline and the Value of Black Dance Teams at PWIs. Tahnija Person, Ohio University
We Will Not Be Weary in Well Doing: An Historical Overview of Black Teachers Navigating Contentious Teaching Contexts. Kristen Duncan, Clemson University; Alex Chisholm, Clemson University; Terrance Joshua Lewis
Working for the Vote: An Analysis of the Effect of Changing Voting Laws on the Black Working Class in the United States. Tailar Brown- Smith
181. 10:15 am to 11:45 am Panel SessionInt’l Ballroom B-AV - M2 North Tower Plenary Sessions
THE ABWH BOOKLIST: A DISCUSSION OF BLACK WOMEN’S HISTORIOGRAPHY.
Chairs:
Crystal Moten, Obama Foundation
Karen L. Kossie-Chernyshev, Texas Southern University
Participants:
ABWH Booklist Committee Member 1. Sierra Phillips
ABWH Booklist Committee Member 2. Tyrone McKinley Freeman, Joseph T. Taylor Branch of ASALH
ABWH Booklist Committee Member 3. Charissa Threat, Chapman University
Commentator:
Stephanie Y. Evans, Georgia State University
182. 10:15 am to 11:45 am
Roundtable Int’l Ballroom C- AV - M2 North Tower Sessions
TOWARD BLACK HEALING: THE USES OF AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND BIOGRAPHY IN FINDING WELLNESS.
Chair:
Deborah Gray White, Rutgers University
Presenters:
Natalie Byfield
Carolyn Brown, Rutgers
Marisa J Fuentes, Rutgers University
Judith Byfield, Cornell University
183. 12:00 pm to 1:45 pm
Chair:
12:00pm
Panel Session Oak- AV Lobby Level South Tower
ISSUES IN SOCIAL JUSTICE AND SPORTS THROUGH THE LENS OF COLLEGE FOOTBALL.
Derrick E. White, University of Kentucky
Presenters:
Morris Gardner
Stephane Dunn
Carl Suddler, Emory University
184. 12:00 pm to 1:45 pm
Chair:
Presidential Session Int’l Ballroom C- AV - M2 North Tower Sessions
FRAMING THE “FREEDOM SEASON”: A MEDITATION ON 1963.
Karsonya Wise Whitehead, Loyola University-Department of Communication
Presenters:
Peniel E. Joseph, University of Texas at Austin - Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs
Zebulon Vance Miletsky, Manhattan Branch of ASALH
Kellie Carter Jackson, Wellesley College
Discussant:
Candace Cunningham, University of Arkansas
185. 12:00 pm to 1:45 pm
Invocation:
Luncheon Int’l Ballroom D- M2 North Tower Meal Functions
JOHN BLASSINGAME LUNCHEON.
Anita M. Shepherd, James Weldon Johnson Branch of ASALH Jacksonville, FL
Greetings:
Aaisha Haykal, Charleston Area Branch ASALH
Karsonya Wise Whitehead, Loyola University-Department of Communication 2:15pm
186. 2:15 pm to 3:45 pm
Moderator:
Naomi R. Williams
Participant:
Augustus Wood
Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua
Plenary SessionInt’l Ballroom B-AV - M2 North Tower Plenary Sessions
THE LEGACY AND SCHOLARSHIP OF JOE WILLIAM TROTTER, JR.
Blair LM Kelley, National Humanities Center
Leslie M. Harris, Northwestern University
Commentator:
Joe W. Trotter, Carnegie Mellon University Dept. of History 4:00pm
187. 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm
Chair:
Paper Session
Birch- AV Atrium Level South Tower
TEACHING, TORTURE, AND TERROR: BLACK BODIES UNDER SIEGE IN HISTORICAL CONTEXT.
Chelsea Birchmier
Participants:
Teaching While Black: Labor, Gender, and the Lynching of Roxie Elliott in 1890s Alabama. Isabella Garrison, University of Alabama
Laundering Black Rage: The Laundering of the Tulsa Massacre. Rasul Mowatt, Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management, College of Natural Resources and Affiliate, North Carolina State University; Too Black Joe Clemons, Black Myths
Podcast and Black Alliance for Peace
Come As You Are, Hoods Not Required: The 1942 Lynching of James Person in Illinois. Renatto Carr, Southern Illinois University
Reliving the Past: Exploring the Connections of the Racial Uprising and Riots of 1919, 1968, and 2020 in Chicago. Brandon Stokes
Digital Humanities project that maps resistance of Africans and African Descendants to enslavement, colonialism, and segregation. Ife Williams, African Heritage Studies Association
188. 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm
Panel Session
Pine- AV Atrium Level South Tower
WE LIVE IN PICTURES AND WORDS: FINDING THE LABORS OF BLACK WOMEN IN NON-TRADITIONAL ARCHIVES.
Chair:
Tara White, Harper Councill Trenholm Branch of Montgomery
Participants:
Grown Folks’ Business: Life Writing and Black Women’s Legacy Making. Michelle Scott, UMBC Photographing Eusebia Cosme y Almanza: Portraits of a Black Cuban Performer, 1930s-1950s. Takkara Brunson One Picture and One Hundred Poems: Building the Archive of Ethel Trew Dunlap White Woman Black Nationalist Poet. Natanya P. Duncan, Queens College City University of New York
189. 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm
Panel Session
Spruce- AV Atrium Level South Tower
THE TOWN THAT FREEDOM BUILT: BLACK LABOR, BLACK TOWNSHIPS, AND AFROFUTURIST IMAGINARIES.
Chair:
Walter Greason, Macalester College/Graphic History Company
Participants:
Eatonville, Florida: The Case for Preservation. Scot A. French, Central Florida Dorothy Turner Johnson Branch of ASALH Room for Recovery: Reclaiming Black Women’s Knowledge of Place and Space Making. Michelle Cowin Gibbs, California State University Long Beach
Black Women’s Knowledge of Place Making. Claire Hynes, University of East Anglia
Commentator:
Julian C Chambliss, Michigan State University
190. 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm
Panel Session Maple A-AV Atrium Level South Tower
CHATTAHOOCHEE BRICK COMPANY AND CONVICTION LEASING: A COMMUNITY’S MEMORIAL PROJECT.
Chair:
R. Candy Tate, Atlanta Branch of ASALH
Participants:
Slavery By Another Name: The Chattahoochee Brick Company. Doug Blackmon, OAH
Mattie Crawford, Blacksmith and the Fight to Remember and Reconcile. Donna Y Stephens, Proctor Creek Stewardship Council Chattahoochee Brick Company Memorial and Greenspace: City of Atlanta. Anthony B. Knight, City of Atlanta
Commentator:
R. Candy Tate, Atlanta Branch of ASALH
191. 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm
Panel Session
Maple B- AV Atrium Level South Tower MOBILITY, OPPORTUNITY, AND CHOICE: A BLACK FAMILY’S JOURNEYS TO OBERLIN, CANADA, KANSAS CITY, AND CALIFORNIA.
Chair:
Melissa Stuckey, University of South Carolina
Participants:
Canadian Freedom: The Jones Family and Black Canadian Life outside of Enslaved Status. Deirdre McCorkindale, University of Guelph
“‘By Fair Means or Foul’: The Visionary Life of Anna H. Jones’”. Bridget Haney, State Historical Society of Missouri
The Jones Family Crossing the Border: Opportunity from Ontario to Oberlin, British Columbia to California. Adam Arenson, Iona University
192. 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm
Panel Session
Maple C- AV Atrium Level South Tower
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2025
BLACK STRATEGIC MOTHERING AND (RE)PRODUCTIVE LABOR IN THE AFTERLIVES OF SLAVERY.
Chair:
Riché Barnes, University of Florida
Participants:
Black Strategic Mothering, Maternal Loss, and the Say Her Name Movement for Black Lives. Riché Barnes, University of Florida Interrogating the History of Misogynoir. Victoria Peters, University of Florida Resilience, Representation, and Restoration: Intersecting Narratives of Black and Brown Women. Chalisa Budhai, University of Florida
193. 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm
Chair:
Gerald Horne
Participants:
Panel Session
Oak- AV Lobby Level South Tower SOVEREIGNTY IN BLACK: ATLANTIC AFRICANS AND THE QUEST FOR FREEDOM.
Black Sovereignty in the Age of White Supremacy. Elijah Robert Zehyoue, Howard University, Department of History
Black Sovereignty in Nineteenth Century Liberia: A Confluence of Antecedents and Traditions. Carl Patrick Burrowes
Black Sovereignty in Memory. Eola Lewis Dance, VISION Collective LLC
194. 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm Roundtable Dogwood A- AV M1 North Tower
BLACK STUDIES IN A DARK CONJUNCTURE.
Chair:
Minkah Makalani, Johns Hopkins University
Presenters:
Quito Swan, The George Washington University
Monique Bedasse, New York University: Center for the Study of Africa
Chad Williams, Brandeis University
Yomaira Figuero-Vásquez, CUNY Hunter College
HOLDING ALOFT VISTAS OF PURPLE AND GOLD: WRITING THE HISTORY OF OMEGA PSI PHI FRATERNITY.
Chair:
James D. Anderson
Presenters:
Maurice Hobson, Georgia State University Africana Studies
Eddie R. Cole
Jim C. Harper, North Carolina Central University
Derrick Alridge, University of Virginia
196. 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm
Panel Session Cottonwood A- AV M1 North Tower
SAFETY NET EXPERIENCES AMONG FAMILY SAFETY NETS: SOCIAL WELFARE POLICIES AND SOCIAL SUPPORT AMONG AFRICAN AMERICAN GRANDMOTHERS RAISING THEIR GRANDCHILDREN.
