Centennial Annual Meeting and Conference

Academic Program Journal A Century of Black Life History and Culture

September 23-27, 2015 Sheraton Hotel Downtown • ,

www.asalh.org Association for the Study of African American Life and History 2016 Call for Papers Hallowed Grounds: Sites of African American Memory 101st Annual Conference and Meeting October 4 – 9, 2016 Richmond Marriott, 500 East Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219

The history of African American unfolds across the canvass of America, beginning before the arrival of the Mayflower and continuing to the present. From port cities where Africans disembarked from slave ships to the battle fields where their descendants fought for freedom, from the colleges and universities where they have pursued education, to places where they created communities during centuries of migration, the imprint of Americans of African descent is deeply embedded in the narrative of the American past, insert comma and the sites prompt us to remember. Over time, many of these sites of African American memory became hallowed grounds.

One cannot tell the story of America without preserving and reflecting on the places where have made history. The Kingsley Plantation, DuSable’s home site, the numerous stops along the Underground Railroad, Seneca Village, Mother Bethel A.M.E. Church and ’ home — to name just a few — are sites that keep alive the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in our consciousness. They retain and refresh the memories of our forbearers’ struggles for freedom, justice, and God’s grace and mercy. Similarly, the hallowed grounds of Mary McLeod Bethune’s home in Washington, 125th Street in Harlem, Beale Street in Memphis, and Sweet Auburn Avenue in Atlanta tell the story of our struggle for equal citizenship during the American century.

The National Park Service (NPS) takes responsibility for preserving and teaching about the places that have been central in the making of African American memory. Virtually every aspect of our experience has become part and parcel of the NPS mission, including the home of our founder, Carter G. Woodson. ASALH joins the National Park Service in celebrating a century of preserving the hallowed grounds of African Americans and all Americans.

Deadline for submission of proposals is as follows:

Individual papers deadline is March 1, 2016; early bird panel deadline is March 15th and the panel session deadline is March 30th.

All proposals must be submitted electronically to ASALH through the All Academic online system at http:// www.asalh.org/callforpapers.html. For complete panels that are submitted by March 15, 2016, day and time preferences will be given on a first come first served basis. Please refer to the FAQ page for important information on what constitutes a complete panel on https://asalh100.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/2015-asalh- frequently-asked-questions-guide-winter-2015.pdf. Consider submitting one of the following types of proposals: full panel, conference roundtable, conference workshops, film sessions, or poster session (undergraduates).

Proposals should include title of the paper or panel, author(s) and affiliation(s), an abstract of paper or panel of 200-250 words, and all contact information. Only panel proposal submitters will receive complimentary audio/ visual equipment on a first come first served basis.

For information on how to make electronic submissions, visit http://asalh100.org/call-for-papers-2015/, and visit the FAQ page for important information regarding submissions.

All participants must be members by April 2, 2016 and registered for the conference by July 3, 2016. There are no refunds for membership dues and none for registration fees after August 3, 2016. Association for the Study of African-American Life and History Centennial Annual Meeting and Conference September 23 - 27, 2015 Sheraton Hotel Downtown •Atlanta, Georgia

TABLE OF CONTENTS

2016 Call For Papers 2 Conference Schedule At-A-Glance 4 2015 Authors Book Signing 6 2015 Asalh Centennial Conference Tours 8 Film Festival 10 2015 Convention Exhibitors & Marketplace 14 Menus 15 Participant Index 16 Session Index Wednesday, September 23, 2015 25 Thursday, September 24, 2015 27 Friday, September 25, 2015 54 Saturday, September 26, 2015 83 Sunday, September 27, 2015 105 Convention/Hotel Map 107

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Wednesday, September 23, 2015 Pre-Registration 7:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m. Rotunda Registration Office On-site Registration Georgia Registration Office Pre-Conference African American Heritage Bus Tour 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. International Blvd. Portico (bus departure area) Level 1 ASALH Executive Council Meeting 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Georgia 5 & 6 (Members Welcome) Special Session: National Park Service Forum 4:30 p.m. – 6:30:00 p.m. Capitol Ballroom North Commemorating the Reconstruction Era and Civil Rights: The National Park Service’s Call to action in its Second Century Opening Reception 5:30 p.m. – 10:00 p.m. Atlanta History Center Academic Program Committee Meeting 9:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m. Georgia 6

Thursday, September 24, 2015 Pre-Registration 7:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m. Rotunda Registration Office On-site Registration 7:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m. Georgia Registration Office African American Heritage Bus Tour 7:00 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. International Blvd. Portico (bus departure area) Level 1 Teachers’ Workshop 8:30 a.m. - 3:50 p.m. Georgia 13 Session I 8:30 a.m. - 9:50 a.m. Various Session II 10:00 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. Various Educators Luncheon 12 noon - 1:45 p.m. Capitol Ballrooms Center Keynote Speaker: Sonia Sanchez & South Exhibit Area Open 12 noon - 9:00 p.m Georgia 7, 8 & Pre-Function Area Brown Bag Lunch Sessions 12 noon - 1:45 p.m. Various Session III 2:00 p.m. - 3:50 p.m. Georgia 13 ASALH Business Meeting 4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. Georgia 2 Film Festival 5:30 p.m. – 9:45 p.m. Georgia 13 Plenary Session I: The Scholarship, Activism 5:45 p.m. - 7:45 p.m. Capitol Ballroom North and Institutional Work of V.P. Franklin Chair: Derrick Alridge Featuring: Mary Frances Berry, Sundiata Kieta Cha-Jua, Pero Dagbovie, James Stewart Authors’ Book Signing 7:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m. Capitol Pre-Function Area Evening Sessions 8:00 p.m. – 9:50 p.m. Various Celebrating the Centennial Volume of the 9:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m. Capitol Ballrooms Center Journal of African American History (JAAH) & South

4 Conference Schedule At-A-Glance

Friday, September 25, 2015 Pre-Registration 7:30 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. Rotunda Registration Office On-site Registration 7:30 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. Georgia Registration Office 2016 Conference Planning Meeting 8:00 a.m. Conference Room 131 Exhibit Area Open 8:00 a.m. - 6:30 p.m. Georgia 7, 8 & Pre-Function Area Film Festival 8:00 a.m. - 10:15 p.m. Georgia 13 Session I 8:30 a.m. - 9:50 a.m. Various Youth Day 9:00 a.m. - 12 noon North Atlanta High School Session II 10:00 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. Various Carter G. Woodson Luncheon 12 noon - 1:45 p.m. Capitol Center North/Center Keynote Speaker: Lonnie Bunch Brown Bag Lunch Sessions 12 noon - 1:45 p.m. Various Session III 2:00 p.m. - 3:50 p.m. Various ASALH Awards Program 4:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Atlanta 1 Plenary Session II: Who Stole the Soul? 4:45 p.m. - 6:45 p.m. Capitol Ballroom North Black Music and the Struggle for Empowerment in the Twentieth Century Chair: Fanon Che Wilkins Featuring: Michelle R. Scott, Scot Brown, Portia Maultsby, James Mtume Evening Sessions 7:00 p.m. – 8:50 p.m. Various Friday Night Out (Transportation Provided) 7:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m. Atlanta University Center, The Past, Present, and Future of African Robert W. Woodruff Library American Women’s History: A Conversation Poetry Slam & Open Mic Night 10:00 p.m. - 12:30 a.m. Savannah 2 & 3

Saturday, September 26, 2015 Convention Registration 8:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. Georgia Registration Office Exhibit Area Open 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Georgia 7, 8 & Pre-Function Area ASALH Branch Meeting 8:30 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. Capitol Ballroom North Session I 8:30 a.m. - 9:50 a.m. Various Session II 10:00 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. Various Film Festival 8:00 a.m. - 8:55 p.m. Georgia 13 John W. Blassingame Luncheon 12 noon - 1:45 p.m. Capitol Ballroom Center & South Keynote Speaker: President Daryl Michael Scott Special Appearance LeVar Burton Session III 2:00 p.m. - 3:50 p.m. Various Plenary Session III: Give Light and People Will Find 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Capitol Ballroom North the Way: The Future of the Field of Black Women’s Studies Chair: Natanya Duncan Featuring: Tiffany Gill, Farah Griffin, Faye V. Harrison, Jessica Marie Johnson, Alondra Nelson, Tiffany Ruby Patterson ASALH Awards Gala Guest Speaker: Susan L. Taylor, National Cares Network 7:30 p.m. - 10:30 p.m. Capitol Ballroom Awards Recipients: Dr. David Levering-Lewis, University, Carter G. Woodson Scholars Medallion Recipient The Honorable John Lewis, Ga. 5th Congressional District, John Hope Franklin Centennial Lifetime Achievement Award

Sunday, September 27, 2015 ASALH Ecumenical Breakfast 8:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. Capitol Ballroom South Keynote Speaker: Rev. C. T. Vivian Post–Conference African American Heritage Bus Tour 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. International Blvd. (bus departure area) Level 1 5 2015 Authors Book Signing

Dell Ray Adams Erik Brooks Donna Gray-Banks A Walk in the Face of Life Tigers in the Tempest Ilas Diamonds

Shawn Alexander Joan Cartwright Will Guzman WEB DuBois An American A History of African American Civil Rights in the Texas Borderlands: Intellectual and Activist Jazz and Blues Dr. Lawrence A. Nixon & Black Activism Amazing Musicwomen Bailey-Bankston Beneath the Bars of Justice Janette Hoston-Harris Yasmin Carty In Memoriam: Charles Harris Wesley Proverbs and Phrases with Richard Bailey Meanings Tameka Hobbs Neither Carpetbaggers nor Democracy Abroad, at Scalawags: Black Officeholders Farrell Chiles Home: Racial Violence in During the Reconstruction of 1867-1878 African American: Warrant Officers... In service to Our Country Karen January They Too Call Alabama Home: Lessons Mama Never Taught Me African American Profiles Bettye Collier-Thomas What Every Woman Should Know Jesus, Jobs, and Justice Peter Bailey Ricky L. Jones Witnessing Brother Malcolm X: Willie Cooper Black Haze Violence, Sacrifice, The Master Teacher A Memoir The Forgotten 14, Civil War Heroes and Manhood in Black Greek-letter Fraternities Mary Frances Berry Constance W. Curry We are Who We Say We Are Silver Rights Nubia Kai Kuma Malinke Historiography: Evelyn Bethune Marta Effinger-Crichlow Sundiata Keita to Almamy Samori Toure Bethune: Out of Darkness Into Staging Migrations Toward an the Light of Freedom American West: From Ida B. Wells to Rhodessa Jones Kathryn Kemp Call & Response: The Anointed To Sing The Gospel: Grandchildren Reply Maurice Daniels The Levitical Legacy of Thomas A. Dorsey Carol Binta Nadeem Saving the Soul of Georgia: Donald L. Hollowell and the Struggle for Civilized Blacks: Free American Make Joyful Noise: A Brief History Civil Rights Negroes In The 1870’s Whose of Gospel Music Ministry in America Lives Paralleled The Life of Tiffany A. Flowers Booker T. Washington The Rooftop Club Books Series: Lionel Kimble, Jr. Meet the Rooftop Club A New Deal for Bronzeville: John Bracey, James Smethurst Housing, Employment, and Civil & Sonia Sanchez Cheryl Gooch Rights In Black , 1925-1955 SOS-Calling All Black People On Africa’s Lands: The Forgotten Barbara King LaTonya Branham Stories of Two Lincoln Educated Transform Your Life, In TYL CultureSeek: Connecting to African Missionaries in Liberia and African American History George Grant Talitha LeFlouria In Honor Of... Libraries Named for Chained in Silence: Black Women African Americans and Convict Labor in the New South

6 2015 Authors Book Signing

Josephine McCall Aldon Morris John Sharer The Penalty for Success: My Father The Scholar Denied: D. W. B. Du The Cockney Lad and Jim Crow was Lunched in Lowndes County, Bois and the Birth of Modern Alabama Sociology Janet Sims-Wood Dorothy Porter Wesley at Barbara McCaskill Tiyi Morris Howard University Love, Liberation, and Escaping Womanpower Unlimited and Slavery: William and Ellen Craft in the Black Freedom Struggle in Karen Sloan-Brown Cultural Memory A Reflection: What a Difference a Running a Thousand Miles for Day Makes, What About 100 Years? Tommie Morton-Young Freedom: The Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery. Many Roads Traveled or Twenty Daniel Smith Introduction by Barbara McCaskill. years in Bondage African Americans and Charleston: Histories Intertwined Kevin McGruder Premilla Nadasen Race and Real Estate; Conflict and Household Workers Unite: Mattie Solomon Cooperation in Harlem, 1890 - 1920 The Untold Story of African What Did Your Parents Do To You? American Women who Built a Movement Genna Rae McNeil Peter Wallenstein Witness Two Hundred Years of Race, Sex, and the Freedom to Echol Nix African-American Faith and Practice Marry: Loving v. Virginia at the Abyssinian Baptist Church of In the Beginning: The Martin Luther Harlem, New York King, Jr. International Chapel at Glovinia Williams Do You Believe God? If So It’s Time Edna Green Medford To Step out On Faith M. J. O’Brien Lincoln and Emancipation We Shall Not Be Moved Phyllis Jean Williams Trimiko Melancon The Secret Legend of Three Kings Alison Parker Unbought and Unbossed: Transgressive Black Women, Interconnections: Gender and Race Sonja Williams in American History Sexuality, and Representation Word Warrior: Richard Durham, Radio and Freedom Black Female Sexualities Walter Rucker Gold Coast Diasporas: Identity, Angela Williamson Erin Gosser Mitchell Culture, and Power (Blacks in the Bakers Dozen Born Colored Life Before Bloody Diaspora Series) Sunday Barbara Winslow Donata Russell Ross Shirley Chisholm Catalyst for William Monnie How I Broke Through Segregation Change Selma And Its Aftermath: to Launch a Business Empire by A Photographic Journey by Civil Herman Russell Rights Worker Bill Monnie Sonia Sanchez SOS—Calling All Black People

7 2015 ASALH Centennial Conference Tours

Wednesday, September 23

“From Civil Rights to Human Rights” - ASALH Pre-Conference Tour of the MLK District and the Center for Civil and Human Rights

8:00 - 8:30 a.m. Bus loads at Sheraton Atlanta Hotel (International Blvd. entrance- near UPS Store on Level 1)

8:30 a.m. Depart for The King Center & the MLK National Historic Site

9:00 a.m. – 12:45 p.m. Tour of The King Center and the MLK National Historic Site

9:00 – 9:45 a.m. Participants will take the self-guided tour of The King Center.

9:45 a.m. National Park Service Ranger will meet the participants outside at the Eternal flame.

9:45 a.m. – 12:45 p.m. Ranger will lead tours of the following sites: • King Birth Home • Historic Fire Station • Historic Ebenezer Baptist Church • National Park Service National Historic Site Visitor Center

12:45 p.m. Participants will depart from the National Park Service Visitor Center

1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. Lunch

2:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Tour of the National Center for Civil & Human Rights

4:30 p.m. Arrive back at the Sheraton Atlanta Hotel

Thursday, September 24 Atlanta Black History Tour

7:00 a.m. Bus loads at Sheraton Atlanta Hotel (International Blvd. entrance- near UPS Store on Level 1)

7:30 a.m. Bus departs for tour

11:45 a.m. Bus returns to hotel Westside (Driving tour) • HJ Russell Construction Co. • Clark Atlanta University • W.E.B Dubois Statute • Morehouse College/ / Ray Charles Amphitheatre • Spelman College • Morehouse School of Medicine • The New GA Dome/ GA World Congress Center • The Last Home of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. • College • The Interdenominational Theological Center • Bronner Bros. Hair Products - Mr. Nathaniel Bronner, founder • Charles Lincoln Harper Statue • • Alonzo Herndon Mansion-1910

Downtown (Driving tour) • The MLK Center District • National Center for Civil and Human Rights

Sweet Auburn Avenue District • APEX Museum - (Stop) • Sweet Auburn Avenue (Stop – participants will get off the bus to see the following sites. Note that participants will not actually go inside these sites.) SCLC Headquarters, WERD AM Radio- First Black Radio Station, Madame CJ Walker Salon, Odd Fellows Professional Building.- 1910 Museum Sweet Auburn Avenue (Driving tour)

Auburn Ave. Research Library, Former Atlanta Life Insurance Building, Former Atlanta Daily World Building, Royal Peacock o Silver Moon Barber Shop- 1904 Big Bethel AME Church, John Wesley Dobbs Statue, Wheat Street Baptist Church, Cox Bros. Funeral Home/ Haughbrooks Funeral Home, Ebenezer Baptist Church, Birth Home Dr. MLK 8 2015 ASALH Centennial Conference Tours

Sunday, September 27 Five stops are planned to give the patrons a deeper appreciation for the rich history and cultural resources found on the six institutions that are historically linked to the Atlanta University Center (AUC).

9:30 a.m. Bus loads at the Sheraton Atlanta Hotel (International Blvd entrance near the UPS Store)

10:00 a.m. Leave the Sheraton Atlanta Hotel and drive to the Morehouse College campus. Tour the King International Chapel, the Frederick Douglass Commons where the college has a permanent exhibit of its history on display. If time permits, a stop by the Benjamin E. Mays Monument on the historic green of the campus.

Drive to Spelman College. Briefly tour the Cosby Center, the home of the college’s archives and Women’s Research Center, the historic campus Oval, and Sisters Chapel.

Drive to the Clark Atlanta University campus to tour the main academic quadrangle stopping by the bust of W. E. B. Du Bois, and the CAU Art Galleries on the second floor of Trevor Arnett Hall. If time permits, view the historic markers commemorating the Atlanta Student Movement during the Civil Rights era of the 1960s.

Drive to the AUC Robert Woodruff Library; conduct a brief tour of the library and at the former Morris Brown College campus where the original Atlanta University campus was founded in 1867. Pass by the sites where Du Bois worked and lived during his early years on the Atlanta University faculty and where he wrote the book, The Souls of Black Folk.

Return to the Atlanta Sheraton Hotel, arriving before 3:00 PM.

9 FILM FESTIVAL

Sher aton Hotel Georgia 13 Room Film Festival is FREE and open to the public

Thursday, September 24, 2015

5:30 – 7:30pm Mountains That Take Wing: Angela Davis & Yuri Kochiyama - A Conversation on Life, Struggles & Liberation (C.A. Griffith and H.L. T. Quan, 2009, 97 minutes) Intercut with compelling period footage, these women - internationally renowned scholar, professor and writer Angela Davis and 89-year-old grassroots organizer and Nobel Peace Prize nominee Yuri Kochiyama - dialogue. From conversations in 1996 and 2008 they cover topics ranging from and Japanese American internment camps, to Civil Rights, anti-war, women’s and gay liberation movements, to today’s campaigns for political prisoners and prison reform. Discussion facilitator: Michelle Duster

7:45 – 9:45pm ALICE WALKER: Beauty in Truth (Pratibha Parmar, 2013, 84 minutes) The film mixes powerful archival footage with moving testimonials from friends and colleagues such as Howard Zinn, Angela Y. Davis, Gloria Steinem, Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Quincy Jones, Steven Spielberg and Danny Glover to show audiences a penetrating look at the life and art of an artist, intellectual, self-confessed renegade and human rights activist. Discussion facilitator: McKinley Melton

Friday, September 25, 2015

8:00am – 9:30am Black Journal (May 1969) (William Greaves, 60 minutes) This is the episode aired in May 1969 and focuses on Black student revolts for the establishment of Black Studies departments at Cornell and Duke universities. The latter culminates in the establishment of Malcolm X Liberation University in Durham NC. There is also an interview with Clifford Alexander on his efforts on the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Discussion Facilitator: Reginald Ellis

9:45am – 11:30am Living Thinkers: An Autobiography of Black Women in the Ivory Tower (Roxana Walker-Canton, 2013, 75 minutes) Examines the intersection of race, class and gender for Black women professors and administrators working in U.S. colleges and universities today. Discussion Facilitator: Natanya Duncan

10 Friday, September 25, 2015

11:45am – 1:15pm Furious Flower III: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry Cultivating Form: Creating the Black Aesthetics in Poetry (Part 1 in Four Part Series) (Joanne Gabbin and Judith McCray, 2015, 58 minutes) This episode features readings by Rita Dove, Elizabeth Alexander, Patricia Smith, Herman Beavers, Aracelis Girmay, A. Van Jordan, Marilyn Nelson, and Toi Derricotte. It begins with a conversation between Elizabeth Alexander and Rita Dove about the significance of this 20th anniversary of the Furious Flower conference poetry, the state of the field and their role as educators. It ends with Rita Dove’s keynote address. Discussion Facilitator: Althea Tait

1:30pm – 3:00pm Vell Phillips: Dream Big Dreams (Robert Trondson, 2015, 57 minutes) Discover how Vel Phillips achieved an impressive list of “firsts” as part of her legacy, including the first African American judge in Wisconsin and the first woman, and African American, in the nation elected to executive office in state government. Discussion Facilitator: Patrick Jones

3:15pm – 4:30pm The Beech Experiment: A Success Story of Urban Rehabilitation (Kenneth Scott, 2015, 44 minutes) North Central was once the crown jewel of the Black community. After the riots of the 1960s it descended into a desolate, bleak area most known for its crime including drugs, rape and murder. A group of concerned citizens and leaders decided to try an experiment and form an organization called the Beech Corporation to revitalize the neighborhood. They didn’t know if their ideas and strategies would work. This is their story of how their vision and commitment led to huge transformation. Discussion Facilitator: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

4:45pm – 6:15pm Old South (Danielle Beverly, 2015, 54 minutes) In Athens, Georgia, a college fraternity traditionally known to fly the confederate flag moves to a historically black neighborhood and establishes their presence by staging an antebellum style parade. What starts with a neighborhood struggle over cultural legacies in the South, the opening of a community garden becomes a grounds for understanding, as well as a physical and emotional space for healing, offering a sense of possibility and hope for the future. Discussion Facilitator: Cherisse Jones-Branch

11 Friday, September 25, 2015

6:30pm – 7:30pm This Little Light Of Mine: The Legacy of Fannie Lou Hamer (Robin N. Hamilton, 2015, 26 minutes) Documents her life and struggle, starting with her years on a plantation in Mississippi, and leading up to her heroic speech during the Democratic National Convention in 1964. Discussion Facilitator: Shenette Garrett-Scott Film Director – Robin N. Hamilton will be there to answer questions 7:45pm – 10:15pm The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution (Available To Conventioneers Only) (Stanley Nelson, 2015, 116 minutes) Explores the Black Panther Party, its significance to the broader American culture, its cultural and political awakening for black people, and the painful lessons wrought when a movement derails. Discussion Facilitator: Robyn Spencer

Saturday, September 26, 2015

8:00am – 9:40am The Untold Story Of Emmett Till (Keith A. Beauchamp, 2005, 70 minutes) Investigates 14-year-old Till’s 1955 murder in the Mississippi Delta and the miscarriage of justice that let his murderers go free. Nine-years in the making, the film features eye-witness accounts and uncovers new facts surrounding Till’s murder. The film prompted the Justice Department to reopen its investigation of the case. Discussion Facilitator: Telisa Bailey

10:00am – 11:30am Ordinary People, Extraordinary Deeds (Presented by March on Washington Film Festival) - 60 minutes Film excerpts and moving personal testimonies highlighting unsung heroes of the in the words of their survivors. Film excerpt: 4 Little Girls (1997). Five little girls were in the basement lounge of Birmingham’s 16th St. Baptist Church when it was bombed one Sunday morning in 1963. Four died. Sarah is the one who survived. But what really happened to those who lived? Film excerpt: Booker’s Place (2012) Booker Wright was a longtime waiter at Lusko’s, Restaurant and owner of his own eatery. When he spoke too freely on a 1965 network documentary about his life in Mississippi, he paid a terrible price. Booker’s Place is the film made by his granddaughter, Yvette to learn the whole story. Film excerpt: Home of the Brave (2004). In 1965 Viola Liuzzo, a white wife and mother in Detroit, drove to volunteer with the Selma March. She was shot and killed while transporting marchers in her car. The film chronicles her daughter Mary’s search to find the pieces of her mother’s story she never knew. Panelists: Mary Liuzzo Lilleboe. Yvette Johnson, (Booker Wright’s granddaughter and filmmaker) and Sarah Collins Rudolph (one girl who survived the bombing) Discussion Facilitator: Crystal R. Sanders

12 Saturday, September 26, 2015

11:45am – 1:45pm Neshoba: The Price of Freedom (Micki Dickoff and Tony Pagano, 2010, 86 minutes) Tells the story of a Mississippi town still divided about the meaning of justice, 40 years after the murders of civil rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner. Discussion Facilitator: Nan Woodruff

2:00pm – 4:00pm BaddDDD Sonia Sanchez (Barbara Attie, Janet Goldwater and Sabrina Schmidt Gordon, 2015, 90 minutes) Offers unprecedented access to the life, work and mesmerizing performances of renowned poet and activist Sonia Sanchez who had been a continuous presence for nearly 60 years. She was a central figure in the Black Arts Movement and is an inspiration to contemporary spoken word artists Discussion Facilitator: Sonia Sanchez

4:15pm – 6:45pm Mumia: Long Distance Revolutionary (Stephen Vittoria, 2012, 120 minutes) Before he was convicted of murdering a policeman in 1981 and sentenced to die, Mumia Abu-Jamal was a gifted journalist and brilliant writer. Now after more than 30 years in prison, Mumia is not only still alive but continuing to report, provoke and inspire. Discussion Facilitator: Kenja McCray

7:00pm – 8:55pm Jesse Owens (Stanley Nelson, 2012, 85 minutes) The story of the 22-year-old son of a sharecropper who triumphed over adversity to become a hero and world champion, JESSE OWENS is also about the elusive, fleeting quality of fame and the way Americans idolize athletes when they suit our purpose, and forget them once they don’t. Discussion Facilitator: Pellom McDaniels III

Sponsored by: March on Washington Film Festival California Newsreel

We would also like to thank Women Make Movies, First Run Features, and Firelight Media for their support of this film festival.