Chair:
LaShawnDa L. Pittman
Participants:
No Longer the Village: African American Grandmother Caregivers and the Decline of Community Support Systems. Gaynell Simpson, Georgia Gwinnett College
Voices of Grandparents Residing in Grandfamilies Housing. Sandra Edmonds Crewe, Howard University School of Social Work, Rutgers University School of Social Work
How Well Does the “Safety Net” Work for Family Safety Nets? Economic Survival Strategies Among Black Grandmothers Raising Their Grandchildren. LaShawnDa L. Pittman
197. 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm
Leader:
WorkshopInt’l Ballroom A- AV M2 North Tower (Presidential Sessions)
HOWARD MELLON WORKSHOP: SOCIAL JUSTICE AND LABOR.
Lisa Brock, Mellon Foundation
198. 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm
ASALH Film Festival
Magnolia- AV M2 North Tower
CLARA’S FRUIT (2025), DIR. MATTHEW MORGAN; HOLLYWOOD SHUFFLE (1987), DIR. ROBERT TOWNSEND.
199. 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm
Chair:
Panel Session
Juniper- AV M2 North Tower AFRICANA STUDIES AND DIGITAL, PUBLIC, AND ENVIRONMENTAL HUMANITIES AT UNF, PART I.
Felicia Bevel, University of North Florida at Jacksonville
Participants:
Communal Restoration Through an Orientation of Care. Tru Leverette Hall, University of North Florida
“Viaje en el tiempo” by Eblin Grueso: Lament and Burial as a Call to Memory. Constanza López Baquero, University of North Florida
Reassembling Antebellum Slavery’s Archives: Research, Teaching, and Public History in Northeastern Florida. Justin Rogers, University of North Florida
Commentator:
Felicia Bevel, University of North Florida at Jacksonville
200. 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm Roundtable
Chair:
Cypress- M2 North Tower
FRUITS OF OUR LABOR: BLACK ARIZONANS BUILT THE AMERICAN SOUTHWEST.
Christina Carney, University of Missouri
Presenters:
Jessica Salow, Arizona State University
Margaret Hangan, MHanngan llc
Matthew C. Whitaker, Arizona State University
L. Greg McAllister, Northern Arizona University
A. Duku Anokye, Arizona State University
Commentator: Anthony Pratcher
201. 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm
Roundtable
Sycamore- M2 North Tower
“UNTIL IT IS FACED”: USING PRIMARY SOURCES TO TELL THE STORY OF CIVIL RIGHTS IN MISSISSIPPI.
Chair:
DeeDee Baldwin, Mississippi State University
Presenters:
DeeDee Baldwin, Mississippi State University
Albert Dorsey, Jackson State University
Jessica Perkins Smith, Mississippi State University
202. 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm
Roundtable
Hazelnut- AV M3 North Tower
BOOK ROUNDTABLE: MARY PHILLIPS, BLACK PANTHER WOMAN: THE POLITICAL AND SPIRITUAL LIFE OF ERICKA HUGGINS.
Chair:
LaShawn Harris, Journal of African American History (Pero Dagbovie)
Presenters:
Ashley Farmer, University of Texas-Austin
Sheena Harris Hayes, Auburn University
Stephane Dunn
Commentator:
Mary Phillips, Department of African American Studies-University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
203. 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm Roundtable Hickory-AV M3 North Tower
A LABOR OF FREEDOM, THEN AND NOW WITH THE MOVEMENT HISTORY INITIATIVE.
Chair:
Jessica A. Rucker, University of Maryland College Park
Presenters:
Emilye Crosby, Rochester Branch
Judy Richardson, SNCC Legacy Project
Hasan Kwame Jeffries, Ohio State University
Christina J Thomas
204. 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm
Panel SessionInt’l Ballroom B-AV - M2 North Tower Plenary Sessions THE BURDENS AND BENEFITS OF BLACK WOMEN’S LABOR AS ACTIVISM.
Chair:
Crystal R. Sanders, Dr. Edna McKenzie Branch of ASALH
Participants:
Black Women’s Fugitive Resistance in the Civil Rights Movement. Leslie Houseworth, Emory University Behind the Voice: Spiritual Activism and the Toll of Labor in the Life of Mahalia Jackson. Iris Manburg, The University of Chicago Echoes of Resistance: Cultural Activism in the Black Freedom Struggle, 1950s-1970s. Marquita Reed, Tennessee State University -Brown-Daniel Library
Commentator:
Rose Archer, Emory University
205. 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm
Special Book Panel Int’l Ballroom C- AV - M2 North Tower Sessions
A HINE-HORNE BOOK ROUNDTABLE: PENIEL JOSEPH’S FREEDOM SEASON: HOW 1963 TRANSFORMED AMERICA’S CIVIL RIGHTS REVOLUTION.
Discussants:
Ibram X Kendi
Zebulon Vance Miletsky, Manhattan Branch of ASALH
Todd Allen, Messiah University
Author:
Peniel E. Joseph, University of Texas at Austin - Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs
206. 6:15 pm to 7:45 pm
Chair:
Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua
Leaders:
Helen Neville
Terrance Thomas
6:15pm
WorkshopInt’l Ballroom A- AV M2 North Tower (Presidential Sessions)
KUFUNDISHA: A FRAMEWORK FOR ASALH FREEDOM SCHOOLS.
Augustus Wood
Commentator:
Karsonya Wise Whitehead, Loyola University-Department of Communication
207. 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm
7:00pm
Media Session
Birch- AV Atrium Level South Tower
ASSAULT ON THE 14TH: THE CHALLENGE FOR FREEDOM AND SLAM BUFFALO: INSIDE THE NJOZI PETRY SLAM EXPERIENCE: DOCUMENTARIES.
Presenter:
Ntare Ali Gault, UMGC
Commentator:
Erika Gault
208. 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm
Paper Session
Pine- AV Atrium Level South Tower
“GENTILITY, LABOR, AND REALITY: UNPACKING BLACK IMMIGRANT EXPERIENCES IN TWENTIETH CENTURY AMERICA.”
Chair:
Tomiko Michelle Meeks, Howard University
Participants:
Collective Bahamian Labor - Memory-Making on Washington Avenue. Valerie L. Patterson, ASALH South Florida, Inc.
“‘Gentility’ of Black Immigrant Labor in Twentieth Century America: Perceptions, Myths, and Realities..” Violet Showers Johnson, Texas Agricultural and Mechanical University
Intimate Economies of Black Immigrant Bodies in an Age of U.S. Immigration and Detention Specter. Emillion Adekoya, Stony Brook University
209. 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm
Presenter:
Media Session
Spruce- AV Atrium Level South Tower
ARE YOU A LIBRARIAN? THE UNTOLD STORY OF BLACK LIBRARIANS.
Romare Bearden Branch of ASALH, Romare Bearden Branch of ASALH of Charlotte, NC
Moderator:
Rodney E. Freeman, Reminisce Preservation LLC
Commentator:
Aisha M. Johnson
209. 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm
Participant:
Aisha M. Johnson
Meeting
Spruce- AV Atrium Level South Tower INFORMATION PROFESSIONALS OF ASALH (IP OF ASALH).
Aaisha Haykal, Charleston Area Branch ASALH
210. 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm
Panel Session
Maple A-AV Atrium Level South Tower
STORIES YET UNTOLD: BIOGRAPHY AS A VEHICLE FOR EXCAVATING NEW HISTORIES, METHODS, POSSIBILITIES IN BLACK WOMEN’S HISTORY.
Chair:
Gloria Jesuyemi Ashaolu, University of California, Los Angeles
Participants:
In the Hidden, the Whispered, and Known: Black Women’s Biographies as Conduits of the Inscape of a Movement, Moment, and
More. Gloria Jesuyemi Ashaolu, University of California, Los Angeles
‘Trailblazers and Change seekers’: The Origins of a Political Family. Jada Gannaway, Michigan State University
The Matriarch of Civil Rights: Olive Beasley’s Time in Flint, Michigan. Ethan Veenhuis Barajas, Michigan State University
Commentator:
Ethan Veenhuis Barajas, Michigan State University
211. 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm
Paper Session Maple B- AV Atrium Level South Tower
“RECLAIMING ROOTS AND RESISTANCE: NEW INTERVENTIONS IN AFRICAN AMERICAN POPULAR HISTORY.”
Chair:
Jatisha Marsh, Georgia State University
Participants:
Defining Mammy: A Gender Analysis of the Mammy Figure. Loneise Thomas Routes and Roots- Black Migration during the Mid-20th Century. Jessica Terry-Elliott
A Labor of Love - The Black Art Labor Force of FDR’s Works Progress Administration. Scott Terry, Mahogany Gallery
Black Self-Defense in Nineteenth-Century Iowa. David Brodnax, Trinity Christian College
Power and Preservation: Black Images in the Archives. Arnetta Girardeau
212. 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm
Chair:
Panel Session
Maple C- AV Atrium Level South Tower NEW DIRECTIONS IN THE AFRICAN DIASPORA.
Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie, Howard University
Participants:
Black Power in Britain: An Indictment against the 1968 Race Relations Act. Melanie Holmes, University of South Carolina at Columbia
Sugar and Poison: Francois Makandal and the Politics of Haitian Vodou. Christopher Newman, Howard University
Narrating the Diaspora: Analog and Digital. Andrew Maginn, Middle Tennessee State University
From the Sokoto Jihad to the U.S. Civil War: African Military History in North America. Ira Dworkin, Texas Agricultural and Mechanical University
Dusé Mohamed Ali, 1866-1945, International Journalist, Activist, Actor. Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie, Howard University
213. 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm
Roundtable
Oak- AV Lobby Level South Tower
“TOGETHER WE CAN!” REINFORCING THE LEGACY OF BLACK STEM IDENTITIES THROUGH COMMUNITY CULTURAL WEALTH AND CULTURALLY RELEVANT PEDAGOGY.
Chair:
Sirocus Barnes
Presenters:
Sirocus Barnes
Allyce Pinchback-Johnson, Pinchback Consulting
Jamaal W Gosa
214. 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm Panel Session Dogwood A- AV M1 North Tower
ENERGY, CLIMATE, AND INSURGENT ECOLOGIES: NEW DIRECTIONS IN BLACK ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY.
Chair:
J.T. Roane, Rutgers University - New Brunswick
Participants:
“Black Women in Flux: Woods, Water, and the Insurgent Ecology of the Great Dismal Swamp.” Kathryn E Benjamin Golden
“Carbon Conscripts: Enslaved Women’s Labor and the Origins of Climate Change in the Colonial Chesapeake.” Eric Herschthal, University of Utah
“Museum in Color: Building Pathways to Professionalism for Cultural Workers Through Research and Community.” Myriah Martin
“’They’re Gonna Build a River’: Race, Energy, and Arboreal Continuance in the Santee Cooper Basin.” Gwendolyn Wallace,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
215. 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm
Chair:
Panel Session
Dogwood B- AV M1 North Tower
BLACK TRANSNATIONAL HISTORIES: VISIONS OF LIBERIA, ECHOES ACROSS THE ATLANTIC.
Herbert Brewer, Morgan State University
Participants:
A Gendered History of the Erskine and Blyden Family of Liberia and Sierra Leone. Nemata Blyden, University of Virginia The Richmond African Baptist Missionary Society and the Founding of Liberia. Herbert Brewer, Morgan State University Laboring Diasporas within Africa: Congo Recaptives on the Lutheran Muhlenberg Mission in 19th Century Liberia. Yolanda Covington-Ward, W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Liberia in the African American Imagination. Elijah Robert Zehyoue, Howard University, Department of History
216. 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm
Media Session
Cottonwood A- AV M1 North Tower
AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY AND HAIR-TAGE: THE STRUGGLE FOR NATURAL CULTURAL EXPRESSION.
Presenter:
Louise Dente, Bronx Branch of ASALH
Participant:
William Seraile, Manhattan Branch of ASALH
217. 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm
Presenter:
Media Session
Juniper- AV M2 North Tower
“SOMEBODY TAKE ME!” LABOR AND OTHER THEMES IN RYAN COOGLER’S SINNERS.
Sean Kornegay, North Carolina Central University
Commentator:
Vergil Demery, North Carolina Central University
218. 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm
Presenter:
Workshop Cypress- M2 North Tower
MAKE A SIMPLE FRAME VERSION OF THE GHANAIAN TALKING DRUM, THE DONDO.
Craig D. Woodson
Leader:
Craig D. Woodson
219. 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm
Participants:
Authors Book Signing Int’l Ballroom Foyer- M2
AUTHORS BOOK SIGNING.
Zora, the Story Keeper. Ebony Wilkins, National Louis University
Chance or Circumstance? A Memoir and Journey through the Struggle for Civil Rights. James R. Mapp
Freedom Season: How 1963 Transformed America’s Civil Rights Revolution. Peniel E. Joseph, University of Texas at AustinLyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs
Tell Her Story: Eleanor Bumpurs and the Police Killing That Galvanized New York City. LaShawn Harris, Journal of African American History (Pero Dagbovie)
This Is Rhythm: Ella Jenkins, Children’s Music, and the Long Civil Rights Movement. Gayle Wald
Emmett J. Scott: Power Broker of the Tuskegee Machine. Will Guzman
The Owl and The Great Tree. Russell Drake, Exordium Communications LLC
Roses in December: Black Life in Hanover County from Civil War to Civil Rights. Jody L. Allen
“Payne-ful” Business: Charleston’s Journey to Truth. Margaret Seidler, Charleston Area Branch ASALH
Gratuitous Angst in White America: A Theory of Whiteness and Crime. Deena A. Isom, University of South Carolina
Hubert Harrison: Forbidden Genius of Black Radicalism. Brian Kwoba, University of Memphis
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2025
Discovering My Southern Legacy: Slave Culture and the American South. Deirdre Foreman, Carter G. Woodson Branch of ASALH
Where Colors Meet: A Tapestry of Black and White - Stories of Courage, Connection and Transformation. Karen Flaherty, Seeking Insights for Solutions LLC
Model Schools in the Model City: Race, Planning, and Education in the Nation’s Capital. Amber Wiley, University of Oklahoma
Healing Words: The Therapeutic Power of Journaling. Tanya England, NYS Education Department
Black Panther Woman: The Political and Spiritual Life of Ericka Huggins. Mary Phillips, Department of African American StudiesUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Daughter of the Boycott: Carrying on a Montgomery Family’s Civil Rights Legacy. Karen Gray Houston, Retired from WTTG-TV, FOX-5, Washington, DC
GHOST SKINS. Vern Smith
With Faith in God and Heart and Mind: A History of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity. Maurice Hobson, Georgia State University Africana Studies
NURTURE: A NURTURING APPROACH TO TRAUMA. Mattie Jones, Epica Educational Consultant
It Took Courage: Eliza Winston’s Quest for Freedom. Christopher Lehman, St. Cloud State University
The Graphic History of Hip Hop, volume 1 (graphic novel). Walter Greason, Macalester College/Graphic History Company
Unleashing Black Power: Grassroots Organizing in Harlem and the Advent of the Long, Hot Summers. Peter Blackmer, Eastern Michigan University
Black Woman on Board: Claudia Hampton, the California State University and the Fight to Save Affirmative Action. Donna J. Nicol, California State University Long Beach
I Didn’t Come Here to Lie: My Life and Education. Elizabeth Todd-Breland, The University of Illinois at Chicago; Karen Lewis my mother’s tomorrow: dispatches through the lens of Baltimore’s Black Butterfly. Karsonya Wise Whitehead, Loyola UniversityDepartment of Communication
Customer Response: Essential Soldiers: Women Activists and Black Power Movement Leadership. Kenja McCray
Hidden Hospitality: Untold Stories of Black Hotel, Motel, and Resort Owners from the Pioneer Days to the Civil Rights Era. Calvin Stovall, ICONIC Presentations, LLC
Continually Working: Black Women, Community Intellectualism, and Economic Justice in Postwar Milwaukee. Crystal Moten, Obama Foundation
“Become the Pebble: An Eclectic Collection of Poems.” Bonnyeclaire Smith Stewart, 4MillionVoices, Inc.
Prose to the People: A Celebration of Black Bookstores. Katie Mitchell
Authentic African American Poetry. Frederick V. Newsome, Manhattan Branch of ASALH
Class Warfare in Black Atlanta: Grassroots Struggles, Power, and Repression Under Gentrification. Augustus Wood
An Efficient Womanhood Women and the Making of the Universal Negro Improvement Association. Natanya P. Duncan, Queens College City University of New York
OMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War. Edda L. Fields-Black, Carnegie Mellon University, BH 4825 Frew Street
A Balm in Gilead: Eulogies of Comfort. Randall Webber, Louisville, Kentucky Carter G. Woodson Branch of ASALH Gullah Cuisine by Land and Sea Publisher Heather Buchanan Victors: A Novel of Love, War and Jazz. Charlotte A. Jenkins, Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor Commission
A Journey Far: Ibere (Beginnings) AND Ọkunrin (A Man). Arcilous Mincey, ASALH of Tampa Bay (Branch)
Children of the Struggle and the Ancestors Who Stayed at The Tuskegee Institute High School Class of 1964. Sonjia Parker Redmond, California State Univ East Bay
A Southern Underground Railroad: Black Georgians and the Promise of Spanish Florida and Indian Country. Paul Moffatt Pressly, Ossabaw Island Foundation
This Far by Grace, the Incredible Story of One Man’s Journey Out of Darkness into God’s Marvelous Light! Donald Lee Johnson, http://www.lifelineministriesonline.com
T.O.B.A. “Time”: Black Vaudeville and the Theater Owners Booking Association in Jazz Age America. Michelle Scott, UMBC Victors: A Novel of Love, War and Jazz. Heather Buchanan, Aquarius Press Willow Books
The Presumption: Racial Injustice in the United States. Donald M Jones, University of Miami
A Walk in Their Kicks: Literacy, Identity, and the Schooling of Young Black Males. Aaron Johnson, Archetype Consulting DO YOU REMEMBER? CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF EARTH, WIND and FIRE. Trenton Bailey, Atlanta Branch of ASALH America’s Black Capital: How African Americans Remade Atlanta in the Shadow of the Confederacy. Jeffrey Ogbar
Disreputable Women: Black Sex Economies and the Making of San Diego. Christina Carney, University of Missouri, Columbia Raising the Race: Black Career Women Redefine Marriage, Motherhood, and Community. Riché Barnes, University of Florida Black, Not Historically Black: Towards the Pan Black College and University. Joseph Jones, Clark Atlanta University “Savior’s Day.” Alan Winter Kidnapped at Sea; the Civil War Voyage of David Henry White. Andrew Sillen, Rutgers University
Memoir of John Baptiste Stradford: Hero of Black Wall Street. Frederick Williams, Omega Psi Phi
7:30pm
220. 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm ASALH Film Festival Magnolia- AV M2 North Tower UNION (2024) (WITH GUEST CHRIS SMALLS), DIRS. BRETT STORY, STEPHEN T. MAING.