13 Centennial Annual Meeting and Conference 2015 CONVENTION EXHIBITORS & MARKETPLACE

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Exhibitors

Art Publishing and Distribution by Charles Bibbs Association Book Exhibit Auburn Avenue Research Library on African-American Culture & History Everyone’s Place Farmers Insur ance Foundation International Heritage International Fashions Journal of African American History Libr ary Company of Philadelphia McFarland Publishing Middle Tennnessee State University National Museum of American History National Park Service-Southeast Regional Office Penguin R andom House retiredslaves.com Robin Lofton Scholars Choice University of Arkansas Press University of Georgia Press University of Illinois Press University of Press University Press Florida Waldencor art Inc. YBI African Apparel Zee Cr afts

14 Menus*

Thursday Lunch JAAH Reception Freshly Baked Rolls Stations: Pina Colada Shrimp, Garden Salad (Build Your Own) Miniature Chicken Cordon Bleu and Raspberry Brie Chicken Caponata Displays: Sliced Top Round of Beef Imported and Domestic Cheese and Fruit Platter Rice Pilaf Carving Station (Steamship of Beef) Garden Fresh Vegetables Pasta Station Red Velvet Cake, Pecan Pie, Chef’s Choice of Vegetables Key Lime Pie Whole Roasted Potatoes Iced Tea and Starbucks Coffee Assorted Desserts Fruit Punch and Cash Bar

Friday BANQUET Saturday Lunch Freshly Baked Rolls Freshly Baked Rolls Garden Salad (Build Your Own) Garden Salad (Build Your Own) Baked Chicken Brown Butter Chicken Breast with Root Vegetables Fried Catfish Blackened Tilapia Potato Salad Hoppin John Collard Greens Sautéed Green Beans and Onions Chocolate Layer Cake, Banana Cream Pie, German Chocolate Cake, Coconut Cake Lemon Merengue Pie and Fruit Medley with Sambuca Iced Tea and Starbucks Coffee Iced Tea and Starbucks Coffee

Saturday Banquet Sunday Breakfast Freshly Baked Rolls Breakfast Pastries Georgian Salad Scrambled Eggs Airline Chicken Bacon/Sausage Mashed Potatoes Grits/Potatoes Brocolini & Carrots Juice Chocolate Truffle Cake Coffee

Starbucks Coffee

*Each of the lunches has a vegetarian option.

15 Participant Index (Numbers following names indicate Session numbers)

Abello Hurtado, Maria Ximena, Auburn Avenue Research Library Binta, Carol, 100 104 on African-American Culture and Biondi, Martha, 003, 008, 042, 125, Acker, Daniel R, 063, 194 History, 070, 115, 232 160, 296 Adams, Dell, 100 Augustine, Jean, 090, 303 Blackman, Dexter, 043, 247 Adams, John Hurst, 319 Austin, Paula C, 021 Blackwell, James, 281 Adams, Sameila, 264 Austin, Stanley, 059 Blandford, Cynthia, 037 Adams, William Horatio, 302 Autrey, Dorothy, 291 Blount, Tamika, 315 Adams-Bass, Valerie N., 038, 106, Awad, Rian Hamadnalla, 251 Blum, Michael, 008, 153 239 Boers, David, 029 Adell, Sandra, 181 Baggett, Antrece, 262 Bolden, Tony, 310 Adkins, Jan Batiste, 063 Bailey, A. Peter, 100 Bond, Kathleen McClain, 006 Aghahowa, Brenda, 095 Bailey, Dorothy F, 003, 209, 237 Bond, Michael Julian, 226 Agosto, Vonzell, 146, 285 Bailey, Richard, 100 Bonilla, Eddie, 281 Agyepong, Tera Eva, 299 Bailey, Ronald W, 132, 290 Bonner, Claudine, 090 Akbar-Williams, Tahirah, 171, 256 Bailey, T’Shaka, 198 , Thomas “Danny”, 308 Akinsegun, Osuntinibu, 059 Bailey, Telisha D, 292 Bosworth, Greg, 295 Aldridge, III, Daniel W., 249 Balto, Simon, 077 Bouldin, Kristin, 254 Alexander, Blayne, 319 Bandele, Ramla Marie, 169 Bowles, Laurian, 249 Alexander, Jim, 268 Banks, Cerri Annette, 107, 165 Boyd, Kelli, 299 Alexander, Representative Banton, Arthur, 148 Boyd III, Miller William, 254 Kimberly, 154 Barnes, Karl, 196 Boylorn, Robin, 040 Alexander, Shawn Leigh, 048, 100, Barnes, Tanesha, 032 293 Bracey, John, 048, 059, 088, 100, Barr, Mary, 029, 077 268 Alexander, William, 245 Barr-Davenport, Leona, 167 Bradford, Joy, 309 Alfonso, Rowena Ianthe, 042 Barrett, Marsha, 078, 233 Bradley, Regina, 176, 196, 217 Ali, Amir, 234 Bascomb, Lia T., 147, 276 Branch, Chelsea, 054 Alridge, Derrick, 008, 088, 099, 125, 144, 186, 266 Battle, Thomas C, 003 Branch, Cherisse Jones, 145, 211 Aman, Peter, 167 Battle-Baptiste, Whitney, 216, 298 Branch, Monsignor Edward, 167 Anderson, Carol, 270 Baumgartner, Kabria, 243 Branham, LaTonya M, 100 Anderson, Diane, 024 Bay, Mia, 144 Brawley, Otis, 200 Anderson, Lauren Kientz, 145 Beaty, Anita Law, 196 Breanna, McCallum, 016 Anthony, TaKeia, 041, 264 Bell-Thomas, Kanika, 309 Brenda, Flanagan, 249 Antonin, Henrietta, 320 Beltramini, Enrico, 221 Bridges, Eric, 315 Apparicio, Alexis, 019 Benson, Devyn Spence, 130 Brimmer, Brandi C, 055, 076 Araujo, Ana Lucia, 031, 314 Benson II, Richard D., 184, 278 Brisbon, Lauren, 028 Armstead, Myra, 036 Bentley-Edwards, Keisha L, 038 Briscoe, Natosha, 241 Armstrong, Julie Buckner, 250 Bernier, Julia Wallace, 294 Bristol, Travis, 082 Armstrong Dunbar, Erica, 243, 257 Berry, Daina Ramey, 273 Bristow, Margaret Bernice Smith, 148, 191 Arrington, Lauren, 116 Berry, Mary Frances, 099, 100 Brodnax, David, 168 Art Publishing and Distribution by Bethel, Kathleen, 170 Charles Bibbs, 070, 115, 232 Bethune, Evelyn, 100 Brooks, Cecelia, 124 Arthur, Rosailand, 027 Bethune-Brown, Camille, 305 Brooks, Erik, 100 Ashford, Shetay, 146 Bibbs, Charles, 319 Brooks, Kevin L., 053 Association Book Exhibit, 070, 115, Billingsley, Andrew, 106 Brooks-Tatum, Shanesha, 079 232 Brown, Aleia M, 085

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Brown, Anthony L., 082, 197 Carroll, Carolyn A, 054 Collins Rudolph, Sarah, 267 Brown, Carolyn Jean, 120 Carswell, Angela, 283 Colston-Brooks, Victoria, 073, 238 Brown, Drew, 043 Carter, Brittany, 096 Compton, Margaret, 069 Brown, Frank, 283 Carter, Daryl Anthony, 078 Conteh, Alhaji, 164 Brown, Keffrelyn D., 197 Carter, David C., 078 Cook Bell, Karen B., 076 Brown, Kimberly Juanita, 108 Carter, Lawrence Edward, 283 Cook, Samuel DuBois, 156 Brown, Kimberly, 075 Carter, Niambi M, 086 Cooley, Will, 272 Brown, Korey, 105 Carter-David, Siobhan, 150 Cooper, Afua, 090 Brown, Nikki, 250 Carter-Jackson, Kellie, 178 Cooper, Brittney, 040, 204 Brown, Scot, 210, 310 Cartwright, Joan, 100, 182 Cooper, Erica, 244 Brown II, M. Christopher, 058, 172 Carty, Yasmin, 100 Cooper, Willie, 100 Broyld, Dann J., 091, 259 Casellas, Zaira Rivera, 248 Cooper-Owens, Deirdre, 079 Bruce, Representative Roger, 154, Celeste, Manoucheka, 016, 175 Copeland, Charlton, 252 167 Cha-Jua, Sundiata Kieta, 099 Corey, Mary, 030 Brunson, Takkara, 130 Chamberlain, Daphne, 292 Corniel, Lissette Acosta, 314 Bryant, John Hope, 308 Chambers, Glenn, 281 Cortes, Krista, 017 Bunch, Lonnie, 167 Chambers, Jason P., 272 Cottrol, Robert J., 031 Burch, Kerry, 052 Chambliss, Julian, 129 Council, Shawn, 071, 122 Burden, Charisse, 012 Chapman, Rava Shelyn, 073, 265 Craft Tanner, Chanel, 040 Burgos, Adrian, 201 Chapman-Hilliard, Collette, 239 Craig, Bradley L., 015 Burke, Diane Mutti, 163 Charles, Julia, 056 Crater, Paul, 069 Burnside, Timothy Anne, 140 Chatelain, Benedict, 068 Crawford, Malachi, 084, 124, 169 Burrell Wood, Aja, 176 Chatelain, Marcia, 272, 296 Crenshaw-Logal, Zena, 166 Burrowes, Nicole, 274 Chavis, Jr., Charles L, 055 Crew, Spencer, 091 Burton, LeVar, 283 Chennault, Ronald, 252, 266 Crosby, Emilye, 153 Burton, Nsenga, 309 Chestnut, Trichita, 046, 159 Crossfield, Latangela Lajuan, 027, Burton, Sammie, 095 Childs, Kenneth, 234 151, 260 Bush, Christina, 217 Chiles, Farrell, 100 Cudjoe, Karen J, 106 Butler, Deidre Hill, 206 Chilton, Katherine, 076 Cumberbatch, Prudence, 199 Butler, Joshua W, 122 Cilli, Adam Lee, 029, 062 Currie, Netisha, 159, 183 Bynum, Cornelius, 003, 008, 028, Claiborne, Corrie, 184 Curry, Constance, 100 125, 186 Clark, Zende Larmar, 003, 097, 237 Curry, Tommy, 141 Bynum, Lee, 158 Cleage, Pearl, 177 Curwood, Anastasia C, 086 Bynum, Thomas L, 085 Clemons, Kristal Moore, 252 Cyrus, Sylvia Y., 003, 007, 008, 097, Byrd, Brandon, 144, 293 125, 167, 237, 319, 320 Clifton-James, Licia Ellen, 191 Clinton, Catherine, 263 Calloway Thomas, Carolyn, 244 Daboiku, Omope Carter, 190 Cobb, Charles E., 297 Cameron, Christopher, 008, 087, Dagbovie, Pero, 099, 188, 258 Cobb, William Jelani, 078, 206 144 Dagbovie-Mullins, Sika, 258 Cobb-Roberts, Deirdre, 146 Campbell, Emahunn Raheem Ali, Dallas, Fenobia, 134, 219 056, 243 Cochran, Shannon, 315 Dancy, T. Elon, 172 Campbell, Emory S, 047, 063, 284 Cochran-Edwards, Tiffany, 283 Daniels, Andrea, 080 Campbell, Joie, 236 Coleman-King, Chonika, 038 Daniels, Maurice, 100 Canton, David Alvin, 182 Collier-Thomas, Bettye, 099, 100, Danns, Dionne, 173, 205 Carpenter, Faedra, 220 199 Collins, Stephen, 194 David, Marlo, 186

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Davis, Cedric, 291 Duster, Michelle, 008, 139, 161, 185, Flippin, William, 319 Davis, Chyna Yvonne, 057, 096, 127, 208, 212, 228, 277, 317, 318 Flowe, Douglas, 233 170, 238, 299 Earl-Lewis, Monique, 184 Flowers, Tiffany, 100 Davis, Damani, 159 Eaton-Martinez, Omar, 248 Fludd, Representative Virgil, 154 Davis, Daniel R, 239 Eaves, LaToya, 174, 289 Flynn, Joseph, 052, 136, 202 Davis, Ella J, 122, 241 Edwards, Artrisia, 320 Forbes, Michael, 060 Davis, James Earl, 172 Edwards, Janelle, 275 Ford, Charles, 034 Davis, Joshua Clark, 189 Edwards, Ricardo J, 170 Ford, Nitoshia L., 170 Davis, Patricia, 133 Effinger-Crichlow, Marta, 044, 100 Ford, Richard, 149 Davis, Sarajanee O, 042 Eiland, Le’Mil, 165, 220 Ford, Tanisha C, 066, 094, 150 Davis, Sarita, 116, 290 Eisenstadt, Peter, 193 Ford, Tanisha, 226 Davis, Stephanie Yvonne, 096, 127 Elgersman Lee, Maureen, 018, 061 Foster, Lloren, 080 Davis, Veronica Alease, 084 Ellis, Kelly, 095 Foster, Makiba, 025 Davis-Faulkner, Sheri, 040 Ellis, Reginald K, 034, 061, 214 Foster, Pamela E., 084, 207, 241, Day, Aaron, 100 Erwin, Theodore and Elsie, 180 285 de Chantal, Julie, 142 Evans, Curtis, 145 Fourmy, Signe Peterson, 263 Deas, Eldrin Lamar, 021 Evans, Meredith, 025 Fox, Kyle R., 118 DeBardelaben, LaNesha, 190, 275 Evans, Stephanie, 008, 037, 079, Frank, David B, 121 Debnam, Jewell, 259 125, 175, 206, 226, 309 Franklin, Janice, 291 DeForest, Ricci, 264 Everyone’s Place, 070, 115, 232 Franklin, V. P., 111, 173, 303 Dennie, Nneka, 294 Ewing, K. T., 056 Fraser, Zinga, 086, 199 Densu, Kwasi, 259 Ezeilo, Angelou, 035 Frear, Yvonne Davis, 262 Diaz, Maria, 017 Ezra, Michael, 203 Fredericks, Brenda D, 134 Dickerson, Maniphone, 146 Freelon-Foster, Dianna, 051 Dickerson, Sean, 285 Fache, Caroline, 249 Freeman, Jonathan Richard, 279 Dickinson, Michael, 168 Faniel, Maco L., 280, 311 Frielink, Sarah Lynne, 052, 202 Dixon, Patricia, 299 Farmer, Ashley, 189, 297 Dobson, Abby, 032 Farmers Insurance, 070, 232 Gabriel, Dexter, 020, 260 Donaldson, Anthony, 065 Faulkenbury, Evan, 104 Gadsden, Brett, 255 Donaldson, Le’Trice, 218 Faussart, Helene, 178 Gaines, Rondee, 008, 141, 157, 279 Dorsey, Chianta, 140 Feigert, Jessie, 276 Gardner, Bettye, 003, 156 Dotson, Jr, Jerome, 106 Fenner, Jasmine, 014 Garrett-Scott, Shennette, 079, 212, Dozier, Richard, 225 Ferdinand, Renata, 044 254, 262 Drabinski, John E., 141 Fergus, Devin, 301 Garrison-Harrison, Christy, 253 Drake, Simone, 301 Ferguson, Cheryl, 109 Gaskamp, Katherine, 054 Drummond, Traci JoLeigh, 092 Ferguson, Mary LaFrance, 047 Gatson, Torren, 085 Dudley, Gabrielle, 092 Ferguson, Robert Hunt, 145 Gault, Erika, 123 Duke, Eric D., 130 Fischer, Dawn-Elissa, 053 Gay, Agnolia Beatrice, 213, 239 Duncan, Armanthia Nicole, 056, Fisher, Earle, 123 Gayles, Jonathan I, 224, 261 218 Fisher, Vivian, 307 Gershenhorn, Jerry, 169 Duncan, Natanya, 008, 015, 055, Fisher-Hickman, Holly, 039 Ghartey-Tagoe Kootin, amma, 181 130, 139, 204, 253, 257, 313, 316 Flannery, Ifetayo, 117, 215 Ghasedi, Nadia, 025 Dunn, Barbara Spencer, 035, 067, Fleming, John, 156 Gilbert, Alan, 036 209, 237 Flemming-Hunter, Sheila, 003, Gilbert, Cornelius, 052 Dunn, Stephane, 184 007, 097, 156, 209, 312, 319 Gill, Tiffany, 150, 203, 316

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Gillespie, Andra, 049 Hall, Eric Allen, 271 Higginbotham, Evelyn, 003, 187 Gipson, Grace, 217, 276 Halliday, Aria S., 133, 235 Higginson, John, 051, 226, 236 Gist, Conra, 136, 202 Ham, Debra Newman, 143 Hightower, Edward, 028, 050, 110 Givens, Jarvis Ray, 074 Hamilton, Aretina, 019, 124, Hill, Laura Warren, 147, 203 Glymph, Thavolia, 187 174, 289 Hilliard, Patsy Jo, 007 Gondek, Abby, 058 Hamilton, Jessica D.N., 117 Hilliard-Nunn, Hakim, 198 Gonzalez, Aston, 243 Hamilton, Kenneth, 048 Hilliard-Nunn, Patricia, 198 Gonzalez Velez, Mirerza, 248 Hamilton, Tikia Kenise, 160 Hillsman, Eugene, 110 Gooch, Cheryl, 083, 100 Hamlin, Francoise, 142, 255 Hilton, Kelly, 171, 195, 249 Gore, Dayo, 286 Harnischfeger, Mark, 030 Hine, Darlene Clark, 088, 270 Goseer, Erin, 100 Harold, Claudrena, 064 Hines, Michael, 081 Goudsouzian, Aram, 008, 078, Harper, Donna Akiba Sullivan, 177 Hinton, Elizabeth, 311 271, 297 Harper, Jim, 003, 014, 039 Hobbs, Tameka Bradley, 018, 061, Gourrier, Francis, 240 Harris, Christopher, 071 100, 123 Graham, Brittaney N, 064 Harris, Duchess, 257 Hobson, Maurice J, 093, 155, 182, Graham, Natalie, 219 Harris, Felicia, 290 196 Grant, Carl, 197 Harris, Janette Hoston, 100 Hoff, Tamara, 018 Grant, George, 100 Harris, Kyle, 192 Holloway, Pippa, 311 Greason, Walter, 129 Harris, LaShawn, 008, 076, 188 Holmes, Kwame, 155 Green, Harriett, 132 Harris, Leslie M., 187, 273 Hooper, Leta, 149 Green, Laurie, 250 Harris, Robert L., 156 Hope, Jeanelle Kevina, 147 Green Benjamin, Shanna, 257 Harris, Sheena, 056, 075, 218 Hopson, Rodney, 252 Greene, Christina, 152 Harrison, Alferdteen B., 103, 120 Horhn, John, 276 Greene, Kevin, 131, 151, 302 Harrison, Faye V., 316 Horne, Gerald, 012, 227, 303 Greene, Wendy, 031 Harvey Wingfield, Adia, 301 Hornsby-Gutting, Angela, 193 Greene II, Robert Jerome, 087, 104 Harwell, Debbie, 287 Horrocks, Allison B, 221 Griffin, Christi, 269 Haskins, Jewel, 128 Hoston Harris, Janette, 156 Griffin, Farah, 316 Hayes, Floyd, 141 Hotchkins, Bryan Keith, 172 Grim, Valerie, 206 Hayes, Worth Kamili, 295 House, Anton D, 024 Grimmett, Muriel, 029 Haykal, Aaisha, 140 , Akil, 019, 174, 289 Grinage, Raquel, 305 Haynes, Marcus Ta’von, 057, 127, Howard, Ashley M., 008, 077, 278 Grogan, David J., 166 238 Howard, Jasmin, 302 Gross, Kali, 152, 204 Haywood, D’Weston, 065 Howard, Schillica, 066 Guariglia, Matthew, 221 Heath, R. Scott, 053 Hucks, Tracy, 249 Guidry, Carolyn Tyler, 320 Helgeson, Jeffrey, 008, 296 Hudson, Georgia, 213 Guild, Joshua, 094 Helton, Laura E., 274 Hudson, Redditt, 269 Guillory, J. Anthony, 247 Henderson, Tammy, 234 Huey, Ryan, 281 Guy-Sheftall, Beverly, 086, 204 Hendricks, Derick Antony, 195 Hughes, Brandi, 108 Guzman, Will, 100 Henley, Lauren, 233 Hughes, Eddie, 062 Herd II, Ronald Cortez, 182 Hughes, Lyn