8:00pm
221. 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm
Greetings:
Reception Int’l Ballroom D- M2 North Tower Meal Functions FRIDAY RECEPTION.
Karsonya Wise Whitehead, Loyola University-Department of Communication Emcee:
Sylvia Y. Cyrus, ASALH Membership Department
Saturday, September 27, 2025
7:30am
222. 7:30 am to 2:30 pm RegistrationRedwood Pre-Function Area- M1 North Tower Registration Check-In
CONFERENCE REGISTRATION. 8:00am
223. 8:00 am to 5:00 pm Exhibitor Int’l Ballroom EF- M2 North Tower SATURDAY INT’L BALLROOM EF EXHIBITS. 8:30am
224. 8:30 am to 9:50 am Roundtable Birch- AV Atrium Level South Tower
THE CONTINENT AND THE DIASPORA SINCE 1994.
Chair:
Walter Greason, Macalester College/Graphic History Company
Presenters:
Walter Greason, Macalester College/Graphic History Company
Tim Fielder, Graphic History Company
Christina Hungspruke, Graphic History Company
Reynaldo Anderson
225. 8:30 am to 9:50 am
Panel Session Pine- AV Atrium Level South Tower EVERYDAY STRUGGLES, EVERYDAY RESISTANCE: THE LABOR OF BLACK FEMINIST ORGANIZING IN THE 1960S AND 1970S.
Chair:
Tiana U Wilson, University of Pittsburgh
Participants:
From Old Left to New Left: Black Feminism of the 1970s. Tiana U Wilson, University of Pittsburgh
Motherhood Menace: Black Women and the Politics of Love. Casey Nichols
Organizing for Care: How Black Women in Atlanta Developed a Black Feminist Politics of Reproduction. Eshe Sherley, Wake Forest University
Black Feminism’s Organizing Labor: From Interstitial Activism to Changing the Face of Leadership. Ileana Nachescu
Commentator:
Premilla Nadasen, Barnard College
226. 8:30 am to 9:50 am
Panel Session
Spruce- AV Atrium Level South Tower BUILDING ON STRONG LEGACIES: THE ANCESTRAL THROUGHLINE OF BLACK EDUCATION ACTIVISM IN PITTSBURGH.
Chair:
Allyce Pinchback-Johnson, Pinchback Consulting
Participants:
Grappling with Racism Equity and Underachievement: What We Can Learn from Pittsburgh School Success Stories. Richard Wertheimer, Retired Educator
Towards Root Cause Inquiry: A Case Study for the Equity Advisory Panel (EAP). IAsia Thomas, The Board of Public Education of the School District of Pittsburgh
For Black Women Who Have Reconsidered Flipping School Boards When Letters and Lawsuits Weren’t Enough: A Case Study on the Power Shifting Efforts of BW4BE. Allyce Pinchback-Johnson, Pinchback Consulting
Commentators:
Richard Wertheimer, Retired Educator
IAsia Thomas, The Board of Public Education of the School District of Pittsburgh
227. 8:30 am to 9:50 am
Chair:
Paper Session Maple A-AV Atrium Level South Tower
“DEBILITATED BY DESIGN: RACE, GENDER, AND THE MACHINERY OF INCARCERATION.”
Bishop W. Lawton
Participants:
“Domestic Carceral Labor: Race, Gender, and the Transformation of Punishment at Eastern State Penitentiary.” Whitney Fields
“The Struggle of Alabama Prisoners is the Struggle of All People”: Black Power Unionism and the Carceral State. Logan Barrett, Auburn University
The Longest Day and Night: Progressive Era Prison Reform and the Classification of Black Men in America’s Heart of Darkness. Douglas James Flowe
Debilitating Incarceration: The Case of Dessie X. Woods. Destiney Lynn Linker
228. 8:30 am to 9:50 am
Chair:
Panel Session
Maple B- AV Atrium Level South Tower
FREEDOM MAKING: BLACK LITERARY AND MATERIAL CULTURES IN EARLY AMERICA.
John J Garcia, American Antiquarian Society
Participants:
“‘We Admit It, If You Please’: Early Black Sermons and Itinerant Practices.” Chinaza Amaeze Okoli, Eastern Kentucky University
“The Slave Ship as a Literary and Theoretical Tool in Nineteenth-Century Black Writing.” Courtney Murray Ross, The Pennsylvania State University
“Fingerprinting the Soil: Reassessing Artisanal Process within Slavery Studies.” Hampton Smith, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Andrew Cain, Abolitionist Printer in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia.” John J Garcia, American Antiquarian Society
229. 8:30 am to 9:50 am
Chair:
Roundtable
Maple C- AV Atrium Level South Tower
“REVEAL THE BEAUTY”: THE LITERATURE AND ART OF THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE.
Tameka Hobbs, African American Research Library and Cultural Center
Presenters:
Shawn Christian, Florida International University
Christopher Norwood, Hampton Art Lovers
Laura Helton, University of Delaware
Erin Purdy, Broward County Library
230. 8:30 am to 9:50 am
Panel Session
Oak- AV Lobby Level South Tower
REESE STREET IN ATHENS, GEORGIA: AN AFRICAN AMERICAN NEIGHBORHOOD’S FIGHT TO RETAIN COMMUNITY AND IDENTITY.
Chair:
Freda S. Giles, Athens Branch of ASALH (GA)
Participants:
“Rooted in Reese Street: Standing on Their Shoulders Through Community, Education and Legacy.” Hope Iglehart, Athens Branch of ASALH (GA)
“Preserving the African American Built Environment: National and Local Designation of Historic Resources.” Amelia Anne Andrews, Athens Branch of ASALH (GA)
“Locating Three Generations of Jackson-Brydie Educators on North Finley Street.” Jane McPherson, University of Georgia School of Social Work
“Black Cartographies and Community Geography: Putting Black History on the Map in Athens, Georgia.” Jerry Shannon, University of Georgia Department of Geography
231. 8:30 am to 9:50 am
Chair:
Paper Session
Dogwood A- AV M1 North Tower
“LIBRARIES, MERGERS, AND MEMORY: UNCOVERING UNTOLD CIVIL RIGHTS HISTORIES.”
Aisha M. Johnson
Participants:
Complex Solidarities: Irish Americans, Northern Ireland Civil Rights, and the Black Freedom Struggle. James Robert Cooke
The Tougaloo Nine Library Sit-In at the Crossroads of Civil War and Civil Rights. Michael J. O’Brien, NOTBEMOVED.COM
An Air of Inevitability: Activist Communities, Memory, and the Desegregation of Higher Education in South Carolina. Thomas Ritchie, Tuskegee University
The Motor City Merger. Jamon Jordan, ASALH Detroit Branch
A House of Humanity: Supporting Rosa Lee Ingram’s Children, 1948-1955. Evan Kutzler, Western Michigan University
232. 8:30 am to 9:50 am
Special Book Panel
Dogwood B- AV M1 North Tower
A HINE-HORNE BOOK ROUNDTABLE: AUGUSTUS WOOD’S CLASS WARFARE IN BLACK ATLANTA: GRASSROOTS STRUGGLES, POWER, AND REPRESSION UNDER GENTRIFICATION.
Discussants:
Heather Ann Thompson, University of Michigan
Akinyele Umoja, Georgia State University African American Studies
Todd C Shaw, Department of African American Studies, University of South Carolina
Author:
Augustus Wood
233. 8:30 am to 9:50 am
Chair:
Panel Session
Cottonwood A- AV M1 North Tower
AFRICAN AMERICANS AND LABOR: THE LEGACY OF WORK AND SOCIAL JUSTICE.
Sheena Harris Hayes, Auburn University
Participants:
The Most Dangerous Negro Woman in America: Lucille Randolph, Invisible Architect of Black Labor Politics. Shennette GarrettScott, Association of Black Women Historians
Black Washerwomen in Memphis, TN 1880-1920. Beverly Bond, The University of Memphis
Black Agricultural Activism in Selma, Alabama: Samuel William Boynton and the Dallas County Negro Farm Bureau. Cherisse R. Jones-Branch
“People Can Only Take So Much” : Sylvia Woods and the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression. Natanya P. Duncan, Queens College City University of New York
234. 8:30 am to 9:50 am
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2025
Panel Session Int’l Ballroom A- AV M2 North Tower (Presidential Sessions)
ADVANCING BLACK STRATEGISTS INITIATIVE SESSION.
Chair: Augustus Wood
235. 8:30 am to 9:50 am
Chair:
Panel Session
Juniper- AV M2 North Tower
AFRICANA STUDIES AND DIGITAL, PUBLIC, AND ENVIRONMENTAL HUMANITIES AT UNF, PART II.
Tru Leverette Hall, University of North Florida
Participants:
Africana Studies and the Archive Track. Laura Heffernan
Decolonizing the Lens? Afro-Mexican Depictions in La Negrada. Andrea Gaytán Cuesta, University of North Florida
Rethinking Local Black History Through the Digital: Black Cemeteries as Archives. Felicia Bevel, University of North Florida at Jacksonville
Building a Collaborative Digital Edition of the Letters of Freedom (1767) of Javiera Londoño. Clayton McCarl, University of North Florida
Commentator:
Tru Leverette Hall, University of North Florida
236. 8:30 am to 9:50 am
Chair:
Roundtable
Cypress- M2 North Tower
FINDING OUR VOICE: THE FAMILY CIRCLE OF ARLINGTON HOUSE.
Courtney Hobson, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Presenters:
Cheryl J. LaRoche, University of Maryland College
Ric Murphy, National Strategy for Community Strategies
Stephen Hammond, Arlington House Descendants’ Family Circle Membe
Susan Glisson, The BIG We
Mary Custis Glover, Arlington House Descendants’ Family Circle
Cassie Anderson, National Portrait Gallery
237. 8:30 am to 9:50 am Paper Session
Chair:
Sycamore- M2 North Tower
“SOUNDS OF BLACKNESS: MUSIC, MEMORY, AND LABOR IN THE MAKING OF POPULAR CULTURE.”
Anton D. House
Participants:
Exploitation in Black Recording Industry During the Late 1980s and Early 1990s. Michelee Theresa Jones
Resistance and Song: Locating the Black Voice in Hip Hop Music. Zoe Young, North Carolina Central University
“The Message in the Music:” Black Resistance in the Philly Sound. Brianna Quade, The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
The role of African American Labor in creating Music City. Jon Sewell, Middle Tennessee State University
The Gospel of Willmer ‘Little Ax’ Broadnax: Sacred Music as Archive. Bianki Torres
238. 8:30 am to 9:50 am
Chair:
Roundtable
Chestnut- M3 North Tower
“THERE IS ALWAYS WORK TO DO”: BLACK WOMEN AND THE MAKING OF THE BLACK SOUTH.
Beatrice J Adams
Presenters:
Mahaliah A Little, University of California, Irvine
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2025
Jasmin C Howard, Assistant Professor of History, North Carolina Central University
La’Nora Jefferson, Doctoral Candidate in History, Rutgers-New Brunswick
239. 8:30 am to 9:50 am
Paper Session Hazelnut- AV M3 North Tower
“KEEPERS AND CREATORS: ARCHIVING BLACK WOMANHOOD THROUGH STORY, SPIRIT, AND SURVIVAL.”
Chair:
Loron Benton, University of South Carolina
Participants:
Grandmothering While Black: A Twenty-First Century Story of Love, Coercion, and Survival. LaShawnDa L. Pittman
Transformative travel in the lives of Black girls and women. Tijuani Phelps Jackson, Arizona State University
“Real Hot Girl Shit or Not: The Autonomy of Black Womanhood from Sally Hemings to Meg Thee Stallion.” Rachael Falu, Morgan State University
How Wolves Change Rivers : Yoruba Cosmology and the Liberation of African American Women. Charlea Bing, Florida
Agricultural and Mechanical University
“Keepers of the Archive: Black Women Descendants and Their Archival Labor.” Monet Lewis -Timmons
240. 8:30 am to 9:50 am
Workshop Hickory-AV M3 North Tower
HIDDEN FIGURES IN PLAIN SIGHT: BLACK WOMEN IN THE PROFESSIONS OF TELEVISION NEWS, SPORTSWRITING AND FOREIGN SERVICE.
Presenters:
Atim Eneida George, Antioch University
Sophia Scanlan, Columbia University PHD Student
Leader:
Ava Thompson Greenwell, Northwestern University-Medill School of Journalism
241. 8:30 am to 9:50 am
Panel Session Int’l Ballroom C- AV - M2 North Tower Sessions
THE BLACK CHURCH, INKSTER PROJECT, UAW, BROTHERHOOD OF SLEEPING CAR PORTERS (BSCP) AND HENRY FORD.
Chair:
Anita Moncrease, ASALH Detroit Branch
Participants:
Rev. Charles Andrew Hill and the formation of the United Auto Workers Union at Ford Motor Company. Anita Moncrease, ASALH Detroit Branch; Howard Lindsey, ASALH Detroit Branch; David L. Head, ASALH Detroit Branch; Rashid Faisal, ASALH-Detroit
Henry Ford and the Ford-Inkster Project. Howard Lindsey, ASALH Detroit Branch; Anita Moncrease, ASALH Detroit Branch; David L. Head, ASALH Detroit Branch; Rashid Faisal, ASALH-Detroit
The Pullman Porters and Their Impact on the Black Labor Movement. Rashid Faisal, ASALH-Detroit; Howard Lindsey, ASALH Detroit Branch; David L. Head, ASALH Detroit Branch; Anita Moncrease, ASALH Detroit Branch
242. 9:00 am to 10:45 am
9:00am
ASALH Film Festival Magnolia- AV M2 North Tower
AVA GREENWELL FILM FESTIVAL: HEARING SILENCES: 50 YEARS OF BLACK WOMEN FACULTY AT NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY (2025) AND MANDELA IN CHICAGO (2021).
243. 9:00 am to 11:45 am Meeting Int’l Ballroom B-AV - M2 North Tower Plenary Sessions BRANCH MEETING AND ASALH MEMBER REMEMBRANCE CEREMONY.
Chairs:
Deirdre Foreman, Carter G. Woodson Branch of ASALH
Anita M. Shepherd, James Weldon Johnson Branch of ASALH Jacksonville, FL
Presenters:
Karsonya Wise Whitehead, Loyola University-Department of Communication
David Mathew Walton
Aaisha Haykal, Charleston Area Branch ASALH
John E. Adams
Sylvia Y. Cyrus, ASALH Membership Department
Yvonne B. Acey, Memphis Area Branch of ASALH
Madge Allen, Trainers Warehouse
Christy Armfield, Manhattan Branch of ASALH
Carolyn S. Blackshear, Savannah Yamacraw Branch
Ida Lee Carey, W. Marvin Dulaney Branch of ASALH
Kisha Bevane King, ASALH South Florida, Inc.
Shirl McCray, ASALH of Tampa Bay (Branch)
Bernetta DeNeice Welch, Dr. Edna McKenzie Branch of ASALH
Jerome Harris, Charleston Area Branch ASALH
Lucy Brenda Frinks, ASALH of Tampa Bay (Branch)
Lyman Brodie, University of Central Florida-Dean Office College of Arts and Humanities
Felecia D. Jett, Manasota Branch of ASALH
Participant:
Donald Pinkard, Hidden History DFW LLC
Leaders:
Maude L. Johnson, Our Authors Study Club Branch of ASALH
Leontyne Middleton, ASALH of Tampa Bay (Branch)
Hazel Gillis, James Weldon Johnson Branch of ASALH
244. 10:15 am to 11:45 am
BLACK POWER ON THE DOCKS: CHARLESTON’S INTERNATIONAL LONGSHOREMEN’S UNION.
Chair:
Leonard Riley Jr., ILA Local 1422
Participants:
The Women of ILA Local 1422. Rachel Denmark, International Longshoremen’s Association, Local 1422
The Legacies of the Struggle to Free the Charleston 5. Kieran Taylor, The Citadel Worker Power--Family Power. Grace Riley, ILA Local 1422
245. 10:15 am to 11:45 am
Pine- AV Atrium Level South Tower BLACK PUBLIC WORKERS AND THE DIGNITY OF LABOR.
Chair:
Errin Haines, The 19th News
Participants:
Public Servants: Race, Gender and the Devaluing of Essential Workers. William Jones, University of Minnesota
From ‘Public Leeches’ to the ‘Parasite Class’: Dog Whistle Politics and Attacks on Public-Sector Workers Since the 1960s. Jane Berger, Moravian College
The Black Partners: The Coalition of Black Trade Unionists and the Expression of Black Worker Voice, 1972-1978. Marc Bayard, Institute for Policy Studies
Karen Lewis: Black Women Labor Leaders and the Fight for the Public Good. Elizabeth Todd-Breland, The University of Illinois at Chicago
246. 10:15 am to 11:45 am Roundtable
Chair:
Spruce- AV Atrium Level South Tower
A DECADE OF BLACK ERASURE: SOCIAL MEDIA SINCE 2015.
Walter Greason, Macalester College/Graphic History Company
Presenters:
Reynaldo Anderson
Nishani Frazier, Miami University of Ohio
Zebulon Vance Miletsky, Manhattan Branch of ASALH
247. 10:15 am to 11:45 am
Panel Session
Maple A-AV Atrium Level South Tower
FINDINGS AND IMPLICATIONS FROM THE NATIONAL SURVEY ON BLACK HISTORY MONTH PROGRAMMING IN PUBLIC LIBRARIES.
Chair:
Deborah Robinson, Program for Research on Black Americans
Participants:
Findings from the Black History Month Programming in Public Libraries National Study. Deborah Robinson, Program for Research on Black Americans
The Black History Month Toolkit for Librarians. Grace Jackson-Brown, Greater Kansas City Black History Study Group (ASALH Branch)
The Implications of the BHM National Study for the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. Wanda K. Brown
The Implications of the BHM National Study for ASALH. Aisha M. Johnson
248. 10:15 am to 11:45 am
Roundtable
Maple B- AV Atrium Level South Tower FROM ABSENCE TO ACTION: BLACK CRAFTSPEOPLE, PUBLIC HISTORY, AND THE POWER OF COLLABORATION.