Hadley, Fredara M, 176 Herd-Clark, Dawn J., 192 Hunt, Rebecca, 202 Hadley, James “Jack”, 069 Heritage International Fashions, Hyres, Alexander, 074, 122 070, 115, 232 Hafiz-Wahid, Fatima, 038 Herman, Lorenzo, 118 Hahn, Steven, 187 Irby-Ware, Veta, 053 Hicks, Cheryl, 152, 209 Haile, James, 141 Ivy, Nicole, 108

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Jack, Bryan, 250 Jones, Ralph, 167 Lake, Tara, 207 Jackson, Andrea, 092, 140 Jones, Ricky, 100 Lambert, Eve, 044 Jackson, Cathy, 245 Jones, Shermaine, 102 Lang, Clarence, 008, 155 Jackson, David H, 048, 214 Jones, Tayari, 177 Lanois, Derrick, 033, 218 Jackson, Ivan, 235 Jones-Sneed, Frances, 122, 216, Larmaya, Kilgore, 016 Jackson, Lawrence, 102 242, 298 LaRoche, Cheryl, 126 Jackson, Mark S., 190 Jordan, Jamon, 042, 063, 300 Law, Matthew, 037 Jackson, Shantina, 074 Jordon, Ashley, 024 Lee, Julia, 016, 175 Jacobs Thompson, Sharita, 076, Joseph, Peniel, 203, 297 Lee Shetterly, Margot, 257 275, 314 Joslin-Knapp, Sydney, 174, 289 LeFlouria, Talitha, 100, 152, 188 Jamison, David Michael, 284 Journal of African American Leggs, Brent, 225 History, 070, 115, 232 Jamison, Felicia, 236 Lentz-Smith, Adriane, 051 Jowers-Barber, Sandra, 083 January, Karen, 021, 100 Leon, Alexxa, 122 Jarrett, Robin, 259 Levering-Lewis, David, 319 Kachun, Mitch, 157 Jefferson, Robert Franklin, 151, 182 LeVias, Arcadia, 241 Kai, Nubia, 100, 246, 285 Jefferson, Karen, 256 Levy, Jessica Ann, 255 Kanu, Christina, 057, 096 Jeffries, Bayyinah S., 013, 289 Levy, LaTasha B., 186, 274 Kart, Susan, 313 Jeffries, Hasan, 065, 153 Levy, Peter, 034 Keeton, Kymberly Mieshia Dionne, Jelks, Randal Maurice, 031, 141, Lewis, John, 319 188, 240, 310 285 Lewis, Kay Wright, 245, 314 Jennings, John, 129 Kemp, Kathryn, 100 Lewis, Nghana, 258 John, Beverly M, 047 Kerr-Ritchie, Jeffrey, 076, 187 Lewis, Regina, 023, 026, 136 Johnson, Andre E., 068, 123 Kessler, Bryan, 292 Lewis, Thabiti, 043 Johnson, Birgitta Joelisa, 176 Kimberly, Odusanya, 016 Lewis-McCoy, L’Heureux, 301 Johnson, Doria, 061 Kimble, Lionel, 003, 008, 098, 101, 211, 224, 231, 256, 296 Library Company of Philadelphia, Johnson, Frank, 207 Kinard, Joy, 035, 128, 225, 312 070, 115, 232 Johnson, Jessica Marie, 144, 304, Liuzzo Lillieboe, Mary, 267 316 Kinchen, Shirletta J., 155 Ligon, Tina L, 159, 183 Johnson, Karen, 081, 266 King, Amina, 319 Lindsey, Treva, 008, 204 Johnson, Latoya, 170 King, Barbara, 100 Linker, Destiney Lynn, 236 Johnson, Patrick, 217 King, Joyce E, 082 Little, Monroe, 003, 237 Johnson, Pearlie Mae, 134 King, , 003 Little, Sharoni, 244 Johnson, Roman, 135 King, LaGarrett, 197 Littlefield, Daniel, 163 Johnson, Sylvester, 214 King, Shannon, 155, 233, 275 Littlejohn, Jeffery, 034, 054, 280 Johnson, W. Chris, 286, 297 Kinlow, Matthew, 171 Littleton, La’Neice, 073, 265 Johnson, Yvette, 267 Kokayi, Assata, 199 Livingston, Samuel T., 184 Jones, Alisha, 176 Kossie-Chernyshev, Karen, 262 Loder-Jackson, Tondra, 081 Jones, Mack H., 089 Kouadio, Ajua, 107 Loewen, James W, 067 Jones, Ida, 197 Krauthamer, Barbara, 273 Lofton, Richard, 081 Jones, Jacqueline C., 157 Kuchle, Spencer, 165 Lofton, Robin, 070, 115, 232 Jones, Jennifer D., 160 Lomax, Mark Ogunwale, 167 Jones, Lindsey Elizabeth, 074 LaCott, Ignace, 073 Long, Khalid, 220 Jones, Martha S., 031, 187 Lacy, Travis K., 300 Losier, Toussaint, 223 Jones, Norrece, 163 Lafayette, Dr. Bernard, 269 Lotson, Griffin, 121 Jones, Patrick, 077 Laird, Alan, 151, 171

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Louis, Diana, 102 McDuffie, Erik, 037, 193 Morgan, Kelli, 066 Love, Jade, 021 McGruder, Kevin, 100 Morgan-Brown, MaryNell, 216, 298 Love, Johnnieque Blackmon, 008, McGuire, Danielle, 051, 153 Moriah, Kristin, 036 237, 256, 307 McKinley, Catherine, 150 Morris, Aldon, 100 Lovett, Laura, 142 McKinney, Charles, 008, 078 Morris, Burnis R, 045 Lowe, Tony B, 194, 221 McKinney, Cynthia, 315 Morris, Courtney Desiree, 137 Lowe, Turkiya L, 006, 050 McKisick, Derrick D., 168 Morris, Jamae, 135, 290 Lowery, Lauren G., 140 McKnight, Utz, 141 Morris, Susana, 040 Luckett, Robert, 120 McLeod, Jacqueline, 079, 163 Morris, Tiyi, 100, 251, 287 Lyle, Anndretta, 310 McNair, Kimberly, 217 Morrison, Amani, 131 McNeil, Chesley, 167 Morton-Young, Tommie, 100 MacLeish, Peter, 200 Mcneil, Genna, 100 Mosby, Representative Howard, Madison, Cynthia, 192 Mears, Tanya, 103 154 Madzimoyo, Ayana, 320 Medford, Edna Greene, 003, 100 Moses, Raven M., 117 Madzimoyo, Ife, 135 Melancon, Trimiko, 100 Moses, Sibyl, 062 Maginn, Andrew Wyatt, 195 Melton, McKinley, 101 Mosley, Derek, 092 Magras, Lydia, 095 Menzise, Jeffrey, 242 Moten, Crystal, 077 Makalani, Minkah, 012, 130, 286 Mickens, Ronald, 058 Moultrie, Monique, 068 Mann, Kimberly, 091 Middle Tennessee State University, Muhammad, Baiyina W., 013, 072, Mann, Regis Marlene, 258 070, 115, 232 143 Manning-Miller, Carmen, 045 Miletsky, Zebulon, 008, 077, Muhammad, Nafeesa Haniyah, 253 Mares, Richard M, 060 182, 266 Murch, Donna, 223 Marsalis, Delfeayo, 178 Miller, Rasul, 223 Mustakeem, Sowande, 025, 152 Marshall, Amani, 239 Mills, Jeri, 067 Mwanzia Koster, Mickie, 147 Martin, Arthuretta H, 166 Mills, ShaVonte’, 083 Myles, Sharnell, 309 Mason, Patience, 080 Millward, Jessica, 187, 304 Myrick-Harris, Clarissa, 226 Massenburg, Moses, 118, 319 Milteer, Warren, 072 Matlock, Charles, 140 Minamoto, Kunihiko, 033 Nadasen, Premilla, 100 Matthews, Lopez, 046 Mingo, AnneMarie, 137 Nadine V. Wedderburn, Nadine V., 216, 298 Maultsby, Portia, 210 Mitchell, Elise Agatha, 015 Mitchell, Martin, 319 National Museum of American McAllister, Marvin, 220 History, 070, 115, 232 Mitchell, Representative Billy, 154 McCall, Josephine Bolling, 100 National Park Service Southeast McCall, Nathan, 049 Mitchell, Roland Walker, 172 Regional Office, 070, 115, 232 McCaskill, Barbara, 069, 100 Mixon, Gregory, 028 Ndege, Conchita, 020 McCoy, Austin, 255 Momon, Tiffany, 085 Neal, La Vonne, 023, 026, 202 McCray, Kenja R, 207, 253 Monnie, Bill, 100 Neblett, Asma, 256 McCray, Michael, 166 Montooth, Jennifer, 305 Nellon, Chy’na, 149, 213, 239 McCune, Jeffrey Q., 025 Montrie, Chad, 300 Nelson, Alondra, 316 McCurtis, Marlene, 287 Moore, Alicia, 023, 026, 202 Nelson, Claudia D, 106, 191, 259 McCutcheon, Priscilla, 174, 289 Moore, Cornelius, 114, 306 Neucere, Elizabeth, 280 McDaniels III, Pellom, 021, 069, 271 Moore, Erin H, 071 Nevius, Marcus P., 065 McDole, Ayondela, 066 Moore, Isabell Lola, 169 Newby-Alexander, Cassandra, 245 McDonald, George, 035 Moore, Louis, 271 Newport, Melanie, 223 McDougal, Serie, 240 Moorhead, Deborah, 259 Nichols, Jason, 248 McDowell, Deborah E., 274 Morehouse, Lawrence, 158 Nicol, Donna J, 219

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Nishimoto, Azusa, 227 Perro, Ebony, 028, 057, 096, 127, Rice, Albert “AJ”, 012 Nix, Keturah, 279 265 Rice, Dr. Valerie Montgomery, 200 Nix, Jr., Echol Lee, 100, 123 Perry, Kennetta Hammond, 094, Richardson, Riché, 177 130 Norman, Michael “Gradie”, 280 Richie, Rashad, 154 Peskine, Alexis, 178 Norwood, Arlisha, 075 Richmond, Afrah, 087 Peterson, James, 252, 313 Nosakhere, Akilah, 307 Rickford, Russell, 189 Peterson-Quantana, Tanasha, 014 Nunn, Kenneth, 198 Rivers, Larry O., 068 Phelps, Kenyatta, 018 Roane, James, 064 Pheonix, Sandra, 132 O’Brien, M. J., 100 Roberts, Christopher, 117 Phillips, Kenvi, 046 Oduguwa, Moriayo Maripaz- Roberts, Juanita, 109 Phillips-Lewis, Kathleen, 226 Shenee, 066 Robertson, Ashley, 075 Pimblott, Kerry, 042, 278 Ofili, Elizabeth, 200 Robinson, Brian, 148 Platt, Michael, 178 Ogunsola, Dellita Martin, 106 Robinson, Howard Overton, 291 Polk, Khary, 036 Okedeyi, Risikat, 105 Robinson, Julia M, 168 Porter, Lavelle, 260 Okoh, Harry, 207 Robinson, Lasean Robinson, 143 Oligmueller, Lisa, 104 Power-Greene, Ousmane Kirumu, 037 Robinson, Sharon E., 307 Omari, Safiya, 290 Pratcher II, Anthony, 223 Rodriguez, Cheryl R., 175 Onaci, Edward, 020, 186, 278 Price, Delaina, 071 Rodriguez, Kaelyn D, 017 Onishi, Yuichiro, 227 Price, Melanye, 304 Rogers, Justin Isaac, 171, 254 Ortner, Johanna Maria, 294 Price, Melynda x, 051 Rooks, Noliwe, 177 Owens, Destiny, 014 Pruitt, Bernadette, 262 Rosa, Andrew Juan, 195 Owens, Emily, 243 Publishing, McFarland, 070, 115, Rose, Stephany, 289 Owens-Lalude, Judith C., 134 232 Rose-Rodriguez, Lisa Angela, 020 Pumphrey, Shelby, 275 Rosenthal, Danielle, 276 Pack, Uraina N, 284 Purdy, Michelle A., 173, 205 Ross, Donata Russell, 100, 283, 308 Paige, Gina, 003, 209 Purkiss, Ava, 274 Ross, Kendra Janelle, 032 Palmer, Annette, 003, 097, 143 Purnell, Brian, 153 Rothstein, Blair, 222 Parham, Loretta, 226 Rowley, Larry Lee, 186 Parker, Alison M., 100, 193 Quiros, Ansley L, 122 Rouse, Jacquelyn, 226 Parker, Freddie L., 065 Roy, Ethan Staten, 014, 241 Parker, Nakia D, 263 Rabe, Rob, 045 Royster, Michael D, 021, 110 Parker, Robert, 091, 128 Rael, Patrick, 122 Rucker, Sandra, 027 Parks, Fayth M., 047 Rahman, Ahmad, 060 Rucker, Walter C, 020, 100 Parsons, Anne E., 311 Raimist, Rachel, 040 Rydolph, Sarah Collins, 267 Parsons, Elaine Franz, 311 Raines, Tara, 016 Runstedtler, Theresa, 201, 271 Pasquerella, Lynn, 165 Ramsey, Sonya, 020 Russell, Alexandria, 062 Patterson, Sydney-Paige, 133 Randolph, Adah, 081 Russell Ross, Donata, 100 Patterson, Tiffany Ruby, 270, 316 Rash-Sawyer, Donna, 041 Ryan, Corey, 280 Patton, Stacey, 204 Ratchford, Jamal, 247 Peoples, Gabriel, 102 Ray, Louis, 029, 104 Saffold, Jacinta Renee, 133 Penguin Random House, 070, 115, Reed, Kasim, 007 Sakashita, Fumiko, 227 232 Reed, Marquita, 085 Salaam, Omar J., 083, 164 Perkins, Kathy A, 181 Reid, Andy, 135 Sall, Dialika, 064 Perkins, Linda Marie, 058, 205 Reid, Patricia, 008, 168, 187 Samuel, Gail, 109 retiredslaves.com,, 070, 115, 232 Sanchez, Sonia, 059, 268, 306 22 (Numbers following names indicate Session numbers) Participant Index

Sanderfer, , 080 Smethurst, James, 100, 268 Sumpter, Althea Natalga, 121 Sanders, Crystal, 008, 137, 173, 267 Smith, Billy Boyd, 235 Sunnenberg, Lenise Alexandra, 251 Sanders, Katrina Marie, 205 Smith, Camille Rose, 019 Sunni-Ali, Asantewa, 253 Santos, Mayra, 248 Smith, Daniel, 100 Swan, Quito, 094, 295 Satcher, Dr. David, 200 Smith, Tamara, 039 Saunders, Lynsey Marie, 134 Smith, Elaine M., 312 Tait, Althea, 049 Sawyer, Don, 107 Smith, Gilbert, 003 Tarik, Latif A, 024 Schlichtmann, Karleen, 016 Smith, Holly, 092 Tate, Candy, 049, 207, 268 Schweninger, Loren, 163 Smith, John Matthew, 271 Tate, Desta, 320 Scott, Alexis, 320 Smith, Sharde McNeil, 290 Taylor, Brittney Nikel, 064 Scott, Daryl Michael, 003, 007, 008, Smith, Theophus “Thee”, 222 Taylor, Keeanga Yamahtta, 012, 059, 091, 097, 167, 209, 237, 283 Smith, Tiffani J, 022, 260 208, 296 Scott, DeWitt, 083, 149 Smith, Sr., Harvey J, 104 Taylor, Nikki, 003 Scott, Lakia M, 084, 149 Smith-Stewart, Bonnyeclaire, 118, Taylor, Paul C, 137 Scott, Michelle R., 008, 158, 210, 265 Taylor, Susan L, 319 305 Sneed, Kymara J., 192 Taylor, Toniesha, 081 Scott, Mikana, 215 Snider, Joleene Maddox, 067 Taylor, Ula, 008, 013, 158, 304 Scott Giles, Freda, 181 Snyder, Jeffrey Aaron, 197 Taylor-Watson, Kadari, 150, 235 Scruggs, Camesha, 054 Solomon, Mattie, 100 Taylor-Webb, Traki, 074, 146, 205 Sdunzik, Jennifer, 063 Sotilleo, Sophia, 062 Terry, Courtney, 073, 238, 265 Seawell, Stephanie, 278 Spence, Cynthia, 226 Terry, David Taft, 055 Semmes, Clovis, 272 Spencer, Joi, 067 The Foundation International, 070, Seniors, Paula, 003 Spencer, Robyn, 286 115, 187 Sessions, Brittany, 261 Sperrazza, Tyler, 137 The Scholars Choice, 070, 115 Shabazz, Amilcar, 300 St. Julien, Danielle, 300 The University of Arkansas Press, 070, 115, 232 Shakir, Ameenah, 214, 259 Stanford-Randle, Greer Charlotte, Sharer, John, 100 003, 190, 237 The University of Georgia Press, 070, 115, 232 Sharpley-Whiting, Tracy D, 270 Stanley III, William, 225 Theodore, Ashley, 251 Shaw, Stephanie, 293 Stanton, Robert, 059 Theoharis, Jeanne, 203, 236 Sheldon, Andrew “Andy”, 222 Starks, Howard W, 033 Thomas, Byron, 059 Shellum, Brian George, 128 Stephens, Ronald Jemal, 279 Thomas, Jasmine, 261 Sherman, Eugene, 100 Steptoe, Tyina, 133 Thomas-Houston, Marilyn, 053, 132 Shropshire, Shonda, 050 Stevenson, Brenda, 163, 273 Thompson, Celine I, 038 Silvera, Torah M, 251 Steward, Tyran Kai, 201 Thompson, Heather Ann, 311 Simama, Jabari, 089 Stewart, Angela Daphne, 120 Thompson, Shirley, 071, 242, 302 Simmons, Dwan, 301 Stewart, James, 003, 088, 099, 150, Thornton, Troy, 003, 097 Simmons, Matthew E., 117 156, 308 Threat, Charissa, 153 Simpson, Cynne, 059 Stone, Oliver, 019 Tidwell, Wylie Jason, 103, 239 Simpson-Wilkey, LaJuan, 315 Stout, Gayle J., 030 Tilghman, John Randolph, 105, 295 Sims, Katrina R, 292 Stubblefield, Ronald, 234 Tillerson-Brown, Amy, 072, 143 Sims-Wood, Janet, 003, 097, 100, Stubbs, Marcus, 080 209, 237 Sturdevant, Katherine Scott, 194 Tinnie, Gene S, 194 Sinha, Manisha, 294 Suarez, Camille, 124 Tinnie, Wallis, 124 Sistrunk, Walter Lee, 033 Sulavik, Andrew T., 046 Tiwalade, Egbe, 059 Sloan-Brown, Carol, 100 Sullivan, Louis W., 200 Toby, William, 200 Smalls, Victoria A., 006 Summers, Brandi, 150 Todd-Breland, Elizabeth, 173 23 Participant Index (Numbers following names indicate Session numbers)

Tolan, Paraska Lorraine, 284 Ward Jordan, Tanya, 166 Williams, Robert Isaac, 151 Tomlinson, Linda Diane, 063, 253, Warren, Calvin, 108 Williams, Sonja, 100, 126 285 Warren, Chezare, 082 Williams, Wanda, 183 Townes, Mitzi, 291 Warren, Naomi, 244 Williams, Yohuru, 189, 297 Trent, Noelle, 314 Wash, Charles, 128 Williams, Yolanda Yvette, 149 Tsuruta, Dorothy Jane Randall, 053 Washington, Delo Elizabeth, 047 Williams, Zachary, 039 Tucker, Veta Smith, 090 Washington, Michael, 242 Williams II, Ronald, 013 Turner, Sasha, 263 Washington Jr, Fred Samuel, 047 Williamson, Abraham J., 041, 264 Uhuru, Jihad, 116 Waterhouse, Carlton M., 031 Williamson, Angela, 041, 100, 264 Umoja, Akinyele, 290, 319 Waters, Brandi M., 015 Willis, Daria, 018, 061 Underwood, Aubrey, 164 Watson, Huewayne, 064 Wilson, Francille, 226 University of Florida Press, 070, 115, Webb, Na’eemah, 279 Wilson, Jessica Alyce, 146 232 Webb, Sandra, 100 Wilson, Shaunqula, 038 University of Illinois Press, 070, 115, 232 Webster, Crystal Lynn, 142 Winkler, Erin N., 206 University of North Carolina Press, Weddington, Jordan, 305 Winslow, Barbara, 086 070, 115, 232 Weems, Robert, 272 Winslow, Barbara, 100 Weinfeld, David, 087 Winstead, Wheeler, 126 Van Putten, Melodye Micere, 180 Wells, Brandy Thomas, 193 Wisecarver, Roy, 254 Vassall, Kweku, 116 Wesley International Choir, 283 Wohlford, Corinne, 233 Vaughn, Gladys Gary, 003 Whipple, Angela, 251 Wolfskill, Phoebe, 134 Vaught, Seneca, 039 White, Deborah Gray, 273 Wolk, Sarah, 302 Veras, Edlin, 261 White, Derrick, 008, 201, 221 Wood, Jacqueline Edith, 022 Verges, Francoise, 091 White, Joyce, 118 Wood III, Augustus, 042 Vigne, Elaine, 191 Whitehead, Karsonya (Kaye) Wise, Woodard, Komozi, 203 Villarreal, Christina M, 020 136, 202 Woodruff, Nan Elizabeth, 051 Vincent, Godrey, 295 Wiemers, Alice, 249 Woods, Louis, 085 Vivian, C.T., 320 Wiggins, Danielle Lee, 255 Woods, Naurice Frank, 022 Wilbourn, Mack, 196 Woods, Sonja, 024 Wade, Darren, 105 Wiliiams, Seretha, 120 Woodson, Ashley, 082 Walden, Laurence, 264 Wilkins, Fanon Che, 210 Wright, Allison M., 030 Waldecoart Art Inc., 070, 115, 232 Williams, Chad, 293 Wright, Donela, 215 Wales Freedman, Eden Elizabeth, Williams, Concetta A., 095 Wright, Eric D, 182 022, 120 Williams, Darius, 313 Wright, Joshua Kondwani, 240 Walker, Antiwan, 127 Williams, Doretha, 307 Wright, Nazera, 157 Walker, Dominic, 107 Williams, Douglas, 110, 259 Wright Rigueur, Leah, 160 Walker, Dorothy, 291 Williams, Erica Lorraine, 175 Walker, Randolph Meade, 021 Williams, Glovinia Lewis, 100 Yancy, Dorothy C., 089 Walker, Sheila, 270, 303 Williams, Hettie V, 302 YBI African Apparel, 070, 115, 232 Walker, Tamara, 150 Williams, Jennifer, 117, 215 Young, Darius J., 214 Wallace, Michele, 204 Williams, John E., 131 Young, Lisa, 131 Wallenstein, Peter, 072, 100 Williams, Learotha, 207 Young, US Ambassador Andrew J, Walsh, Shane B., 183 Williams, Oscar R, 029, 131 196, 269 Walton, David Mathew, 042, 060, Williams, Phyllis Jean, 100 195 Williams, Rhonda, 155, 188 Zee Crafts, 070, 115, 232 Ward, Jervette RaShaun, 218

24 Session Index Wednesday, SEPTEMBER 23, 2015 Wednesday, SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

001. 7:00 am to 7:00 pm Registration Rotunda Pre-registration Office PRE-REGISTRATION 9/23.

002. 8:00 am to 4:30 pm Tour International Blvd. Portico (Bus departure area) Level 1 PRE-CONFERENCE AFRICAN AMERICAN HERITAGE BUS TOUR.

003. 10:00 am to 5:00 pm Meeting Georgia 5-A-V Room ASALH EXECUTIVE COUNCIL MEETING. Participants: Lionel Kimble, Chicago State University & Executive Council, ASALH Dorothy F Bailey, MNCPPC & Executive Branch, ASALH Thomas C Battle, Bethel Dukes Branch of ASALH & Executive Council, ASALH Zende Larmar Clark, Executive Council, ASALH National Secretary Sylvia Cyrus, Executive Director, ASALH Sheila Flemming-Hunter, Clark Atlanta University & Executive Council, ASALH Bettye Gardner, Coppin State University & Executive Council, ASALH Evelyn Higginbotham, Harvard University & Executive Council, ASALH Kenya King, Organizing Atlanta Branch & Executive Council, ASALH Monroe Little, Indiana University & Executive Council, ASALH Edna Greene Medford, Howard University, History Department & Executive Council, ASALH Paula Seniors, Virginia Tech & Executive Council, ASALH Janet Sims-Wood, Bethel Dukes Branch of ASALH & Executive Council, ASALH Gilbert Smith, Executive Council, ASALH Nikki Taylor, Texas Southern University & Executive Council, ASALH Troy Thornton, Goldman Sachs & Co.& Executive Council, ASALH Gladys Gary Vaughn, Executive Council, ASALH Martha Biondi, Northwestern University & Executive Council, ASALH Cornelius Bynum, Purdue University & Executive Coucil, ASALH Jim Harper, North Carolina Central University & Executive Council, ASALH Gina Paige, African Ancestry & Executive Council, ASALH Annette Palmer, Morgan State University & Executive Council, ASALH Daryl Michael Scott, Howard University & Centennial President, ASALH Greer Charlotte Stanford-Randle, ASALH/ Paul Laurence Dunbar Branch at Dayton, OH & Executive Council, ASALH James Stewart, Pennsylvania State University, (Emeritus) & Executive Council, ASALH V.P Franklin, Editor Journal of African American History Marilyn Thomas-Houston, Co-Editor, Fire!!! La Vonne Neal, Co-Editor, Black History Bulletin Alicia Moore, Co-Editor, Black History Bulletin

004. 10:00 am to 5:00 pm Meeting Georgia 6-A-V Room ASALH EXECUTIVE COUNCIL MEETING(B).

005. 11:00 am to 7:00 pm Registration Georgia Registration Office ONSITE REGISTRATION.

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006. 4:30 pm to 6:30 pm Special Session Capital Ballroom North COMMEMORATING THE RECONSTRUCTION ERA AND CIVIL RIGHTS: THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE’S CALL TO ACTION IN ITS SECOND CENTURY. Presenters: Turkiya L Lowe, National Park Service Victoria A. Smalls, History, Arts, and Culture Director Kathleen McClain Bond, Natchez National Historical Park Sponsor: National Park Service

007. 5:30 pm to 10:00 pm Reception Atlanta History Center OPENING NIGHT RECEPTION. Participants: Kasim Reed, Mayor City of Atlanta The Honorable Patsy Jo Hilliard, Former Mayor East Point GA, Centennial Atlanta Honorary Committee Co-Chair Emcee: Sylvia Y. Cyrus, Executive Director, ASALH

008. 9:00 pm to 11:00 pm Meeting Georgia 6-A-V Room ACADEMIC PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEETING. Participants: Lionel Kimble, Chicago State University & Executive Council, ASALH Cornelius Bynum, Purdue University & Executive Coucil, ASALH Derrick Alridge, University of Virginia Martha Biondi, Northwestern University & Executive Council, ASALH Michael Blum, Jarvis Chrisitan College Christopher Cameron, University of North Carolina at Charlotte Sylvia Y. Cyrus, ASALH Natanya Duncan, Lehigh University Michelle Duster, Independent Writer Stephanie Evans, Clark Atlanta University Rondee Gaines, University Aram Goudsouzian, Universiry of Memphis LaShawn Harris, Michigan State University Jeffrey Helgeson, Texas State University Ashley M. Howard, Loyola University New Orleans Clarence Lang, University of Kansas Treva Lindsey, Ohio State University Charles McKinney, Rhodes College Zebulon Miletsky, Stony Brook University Patricia Reid, University of Dayton Crystal Sanders, Pennsylvania State University Daryl Michael Scott, Howard University & Centennial President, ASALH Michelle R. Scott, UMBC Ula Taylor, University of California UC Berkeley Derrick White, Dartmouth College Johnnieque Blackmon Love, University of Maryland Libraries

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THURsday, SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

009. 7:00 am to 7:00 pm Registration Rotunda Pre-registration Office PRE-REGISTRATION.

010. 7:00 am to 7:00 pm Registration Georgia Registration Office ONSITE REGISTRATION.

011. 7:00 am to 11:45 am Tour International Blvd. Portico (Bus departure area) Level 1 AFRICAN AMERICAN HERITAGE BUS TOUR.

012. 12:00 pm to 1:50 pm Panel Session Atlanta 1 STRUCTURES OF DOMINATION IN/ON THE BLACK: AFRICANA STUDIES AND POLITICAL ECONOMY. Chair: Gerald Horne, University of Houston Participants: Creating Race in the Post Civil Rights Era: Colorblindness and the Politics of Poverty in the Nixon Administration. Keeanga Yamahtta Taylor, Princeton University The Cold War and the Cultural Turn: Some Theoretical Sketches. Charisse Burden, University of California, Berkeley Languaging Detroit: Neocolonialism, Race, and Urban Politics. Albert “AJ” Rice, Michigan State University Commentator: Minkah Makalani, University of Texas at Austin

013. 8:30 am to 9:50 am Panel Session Atlanta 2 BLACK MUSLIM WOMEN ACTIVISM: RECENTERING THE DISCOURSE ON THE NATION OF ISLAM. Chair: Ronald Williams II, African American Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Participants: Reformer Burnisteen Sharrieff and the Final Call to Islam. Ula Taylor, University of California UC Berkeley Sister Captain: Black Muslim Women’s Leadership. Bayyinah S. Jeffries, Department of African American Studies, Ohio University Finding My Grandmother, Finding Myself: NOI Pioneer, Mable Carrie Foreman (1908-1980). Baiyina W. Muhammad, North Carolina Central University Commentator: Ronald Williams II, African American Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

014. 8:30 am to 9:50 am Roundtable Session Atlanta 3 A CLOSER LOOK INTO THE LIFE OF JOHN HOPE FRANKLIN. Chair: Jim Harper, North Carolina Central University & Executive Council, ASALH Discussants: Jasmine Fenner, North Carolina Central University Ethan Staten Roy, North Carolina Central University Destiny Owens, North Carolina Central University Tanasha Peterson-Quantana, North Carolina Central University

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015. 8:30 am to 9:50 am Panel Session Atlanta 4 THREE CENTURIES OF BLACK LIFE IN SLAVERY IN THE CARIBBEAN AND LATIN AMERICA. Chair: Natanya Duncan, Lehigh University Participants: Queen Leonor’s War: Gender and Slave Resistance in Seventeenth-Century New Grenada. Bradley L. Craig, Harvard University Department of History ‘Smallpox Negroes’: Smallpox Inoculation and the Enslaved Black Body in the British West Indies 1756-1800. Elise Agatha Mitchell, New York University Department of History Caught in the Act: Suicide and Slavery in 19th Century New Granada. Brandi M. Waters, Yale University - Departments of History & African American Studies Commentator: Natanya Duncan, Lehigh University

016. 8:30 am to 9:50 am Roundtable Session Atlanta 5 MENTORING THE NEXT GENERATION OF AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES STUDENTS AND LEADERS. Chair: Manoucheka Celeste, University of Nevada Las Vegas Discussants: Julia Lee, University of Nevada Las Vegas Tara Raines, University of Nevada Las Vegas Kilgore Larmaya, University of Nevada Las Vegas Karleen Schlichtmann, university of Nevada Las Vegas Odusanya Kimberly, University of Nevada Las Vegas McCallum Breanna, University of Nevada Las Vegas

017. 8:30 am to 9:50 am Panel Session Capital Ballroom North THE MISEDUCATION OF AND ABOUT THE AFROLATIN: CRITICAL DIALOGUES ON BEING BLACK AND BROWN. Chair: Krista Cortes, University of California - Berkeley Participants: Bodies, Bodies Everywhere and not a Puerto Rican in Sight!: An exploration of the Black Puerto Rican (Afroboriqua) Body. Krista Cortes, University of California - Berkeley Dominican hair manifesto. Maria Diaz, Harvard University Black Women in Mexican Art; A Colonial Legacy. Kaelyn D Rodriguez, University of California, Commentator: Maria Diaz, Harvard University

018. 8:30 am to 9:50 am Panel Session Conference Room 123 RISE TO THE OCCASION: BLACK WOMEN’S CONTRIBUTIONS TO CIVIL RIGHTS, EDUCATION, AND PHILANTHROPY. Chair: Tameka Bradley Hobbs, Florida Memorial University Participants: Myra and Ruth Logan: Sisters for Civil Rights. Daria Willis, Lee College Black Women and Education, Williamsburg, Virginia, 1870-1940. Maureen Elgersman Lee, Hampton University When and Where They Entered: The Financial and Philanthropic Contribution of African American Women Post-Emancipation. Kenyatta Phelps, Lone Star College “Black Women’s Activism at the University of Illinois, 1901-1939”. Tamara Hoff, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Commentator: Tameka Bradley Hobbs, Florida Memorial University 28 Thursday, SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

019. 8:30 am to 9:50 am Panel Session Conference Room 125 NO HUMANS INVOLVED: THE CONTINUING INSIGNIFICANCE OF BLACK FEMALE BODIES. Chair: Aretina Hamilton, Ohio University, Department of African American Studies Participants: The Neglect of Black Women Through Prison Policies. Camille Rose Smith, Ohio University No One Knows My Name: Racial Profiling and African American Women. Alexis Apparicio, Ohio University The History of Violence on Black Women’s Bodies. Oliver Stone, Ohio University Commentator: Akil Houston, Ohio University, Department of African American Studies

020. 8:30 am to 9:50 am Paper Session Conference Room 127 AFRICANS IN THE AMERICAS. Chair: Edward Onaci, Ursinus College Participants: Diaspora Docterine: The Transplantation of IFA from Nigeria to Cuba and Brazil. Past and Present Practices. Lisa Angela Rose-Rodriguez, UCONN, UCHC & Capital Community College Obeah, Oaths, and Ancestors: Ritual Technologies and Mortuary Realms in the Gold Coast Diaspora. Walter C Rucker, Rutgers University Over 100 Years or More of Inspirations from Africa in the Americas: Case Studies of Salvador, Brazil and New Orleans, La. Conchita Ndege, 1947 “Where liberty dwells, there is my country:” African-Americans and the British Emigration Scheme. Dexter Gabriel, SUNY-Stony Brook Fugitive Slaves, Gender, and Power Geometries in Late Spanish Texas, 1820. Christina M Villarreal, History Department, University of Texas at Austin Commentator: Sonya Ramsey, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

021. 8:30 am to 9:50 am Paper Session Conference Room 129 DISMISSING AND REASSESSING MYTHS ABOUT RACE AND GENDER. Chair: Eldrin Lamar Deas, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Participants: Beastial Myth: A Critical Race Theory of African American Male Stigma. Michael D Royster, Prairie View A&M University For the Love of Ebony Women. Jade Love, undergraduate The Glass is Half Full: Resurrection of the Post Civil War Assessment of the State of African Americans. Randolph Meade Walker, Memphis organizing Branch “I’m a Woman Who Knows Her Own Mind”: Narratives of Interiority and Black Life in Washington D.C. 1919 - 1942. Paula C Austin, Graduate Center CUNY “I’m a Woman Who Knows Her Own Mind”: Narratives of Interiority and Black Life in Washington D.C. 1919 - 1942. Paula C Austin, California State University, Sacramento Will The Real Sheroes Please Stand Up. Karen January, Educator and Author Commentator: Pellom McDaniels III, Emory University

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022. 8:30 am to 9:50 am Panel Session Conference Room 131 THE NEW NEGRO MOVEMENT AND ITS BLACK ARTS LEGACIES. Chair: Eden Elizabeth Wales Freedman, Adams State University Participants: A Seabed of BAM: Sounding the Impact of the 1968 Summer Issue of The Drama Review. Jacqueline Edith Wood, University of Missouri-Kansas City Henry Ossawa Tanner in the Time of the New Negro Movement. Naurice Frank Woods, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro Playing in the Light: An Analysis of “Progressive” Black Masculinities in Literature. Tiffani J Smith, Claremont Graduate University Commentator: Eden Elizabeth Wales Freedman, Adams State University

023. 8:30 am to 9:50 am Special Session Georgia 10 TEACHERS WORKSHOP STUDENT SESSION. Leaders: La Vonne Neal, Northern Illinois University Regina Lewis, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs Alicia Moore, Southwestern University Sponsor: American Federation of Teachers

024. 8:30 am to 9:50 am Panel Session Georgia 11 THE LIONS TELL THEIR STORY: A CENTURY OF AFRICAN AMERICAN PUBLIC HISTORY. Chair: Latif A Tarik, Howard University Participants: Interpreting Our Heritage: Visibility and Omission the Presence of African Americans in the 21st Century. Ashley Jordon, National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center Race Pride, Progress, and Class: African Americans and the Atlanta International Cotton States Exposition, 1895. Anton D House, Howard University Claiming Space Within the Dominant Public Sphere: The History of African American Exhibitions, Fairs and Museums. Diane Anderson, Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture Howard University Moorland-Spingarn Contributions to Africana Archives and Repository. Sonja Woods, Howard University Commentator: Diane Anderson, Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture

025. 8:30 am to 9:50 am Roundtable Session Georgia 12 FROM THE STREETS TO THE CLASSROOM: COLLABORATING TO DOCUMENT A SOCIAL MOVEMENT. Chair: Nadia Ghasedi, Washington University Discussants: Meredith Evans, Washington University Sowande Mustakeem, Washington University in St. Louis Makiba Foster, Washington University in St. Louis Jeffrey Q. McCune, Washington University in St. Louis

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026. 8:30 am to 3:50 pm Special Session Georgia 13 TEACHERS WORKSHOP. Leaders: La Vonne Neal, Northern Illinois University Regina Lewis, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs Alicia Moore, Southwestern University Sponsor: American Federation of Teachers

027. 8:30 am to 9:50 am Workshop Session Georgia 2 --AV Room MORE THAN A GAME: USING GAMING TO ENGAGE AND TEACH IN THE DIGITAL AGE. Leaders: Latangela Lajuan Crossfield, Clark Atlanta University Rosailand Arthur, Clark Atlanta University Sandra Rucker, Clark Atlanta University

028. 8:30 am to 9:50 am Panel Session Georgia 3-A-V Room CIVIL WAR TO CIVIL RIGHTS: A STRUGGLE FOR HUMAN DIGNITY. Chair: Cornelius Bynum, Purdue University & Executive Coucil, ASALH Participants: Rufus B. Bullock and Convict Leasing in Post-Civil War Georgia. Edward Hightower, Clark Atlanta University Pre-Civil Rights Discussions of the African American Churches During the Jim Crow Era. Lauren Brisbon, Clark Atlanta University Color Cast (e): Reconstructing Black Identities from Reconstruction to Post-Racial America. Ebony Perro, Clark Atlanta University Commentator: Gregory Mixon, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

029. 8:30 am to 9:50 am Paper Session Georgia 5-A-V Room CIVIL RIGHTS IN THE URBAN NORTH. Chair: Louis Ray, Fairleigh Dickinson University Participants: “The Greatest Good”: Black Professionals and the Early Civil Rights Movement in Pittsburgh, 1925-1940. Adam Lee Cilli, University of Maine Continuity and Change: the African American Struggle for Civil Rights, 1954-1956. Louis Ray, Fairleigh Dickinson University; Muriel Grimmett, Independent scholar Protest in Suburbia! The 1965 North Shore Summer Project for Fair Housing in Chicago’s Suburbs. Mary Barr, Clemson University School Desegregation Law: Amos et al v. Board of School Directors of the City of Milwaukee. David Boers, Marian University Commentator: Oscar R Williams, SUNY Albany

030. 8:30 am to 9:50 am Panel Session Georgia 6-A-V Room MOVING BEYOND THE ACADEMY: AFRICAN AMERICAN HERITAGE TOURISM COMES OF AGE. Chair: Mary Corey, The College at Brockport, Brockport, NY Participants: Public History’s Critical Role in Public Perceptions of African American History. Mary Corey, The College at Brockport, Brockport, NY Teaching the Past: Public History and Public Schools. Mark Harnischfeger, Greece Central School District Why here? Tracing the Intersection of Physical & Cultural Geography. Gayle J. Stout, Genesee Community College & Dansville, NY High School, Ret. Commentator: Allison M. Wright, The College at Brockport, Brockport, NY 31 Thursday, SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

031. 8:00 am to 3:50 pm Panel Session Georgia 9-A-V Room SLAVERY, PUBLIC MEMORY, AND REPARATIONS: CONNECTING THE UNITED STATES, FRANCE, AND BRAZIL. Chair: Randal Maurice Jelks, University of Kansas Participants: An African American Historian in Paris: Finding the History of Slavery in the City of Lights. Martha S. Jones, University of Michigan Total Recall: Repairing the Public Memory of Slavery and Segregation. Carlton M. Waterhouse, Indiana University Public Memory and Reparations for Slavery in Brazil and the United States. Ana Lucia Araujo, Howard University Racial Slavery and Reparations in Brazilian and American Race-Conscious Affirmative Jurisprudence. Wendy Greene, Samford University Commentators: Robert J. Cottrol, George Washington University Randal Maurice Jelks, University of Kansas

032. 8:30 am to 9:50 am Panel Session Savannah 1 (Level 2 Lobby) WHAT’S LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT: THE POLITICAL DIMENSIONS OF LOVE WITHIN BLACK EXPRESSIVE CULTURE. Chair: Kendra Janelle Ross, Cultural Worker/Independent Scholar Participants: Sonic Black Feminist Praxis: The Politics and Power of the Love Songs in Malindy’s Toolbox. Abby Dobson, Sonic Conceptual Artist/Independent Scholar In Search of Fannie’s Song: Towards an Affective Politics of Love in Black Women’s Musical Expressions. Kendra Janelle Ross, Cultural Worker/Independent Scholar The Politics of Emotion in Motown and Stax Love Songs. Tanesha Barnes, Cultural Critic Commentator: Abby Dobson, Sonic Conceptual Artist/Independent Scholar

033. 8:30 am to 9:50 am Paper Session Savannah 2 (Level 2 Lobby) LINGUISTICS AND BLACK EXPRESSION. Chair: Derrick Lanois, Georgia State University Participants: Life Story of Ernie A. Smith: Black Nationalist Language Ideology to Ebonics. Kunihiko Minamoto, Michigan State University Mending the Divide: Why Theoretical Linguistics should be in the Mix. Walter Lee Sistrunk, St. John’s University People without Tongues: An Ethnic Anomaly. Howard W Starks, WSU-Alluni Commentator: Derrick Lanois, Georgia State University

034. 8:30 am to 9:50 am Panel Session Savannah 3 (Level 2 Lobby) REPRESSION, REFORM, AND REVOLUTION: NEW STUDIES ON THE LONG CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT. Chair: Charles Ford, Norfolk State University Participants: Florida State Normal and Industrial School for Coloreds: Thomas DeSalle Tucker and His Radical Approach to Black Higher Education. Reginald K Ellis, Florida A&M University The Apotheosis of Booker T. Washington High School: History, Identity, and Educational Equity in Norfolk, Virginia. Jeffery Littlejohn, Sam Houston State University The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: The Urban Rebellion in York, Pennsylvania, A Case Study of a Nation on Fire in the late 1960s. Peter Levy, York College of Pennsylvania Commentator: Charles Ford, Norfolk State University 32 Thursday, SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

035. 10:00 am to 11:50 am Roundtable Session Atlanta 1 ON THE ROAD TO THE NPS CENTENNIAL: PARTNERING WITH THE NPS TO PREPARE HBCU STUDENTS AS THE NEXT GENERATION OF PARK STEWARDS. Chair: Barbara Spencer Dunn, DeVereux Family Discussants: George McDonald, National Park Service Angelou Ezeilo, Greening Youth Foundation Joy Kinard, National Park Service

035.1 SEE SESSION 088.

036. 10:00 am to 11:50 am Panel Session Atlanta 2 “THE DEPLOYMENT OF SOLDIERING: BLACK AMERICANS FROM THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR THROUGH WORLD WAR I.” Chair: Khary Polk, Amherst College Participants: Caribbean Slave Revolt and Rank and File Patriot Abolitionism. Alan Gilbert, Denver University “Doing Our Bit”: Race, Gender and the Aesthetics of War in WWI Propaganda. Kristin Moriah, CUNY Graduate Center Leveraging Military Service Against Jim Crow 1890 to 1914. Myra Armstead, Bard College Commentator: Khary Polk, Amherst College