Chair:
Tiffany Momon
Presenters:
Torren Leon Gatson, Middle Tennessee State University
Andrew Winters, UNC Press
Joseph Roberts, Black Craftspeople Digital Archive
Ashanty Felipe, Xavier University of Louisiana
Commentator:
Marquita Reed, Tennessee State University -Brown-Daniel Library
249. 10:15 am to 11:45 am
Chair:
Panel Session Maple C- AV Atrium Level South Tower
REWORKING BLACK ARCHIVES: HISTORY, METHOD, AND MEMORY IN AFRICAN AMERICAN LIFE.
Ashley Newby, University of Maryland, College Park
Participants: the Black Studies Podcast. Ashley Newby, University of Maryland, College Park
Slavery in Motion. Jessica A. Newby, Johns Hopkins University
Religious History of the Underground Railroad. Cona Marshall, University of Rochester
250. 10:15 am to 11:45 am
Chair:
Panel Session Oak- AV Lobby Level South Tower
BLACK INTERNATIONALISM AND US IMPERIALISM DURING THE COLD WAR.
Minkah Makalani, Johns Hopkins University
Participants:
Global Solidarity in a Time of War: The New Afrikan Struggle for Liberation and Self-Determination. Broderick Dunlap, Johns Hopkins University
On Connecting the Struggles: Amílcar Cabrals Anti-Imperialism across the Pan-African Atlantic. Desmond Fonseca, Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles
Hip Hop Internationalism: Black Music and Activism in the Anti-Apartheid Era. Mickell Carter, Africana Studies/Rites and Reason Theatre, Brown University
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2025
Unveiling the Color Line: W.E.B. Du Bois’ Lost Theory of the Colonial System. PM Irvin, Department of Philosophy, Stanford University
251. 10:15 am to 11:45 am
Chair:
Key Session
Dogwood A- AV M1 North Tower
OUR BLACK SHINING PRINCE: MALCOLM X AT 100.
Darius J Young, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University
Presenters:
JoAnna LeFlore-Ejike
Ibram X Kendi
Peniel E. Joseph, University of Texas at Austin - Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs
Ashley Farmer, University of Texas-Austin
252. 10:15 am to 11:45 am
Chair: Gerald Horne
Presenters:
Key Session
Dogwood B- AV M1 North Tower 1776 AND THE REVOLT AGAINST BRITISH RULE.
Sean Gallagher, University of South Carolina
Maria Esther Hammack
Andrew Lawler, Author and Journalist
Commentator: Gerald Horne
253. 10:15 am to 11:45 am Workshop Cottonwood A- AV M1 North Tower
MASTERING MEDIA AS A BLACK SCHOLAR.
Leader:
Nanda Dyssou
254. 10:15 am to 11:45 am
Presenters:
WorkshopInt’l Ballroom A- AV M2 North Tower (Presidential Sessions)
AMPLIFYING THE VOICES OF GENERATION NEXT, PROMOTING THE FUTURE OF ASALH.
Karsonya Wise Whitehead, Loyola University-Department of Communication
Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua
Joyya Smith
Leader:
Deirdre Foreman, Carter G. Woodson Branch of ASALH
255. 10:15 am to 11:45 am
Chair:
Roundtable
Juniper- AV M2 North Tower
HUBERT HARRISON: FORBIDDEN GENIUS OF BLACK RADICALISM.
Brian Kwoba, University of Memphis
Presenters:
K.T. Ewing, The University of Alabama
Erik S. McDuffie, University of Illinois Department of African American Studies
Claudrena Nolanda Harold
256. 10:15 am to 11:45 am
Roundtable
Cypress- M2 North Tower
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2025
UNTOLD STORIES AND LIVING LEGACIES OF AFFIRMATIVE ACTION: COMMEMORATING ARTHUR FLETCHER“FATHER OF AFFIRMATIVE ACTION.”
Chair:
LaTaSha B. Levy, Howard University Dept. of Africana Studies
Presenters:
Paul Fletcher, Independent / Arthur A. Fletcher Foundation
Eddie Rye, Jr., Urban Forum Northwest
Barbara Atkinson, Independent Scholar
Willie Wyatt, Independent Scholar
257. 10:15 am to 11:45 am Workshop
Leader:
Sycamore- M2 North Tower
EMOTIONAL EATING AS LABOR: REWRITING THE NARRATIVE FOR HEALING AND RESILIENCE.
Michelle Petties, Brand New Now Press
258. 10:15 am to 11:45 am Key Session
Chestnut- M3 North Tower
A PIPELINE OF BLACK HISTORY CONNECTING ALASKA AND OKLAHOMA: A ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION SPONSORED BY THE 400 YEARS OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY COMMISSION.
Chair:
Ian Hartman, University of Alaska Anchorage
Presenters:
Ian Hartman, University of Alaska Anchorage
Hannibal B. Johnson, 400 Years of African American History Commission
Jewel Jones, 400 Years of African American History Commission
Eleanor Andrews, 400 Years of African History Commission
259. 10:15 am to 11:45 am
Workshop
Hazelnut- AV M3 North Tower
TOOLKIT WORKSHOP ON THE STUDENT NONVIOLENT COORDINATING COMMITTEE (SNCC): THE ORGANIZING TRADITION AND FREEDOM TEACHING.
Presenters:
Jessica A. Rucker, University of Maryland College Park
Judy Richardson, SNCC Legacy Project
Leader:
Emilye Crosby, Rochester Branch
260. 10:15 am to 11:45 am
Panel Session
Hickory-AV M3 North Tower
NEW CULTURAL, POLITICAL, AND INTELLECTUAL HISTORIES OF HBCUS: A BOOK CONVERSATION BETWEEN CRYSTAL R. SANDERS AND JARVIS C. MCINNIS.
Chair:
Julius B Fleming, Washington University in St Louis
Participants:
A Forgotten Migration: Black Southerners, Segregation Scholarships, and the Debt Owed to Public HBCUs. Crystal R. Sanders, Dr. Edna McKenzie Branch of ASALH Afterlives of the Plantation: Plotting Agrarian Futures in the Global Black South. Jarvis C McInnis Black Patience: Performance, Civil Rights, and the Unfinished Project of Emancipation. Julius B Fleming, Washington University in St Louis
261. 10:15 am to 11:45 am
Panel Session Int’l Ballroom C- AV - M2 North Tower Sessions
TRANSNATIONAL TRANSACTIONS: LABOR DYNAMICS IN THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY CIRCUM-CARIBBEAN.
Chair:
SATURDAY,
Janette Gayle, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Participants:
A Swing for Revolution: How CLR James Used Sport Literature as A Call for Black Liberation. Christopher Davis, Adelphi University
Hitler’s Iron Hand: Sterilization, Colonial Policy, and Black Diaspora Labor Protest. Theodore S. Francis
Global Great Migrations: Labor Recruiters, Strike Breaking, and Racial Boundaries, 1890-1920. Rudi Batzell, Lake Forest College
Displacement, Forced Labor and the Sugar Sector in the Post-Genocide Dominican Republic. Sabine F Cadeau, McGill University
The Movement of People and Labor Ideas Between New York City and the British West Indies in the 1930s. Janette Gayle, Hobart and William Smith Colleges 11:00am
262. 11:00 am to 1:30 pm ASALH Film Festival Magnolia- AV M2 North Tower
PRESERVING HISTORIC BLACK COMMUNITIES.
Presenter:
Walter Greason, Macalester College/Graphic History Company
264. 12:00 pm to 1:45 pm
Chair:
AV Atrium Level South
SCHOOLING THE EMPIRE: GLOBAL HISTORIES OF AFRICAN AMERICAN EDUCATION.
Anthony Outler, Morehouse College
Participants:
Critical Bookerism: Ethiopianism, Labor, and Anti-Imperialist Education in the National Baptist Convention. Kai Parker, University of Virginia, Department of Religious Studies
How HBUCs Became Colonial Outposts of the Black Pacific. Guy Emerson Mount
The Explorations of Horace Mann Bond. Emily Masghati, Penn State Erie
Commentator:
Anthony Outler, Morehouse College
265. 12:00 pm to 1:45 pm Workshop Maple B- AV Atrium Level South Tower
“SIS, THAT’S NOT YOUR JOB”: BUILDING BOUNDARIES TO BREAK BURNOUT.”
Presenter:
Melissa Crum, Mosaic Education Network
Leader:
Melissa Crum, Mosaic Education Network
266. 12:00 pm to 1:45 pm Workshop Maple C- AV Atrium Level South Tower SOUND, STORY, AND BLACK REST: A HEALING WORKSHOP ON WELLNESS AS RESISTANCE.
Leader:
Tika Simone, Founder, Iverna Island Foundation – Vancouver, BC, Canada
267. 12:00 pm to 1:45 pm Roundtable Oak- AV Lobby Level South Tower
THE CORPORATE EQUITY CENTER: LEVERAGING THE POWER OF PLACE AND HISTORY TO COMBAT RACIAL BIAS AND DRIVE CHANGE.