037. 10:00 am to 11:50 am Panel Session Atlanta 3 “WE ARE THE ARBITERS OF OUR OWN DESTINY”: LIBERIA AND THE BLACK INTELLECTUAL AND RADICAL TRADITION. Chair: Stephanie Evans, Clark Atlanta University Participants: “The second battle for Africa has begun”: Rev. Clarence W. Harding Jr., Liberia, the US Midwest, and Garveyism, 1966-1980. Erik McDuffie, University of Illinois “On the Mountain of the Lion: Edward Blyden and his 1885 Exile to Sierra Leone”. Matthew Law, Queens University Belfast “Benjamin Brawley’s Liberian Dream.” Ousmane Kirumu Power-Greene, Clark University Commentator: Cynthia Blandford, Honorary Consul General Republic of Liberia

038. 10:00 am to 11:50 am Roundtable Session Atlanta 4 (WE) MIND THE GAP: CULTURAL SUPPORT THAT STRENGTHENS BLACK STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT. Chair: Valerie N. Adams-Bass, University of California, Davis Discussants: Fatima Hafiz-Wahid, Temple University Keisha L Bentley-Edwards, University of Texas, Austin Chonika Coleman-King, University of Tennessee Celine I Thompson, Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine Shaunqula Wilson, University of Texas, Dallas

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039. 10:00 am to 11:50 am Roundtable Session Atlanta 5 “POST-BROWN TO ‘POST-RACIAL ERA’: BLACK TEACHERS AND THE SEGREGATION OF THE AMERICAN MIND.” Chair: Zachary Williams, University of Akron Discussants: Dr. Tamara Smith, I-LEAD Charter School; Independent Researcher Holly Fisher-Hickman, Independent Researcher; Learning-Healing Institute, Inc Seneca Vaught, Kennesaw State University Jim Harper, North Carolina Central University & Executive Council, ASALH

040. 10:00 am to 11:50 am Roundtable Session Capital Ballroom North TRANSFORMATIVE DIGITAL BLACK FEMINISMS: A CRUNK FEMINIST COLLECTIVE ROUNDTABLE. Chair: Rachel Raimist, University of Alabama Discussants: Robin Boylorn, University of Alabama Brittney Cooper, Rutgers University Chanel Craft Tanner, Emory University Sheri Davis-Faulkner, Georgia Tech Susana Morris, Auburn University

041. 10:00 am to 11:50 am Panel Session Conference Room 123 ACTIVISTS, EDUCATION, AND ASALH: A CENTURY OF JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA’S AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY. Chair: Abraham J. Williamson, Harvard Law School Participants: A. Philip Randolph: An American Hero. Donna Rash-Sawyer, Florida State Community College at Jacksonville South 150 years of Higher Education in the Deep South: Edward Waters College. TaKeia Anthony, Edward Waters College Preserving Jacksonville’s African-American History: A brief history of the James Weldon Johnson Chapter of ASALH. Angela Williamson, ASALH JWJ Branch, Clay County Historic Preservation Board, Southern New Hampshire University Commentator: TaKeia Anthony, Edward Waters College

042. 10:00 am to 11:50 am Paper Session Conference Room 125 BLACK POWER IDENTITY AND SOCIAL ACTIVISM. Chair: Martha Biondi, Northwestern University Participants: “If There’s a Hell Below, We’re All Going to Go!”:The Black Working Class and Black Power in the Atlanta Freedom Struggle, 1970-1973. Augustus Wood III, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign “My Mind is Black”: Black Power and BUILD in 1960s Buffalo, New York. Rowena Ianthe Alfonso A Five-Fold Foundation of Faith: How Black Religion in Detroit Radicalized Black America. Jamon Jordan, ASALH-Detroit, Vice President; Founder & CEO of Black Scroll History & Tours Where is Africa? Who is African?: Africa and identity amongst Black Power era high school students in Detroit, Michigan. David Mathew Walton, Michigan State University “Is this Mississippi?” Black Power Politics, Student Activism, and the Perpetuation of Exceptional Southern Racism. Sarajanee O Davis, Ohio State University Commentator: Kerry Pimblott, University of Wyoming

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043. 10:00 am to 11:50 am Panel Session Conference Room 127 CONCEPTUALIZING AFRICANA SPORTING STUDIES. Chair: Drew Brown, University of Houston Participants: Black Masculinity on Display at the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum. Thabiti Lewis, Washington State University at Vancouver “The Myth of the Black Athlete”: The Need to Incorporate African American Studies into the Study of Athletics as a Black Advancement Strategy. Dexter Blackman, Loyola Marymount University The Cultural Meaning of Sport to Black Folk. Drew Brown, University of Houston Commentator: Thabiti Lewis, Washington State University at Vancouver

044. 10:00 am to 11:50 am Panel Session Georgia 5-A-V Room DO REMEMBER ME: BLACK WOMEN’S SUBJECTIVITY AND INVISIBILITY IN CULTURE AND THE ARTS. Chair: Marta Effinger-Crichlow, College of Technology - CUNY Participants: ‘I Wish My Momma Was Here’: A Black Feminist Reading of Gregory Porter’s Music. Marta Effinger-Crichlow, New York City College of Technology - CUNY Whatever Happened to Maidie Norman?: Twentieth Century Arts Activist, African American Theatre Educator, and Hollywood Actress. Eve Lambert, Albany State University I am Renisha McBride. Renata Ferdinand, New York City College of Technology - CUNY Commentator: Renata Ferdinand, New York City College of Technology - CUNY

045. 10:00 am to 11:50 am Panel Session Georgia 10 CARTER G. WOODSON: THE PRESS AND POLITICS IN THE 1930S. Chair: Burnis R Morris, Marshall University Participants: Carter G. Woodson’s newspaper columns, 1931-1937. Burnis R Morris, Marshall University The Black press and the Democratic Party in the 1930s. Rob Rabe, Marshall University Carter G. Woodson and political agenda-building during the 1930s. Carmen Manning-Miller, The Lincoln University, PA Commentator: Carmen Manning-Miller, The Lincoln University, PA

046. 10:00 am to 11:50 am Library Session Georgia 11 DIGITIZING THE BLACK EXPERIENCE: BUILDING “DIGITAL HOWARD” AND THE “PORTAL TO THE BLACK EXPERIENCE”. Chair: Trichita Chestnut, National Archives and Records Administration Participants: “The Portal to the Black Experience.” Andrew T. Sulavik, Howard University Building Digital Howard. Kenvi Phillips, Howard University Digital Howard in Action. Lopez Matthews, Howard University Commentator: Trichita Chestnut, National Archives and Records Administration

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047. 10:00 am to 11:50 am Panel Session Georgia 12 THREE WOMEN SCHOLARS GUARDING GULLAH: HONORING WOODSON’S VISION & DOCUMENTING CULTURAL HERITAGE IN THE SOUTH CAROLINA LOW COUNTRY. Chair: Emory S Campbell, Past Director of Penn Center Participants: Culture & Family: The Education of a Native Daughter. Delo Elizabeth Washington, Independent Scholar Identity & Agency: Lessons from the Life of Robert Smalls. Fayth M. Parks, Georgia Southern University Culture & Social Change. Beverly M John, Chicago State University Commentators: Fred Samuel Washington Jr, Independent Scholar Mary LaFrance Ferguson, Beverly John

048. 2:00 pm to 3:50 pm Roundtable Session Georgia-2-A-V Room BOOKER T.WASHINGTON- HIS IMAGE AND LEGACY AFTER 100 YEARS. Chair: John Bracey, University of Massachusetts - Amherst Discussants: Shawn Leigh Alexander, Kansas University Kenneth Hamilton, Southern Methodist University David H Jackson, Florida A&M University

049. 10:00 am to 11:50 am Presidential Session Georgia 3-A-V Room BLACK ART, ENTERTAINMENT, AND SPORTS: THE DIALECTIC OF POLITICAL ACTIVISM. Chair: Andra Gillespie, Emory University Participants: Discomfort & Art: A Dialectic in Mari Evans’ Ouevre. Althea Tait, SUNY Brockport Participant Observer: The Documentary Photography of Jim Alexander. Candy Tate, Emory University LeBron James, Sports and Racial Healing. Nathan McCall, Emory University

050. 10:00 am to 11:50 am Private Session Georgia 4-A-V Room THE 5WS AND A H FOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE CAREER OPPORTUNITIES. Participants: Turkiya L Lowe, National Park Service Edward Hightower, Clark Atlanta University Shonda Shropshire, National Park Service

051. 10:00 am to 11:50 am Roundtable Session Georgia 5-A-V Room RETHINKING VIOLENCE IN THE FREEDOM STRUGGLE. Chair: John Higginson, University of Massachusetts Amherst Discussants: Adriane Lentz-Smith, History Department, Duke Melynda x Price, University of Kentucky Danielle McGuire, Wayne State University Dianna Freelon-Foster, Southern Echo Nan Elizabeth Woodruff, Pennsylvania State University

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052. 10:00 am to 11:50 am Panel Session Georgia 6-A-V Room W.E.B. DU BOIS’ DISCOURSE ON THE SOUL AS A HEURISTIC DEVICE FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE IN HIGHER EDUCATION. Chair: Joseph Flynn, Northern Illinois University Participants: W.E.B. Du Bois’ Discourse on the Soul as a Heuristic Device for Social Justice in Higher Education. Sarah Lynne Frielink Platonic and Freirean Interpretations of W.E.B. Du Bois’s “Of the Coming of John.” Kerry Burch, Northern Illinois University Reviving W.E.B. Du Bois’ Legacy of Liberal Arts and the Humanities in Adult and Higher Education. Cornelius Gilbert, Northern Illinois University Commentator: Cornelius Gilbert, Northern Illinois University

053. 10:00 am to 11:50 am Panel Session Georgia 9-A-V Room DOING WOMANIST WORK (INVITED SESSION SPONSORED BY FIRE!!!). Chair: Marilyn Thomas-Houston, University of Florida Participants: Theorizing African Diaspora Womanism (Independent of European Diaspora Feminism). Dorothy Jane Randall Tsuruta, San Francisco State University Transformative Language Requires the Use of a Womanist Lens. Veta Irby-Ware, San Francisco State University Womanist Approaches to Preserving the Lives of Black Males. Kevin L. Brooks, Ohio State University Hiphop Womanist Inquiry. Dawn-Elissa Fischer, San Francisco State University Commentator: R. Scott Heath, Georgia State University

054. 10:00 am to 11:50 am Panel Session Savannah 1 (Level 2 Lobby) ACTIVISM, CONSERVATISM, AND DESEGREGATION IN EAST TEXAS. Chair: Camesha Scruggs, University of Massachusetts Amherst Participants: Christia Adair: Texas Heroine. Chelsea Branch, Independent Scholar Maintaining the Status Quo Ante: Dr. James G. Gee’s Internal Struggles as President of East Texas State University. Katherine Gaskamp, Sam Houston The Resistance, Actions, and Outcome: The Desegregation of Sam Houston State Teachers College. Carolyn A Carroll, Sam Houston State University Commentator: Jeffery Littlejohn, Sam Houston State University

055. 10:00 am to 11:50 am Panel Session Savannah 2 (Level 2 Lobby) AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY FORMS AND FUNCTIONS IN THE POST-RECONSTRUCTION AMERICAN SOUTH. Chair: David Taft Terry, Morgan State University Participants: Black Women and Community Building in Post-Civil War U.S. History. Brandi C Brimmer, Morgan State University Complicating in Post-Emancipation North Carolina: Henry Berry Lowrie and the Case of the Lumbee. Charles L Chavis, Jr., Morgan State University The Urban South and Jim Crow’s Rise: Re-Mapping Migration and Re-Aligning the Critical Turns. David Taft Terry, Morgan State University Commentator: Natanya Duncan, Lehigh University 37 Thursday, SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

056. 10:00 am to 11:50 am Roundtable Session Savannah 3 (Level 2 Lobby) BETTING ON BLACK: TRIALS AND TRIUMPHS OF BLACK SCHOLARS ENTERING INTO THE JOB MARKET. Chair: Armanthia Nicole Duncan, The University of Massachusetts-Amherst Discussants: Emahunn Raheem Ali Campbell, Washington and Lee Unviersity K. T. Ewing, Tennessee State University Sheena Harris, Tuskegee University Julia Charles, Auburn University

056.1 SEE SESSION 012.

057. 12:00 pm to 1:45 pm Panel Session Atlanta 3 BEING MARY JANE IN AN EMPIRE FULL OF SCANDALS: BLACK WOMEN IN AMERICAN POPULAR CULTURE. Chair: Christina Kanu, Clark Atlanta University Participants: “From the Big House to the White House: Historical Narratives of Black Women’s Identity”. Ebony Perro, Clark Atlanta University “It’s Handled: Olivia Pope, Womanism, and the Surrendering of Black women’s bodies.” Chyna Yvonne Davis, Clark Atlanta University Commentator: Marcus Ta’von Haynes, Clark Atlanta University

058. 12:00 pm to 1:45 pm Panel Session Atlanta 4 FISK UNIVERSITY: RESEARCHING HISTORIC INCIDENTS AND CONTEMPORARY ISSUES. Chair: Ronald Mickens, Clark Atlanta University Participants: Fisk Fictions: Ruth Landes and Elmer Imes 1937-1941. Abby Gondek, Florida International University African American women faculty and administrators during the presidencies of Thomas E. Jones and Charles S. Johnson, 1929-1956. Linda Marie Perkins, Claremont Graduate University For the Love of Money: Fisk University and the Stieglitz Art Collection, 1949-2012. M. Christopher Brown II, American Association of State Colleges and Universities Commentator: Ronald Mickens, Clark Atlanta University

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059. 12:00 pm to 1:45 pm Luncheon Capital Ballroon Center and South EDUCATORS LUNCHEON. Participants: Robert Stanton, National Park Service (Retired), Centennial Honorary Committee Stanley Austin, National Park Service, Southeast Region John Bracey, University of Massachusetts - Amherst, Centennial Honorary Committee Greetings: Daryl Michael Scott, Howard University & Executive Council, ASALH, Centennial President Speaker: Sonia Sanchez, Temple University--Emeritus Invocation & Grace: Iya Alake Akinsegun, Yoruba People Emcee: Cynne Simpson, WAGA-TV, Atlanta Benediction: Rev. Byron Thomas, Ben Hill United Methodist Church

060. 12:00 pm to 1:45 pm Panel Session Conference Room 125 BLACK INTERNATIONALISM, REPRESSION, AND RESISTANCE. Chair: David Mathew Walton, Michigan State University Participants: State Power, International Travel, and African Americans in the Cold War: Paul Robeson, Robert F. Williams, and Richard Gibson. Richard M Mares, Michigan State University Black Consciousness in Exile: The Experiences of Black Consciousness Exiles throughout the Diaspora during the Black Consciousness Era. David Mathew Walton, Michigan State University From Compton to Soweto: Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp a Butterfly and Post Black Power and Black Consciousness Realities in the U.S. and South Africa. Michael Forbes, College of Wooster Commentator: Ahmad Rahman, University of Michigan - Dearborn

061. 12:00 pm to 1:45 pm Panel Session Conference Room 127 STRANGE FRUIT, BITTER SEEDS: THE COMPLEX SURVIVAL M. Chair: Reginald K Ellis, Florida A&M University Participants: Strange Fruit, Bitter Seeds: The Echoes of Lynching Violence in African American Families. Tameka Bradley Hobbs, Florida Memorial University Mother Taught Me Well: Ruth Logan Roberts, the Great Migration, and Keeping the Family Together. Daria Willis, Lee College Strange Fruit in the Family: The Aftermath of the Lynching of Anthony Crawford. Doria Johnson, University of Wisconsin-Madison Commentator: Maureen Elgersman Lee, Hampton University

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062. 12:00 pm to 1:45 pm Paper Session Conference Room 129 PRESERVING AND PRESENTING THE PAST. Chair: Adam Lee Cilli, University of Maine Participants: Memory in Action: The Role of Making Historical Collections Meaningful to Researchers. Sophia Sotilleo, Lincoln University Possible Reconsideration to the Library of Congress Classification System’s Liberal Placements of African American Psychology and African American Social Science. Eddie Hughes, Southern University Sites Seen and Unseen: A Question of Legitimacy in African American Women’s Representation in National Park Service Historic Sites. Alexandria Russell, University of South Carolina Preserving the Past: The Office of the Grand Librarian in the Order of the Eastern Star (PHA), 1914-2014. Sibyl Moses, Library of Congress Commentator: Adam Lee Cilli, University of Maine

063. 12:00 pm to 1:45 pm Paper Session Conference Room 131 MIGRATION AND BLACK COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT. Chair: Emory S Campbell, Past Director of Penn Center Participants: African American YMCA’s and the Rosenwald Fund. Daniel R Acker, Public Historian Black Before Bankruptcy: The 10 Most Important Sites in the Building of Black Detroit. Jamon Jordan, ASALH-Detroit, Vice President; Founder & CEO of Black Scroll History & Tours The Migration of African Americans to Northern California’s Bay Area since before Statehood. Jan Batiste Adkins, San Jose Evergreen Community College District Indiana Towns Communities and the (Re)production of Social Misery. Jennifer Sdunzik, Purdue University Commentator: Linda Diane Tomlinson, Fayetteville State University

064. 12:00 pm to 1:45 pm Panel Session Georgia 10 BLACK MIGRANTS, METHODOLOGIES, AND MOBILITIES. Chair: Huewayne Watson, Independent Scholar Participants: “Southern Memories: Excavating The Power of Post-1970 Return Narratives”. James Roane, Columbia University “Reading the Black Body within Sartorial Performance.”. Brittney Nikel Taylor, Columbia University, IRAAS “Traversing Transnational Black Identities: Afro-Latinas and the Resurgence of the Natural Hair Movement. ”. Brittaney N Graham, Columbia University “The Other African Americans: Race, Ethnicity and the Children of West African Immigrants.”. Dialika Sall Commentator: Claudrena Harold, University of Virginia

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065. 12:00 pm to 1:45 pm Panel Session Georgia 12 MIGRATIONS, MOBILIZATIONS, AND MOVEMENTS: FROM THE NEW NEGRO TO BLACK POWER. Chair: Freddie L. Parker, North Carolina Central University Participants: From Log Cabin to the Pulpit: William H. Robinson’s Postbellum Odyssey. Marcus P. Nevius, The Ohio State University “Go To It, My Southern Brothers”: The Chicago Defender, Great Migration, and Construction of Urban Black Manhood. D’Weston Haywood, University of Louisiana at Lafayette Ain’t No Love in the Heart of “Soul City”: The Early Life of Harvey Gantt as Soul City’s Planner and an Alternative for Black Power 1966-1980. Anthony Donaldson, University of Florida Commentator: Hasan Jeffries, Ohio State University

066. 12:00 pm to 1:45 pm Paper Session Georgia 2 --AV Room HAIR AND THE AESTHETICS OF BLACK FEMININITY. Chair: Tanisha C Ford, University of Massachusetts Amherst Participants: Black Hair and Politicized Aesthetic Turns. Schillica Howard, Georgia State University Fat, Black and Ugly: The Politics of the New Millennium Mammy. Ayondela McDole, Syracuse University New Directions in Black Women’s Visual History. Kelli Morgan, University of Massachusetts Amherst Tame Her Mane: The Perceptions of Natural Hair and its Effects on Black Women’s Self-Esteem and Relationships. Moriayo Maripaz-Shenee Oduguwa, Calfornia State University, Fullerton Undergraduate Commentator: Tanisha C Ford, University of Massachusetts Amherst

067. 12:00 pm to 1:45 pm Panel Session Georgia 3-A-V Room THE SLAVE COMMUNITY AT DEVEREUX MONTE VERDE PLANATION: ALL LINES LEAD TO TABBY AND SCOTT. Chair: Joi Spencer, San Diego State University Participants: The Slave Community at the Monte Verdi Plantation: All lines lead to Tabby DeVereux (1787). Joleene Maddox Snider, Texas State University Stephen F. Austin University Features the DeVereux Family. Jeri Mills, Historian/Researcher The Nadir of Race Relations in the U.S.: Survival through intelligence and ingenuity. James W Loewen, University of Illinois The Impact of Scott and Tabby’s Monte Verdi Descendants, on Rusk County Texas During the early 1900s. Barbara Spencer Dunn, DeVereux Family Commentator: Joi Spencer, San Diego State University

068. 12:00 pm to 1:45 pm Panel Session Georgia 5-A-V Room RELIGION, SEXUALITY, AND BLACK LIBERATION AND THE . Participants: Outsiders Within: Everyday Faith as a Site of Black Lesbian Activism. Monique Moultrie, Georgia State University Rebellion through Religion: Henriette Delille and the Sisters of the Holy Family. Benedict Chatelain The Pulpit, Platform and Press: Bishop Henry McNeal Turner and the Rhetoric of Freedom. Andre E. Johnson, Memphis Theological Seminary “A New Social Awakening”: Howard University’s Rankin Network and the 1956 Tallahassee Bus Boycott. Larry O. Rivers, University of West Georgia

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069. 12:00 pm to 1:45 pm Panel Session Georgia 6-A-V Room EARLY AFRICAN AMERICAN FILMS: LEISURE AND LIFE IN JIM CROW GEORGIA. Chair: Margaret Compton, Brown Media Archives, University of Georgia Libraries Participants: African American Life (Living, Working & Playing) at Pebble Hill Plantation: 1900s to 1940s. James “Jack” Hadley, The Jack Hadley Black History Museum The Discovery, Preservation, and Use of the John and Lillian Goodlett Films. Paul Crater, Kenan Research Center at the Atlanta History Center From Ball Field to Battlefield: Athletics and Military Service in the Wartime Work of J. Richardson Jones. Barbara McCaskill, Dept. of English, University of Georgia Commentators: Margaret Compton, Brown Media Archives, University of Georgia Libraries Pellom McDaniels III, Curator of African American Collections, Emory University

070. 12:00 pm to 9:00 pm Exhibitors Georgia 7, 8 and Pre-function Area (Exhibits) EXHIBITORS. Participants: Art Publishing and Distribution by Charles Bibbs National Park Service-Southeast Regional Office Association Book Exhibit Penguin Random House Auburn Avenue Research Library on African-American retiredslaves.com Culture & History Robin Lofton Everyone’s Place Scholars Choice Farmers Insurance University of Arkansas Press Foundation International University of Georgia Press Heritage International Fashions University of Illinois Press Journal of African American History University of North Carolina Press Library Company of Philadelphia University Press Florida McFarland Publishing Waldencorart Inc. Middle Tennnessee State University YBI African Apparel National Museum of American History Zee Crafts

071. 12:00 pm to 1:45 pm Paper Session Georgia 9-A-V Room ECONOMIC NATIONALISM AND RACIAL SELF-HELP. Participants: Black Economics During the Obama Administration. Shawn Council, CCSY Making Change Happen: The Legacy of African American Philanthropy. Erin H Moore, Community Investment Network Marcus Garvey “The Father of Black Nationalism.” Christopher Harris, Phi Beta Sigma “We Have a Business We Should Be Proud of”: Black Cooperative Enterprises in the Age of Jim Crow, 1920-1945. Delaina Price, Yale University Commentator: Shirley Thompson, The University of Texas at Austin

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072. 12:00 pm to 1:45 pm Panel Session Savannah 2 (Level 2 Lobby) NEW VIEWS OF THE POST-CIVIL WAR SOUTH. Chair: Amy Tillerson-Brown, Mary Baldwin College Participants: Black Electoral Power in the Post–Civil War United States: African American State Legislators, 1865–1915. Peter Wallenstein, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Life under a New Order: Antebellum Free People of Color in Reconstruction North Carolina. Warren Milteer, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Race and Criminality in Post-War Central Virginia. Amy Tillerson-Brown, Mary Baldwin College Commentator: Baiyina W. Muhammad, North Carolina Central University

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073. 2:00 pm to 3:50 pm Panel Session Atlanta 1 BLACK SEXUALITIES: TRANSFORMING THE UNTHINKABLE AND UNIMAGINABLE INTO POWER. Chair: La’Neice Littleton, Clark Atlanta University Participants: “Maya and Karrine: Taking Back Respectability and Owning Pleasure”. Victoria Colston-Brooks, Clark Atlanta University “Through the Gaze of Black Gays : The Neglected X Factor in the Quest for Freedom”. Ignace LaCott, Clark Atlanta University “Spiritual-Erotic Agency and Atlanta Strippers: A Transformative Model for Expanding Consciousness, Identity and Africana Liberation”. Rava Shelyn Chapman, Clark Atlanta University Commentator: Courtney Terry, Clark Atlanta University

074. 2:00 pm to 3:50 pm Panel Session Atlanta 2 BLACK TEACHERS AND THE PROGRESSIVE EDUCATION MOVEMENT: THEIR VISIONS, THEIR WORKS, THEIR VOICES! Chair: Traki Taylor-Webb, Bowie State University Participants: The Meanings of Progress: Progressive Reform and Juvenile Justice in Virginia, 1915-1940. Lindsey Elizabeth Jones, University of Virginia A “Progressive” Alternative: The Educational Thought of Carter G. Woodson. Jarvis Ray Givens, UC Berkeley Performance, Propaganda and the Politics of Respectability: The Progressive Era Plays of Nannie Helen Burroughs. Shantina Jackson, University of California, Berkeley The Practical Pedagogue: Mary McLeod Bethune’s Evolving Educational Philosophy, 1904-1920. Alexander Hyres, University of Virginia Commentator: Traki Taylor-Webb, Bowie State University

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075. 2:00 pm to 3:50 pm Panel Session Atlanta 3 BEHIND EVERY HBCU: BLACK WOMEN TRANSFORMING EDUCATION, POLITICAL ACTIVISM AND BEAUTY CULTURE PRIOR TO THE MODERN CIVIL RIGHTS ERA. Chair: Ashley Robertson, Bethune-Cookman University/Bethune Foundation Participants: African-Centered Education as a means To Economic Stability: A Nationalist View of Margaret Murray Washington. Sheena Harris, Tuskegee University White Racism, Black Beaches: Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune’s Fight for Social Justice in Florida. Ashley Robertson, Bethune-Cookman University/Bethune Foundation The Black Beauty Ambassador: Maryrose Reeves Allen & The Founding of the Department of Physical Education for Women at Howard University. Kimberly Brown, Alabama State University Commentator: Arlisha Norwood, Howard University

076. 2:00 pm to 3:50 pm Panel Session Atlanta 4 BLACK WOMEN’S STRUGGLES DURING THE CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION ERA. Chair: LaShawn Harris, Michigan State University Participants: Held for Safekeeping: Black Women Imprisoned in Maryland during the Age of the Civil War. Sharita Jacobs Thompson, Independent Scholar “For a Time Such as This”: Enslaved Women, War and Freedom in Southern Louisiana and Low Country Georgia, 1861-1865. Karen B. Cook Bell, Bowie State University Southern Black Women, Widowhood, and the Meaning of Labor in Civil War Era North Carolina. Brandi C Brimmer, Morgan State University ‘The Proceeds of My Own Labor’: Gender and Urban Freedom in the District of Columbia. Katherine Chilton, San Jose State University Commentator: Jeffrey Kerr-Ritchie, Howard University

077. 2:00 pm to 3:50 pm Roundtable Session Atlanta 5 HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT: NEW DIRECTIONS IN BLACK FREEDOM STUDIES IN THE JIM CROW NORTH. Chair: Patrick Jones, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Discussants: Zebulon Miletsky, Stony Brook University Simon Balto, Ball State University Crystal Moten, Dickinson College Ashley M. Howard, Loyola University New Orleans Mary Barr, Clemson University

078. 2:00 pm to 3:50 pm Roundtable Session Capital Ballroom North THE OBAMA BLACK HISTORY ROUNDTABLE. Chair: Aram Goudsouzian, Universiry of Memphis Discussants: Daryl Anthony Carter, East Tennessee State University William Jelani Cobb, University of Connecticut David C. Carter, Auburn University Marsha Barrett, Mississippi State University Charles McKinney, Rhodes College 44 Thursday, September 24, 2015

079. 2:00 pm to 3:50 pm Roundtable Session Capital Ballroom South DR. FELIX ARMFIELD SERIES FOR EMERGING SCHOLARS SESSION III OUR HEALTH IS OUR WEALTH: “SOMETIMES YOU JUST NEED TO DO YOU!” Chair: Shennette Garrett-Scott, University of Mississippi Discussants: Stephanie Evans, Clark Atlanta University Shanesha Brooks-Tatum, Agnes Scott College Deirdre Cooper-Owens, Queens College Jacqueline McLeod, Metropolitan State University of Denver

080. 2:00 pm to 3:50 pm Panel Session Conference Room 123 BLACK ACTIVISM ON COLLEGE CAMPUSES. Chair: Lloren Foster, Western Kentucky University Participants: The Need for Black Cultural Centers on College Campuses. Marcus Stubbs, Western Kentucky University Organizing for Collective Action: A Model for Mobilizing the Collegiate Community. Andrea Daniels, Western Kentucky University An End to the Era of Mass Incarceration: Educating Students about Their Legal Rights. Patience Mason, Western Kentucky University Commentator: Selena Sanderfer, Western Kentucky University

081. 2:00 pm to 3:50 pm Panel Session Conference Room 125 SANKOFA: LOOKING BACK TO EDUCATE OUR FUTURE. Chair: Toniesha Taylor, Prairie View A & M University Participants: A History of the Presence: Oppression, Confinement and the Struggle for Transformation. Richard Lofton, Johns Hopkins University How the Labyrinthine Alliance of Black Teachers Associations and the Association for the Study of Negro Life Advanced Century of Public Education in Birmingham, Alabama. Tondra Loder-Jackson, University of Alabama at Birmingham Madeline Stratton Morris and Black History in the Classroom. Michael Hines, Loyola University Chicago Re-Reading and Imagining the Impact of the Miseducation of the Negro: Am Analysis of Woodson’s Words for Teachers. Adah Randolph, Ohio University Commentator: Karen Johnson, University of Utah

082. 2:00 pm to 3:50 pm Panel Session Conference Room 127 THE MAN, THE MYTH, THE LEGEND: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES ON BLACK MALE TEACHERS. Chair: Ashley Woodson, University of Pittsburgh Participants: Male as Metaphor: A Counterstory of a Black, Transgender Male Pre-service Teacher. Ashley Woodson, University of Pittsburgh Culturally Responsive Discourse, Black Male Teachers, and the Negotiation of Multiple Stakeholder Relationships. Chezare Warren, Michigan State University Black Men of the Classroom: An Exploration of how the Organizational Conditions, Characteristics, and Dynamics in Schools Affect Pathways into the Profession, Experiences, and Retention. Travis Bristol, Stanford University On Black Male Teachers as Human Kinds. Anthony L. Brown, University of Texas at Austin Commentator: Joyce E King, Georgia State University

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083. 2:00 pm to 3:50 pm Paper Session Conference Room 129 RACE, GENDER, AND EDUCATIONAL PHILOSOPHIES. Chair: Cheryl Gooch, On Africa’s Land: The Forgotten Stories... Participants: An Historical View of African American Male Principals. Omar J. Salaam, The University of South Florida Leading Ladies: An Examination of Black Female Administrators in Higher Education. DeWitt Scott, Chicago State University Which Shall We Choose?: An Analysis of the Educational Philosophies of Anna Julia Cooper and Charlotte Hawkins Brown. ShaVonte’ Mills, Pennsylvania State University Commentator: Sandra Jowers-Barber, University of the District of Columbia Community College

084. 2:00 pm to 3:50 pm Paper Session Conference Room 131 THE MISSION AND MEANING OF HBCUS. Chair: Malachi Thompson, University of Houston Participants: Mining Historically Black College Newspapers for History and Heritage. Pamela E. Foster, Afro-American Historical and Genelogical Society Southern Historically Black College and Universities: Moral Truth or Dare. Veronica Alease Davis, Independent Researcher Through a Multi-Generational Lens: Reflections on One Family’s Black College Experience. Lakia M Scott, Baylor University Commentators: The audience

085. 2:00 pm to 3:50 pm Panel Session Georgia 10 MATERIALS, MEMORY, PLACE: THE PUBLIC HISTORY OF THE BLACK FREEDOM STRUGGLE. Chair: Thomas L Bynum, Middle Tennessee State University Participants: “War people, that is how we must be”: Quilting the Black Freedom Struggle. Aleia M Brown, Middle Tennessee State University In the Shadows of Freedom: Contextualizing 18th and 19th Century Charleston Slave Badges. Torren Gatson, Middle Tennessee State University “Saving the world, Slaying Monsters and Adventures: How African American women are craving a space in science fiction and fantasy.”. Marquita Reed, Middle Tennessee State University We Were There: Examining Place, Race, and Memory in New Town. Tiffany Momon, Middle Tennessee State University Commentator: Louis Woods, Middle Tennessee State University

086. 2:00 pm to 3:50 pm Roundtable Session Georgia 11 MORE THAN A FIRST: SHIRLEY CHISHOLM’S HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL LEGACY. Chair: Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Spelman College Discussants: Anastasia C Curwood, University of Kentucky Zinga Fraser, Brooklyn College Barbara Winslow, Brooklyn College Niambi M Carter, Temple University

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087. 2:00 pm to 3:50 pm Panel Session Georgia 12 HISTORICAL MEMORY AND CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVISM IN THE AFRICAN AMERICAN TWENTIETH CENTURY. Chair: Christopher Cameron, University of North Carolina at Charlotte Participants: A Pragmatist Prelude to the Harlem Renaissance: Alain Locke’s Speeches to the Negro Historical Societies in 1911. David Weinfeld, Queens College African American Students in the Making of Black Studies at Harvard. Afrah Richmond, University of Bridgeport African Americans and the 1970s New South. Robert Jerome Greene II, University of South Carolina Commentator: Christopher Cameron, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

088. 10:00 am to 11:50 pm Workshop Session Georgia 2-A-V Room DR. FELIX ARMFIELD SERIES FOR EMERGING SCHOLARS SESSION I: “AND WHO ARE YOU? WHAT DO YOU DO?” Leaders: John Bracey, University of Massachusetts - Amherst Darlene Clark Hine, Northwestern University James Stewart, Pennsylvania State University (Emeritus) Derrick Alridge, University of Virginia

089. 2:00 pm to 3:50 pm Presidential Session Georgia 3-A-V Room PLOTTING THE FUTURE OF HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES: A FOCUSED DIALOGUE ABOUT TRANSPARENCY. Participants: The Current Status and Significance of Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Dr. Dorothy C. Yancy, President Emerita, Johnson C. Smith University (Charleston, North Carolina) and Shaw University (Raleigh, North Carolina) The Future of Historically Black Colleges: Projecting and Thinking Creatively. Dr. Jabari Simama, President, Georgia Piedmont Technical College (Atlanta, GA) Creating Institutional Structures and Processes: A Model for the Future. Dr. Mack H. Jones, Political Science, Clark Atlanta University Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Spelman College Sponsor: Southern Education Foundation

090. 2:00 pm to 3:50 pm Panel Session Georgia 4-A-V Room BORDERLANDS AND BORDERLINES: AFRICAN AMERICAN AND AFRICAN CANADIAN LIVES ON THE LINE. Chair: Jean Augustine, Commissioner, Province of Canada Participants: Mary and Henry Bibb, the “Voice of the Fugitive” in the Detroit River Borderland. Afua Cooper, Dalhousie University, Colonial Slavery: Resistance and Cooperation in the US/Canada Borderland. Veta Smith Tucker, Grand Valley State University (retired) Open Wounds: A window into day-to-day experiences of Black steelworkers in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Claudine Bonner, Arcadia University Commentator: Jean Augustine, Commissioner, Province of Canada

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091. 2:00 pm to 3:50 pm Panel Session Georgia 5-A-V Room TRUTH & TRANSITION: ENVISIONING INTERPRETATION OF SLAVERY, RESISTANCE, AND FREEDOM IN PUBLIC SPACES. Chair: Daryl Michael Scott, Howard University & Centennial President, ASALH Participants: Truth & Transition: Envisioning Interpretation of Slavery, Resistance, and Freedom in Public Spaces. Kimberly Mann, United Nations; Francoise Verges, International Consultant; Spencer Crew, George Mason University; Robert Parker, National Park Service United Nations Remembering Slavery Program. Kimberly Mann, United Nations International Perspective: Committee for the Memory and History of Slavery. Francoise Verges, International Consultant Planning & Partnership: Harriet Tubman National Monument. Robert Parker, National Park Service Commentator: Dann J. Broyld

092. 2:00 pm to 3:50 pm Library Session Georgia 6-A-V Room 1968 AND BEYOND: NEW OPPORTUNITIES IN CIVIL RIGHTS RESEARCH IN ATLANTA. Chair: Andrea Jackson, Archives Research Center, Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library Discussants: Traci JoLeigh Drummond, Georgia State University Holly Smith, Spelman College Derek Mosley, Archives Research Center, Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library Gabrielle Dudley, Emory University

093. 2:00 pm to 3:50 pm Private Session Georgia 9-A-V Room UNCF/MELLON PROGRAM. Participant: Maurice J Hobson, Georgia State University

094. 2:00 pm to 3:50 pm Roundtable Session Savannah 1 (Level 2 Lobby) FEAR OF A BLACK PLANET: NEW PERSPECTIVES ON THE GLOBAL BLACK POWER MOVEMENT AND ITS LEGACIES. Chair: Joshua Guild, Princeton University Discussants: Tanisha C Ford, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Kennetta Hammond Perry, East Carolina University Quito Swan, Howard University Joshua Guild, Princeton University

095. 2:00 pm to 3:50 pm Roundtable Session Savannah 2 (Level 2 Lobby) LITERACY IN AFRICAN AMERICAN LIVES. Chair: Concetta A. Williams, Chicago State University Discussants: Kelly Ellis, Chicago State University Brenda Aghahowa, Chicago State University Lydia Magras, Chicago State University Sammie Burton, Chicago State University

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096. 2:00 pm to 3:50 pm Panel Session Savannah 3 (Level 2 Lobby) MOVING FROM MARGIN TO CENTER: OUR LIVES MATTER TOO. Chair: Stephanie Yvonne Davis, University of North Florida Participants: Reimagining the Inferiority Complex in Black Women Leadership Roles. Christina Kanu, Clark Atlanta University Barbaric Convention: Police Brutality Enforced Upon Black Women. Brittany Carter, Clark Atlanta University At our Expense: Black Women & Sacrificial Motherhood. Chyna Yvonne Davis, Clark Atlanta University Commentator: Ebony Perro, Clark Atlanta University

097. 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm Meeting Georgia 2 --AV Room ASALH BUSINESS MEETING. Participants: Daryl Michael Scott, Howard University & Centennial President, ASALH Janet Sims-Wood, Bethel Dukes Branch of ASALH & Executive Council, ASALH Zende Larmar Clark, Executive Council, ASALH National Secretary Troy Thornton, Goldman Sachs & Co.& Executive Council, ASALH Sylvia Cyrus, ASALH Executive Director Annette Palmer, Morgan State Univerity & Executive Council, ASALH Sheila Flemming-Hunter, Clark Atlanta University & Executive Council, ASALH

098. 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm Film Festival Session Georgia 13 MOUNTAINS THAT TAKE WINGS: ANGELA DAVIS & YURI KOCHIYAMA - A CONVERSATION ON LIFE, STRUGGLES & LIBERATION, 97 MINUTES). Chair: Michelle Duster, Independent Scholar

099. 5:45 pm to 7:45 pm Plenary Session Capital Ballroom North THE SCHOLARSHIP, ACTIVISM, AND INSTITUTIONAL WORK OF V.P. FRANKLIN. Chair: Derrick Alridge, University of Virginia Presenters: Mary Frances Berry, University of Pennsylvania Sundiata Kieta Cha-Jua, University of Illinois Pero Dagbovie, Michigan State University James Stewart, Pennsylvania State University (Emeritus) Bettye Collier-Thomas, Temple University

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100. 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm Special Session Capital Pre-function AUTHORS’ BOOK SIGNING. Participants: Dell Ray Adams, A Walk in the Face of Life Shawn Alexander, WEB DuBois An American Intellectual and Activist Bailey-Bankston, Beneath the Bars of Justice Richard Bailey, Neither Carpetbaggers nor Scalawags: Black Officeholders During the Reconstruction of Alabama 1867-1878 • They Too Call Alabama Home: African American Profiles Peter Bailey, Witnessing Brother Malcolm X: The Master Teacher A Memoir Mary Frances Berry, We are Who We Say We Are Evelyn Bethune, Bethune: Out of Darkness Into the Light of Freedom • Call & Response: The Grandchildren Reply Carol Binta Nadeem, Civilized Blacks: Free American Negroes In The 1870’s Whose Lives Paralleled The Life Of Booker T. Washington John Bracey, James Smethurst & Sonia Sanchez, SOS-Calling All Black People LaTonya Branham, CultureSeek: Connecting to African and African American History Erik Brooks, Tigers in the Tempest Joan Cartwright, A History of African American Jazz and Blues • Amazing Musicwomen Yasmin Carty, Proverbs and Phrases with Meanings Farrell Chiles, African American: Warrant Officers... In service to Our Country Bettye Collier-Thomas, Jesus, Jobs, and Justice Willie Cooper, The Forgotten 14, Civil War Heroes Constance W. Curry, Silver Rights Marta Effinger-Crichlow, Staging Migrations Toward an American West: From Ida B. Wells to Rhodessa Jones Maurice Daniels, Saving the Soul of Georgia: Donald L. Hollowell and the Struggle for Civil Rights Tiffany A. Flowers, The Rooftop Club Books Series: Meet the Rooftop Club Cheryl Gooch, On Africa’s Lands: The Forgotten Stories of Two Lincoln Educated Missionaries in Liberia George Grant, In Honor Of... Libraries Named for African Americans Donna Gray-Banks, Ilas Diamonds • Ilas Diamonds II Will Guzman, Civil Rights in the Texas Borderlands: Dr. Lawrence A. Nixon & Black Activism Janette Hoston-Harris, In Memoriam: Charles Harris Wesley Tameka Hobbs, Democracy Abroad, Lynching at Home: Racial Violence in Florida Karen January, Lessons Mama Never Taught Me What Every Woman Should Know Ricky L. Jones, Black Haze Violence, Sacrifice, and Manhood in Black Greek-letter Fraternities Nubia Kai, Kuma Malinke Historiography: Sundiata Keita to Almamy Samori Toure Kathryn Kemp, Anointed To Sing The Gospel: The Levitical Legacy of Thomas A. Dorsey • Make Joyful Noise: A Brief History of Gospel Music Ministry in America Lionel Kimble, Jr., A New Deal for Bronzeville: Housing, Employment, and Civil Right In Black Chicago, 1935-1955 Barbara King, Transform Your Life, In TYL Talitha LeFlouria, Chained in Silence: Black Women and Convict Labor in the New South Josephine McCall, The Penalty for Success: My Father was Lunched in Lowndes County, Alabama Barbara McCaskill, Love, Liberation, and Escaping Slavery: William and Ellen Craft in Cultural Memory • Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom: The Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery. Introduction by Barbara McCaskill. Kevin McGruder, Race and Real Estate; Conflict and Cooperation in Harlem, 1890 - 1920 Genna Rae McNeil, Witness Two Hundred Years of African-American Faith and Practice at the Abyssinian Baptist Church of Harlem, New York Edna Green Medford, Lincoln and Emancipation Trimiko Melancon, Unbought and Unbossed: Transgressive Black Women, Sexuality, and Representation • Black Female Sexualities Erin Gosser Mitchell, Born Colored Life Before Bloody Sunday William Monnie, Selma And Its Aftermath: A Photographic Journey by Civil Rights Worker Bill Monnie Aldon Morris, The Scholar Denied: D. W. B. Du Bois and the Birth of Modern Sociology Tiyi Morris, Womanpower Unlimited and the Black Freedom Struggle in Mississippi Tommie Morton-Young, Many Roads Traveled or Twenty years in Bondage Premilla Nadasen, Household Workers Unite: The Untold Story of African American Women who Built a Movement Echol Nix, In the Beginning: The Martin Luther King, Jr. International Chapel at Morehouse College M. J. O’Brien, WE SHALL NOT BE MOVED Alison Parker, Interconnections: Gender and Race in American History Walter Rucker, Gold Coast Diasporas: Identity, Culture, and Power (Blacks in the Diaspora Series) 50 Donata Russell Ross, How I Broke Through Segregation to Launch a Business Empire by Herman Russell Thursday, September 24, 2015

Sonia Sanchez, SOS—Calling All Black People John Sharer, The Cockney Lad and Jim Crow Janet Sims-Wood, Dorothy Porter Wesley at Howard University Karen Sloan-Brown, A Reflection: What a Difference a Day Makes, What About 100 Years? Daniel Smith, African Americans and Charleston: Histories Intertwined Mattie Solomon, What Did Your Parents Do To You? Peter Wallenstein, Race, Sex, and the Freedom to Marry: Loving v. Virginia Glovinia Williams, Do You Believe God? If So It’s Time To Step Out On Faith, Life Applications For Kingdom Living Phyllis Jean Williams, The Secret Legend of Three Kings Sonja Williams, Word Warrior: Richard Durham, Radio and Freedom Angela Williamson, Bakers Dozen Barbara Winslow, Shirley Chisholm Catalyst for Change