Chair:
Arlinda Fair Cathey, National Civil Rights Museum
Presenters:
Veda Ajamu, National Civil Rights Museum
Ryan Jones, National Civil Rights Museum
Fourth Presenter, National Civil Rights Museum
268. 12:00 pm to 1:45 pm
Paper Session
Dogwood B- AV M1 North Tower
“THE LABOR OF HEALING: COLLECTIVE MEMORY, MOVEMENT, AND CARE IN BLACK COMMUNITIES.”
Chair:
Aisha M. Johnson
Participants:
Healing of the Souls for Africans Americans: Soul Healing from The Effects of Racism. Rosalind Caldwell Stanley
Covert Black Collecting as Cultural Labor. Keisha Oliver, Pennsylvania State University
From Soul to System: A Comprehensive, Culturally Affirming Model for Black Well-Being. China Dailey, North Carolina Central University
Simple Support for Successful Teaching. Benjamin Mchie, African American Registry
African American Labor Movements: The Power of Marches, Songs, and Poems. Christopher Sims, Intercultural Leadership Institute
269. 12:00 pm to 1:45 pm
WorkshopInt’l Ballroom A- AV M2 North Tower (Presidential Sessions)
INTEGRATING BLACK PSYCHOLOGY AND BLACK HISTORY CONSCIOUSNESS TO FOSTER PROFESSIONAL SOCIALIZATION AMONG BLACK GRADUATE STUDENTS.
Presenters:
Donnie Lindsey, University of Georgia
Moesha Ciceron, The University of Georgia
Collette Chapman-Hilliard, Professor/Faculty
Alisa Castilla, Graduate Student
Leader:
Donnie Lindsey, University of Georgia
270. 12:00 pm to 1:45 pm
Panel Session
Juniper- AV M2 North Tower
BROACHING BURROUGHS: NEW INSIGHTS INTO THE ORGANIZING AND LEGACIES OF NANNIE HELEN BURROUGHS.
Chair:
Danielle T Phillips-Cunningham
Participants:
“The Art of the Possible: The Intellectual and Strategic Leadership of Nannie Helen Burroughs.” Kelisha Graves, Virginia State University
“Complicating a Clubwoman: Researching Nannie Helen Burroughs to Illuminate Working-Class Subjectivities.” Mary Elizabeth B. Murphy, Eastern Michigan University
“Nannie Helen Burroughs: Architect of a Black Clubwomen’s Labor Movement.” Danielle T Phillips-Cunningham
“Burroughs’ Organizing Legacy: Household Workers Get Trained, Speak Up, and Act Out.” Eileen Boris, Department of Feminist Studies, University of California-Santa Barbara
Commentator:
Sheri Davis-Faulkner, Rutgers University
271. 12:00 pm to 1:45 pm
Chairs:
Panel Session
Cypress- M2 North Tower
LABORING AND LABOR PANGS: FORGING THE CULTURE OF SOUTH LOUISIANA.
Eva Semien Baham, Charles Deslondes Branch of New Orleans
Jana Smith
Participants:
Enslaved Laborers in New Orleans’ Congo Square. Freddi Williams Evans, Charles Deslondes Branch of New Orleans
New Orleans’ Black Midwives: History, Healing, and Hope. Tiffany Guillory Thomas, Charles Deslondes Branch of New Orleans
Building Lives, Building Community: Laboring in Rural South Louisiana. Eva Semien Baham, Charles Deslondes Branch of New Orleans
272. 12:00 pm to 1:45 pm
Chair:
Roundtable
Sycamore- M2 North Tower
THE FABRIC OF FREEDOM: BLACK WOMEN’S POLITICAL LABOR IN EVERYDAY LIFE.
Alysia Burton Steele
Presenters:
Frank Kalisik
Jeremiah Ellis
Alysia Burton Steele
Jessica Brooks, Hamline University
273. 12:00 pm to 1:45 pm
Key Session
Chestnut- M3 North Tower
“GRIT AND THE GROUND WE STAND ON: HISTORIES OF BLACK WORKING-CLASS RESISTANCE.”
Participants:
“We Do This for Mike Brown”: Fast-Food Workers and Contemporary Black Working Class Struggle in St. Louis, Missouri. Chelsea Birchmier
Grace and Grit: Black Women and Charleston Hospital Workers’ Campaign. O. Jennifer Dixon-McKnight, Winthrop University
Litigating Longshoremen in the Lone Star State: Black Dock Workers and the Struggle to Maintain Autonomy After the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Darius Caleb Smith
Reimagining the College on the Hill: A History of the Black Working Class at Connecticut College, 1911-1955. Jonathan Dayan Welfare and the Right to Organize: Black mothers in New Orleans 1975-1999. Erleen Ellis, The University of New Orleans
274. 12:00 pm to 1:45 pm
Roundtable Int’l Ballroom C- AV - M2 North Tower Sessions
FUGITIVE PEDAGOGY IN THE ERA OF PROJECT 2025: FACULTY GUIDE FOR RESISTANCE IN HIGHER EDUCATION.
Chair:
Uzoma Miller
Presenters:
Uzoma Miller
Kenja McCray
Jocelyn Brown, Ohio University
Arthur Amaker
Obe Lee Jones, Clark Atlanta University
275. 12:00 pm to 1:45 pm
Luncheon Int’l Ballroom D- M2 North Tower Meal Functions
“AN UNUSUAL EMPHASIS ON SCHOLARSHIP: CARTER G. WOODSON. OMEGA PSI PHI, AND THE POWER OF BLACK HISTORY.”
Guest Speaker:
Maurice Hobson, Georgia State University Africana Studies
Derrick Alridge, University of Virginia
Jim C. Harper, North Carolina Central University
Eddie R. Cole
Invocation:
Walter J Lanier, African American Leadership Alliance Milwaukee
Greetings:
Karsonya Wise Whitehead, Loyola University-Department of Communication
Emcee:
Sylvia Y. Cyrus, ASALH Membership Department
276. 2:00 pm to 3:50 pm
2:00pm
Key Session
Magnolia- AV M2 North Tower
BLACK RADICAL LABOR FESTIVAL: FINALLY GOT THE NEWS! (1970), LEAGUE OF REVOLUTIONARY BLACK WORKERS AND WILDCAT AT MEAD (1972), THE OCTOBER LEAGUE.
277. 2:15 pm to 3:45 pm
2:15pm
Key Session Birch- AV Atrium Level South Tower
GLOBAL TIES, RADICAL STRUGGLES: PAN-AFRICANISM, LABOR, AND ANTI-IMPERIALISM IN THE 20TH CENTURY.
Chair:
Quito Swan, The George Washington University
Participants:
“We Could Work Out Our Own Salvation”: Floridine “Florence” Pitters, Colonial Jamaica, Black Economic Slavery and The UNIA Repatriation Bill of Jamaica and The West Indies. Adisa Vera L. Beatty, Independent Scholar
Alphaeus Hunton and the Black Internationalist Critique of U.S. Foreign Policy. Alhaji Conteh, Hunter College-CUNY
Roots of Radicalization: Assata Shakur’s Early Life and the Influence of Southern Black Resistance. Kimberly Monroe, Trinity Washington University
Groundings with the Working Class: Walter Rodney, Labor, and the Struggle for Liberation. Latif Ashanti Tarik, Elizabeth City State University
278. 2:15 pm to 3:45 pm
Paper Session
Pine- AV Atrium Level South Tower
“RADICAL DREAMS, REVOLUTIONARY LABORS: BLACK STRUGGLE AND THE POLITICS OF FREEDOM.”
Chair:
Stephanie Fortado, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Participants:
“If we don’t work, nobody works”: Harlem CORE, Affirmative Action, and Black Radicalism in NYC. Peter Blackmer, Eastern Michigan University
“The Idols of the Tribe”: African American Intellectuals and Labor Radicalism, 1870-1917. Willie Mack, University of Missouri
Grace P. Campbell and The Legacy of Abolition Democracy: Unveiling Her Radical Vision for Black Liberation. Lydia Lindsey, North Carolina Central University
Gathering Lives of Work and Struggle: How the Ethnography of Black Working People Informs Black Political Economy. Augustus Wood; Lou Turner, Department of Urban and Regional Planning
Pan-African Proletariat: African American Laborers and the Fate of the Black World. Bishop W. Lawton
279. 2:15 pm to 3:45 pm
Roundtable
Spruce- AV Atrium Level South Tower
LABOR OF LOVE: THE 1967 LEGACY PROGRAM AT THE COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON AND STUDY ABROAD.
Chair:
Valerie Frazier, College of Charleston
Presenters:
William Jenkins, Charleston Area Branch ASALH
Jamirika Randall, College of Charleston 1967 Legacy Program
Amber Sanders, College of Charleston 1967 Legacy Program
Adwoa Addai, College of Charleston
Lexi Redd, College of Charleston
Ashton Zow, College of Charleston
280. 2:15 pm to 3:45 pm
Panel Session
Maple A-AV Atrium Level South Tower
INDIAN WOODS, NORTH CAROLINA: RECLAIMING COMMUNITY HISTORY THROUGH US CENSUS DATA.
Chair:
Charles Denton Johnson, North Carolina Central University
Participants:
Indian Woods Census Data: 1880-1910. Zoe Young, North Carolina Central University
Indian Woods Census Data 1920-1950. Elijah Bombo, North Carolina Central University
Indian Woods Census Data 1790-1950. Colette Haworth
Commentator:
Arwin Smallwood, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University-Department of History
281. 2:15 pm to 3:45 pm
Chair:
Panel Session
Maple B- AV Atrium Level South Tower
THE POLITICS OF BLACK FEMININITY IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY.
Danielle Procope Bell, University of Tennessee- Africana Studies
Participants:
Reclaiming Power: Black Women and Girls’ Resistance to Misogynoir and Far-Right Ideologies. Alexandria C. Onuoha, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Gender Incongruence: Black Masculinity, Femininity, and the Challenge of Intimacy. Marbella Eboni Hill, North Carolina State University
Black Middle-Class Women, Heterosexual Marriage, and Gender. LaToya Council, Lehigh University
282. 2:15 pm to 3:45 pm
Chair:
Roundtable
Maple C- AV Atrium Level South Tower
LAUNCHING THE NEW JOURNAL OF BLACK MILITARY STUDIES.
Francoise N. Hamlin, Brown University
Presenters:
Vanessa Holden, University of Kentucky
Le’Trice Donaldson, Auburn University
Jonathan Lande
Steven Trout, University of Alabama
Gregory Lamont Mixon, Romare Bearden Branch of ASALH of Charlotte, NC
Aimee Diehl, University of Vermont Press
283. 2:15 pm to 3:45 pm
Panel Session Oak- AV Lobby Level South Tower
FOSTERING FRESH PERSPECTIVES ON AFRICAN AMERICANS’ LABOR, LEADERSHIP, AND ACTIVISM: TWENTIETH-CENTURY BLACK WOMEN’S HISTORY AND THE ARCHIVE.
Chair:
Holly Smith, Spelman College
Participants:
Annie McPheeters, Civil Rights, and African American Librarianship in Atlanta. Vicki Crawford, Morehouse College
Essential Disruptors: Researchers, Archivists and Collaborative Possibilities. Kenja McCray
Rooting Nation Women in the Black Freedom Story of Atlanta. Nafeesa Muhammad, Spelman College
Beyond Black Radicalism: Caribbean Women and Electoral Politics in Early Twentieth-Century New York City. Janira Teague, Morehouse College
284. 2:15 pm to 3:45 pm
Chair:
Roundtable
Dogwood A- AV M1 North Tower
VIOLENCE AND NONVIOLENCE IN AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY.
Anthony C. Siracusa, Colorado College
Presenters:
Akinyele Umoja, Georgia State University African American Studies
Kellie Carter Jackson, Wellesley College
Charles Cobb, SNCC Veteran
285. 2:15 pm to 3:45 pm
Panel Session
Dogwood B- AV M1 North Tower
MOVING ON UP: BLACK WOMEN NAVIGATE NEW PROFESSIONAL WORLDS IN DESEGREGATED AMERICA FROM THE 1960S TO THE PRESENT.
Participants:
Build Sister Build:” An Oral History of Nashville Opportunities Industrialization Center Director Betty Cunningham, Stories of Non-Profit Leadership and Educational and Economic Uplift, 1976-1997. Sonya Ramsey, UNC Charlotte
Black Women’s Workplace and Community Leadership Runs in the Family, 1970s to the Present. Deidre Hill Butler, Union College--African Studies Program
Confronting Race and Place in Jewish Spaces: Black Women Medical Professionals in Detroit’s Sinai Hospital. Julia Robinson Moore, UNC Charlotte
Sewing as a Form of Resistance and Survival: Seamstress Rowena Fitzgerald, Belk Store, Danville, VA, 1960s. Felecia C Harris, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
286. 2:15 pm to 3:45 pm Panel Session
Chair:
Cottonwood A- AV M1 North Tower
ART AS COMMUNAL PRAXIS: BLACK WOMEN’S VISUAL ECOSYSTEMS IN ATLANTA.
Tanisha Jackson, Syracuse University
Participants:
Mapping Black Women’s Wellness Ecosystems in Atlanta. Tanisha Jackson, Syracuse University
From Family Heirlooms to Public Rituals: Photography as Ancestral Archive. Tokie M Rome-Taylor, Independent Artist
Sacred Streets: Public Art and Spiritual Resilience in Atlanta. Shanequa M Gay, Independent Artist
287. 2:15 pm to 3:45 pm
Presidential Session Int’l Ballroom A- AV M2 North Tower (Presidential Sessions)
#SAYHERNAME: BLACK WOMEN’S STORIES OF POLICE VIOLENCE AND PUBLIC SILENCE. KIMBERLé CRENSHAW AND THE SAY HER NAME MOTHERS NETWORK. MODERATED BY KARSONYA WISE WHITEHEAD.
Presenters:
Kimberle Crenshaw, University of California Los Angeles
Joy Reid
Shavon Arline-Bradley, National Council of Negro Women
Moderator:
Karsonya Wise Whitehead, Loyola University-Department of Communication
288. 2:15 pm to 3:45 pm
Panel Session
Juniper- AV M2 North Tower
SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT: BLACK ACTIVISM, LABOR, AND COMMUNICATION IN THE CIVIL RIGHTS AND COLD WAR ERAS.”
Chair:
Ronald Jemal Stephens, Purdue University
Participants:
Broadcasting Freedom: The Role of Black Media in the African American Struggle for Justice and Liberation. Ovie Richard Agezeh, Purdue University
Truth-telling on the Radical Black Woman Activist Mae Mallory. Clarreese Greene
War of Words: Robert and Mabel Williams’ Transnational Crusade for Justice and Democracy. Ronald Jemal Stephens, Purdue University
289. 2:15 pm to 3:45 pm
Roundtable
Cypress- M2 North Tower
THE STAKES OF BLACK STUDY: THE POLITICS, PREMISES, PEOPLE, AND POSSIBILITIES.
Chair:
Monique Wimby, Emory University
Presenters:
Amir Curry, Emory University
Brenda Umutoniwase, Emory University
Cheyenne Ross, Emory University
Lizette London, Emory University
290. 2:15 pm to 3:45 pm
Key Session Sycamore- M2 North Tower
LABOR HISTORY MEETS BLACK HISTORY: A CONVERSATION BETWEEN ASALH AND LAWCHA.
291. 2:15 pm to 3:45 pm Roundtable Chestnut- M3 North Tower
UNPACKING THE HOMECOMING.
Chair:
Andrea L. Smith, Prof at Sacramento State in Pan African Studies
Presenters:
Martin Luther Boston, Prof at Sacramento State in Pan African Studies
Clarence George, Prof at Sacramento State in Pan African Studies
Andrea L. Smith, Prof at Sacramento State in Pan African Studies
292. 2:15 pm to 3:45 pm Roundtable
Chair:
AV M3 North Tower
HONORING BLACK LIFE - NEW HISTORIES OF POLICING, AND POLICE BRUATLITY.
Menika Dirkson, Morgan State University
Presenters:
LaShawn Harris, Journal of African American History (Pero Dagbovie)
Shannon King, Fairfield University
Tonia Sutherland, Associate Professor, Information Studies School of Education and Information Studies University of Ca
Luther Adams - Free Man of Color
293. 2:15 pm to 3:45 pm
Presenters:
David Mathew Walton
Panel Session
Hickory-AV M3 North Tower
BLACK CONSERVATIVE THOUGHT AND BLACK ETHNOCENTRISM.
Albert Russell Thompson
Anton D. House
294. 2:15 pm to 3:45 pm
Roundtable Int’l Ballroom B-AV - M2 North Tower Plenary Sessions
RADICAL BLACK ORGANIZING FOR LIBERATION IN THE FACE OF MAGA’S PROJECT 2025 REPRESSION.
Chair:
Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua
Presenters:
Ajamu Baraka, Black Alliance for Peace
Brea Perry, Black Workers for Justice
Joshua Ingram, Black Men Build
295. 2:15 pm to 3:45 pm
Special Book Panel Int’l Ballroom C- AV - M2 North Tower Sessions
A HINE-HORNE BOOK ROUNDTABLE: CRYSTAL SANDERS’ A FORGOTTEN MIGRATION: BLACK SOUTHERNERS, SEGREGATION SCHOLARSHIPS, AND THE DEBT OWED TO PUBLIC HBCUS.
Discussants:
Tikia K. Hamilton, Loyola University Chicago
Eddie R. Cole
Derrick Alridge, University of Virginia
Participant:
Crystal R. Sanders, Dr. Edna McKenzie Branch of ASALH 4:00pm
296. 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm
Participant:
Meeting Int’l Ballroom B-AV - M2 North Tower Plenary Sessions ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING.
Karsonya Wise Whitehead, Loyola University-Department of Communication
John E. Adams
Aaisha Haykal, Charleston Area Branch ASALH
David Mathew Walton
Anita M. Shepherd, James Weldon Johnson Branch of ASALH Jacksonville, FL
Sylvia Y. Cyrus, ASALH Membership Department 7:30pm
297. 7:30 pm to 10:30 pm
Awardee:
Kimberle Crenshaw, University of California Los Angeles
Joy Reid
Shavon Arline-Bradley, National Council of Negro Women
Participant:
Camesha Scruggs, Central Connecticut State University
Award Presenter:
Aisha M. Johnson
Leslie Etienne, Joseph T. Taylor Branch of ASALH
Aaisha Haykal, Charleston Area Branch ASALH
Anita M. Shepherd, James Weldon Johnson Branch of ASALH Jacksonville, FL
Everett Hardy, Oberlin College
Greetings:
Karsonya Wise Whitehead, Loyola University-Department of Communication
Emcee:
Sylvia Y. Cyrus, ASALH Membership Department
Sponsor: Dwight McQueen, Director, ATL Tours