101. 7:45 pm to 9:45 pm Film Festival Session Georgia 13 ALICE WALKER: BEAUTY IN TRUTH BY PRATIBHA PARMAR, 84 MINUTES. Chair: McKinley Melton, Gettysburg College

102. 8:00 pm to 9:50 pm Panel Session Atlanta 2 MAD BLACK PEOPLE BEING MAD: VIRALITY, MENTAL ILLNESS, AND RAGE IN AFRICAN AMERICAN LIFE. Chair: Lawrence Jackson, Emory University Participants: Turn That Shit Down: The Mutation of Radio Raheem in Popular Culture and Everyday Life. Gabriel Peoples, University of Maryland, College Park “To Say Nothing of My Soul”: Madness among African Americans in Slavery and Freedom. Diana Louis, Indiana University “Choking Down That Rage”: Rage as The Existential Condition of Blackness. Shermaine Jones, Virginia Commonwealth University Commentator: Lawrence Jackson, Emory University

103. 8:00 pm to 9:50 pm Paper Session Atlanta 4 RACE AND SLAVERY FROM THE FOUNDING TO RECONSTRUCTION. Chair: Jennifer Harbor, University of Nebraska, Omaha Participants: An African American Perspective of Margaret Walker’s Jubilee. Alferdteen B. Harrison, Retired Prof.. of History The Most Heinous Crime Ever Committed: Fortune and the Great Fire of Newport, Rhode Island. Tanya Mears, Worcester State University Black Legal Studies and the American Constitution. Wylie Jason Tidwell, Walden University

104. 8:00 pm to 9:50 pm Paper Session Atlanta 5 CIVIL RIGHTS AND THE POLITICIZATION OF THE STRUGGLE FOR EQUALITY. Chair: Maria Ximena Abello Hurtado, Afro-Am Department at University of Massachusetts, Amherst Participants: African Americans and the Newest South of the 1970s. Robert Jerome Greene II, University of South Carolina Consequences of the Tax Reform Act of 1969 on the Black Freedom Movement. Evan Faulkenbury, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill The Second American Revolution- Abstract. Harvey J Smith, Sr., Innovative Diversity Presentations & Training The Way Modern Organizations Think and Talk About Diversity. Lisa Oligmueller, Speaker Commentator: Louis Ray, Fairleigh Dickinson University 51 Thursday, September 24, 2015

105. 8:00 pm to 9:50 pm Panel Session Conference Room 125 BLACK IMAGES IN POPULAR MEDIA. Chair: Korey Brown, Prince George’s Community College Participants: “’Are Negro Girls Getting Prettier?’: Evolving Projections of Ideals and Images of Black Beauty in Ebony during the Black Power Movement, 1965--1975.” Korey Brown, Prince George’s Community College Baartman Revisited: Amber Rose and the Reclamation of the Black Female Form for Profit. Risikat Okedeyi, Prince George’s Community College “I’m Fear ‘New York’”: The Historical Redefinition of “The Brute Negro” in Dating Reality Television. John Randolph Tilghman, Tuskegee University Mammy in literature and film. Darren Wade, Howard University Commentator: Korey Brown, Prince George’s Community College

106. 8:00 pm to 9:50 pm Paper Session Georgia 11 FAMILY, COMMUNITY, AND THE BLACK EXPERIENCE IN THE 20TH CENTURY. Chair: Claudia D Nelson, Coppin State University Participants: “No More Park Sausages Mom Please”: Eating and Body Politics in 80s and 90s Hip Hop. Jerome Dotson, Jr, University of Arizona Black Families to the Future: Learning From the Past to Thrive in Future. Karen J Cudjoe, University of Cincinnati Creole Cuisine: “Dooky’s” As a Site of Black Resistance in New Orleans, Louisiana 1940-2015. Dellita Martin Ogunsola, University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Growing Up in Alabama: Black, Male, and Poor, 1926-1947: A Memoir. Andrew Billingsley, Howard University Commentator: Valerie N. Adams-Bass, University of California, Davis

107. 8:00 pm to 9:50 pm Panel Session Georgia 2-A-V Room THE MISEDUCATION OF BLACK STUDENTS: CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN EDUCATION. Chair: Cerri Annette Banks, Mount Holyoke College Participants: The Ivory Road to the Ivy League: Narrative Sense-Making of Students of Color in Elite Schools. Dominic Walker, Columbia University in the City of New York Silence in Educational Spaces. Ajua Kouadio, Columbia University in the City of New York I Got a Story to Tell”: Youth Rap Verses as Critical Race Counter-Stories. Don Sawyer, Quinnipiac University Commentator: Cerri Annette Banks, Mount Holyoke College

108. 8:00 pm to 9:50 pm Panel Session Georgia 4-A-V Room CONFRONTING THE CRISIS: DEATH, REDRESS AND JUSTICE. Chair: Brandi Hughes, University of Michigan Participants: This Dogged Rejoinder: Anne E. Moody’s Elegy Before the Master Narrative. Brandi Hughes, University of Michigan Marks of Achievement: On (In)visible History and Public Mourning. Nicole Ivy, Indiana University Black Anxiety: Confronting the Crisis of Anti-blackness in the 21st Century. Calvin Warren, George Washington University Commentator: Kimberly Juanita Brown, Harvard University

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109. 8:00 pm to 9:50 pm Library Session Georgia 5-A-V Room HIDDEN NO MORE: A CENTURY OF DIGITIZED BLACK LIFE, HISTORY AND CULTURE AT TUSKEGEE UNIVERSITY. Chair: Dana Ray Chandler, Tuskegee University Discussants: Juanita Roberts, Tuskegee UniversitySESSION CANCELLED Gail Samuel, Tuskegee University Cheryl Ferguson, Tuskegee University Dana Ray Chandler, Tuskegee University

110. 8:00 pm to 9:50 pm Paper Session Savannah 3 (Level 2 Lobby) RACE, CRIME, AND STATE SUPERVISION. Chair: Douglas Williams, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Participants: Governor Rufus B. Bullock, Railroad Expansion and Convict Leasing in Post-Civil War Georgia. Edward Hightower, Clark Atlanta University Marijuana Policy in Seventies-Era New York: From Worse to Bad. Eugene Hillsman, Princeton University The Making of African American Male Criminality: An Introduction. Michael D Royster, Prairie View A&M University Commentator: Douglas Williams, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

111. 9:00 pm to 11:00 pm Reception Capital Ballroon Center and South CELEBRATING THE CENTENNIAL VOLUME OF THE JOURNAL OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY RECEPTION (JAAH). Emcee: V. P. Franklin, University of New Orleans Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Office of the Provost University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, College of Arts & Sciences University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Office of Diversity and Multicultural Affairs West Virginia University Press John Powell

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112. 7:30 am to 6:20 pm Registration Rotunda Pre-registration Office PRE-REGISTRATION 9/25.

113. 7:30 am to 6:00 pm Registration Georgia Registration Office ON-SITE REGISTRATION 9/25.

114. 8:00 am to 9:30 am Film Festival Session Georgia 13 BLACK JOURNAL, EXECUTIVE PRODUCER WILLIAM GRAVES, 60 MINUTES. Chair: Cornelius Moore, California Newsreel Reginald Ellis, Florida A&M University Sponsor: California Newsreel

115. 8:00 am to 6:30 pm Exhibitors Georgia 7, 8 and Pre-function Area (Exhibits) EXHIBITORS. Participants: Art Publishing and Distribution by Charles Bibbs National Park Service-Southeast Regional Office Association Book Exhibit Penguin Random House Auburn Avenue Research Library on African-American retiredslaves.com Culture & History Robin Lofton Everyone’s Place Scholars Choice Farmers Insurance University of Arkansas Press Foundation International University of Georgia Press Heritage International Fashions University of Illinois Press Journal of African American History University of North Carolina Press Library Company of Philadelphia University Press Florida McFarland Publishing Waldencorart Inc. Middle Tennnessee State University YBI African Apparel National Museum of American History Zee Crafts

116. 8:30 am to 9:50 am Panel Session Atlanta 1 BUILDING COMMUNITY THROUGH EDUCATION AND ECONOMICS. Chair: Sarita Davis, Georgia State University Participants: Embodying Blackness: Hiring Practices and Perceptions of African American Identity within African American Businesses. Lauren Arrington, Georgia State University Urban Fiction as a Pedagogical Tool. Jihad Uhuru, Georgia State University Student Perspectives and Evaluations of African-Centered Educational Institutions. Kweku Vassall, Georgia State University Commentator: Sarita Davis, Georgia State University

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117. 8:30 am to 9:50 am Panel Session Atlanta 2 I AM THE VESSEL: THE BLACK MIND AS A SITE OF RESISTANCE. Chair: Jennifer Williams, Temple University Participants: Ubuntu in The Flesh: An Africana Spiritual Reclamation of Servant Leadership Through African Spirituality and Ancestral Veneration. Christopher Roberts, Temple University The Community Kills Thyself: The Poison of The Closet of Omission. Matthew E. Simmons, Temple University Reclaiming The Black Body From Allopathic Terrorism: A Luxocratic Approach. Jessica D.N. Hamilton, Temple University Healing The Scars We Don’t See: (Re)Envisioning Culture As A Site Of Psychological Resistance and Reintegration. Raven M. Moses, Temple University Commentator: Ifetayo Flannery, Temple University

118. 8:30 am to 9:50 am Panel Session Atlanta 3 A CENTURY OF CORRECTING BLACK MYTHS: CONSTRUCTING A POSITIVE BLACK IDENTITY. Chair: Lorenzo Herman, Clark Atlanta University Participants: Elucidating the Effects of Racialized Framing in the Media: The Power of Portraying a Negative Story. Kyle R. Fox, Clark Atlanta University Black Women’s Literature: The Construction of a Gendered Identity in the Last Century. Joyce White, Clark Atlanta University Disrupting Eurocentric Theorizing: Challenging a Century of White Supremacist Feminisms. Moses Massenburg, Clark Atlanta University Commentator: Bonnyeclaire Smith-Stewart, Clark Atlanta University

119. 8:30 am to 9:50 am Workshop Session Atlanta 4 ARCHIVES ARE THE FUTURE: PRESERVING YOUR LEGACY. Leaders: Pellom McDaniels McDanielsSESSION III, Curator of African American CANCELLED Collections, Emory University Patsy Fletcher, THREAD Gina Paige, African Ancestry & Executive Council, ASALH

120. 8:30 am to 9:50 am Panel Session Atlanta 5 MARGARET WALKER: THIS IS MY CENTURY. Chair: Angela Daphne Stewart, Margaret Walker Center Participants: Margaret Walker: The Voice of the Invisible Woman in the Black Arts Movement. Robert Luckett, Jackson State University “All I got to say”: Fictive Witnessing in Margaret Walker’s Jubilee. Eden Elizabeth Wales Freedman, Adams State University Biographical/Historical Approach to Margaret Walker. Carolyn Jean Brown, Millsaps College Text Mining and Quantitative Analysis: A New Way of “Reading” Margaret Walker. Seretha Wiliiams, Georgia Regents University Commentator: Alferdteen B. Harrison, Retired Prof.. of History

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121. 8:30 am to 9:50 am Panel Session Conference Room 123 GULLAH GEECHEE CULTURE: SEEKING THE FUTURE THROUGH THE PAST. Chair: Althea Natalga Sumpter, The Art Institute of Atlanta Participants: The Elders Remember: An Oral History of the Past with Hopes for the Future. Althea Natalga Sumpter, The Art Institute of Atlanta An Overview of Gullah as a Language. David B Frank, SIL International Gullah: The Living Culture. Griffin Lotson, Sams Memorial Community Economic Development Commentator: Althea Natalga Sumpter, The Art Institute of Atlanta

122. 8:30 am to 9:50 am Paper Session Conference Room 125 RACE AND THE SOUTHERN CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM. Chair: Ella J Davis, Wayne County Community College Participants: ‘It’s Gonna be the Devil’: Civil Rights Protest and Black Criminality in Americus Georgia in 1965. Ansley L Quiros, University of North Alabama Police Brutality in the African American Community. Shawn Council, CCSY Before Jim Crow: Convict Lease and the Limits of Liberalism in Reconstruction. Alexxa Leon, Bowdoin College; Patrick Rael, Bowdoin College The Social Reconstruction of Georgia: Transition at the Local Level. Joshua W Butler, Florida State University “‘The Noblest and Cheapest Defense of States’: Ideology Underlying Prisons and Public Schooling in Postbellum Virginia”. Alexander Hyres, University of Virginia Commentator: Frances Jones-Sneed, MCLA

123. 8:30 am to 9:50 am Paper Session Conference Room 127 RELIGION, ORALITY, AND BLACK FREEDOM RHETORIC. Chair: Andre E. Johnson, Memphis Theological Seminary Participants: “The Lord Will Make A Way Somehow: An Overview of Gospel Music.” Echol Lee Nix, Jr., Furman University Black Power, Black Faith and Black Jesus: The Rhetoric and Theology of Rev. Albert Cleage, Jr. Earle Fisher, University of Memphis/Rhodes College Speaking Literacy: Henry McNeal Turner and the African American Lyceum Tradition. Andre E. Johnson, Memphis Theological Seminary The New Black Church Online: Black Youth and Technology. Erika Gault, Hilbert College Commentator: Tameka Bradley Hobbs, Florida Memorial University

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124. 8:30 am to 9:50 am Paper Session Conference Room 129 RACE AND RACIAL VIOLENCE. Chair: Malachi Crawford, University of Houston Participants: Black Bodies [Dropping] in the Breeze: Black Spaces of Trauma [in America]. Aretina Hamilton, Ohio University, Department of African American Studies At What Cost? Hearing the Call for Help When American Black Leaders Oppressed Their Own. Cecelia Brooks, Oklahoma State University Jim Crow Moves West: White Supremacy in Multiracial California, 1850 - 1914. Camille Suarez, University of Pennsylvania Violence and the “Race Card” in Twain and Faulkner. Wallis Tinnie, City of Miami Commentators: The audience

125. 8:30 am to 10:00 am Meeting Conference Room 131 2016 CONFERENCE PLANNING MEETING. Participants: Derrick Alridge, University of Virginia Martha Biondi, Northwestern University & Executive Council, ASALH Stephanie Evans, Clark Atlanta University Cornelius Bynum, Purdue University & Executive Coucil, ASALH Sylvia Y. Cyrus, Executive Director, ASALH

126. 8:30 am to 9:50 am Panel Session Georgia 10 THE LEGACY OF CARTER G. WOODSON, VANGUARD FOR THE NEXT CENTURY. Chair: Cheryl LaRoche, University of Maryland Participants: Carter G. Woodson--From Legacy to Vanguard: Black History Into the Future. Cheryl LaRoche, University of Maryland Destination Freedom’s “Recorder of History”: A Radio Dramatization of Carter G. Woodson’s Life. Sonja Williams, Howard University The Influence of the Ideas and Thoughts of Carter G. Woodson on the Cultural and Educational Systems Outside the United States. Wheeler Winstead, Howard University Center for African Studies Commentators: Sonja Williams, Howard University Wheeler Winstead, Howard University Center for African Studies

127. 8:30 am to 9:50 am Panel Session Georgia 11 BRING YOUR OWN BLACKNESS (BYOB): AUTHENTICITY, PERFORMATIVITY, AND SELF-DEFINITION IN BLACK CULTURE. Chair: Antiwan Walker, Georgia Gwinnet College Participants: Bildungs-Africana: Reading Colorism, Identity, and Adolescence in Black Women’s Autobiographies. Ebony Perro, Clark Atlanta University In Our Own Words: The Literary Interpretations of Black Womanhood in Poems and Prose. Chyna Yvonne Davis, Clark Atlanta University We’s Lives in the Ghetto and the Penthouse: An exploration of the ‘banished’ Representations of blackness in Erasure and A Visitation of Spirits. Marcus Ta’von Haynes, Clark Atlanta University Commentator: Stephanie Yvonne Davis, University of North Florida

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128. 8:30 am to 9:50 am Roundtable Session Georgia 12 PARTNERING WITH THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE TO INTERPRET CHARLES YOUNG AND OTHER ICONIC FIGURES OF OHIO THE “FREEDOM STATE.”. Chair: Jewel Haskins, National Park Service Discussants: Charles Wash, National Afro- American Museum and Cultural Center Brian George Shellum, Independent Historian Joy Kinard, National Park Service Robert Parker, National Park Service

129. 8:30 am to 9:50 am Panel Session Georgia 2 --AV Room THE AFROFUTURIST CITY. Chair: Walter Greason, ICMG Participants: Destroy and Rebuild: Displacement in the Suburban Planner’s Imagination. Walter Greason, ICMG The Comic Book City: The Making, Re-Making, and Un-Making of the American City. Julian Chambliss, Rollins College The Interactive, Organic Metropolis. John Jennings, University of Buffalo Commentator: Walter Greason, ICMG

130. 8:30 am to 9:50 am Panel Session Georgia 3-A-V Room CITIZENS, DENIZENS AND EXILES: DIASPORIC SUBJECTS, RACE AND THE STATE IN JAMAICA, CUBA AND BRITAIN. Chair: Eric D. Duke, Clark Atlanta University Participants: Consuelo Serra y Herédia in New York City: An Alternate View of the Cuban Immigrant Experience. Takkara Brunson, Morgan State University These Feminine Hands: Maymie DeMena Aiken and the Task of Jamaican Citizenship. Natanya Duncan, Lehigh University African American Dreams, Cuban Realities: Robert F. Williams’ Exile in Cuba. Devyn Spence Benson, Louisiana State University David Oluwale and the Crime of Policing Blackness in Postwar Britain. Kennetta Hammond Perry, East Carolina University Lyn Hughes, A. Philip Randolph Pullman Porter Museum, Paper: The Making of the Pullman National Monument: The Struggle for Authentic Representation of Pullman Porters & African American Cultural History Commentator: Minkah Makalani, University of Texas at Austin

131. 8:30 am to 9:50 am Paper Session Georgia 4-A-V Room RACE AND THE POLITICS OF SPACE. Chair: Oscar R Williams, SUNY Albany Participants: “Urban Renewal or Negro Removal:” Stories of Atlanta’s Historic Buttermilk Bottom Community. John E. Williams, Georgia State University Finding Home: Representations of Black Chicago at Mid-Century. Amani Morrison, UC Berkeley Restrictive Covenants, Biopolitics, and the Great Migration. Lisa Young, Purdue University Commentator: Kevin Greene, The University of Southern Mississippi

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132. 8:30 am to 9:50 am Panel Session Georgia 5-A-V Room PUBLISHING WITHOUT WALLS: EBLACK STUDIES AND A NEW COLLABORATION FOR DIGITAL PUBLISHING (INVITED SESSION SPONSORED BY FIRE!!!). Chair: Ronald W Bailey, University of Illinois Participants: Digital Tools and Black Studies: An Overview. Ronald W Bailey, University of Illinois Building a Collaboration to Support Digital Publishing: The Case of the University of Illinois. Harriett Green, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Digital Tools and Publishing Opportunities: The Case of Fire!!! The Multimedia Journal in Black Studies. Marilyn Thomas-Houston, University of Florida Commentator: Sandra Pheonix, Executive Director, HBCU Library Alliance

133. 8:30 am to 9:50 am Paper Session Georgia 6-A-V Room BLACK FEMININITY/SEXUALITY. Chair: Nishani Frazier, Miami (OH) University Participants: Anaconda Feminism: Nicki Minaj, Consumption, and Instagram Reproductions. Aria S. Halliday, Purdue University Big Mama’s Blues: Willie Mae Thornton, Female Masculinity, and the Lavender Scare of the 1950s. Tyina Steptoe, University of Arizona From Aunt Jemima to Beyonce: Twitter, Consumer Agency, and the Transformation of the Black Female Image. Patricia Davis, Georgia State University Sexualized Resistance: Black Women’s Agency through the Erotic and Dance. Sydney-Paige Patterson, New York University Literature Brave Enough to Fuck with the Grays: Hip-Hop Feminism and Street Lit. Jacinta Renee Saffold, University of Massachusetts Commentators: The audience

134. 8:30 am to 9:50 am Paper Session Georgia 9-A-V Room VISUALIZATIONS OF A BLACK AESTHETICS. Chair: Fenobia Dallas, Saginaw Valley State University Participants: “Joyce J. Scott and the Sculptural Grotesque.” Phoebe Wolfskill, Indiana University Covered in a Movement: Civil rights narrative and Black identity on Ebony covers in 1964. Lynsey Marie Saunders, University of Florida Empowering People and Shaping Identities: Art Examines a Century (1914-2014) in African American Life and History. Pearlie Mae Johnson, Pan-African Studies University of Louisville Samuel M. Plato: An Outstanding Architect of the 20th Century. Judith C. Owens-Lalude, j. camille culltural academy The Ganaways, A Story of Faith, Hope and Love. Brenda D Fredericks, None Commentator: Fenobia Dallas, Saginaw Valley State University

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135. 8:30 am to 9:50 am Panel Session Savannah 1 (Level 2 Lobby) DIASPORA AND BLACK NATIONALISM: RETENTIONS, PRACTICES, AND (MIS)UNDERSTANDINGS. Chair: Jamae Morris, Georgia State University Participants: Complementary and Alternative Medicine Usage among Rural African Americans living in the South. Roman Johnson, Georgia State University African, Like Me? Gambian Perceptions of African Americans Claiming an “African” or “Pan-African” Identity. Ife Madzimoyo, Georgia State University Garveyism and the Southern Black Church. Andy Reid, Georgia State University Commentator: Jamae Morris, Georgia State University

136. 8:30 am to 9:50 am Workshop Session Savannah 2 (Level 2 Lobby) FROM THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT TO FERGUSON: A TEACH-IN TO EXPLORE THE WAYS WE BEND OUR PRIVILEGE TO BRING ABOUT CHANGE. Leaders: Karsonya (Kaye) Wise Whitehead, Loyola University Maryland Conra Gist, University of Arkansas Joseph Flynn, Northern Illinois University Regina Lewis, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs

137. 8:30 am to 9:50 am Panel Session Savannah 3 (Level 2 Lobby) THE FIRE THIS TIME: TEACHING FERGUSON AT THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY. Chair: Crystal Sanders, Pennsylvania State University Participants: What’s Going On?: Exploring Historical Ethical Analyses in Contemporary Social Movements. AnneMarie Mingo, Pennsylvania State University Every Ghetto, Every City: Theorizing Anti-Black Racism and State Violence in the Classroom. Courtney Desiree Morris, Pennsylvania State University Collaboration and Digital Technology as Pedagogical Practice. Tyler Sperrazza, Penn State University Commentator: Paul C Taylor, Pennsylvania State University

138. 9:00 am to 12:50 pm Special Session North Atlanta High School YOUTH DAY. Facilitated by Kiamsha Youth Empowerment

139. 9:45 am to 11:30 am Film Festival Session Georgia 13 LIVING THINKERS: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BLACK WOMEN IN THE IVORY TOWER BY ROXANA WALKER-CANTON, 75 MINUTES. Chair: Natanya Duncan, Lehigh University

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140. 10:00 am to 11:50 am Library Session Atlanta 1 PRESERVING THE BEATS: COLLECTING HIP HOP AND HOUSE MUSIC. Chair: Aaisha Haykal, Chicago State University Discussants: Timothy Anne Burnside, Smithsonian Institution NMAAHC Andrea Jackson, Archives Research Center, Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library Charles Matlock, The Modern Dance Music Research and Archiving Foundation Chianta Dorsey, Amistad Research Center Lauren G. Lowery, Modern Dance Music and Archiving Foundation

141. 10:00 am to 11:50 am Roundtable Session Atlanta 2 ALAIN LOCKE SEMINAR. Chair: Randal Maurice Jelks, University of Kansas Participant: Lost in a Kiss? The Sexual Victimization of the Black Male during Jim Crow read through Eldridge Cleaver’s The Book of Lives and Soul on Ice. Tommy Curry, Texas A & M University Discussants: Floyd Hayes, Johns Hopkins University Utz McKnight, University of Alabama John E. Drabinski, Amherst College James Haile, Bucknell Rondee Gaines, Miami University

142. 10:00 am to 11:50 am Panel Session Atlanta 3 FROM ANNA JULIA COOPER TO DOROTHY PITTMAN HUGHES: MOTHERHOOD AND CHILD CARE ACTIVISM, 1890-1970. Chair: Francoise Hamlin, Brown University Participants: From a “Painful, Patient, and Silent” Enslavement to an “Enlightened Motherhood”: Shifting Political Constructions of Black Motherhood During the Nineteenth Century. Crystal Lynn Webster, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Community Agency and the Professionalization of Child Care and Social Work in Boston, 1945-1975. Julie de Chantal, University of Massachusetts Amherst With Her Fist Raised: Dorothy Pitman Hughes and the Activist’s Life. Laura Lovett, University of Massachusetts Amherst Commentator: Francoise Hamlin, Brown University

143. 10:00 am to 11:50 am Panel Session Atlanta 4 SEEK AND YE SHALL FIND: SOME WOODSON AND ASALH RECORD SOURCES. Chair: Annette Palmer, Morgan State Univerity & Executive Council, ASALH Participants: Carter G. Woodson and Nannie Helen Burroughs--Sources Relating to their Efforts to Combat Miseducation. Lasean Robinson Robinson, Morgan State University Advocacy Beyond the Academy: Carter G. Woodson and the Afro Newspaper. Baiyina W. Muhammad, North Carolina Central University Woodson: Historian, Collector and Businessman. Debra Newman Ham, Morgan State University Commentator: Amy Tillerson-Brown, Mary Baldwin College

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144. 10:00 am to 11:50 am Roundtable Session Atlanta 5 AFRICAN AMERICAN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY: THE STATE OF THE FIELD. Chair: Christopher Cameron, University of North Carolina at Charlotte Discussants: Derrick Alridge, University of Virginia Mia Bay, Rutgers University Brandon Byrd, Mississippi State University Jessica Marie Johnson, Michigan State University

145. 10:00 am to 11:50 am Panel Session Conference Room 123 INTERRACIAL COOPERATION: ONE OF THE DOMINANT RACE RELATIONS PHILOSOPHIES OF THE INTERWAR YEARS. Chair: Cherisse Jones Branch, Arkansas State University Participants: “Embodying Interracial Ideals”. Curtis Evans, University of Chicago Divinity School “A Real Insight” Black Women’s Support for Interracial Cooperation. Lauren Kientz Anderson, Luther College “They Don’t Dance or Sing Like We Do”: Interracialism in Theory and Practice in the Interwar Rural South. Robert Hunt Ferguson, Western Carolina University Commentator: Cherisse Jones Branch, Arkansas State University

146. 10:00 am to 11:50 am Roundtable Session Conference Room 125 HBCUS, MENTORING, AND THE RESILIENCE NEEDED FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN TO ADVANCE (IN) STEM. Chair: Deirdre Cobb-Roberts, University of South Florida Discussants: Vonzell Agosto, University of South Florida Deirdre Cobb-Roberts, University of South Florida Traki Taylor-Webb, Bowie State University Shetay Ashford, University of South Florida Maniphone Dickerson, University of South Florida Jessica Alyce Wilson, University of South Florida

147. 10:00 am to 11:50 am Paper Session Conference Room 127 BLACK POWER BEYOND THE BORDERS OF THE UNITED STATES. Chair: Laura Warren Hill, Bloomfield College Participants: “We Need a Mau Mau”: Malcolm X Transnationalism and Legacies. Mickie Mwanzia Koster, University of Texas Black Power in India: Caste, Dalits, and Party People. Jeanelle Kevina Hope, University of California, Davis National Sincerity and the Performance of Black Nationalism and Diasporic Citizenship. Lia T. Bascomb, Georgia State University Commentator: Laura Warren Hill, Bloomfield College

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148. 10:00 am to 11:50 am Paper Session Conference Room 129 EXAMINING THE MECHANICS OF PROTEST AND INTERRACIAL COOPERATION. Chair: Wesley G. Phelps, Sam Houston State University Participants: Basketball, Books, and Brotherhood: DeWitt Clinton High School as a scholastic model of African American leadership and interracial cooperation 1945-1950. Arthur Banton, Purdue University Rap: Rapid Application of Politics: Hip Hop in Select Young Adult Novels. Margaret Bernice Smith Bristow, Pearson Education Assessment Company Rethinking black student protest: Student Protest at North Carolina Central University 1930-1947. Brian Robinson, University of South Carolina Commentator: Wesley G. Phelps, Sam Houston State University

149. 10:00 am to 11:50 am Paper Session Conference Room 131 BLACK EDUCATORS, BLACK STUDIES, AND HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES. Chair: Dwight Watson, Texas State University Participants: An Inquiry Into Black History And African Studies. Richard Ford, Society of Sanofi and Hatata Education, Technology and Black Culture. Chy’na Nellon, Helping Engage Art The Black Music Educators of the Twin Cities. Yolanda Yvette Williams, University of Minnesota The Unheard Stories of Teacher Integration in the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Area. Leta Hooper, University of Massachusetts- Amherst Understanding Today’s HBCUs through Student Perspectives, Enrollment Trends, and Leadership Models. Lakia M Scott, Baylor University; DeWitt Scott, Chicago State University Commentators: The audience

150. 10:00 am to 11:50 am Roundtable Session Georgia 10 STYLIN’: A CENTURY OF FASHION AND BEAUTY POLITICS IN THE DIASPORA. Chair: Tiffany Gill, University of Delaware Discussants: Siobhan Carter-David, Southern Connecticut State University Tanisha C Ford, University of Massachusetts at Amherst Catherine McKinley, NYU Gallatin Kadari Taylor-Watson, Purdue University Tamara Walker, University of Pennsylvania Brandi Summers, Virginia Commonwealth University

151. 10:00 am to 11:50 am Paper Session Georgia 11 RACE, CITIZENSHIP, AND MILITARY SERVICE IN THE 20TH CENTURY. Chair: Kevin Greene, The University of Southern Mississippi Participants: Double Victory Discs: African American Contributions to the Americanization of Europe in WWII. Kevin Greene, The University of Southern Mississippi How service to country has been the cornerstone for black life and presence in America. Robert Isaac Williams, Member ASALH “Black Bodies and Bordertown Cultures: African American GIs, Military Police and State Power in the Trans-Mississippi Southwest during the Second World War”. Dr. Robert Franklin Jefferson, University of New Mexico In the face of the Dragon. Alan Laird, Gold Coast Railroad Museum African American Experience Exhibit Commentator: Latangela Lajuan Crossfield, Clark Atlanta University 63 Friday, September 25, 2015

152. 10:00 am to 11:50 am Roundtable Session Georgia 12 GENDERING THE CARCERAL STATE: AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN, HISTORY, AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE. Chair: Kali Gross, The University of Texas - Austin Discussants: Cheryl Hicks, University of North Carolina Charlotte Sowande Mustakeem, Washington University in St. Louis Talitha LeFlouria, Florida Atlantic University Christina Greene, University of Wisconsin at Madison

153. 10:00 am to 11:50 am Roundtable Session Georgia 2 --AV Room THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT: THE STATE OF THE FIELD. Chair: Michael Blum, Jarvis Chrisitan College Discussants: Hasan Jeffries, Ohio State University Danielle McGuire, Wayne State University Emilye Crosby, SUNY Geneseo Charissa Threat, Spelman College Brian Purnell, Bowdoin College

154. 10:00 am to 11:50 am Presidential Session Georgia 3-A-V Room YOU VOTED – SO, NOW WHAT? A PRIMER ON CIVIC ENGAGEMENT WITH YOUR ELECTED OFFICIALS. Moderator: Rashad Richie, CBS, Atlanta Radio Presenters: Representative , Georgia House of Representatives Representative Virgil Fludd, Minority Caucus Chair, Georgia House of Representatives Representative Billy Mitchell, Minority Caucus Vice-Chair, Georgia House of Representatives Representative Howard Mosby, Georgia House of Representatives Representative , Georgia House of Representatives

155. 10:00 am to 11:50 am Roundtable Session Georgia 4-A-V Room NEW DIRECTIONS IN AFRICAN AMERICAN URBAN HISTORY. Chair: Rhonda Williams, Case Western University Discussants: Clarence Lang, University of Kansas Shannon King, The College of Wooster Shirletta J. Kinchen, University of Louisville Maurice J Hobson, Georgia State University Kwame Holmes, University of Colorado-Boulder

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156. 10:00 am to 11:50 am Special Session Georgia 6-A-V Room CONVERSATION AMONG ASALH PRESIDENTS: REFLECTING ON 100 YEARS. Chair: Robert L. Harris, Cornell University (Emeritus) Commentator: Robert L. Harris, Cornell University (Emeritus) Participants: Janette Hoston-Harris, ASALH Former President Sheila Flemming-Hunter, Clark Atlanta University & Executive Council, ASALH Bettye Gardner, Coppin State University & Executive Council, ASALH James Stewart, Pennsylvania State University (Emeritus) & Executive Council, ASALH John Fleming, ASALH Former President William Harris, ASALH Former President Samuel DuBois Cook, ASALH Former President

157. 10:00 am to 11:50 am Panel Session Georgia 9-A-V Room NEW SCHOLARSHIP ON THE BLACK PRESS: FROM THE NADIR TO THE NEW NEGRO. Chair: Kim Gallon, Purdue University Participants: “Teach Your Daughters”: Black Girlhood and Mrs. N. F. Mossell’s Advice Column in The New York Freeman. Nazera Wright, University of Kentucky Charles Stewart (aka Col. J. O. Midnight): A Forgotten Voice from the Early 20th Century Black Press. Mitch Kachun, Western Michigan University More than Romare’s Mother: Bessye Bearden as New Negro Journalist. Jacqueline C. Jones, Francis Marion University Commentator: Kim Gallon, Purdue University

158. 10:00 am to 11:50 am Workshop Session Savannah 1 (Level 2 Lobby) FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES FROM UNDERGRAD TO FULL PROFESSOR. Leaders: Michelle R. Scott, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Lawrence Morehouse, Florida Education Fund Lee Bynum, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Ula Taylor, University of California UC Berkeley

159. 10:00 am to 11:50 am Roundtable Session Savannah 2 (Level 2 Lobby) CASE STUDIES -- A PREVIEW OF THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES’ BLACK HISTORY GUIDE (PART 1 OF 2). Chair: Tina L Ligon, National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) Discussants: Netisha Currie, National Archives Damani Davis, National Archives Trichita Chestnut, National Archives and Records Administration Tina L Ligon, National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)

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160. 10:00 am to 11:50 am Panel Session Savannah 3 (Level 2 Lobby) CIVIL RIGHTS FOR THE 21ST CENTURY: DECODING THE PRESENT WITH THE PAST. Chair: Martha Biondi, Northwestern University & Executive Council, ASALH Participants: “Make D.C. Mean Democracy’s Capital”: Desegregating School Facilities and Playgrounds. Tikia Kenise Hamilton, Princeton University Sex and Civil Rights: Racism, Homophobia and the Political Efficacious Strategies of the Black Freedom Struggle. Jennifer D. Jones, Department of Gender and Race Studies, University of Alabama Law, Order and Social Justice’: Black Republicans and the Battle for Alternative Solutions, 1968-1974. Leah Wright Rigueur, Harvard Kennedy School Commentator: Martha Biondi, Northwestern University & Executive Council, ASALH

161. 11:45 am to 1:15 pm Film Festival Session Georgia 13 FURIUOS FLOWER III: SEEDING THE FUTURE OF AFIRCAN AMERICAN POETRY BY JOANNE GABBIN AND JUDITH MCCRAY, 58 MINUTES. Chair: Michelle Duster, Independent Writer Althea Tait, SUNY Brockport Sponsor: California Newsreel

162. 12:00 pm to 1:45 pm Meeting Atlanta 1 ABWH MEETING.

163. 12:00 pm to 1:45 pm Panel Session Atlanta 2 STOLEN CHILDHOOD: SLAVE YOUTH IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICA – CONTRIBUTION AND IMPACT. Chair: Jacqueline McLeod, Metropolitan State University of Denver Participants: About “Stolen Childhood: Slave Youth in Nineteenth-Century America.” Brenda Stevenson, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) About “Stolen Childhood: Slave Youth in Nineteenth-Century America.” Loren Schweninger, University of North Carolina at Greensboro About “Stolen Childhood: Slave Youth in Nineteenth-Century America.” Diane Mutti Burke, University of Missouri-Kansas City Commentators: Norrece Jones, Virginia Commonwealth University (Emeritus) Daniel Littlefield, University of South Carolina

164. 12:00 pm to 1:45 pm Paper Session Atlanta 3 AFRICAN AMERICANS DURING THE COLD WAR. Chair: Omar J. Salaam, The University of South Florida Participants: Shaping the African American Anti-Nuclear Movement: African American Campaigns against Nuclear Weapons and Energy, 1945- 1995. Aubrey Underwood, Clark Atlanta University The Case Against the Council: Communist-Front or Black Internationalist Organization? Alhaji Conteh, Howard University Commentator: Omar J. Salaam, The University of South Florida

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165. 12:00 pm to 1:45 pm Panel Session Atlanta 4 WHAT IS BLACK CULTURE AND WHO DECIDES: SUBVERSIVE REPRESENTATION AND AESTHETIC DISRUPTION IN BLACK ARTISTIC EXPRESSIONS. Chair: Cerri Annette Banks, Mount Holyoke College Participants: Message Confusion: Understanding Linguistic Representation and Vernacular Masking in Paul Laurence Dunbar’s Humor through the Comedy of Key and Peele. Spencer Kuchle, University of Massachusetts at Amherst Aesthetic Disruption and Ontological Doubt in Kara Walker’s Harper’s Pictorial of the Civil War (Annotated). Lynn Pasquerella, Mount Holyoke College “‘I was waitin’ fo you at tha doh’: Editing Foxxxxy, Beyond Scared Straight, and Digital Technologies”. Le’Mil Eiland, University of Pittsburgh Commentator: Cerri Annette Banks, Mount Holyoke College

166. 12:00 pm to 1:45 pm Roundtable Session Atlanta 5 HOW CIVIL RIGHTS VIOLATIONS OCCURRING WITH THE FEDERAL SECTOR LEAD TO ADVERSE HEALTH AND WEALTH CONSEQUENCES THROUGHOUT THE US BLACK POPULATION. Chair: Arthuretta H Martin, The Coalition for Change Discussants: Tanya Ward Jordan, The Coalition for Change David j Grogan, The Coalition for Change Michael McCray, General Counsel-Federally Employed Women Legal Education Fund Zena Crenshaw-Logal, Power Over Poverty Under Laws of America Restored

167. 12:00 pm to 1:45 pm Luncheon Capital Ballroon Center and South CARTER G. WOODSON LUNCHEON. Participants: Leona Barr-Davenport, Atlanta Business League Representative Roger Bruce, Georgia House of Representatives, Centennial Honorary Committee Peter Aman, Bain & Company, Centennial Honorary Committee Speaker: Lonnie Bunch, National Museum of African American History and Culture Invocation: Mark Ogunwale Lomax, 1st Afrikan Presbyterian Church Emcee: Chesley McNeil, WXIA 11Alive Remarks: Daryl Michael Scott, Howard University & Centennial President, ASALH Entertainment: Spelman College Jazz Ensemble Benediction: Msgr. Edward Branch, AUC Lyke House Catholic Center Acknowledgments: Sylvia Cyrus, Executive Director, ASALH

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168. 12:00 pm to 1:45 pm Paper Session Conference Room 123 RACE, SLAVERY, AND THE DYNAMICS OF SOCIAL CONTROL. Participants: “Systematic Oppression and Social Control: Examining the Constraints of Slavery in the Urban British Atlantic, 1680-1807.” Michael Dickinson, University of Delaware Freedom on the Frontier: Liberty, Land, and Labor in the Choctaw Nation. Derrick D. McKisick, Texas A&M University - Commerce One Hundred Years of “The Worst Sort of Lynching”: Black Christ Figures in the American South. Julia M Robinson, UNC Charlotte “Politeness and Obliging Manners”: Race, Gender, and Accommodation in Davenport, 1830-1900. David Brodnax, Trinity Christian College “Redefining Slavery as a National Institution: Freed Blacks, RogerTaney and Sharp v. Allein, 1830-1840”. Patricia Reid, University of Dayton

169. 12:00 pm to 1:45 pm Paper Session Conference Room 125 PRINT MEDIA AND BLACK FREEDOM STRUGGLES. Chair: Malachi Crawford, University of Houston Participants: Black Heroes, White Innocence and Civic Pride: Change and Continuity in Newspaper Narratives of Greensboro’s Sit-Ins, 1960-2010. Isabell Lola Moore, UNCG Claude Barnett and the Lagos Conference. Ramla Marie Bandele, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis Louis Austin, the Carolina Times, and the Black Freedom Struggle in North Carolina, 1954-1971. Jerry Gershenhorn, North Carolina Central University Commentators: Audience

170. 12:00 pm to 1:45 pm Paper Session Conference Room 127 RACE, GENDER, AND BLACK FEMINISM. Participants: 100 Years and Beyond: Historical Truths of the Origination of Black Feminism. Latoya Johnson, University of North Georgia Black Lesbian Motherhood: Reconstructing Reproductive Justice in Black Feminism. Chyna Yvonne Davis, Clark Atlanta University The Middle Ground: Enslaved Black Women and White Mistresses in Antebellum South. Ricardo J Edwards, Tuskegee University “To Make Us Real for Ourselves”: The Self Documentation of Second Wave Black Feminists. Nitoshia L. Ford, Dominican University Graduate School of Library and Information Science Chair: Kathleen Bethel, Northwestern University Commentators: Audience

171. 12:00 pm to 1:45 pm Poster Session Conference Room 129 ASALH POSTER PRESENTATION. Participants: Blood for a “New Rising Sun.” Alan Laird, Gold Coast Railroad Museum African American Experience Exhibit Seeking GBM: Mapping Queer Sexualities. Matthew Kinlow, Ohio University Judge: Justin Isaac Rogers, University of Mississippi Tahirah Akbar-Williams, University of Maryland Libraries Kelly Hilton, Davidson College

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172. 12:00 pm to 1:45 pm Panel Session Conference Room 131 AFRICAN AMERICAN MALES, SOCIAL IDENTITIES AND SOCIAL PATHOLOGIES: IMPLICATIONS FOR EDUCATION AND SOCIETY. Chair: M. Christopher Brown II, American Association of State Colleges and Universities Participants: The Brother Code: Manhood and Masculinity among African American Males in College. T. Elon Dancy, University of Oklahoma Revisiting The Brownies’ Book: W.E.B. DuBois and Black Male Youth Representation. James Earl Davis, Temple University Black Male Student Leaders at Predominantly White Universities: Stories of Power, Persistence and Preservation. Bryan Keith Hotchkins, University of Utah Cultural Aesthetics and Faculty Improvisation: Designing Pedagogy to Engage African American Boys and Men. Roland Walker Mitchell, Louisiana State University Commentator: M. Christopher Brown II, American Association of State Colleges and Universities

173. 12:00 pm to 1:45 pm Panel Session Georgia 10 CIVIL RIGHTS, BLACK POWER, AND AFRICAN AMERICAN EDUCATION. Chair: Dionne Danns, Indiana University Participants: More Than Cookies and Crayons: Head Start Programs and African American Freedom Empowerment in Mississippi, 1965-1968. Crystal Sanders, Pennsylvania State University Barbara Sizemore and the Politics of Black Educational Achievement, 1963-1975. Elizabeth Todd-Breland, University of Illinois Chicago Courageous Navigation: African American Students at an Elite Private School in the South, 1967-1972. Michelle A. Purdy, Washington University in St. Louis Commentator: V. P. Franklin, University of California, Riverside

174. 12:00 pm to 1:45 pm Roundtable Session Georgia 11 THE BLACK SPATIAL IMAGINARY: A CONVERSATION ABOUT BLACK GEOGRAPHIES. Chair: Akil Houston, Ohio University, Department of African American Studies Discussants: Aretina Hamilton, Ohio University, Department of African American Studies LaToya Eaves, Middle Tennessee State University Priscilla McCutcheon, University of Connecticut Sydney Joslin-Knapp, Ohio University, Department of African American Studies

175. 12:00 pm to 1:45 pm Panel Session Georgia 12 TRANSATLANTIC, TRANSNATIONAL, AND TRANS-GENERATIONAL APPROACHES TO STUDYING THE AFRICAN DIASPORA. Chair: Manoucheka Celeste, University of Nevada Las Vegas Participants: Transatlantic Feminisms: Exploring Black Women’s Studies in the 21st Century. Cheryl R. Rodriguez, University of South Florida Mucamas and Mulatas: Black Brazilian Feminisms, Representations, and Ethnography. Erica Lorraine Williams, Spelman College Traveling Blackness: Race, Gender, and Citizenship. Manoucheka Celeste, University of Nevada Las Vegas Caribbean Women Writers: An Anthology. Julia Lee, University of Nevada Las Vegas Commentator: Stephanie Evans, Clark Atlanta University

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176. 12:00 pm to 1:45 pm Roundtable Session Georgia 2 --AV Room BARAKA’S BLUES PEOPLE AT 50: RACE, RHYTHM, AND VIEWS IN THE STUDY OF AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSIC CULTURE TODAY. Chair: Birgitta Joelisa Johnson, University of South Carolina Discussants: Regina Bradley, Armstrong State University Aja Burrell Wood, The New School Alisha Jones, Indiana University Birgitta Joelisa Johnson, University of South Carolina Fredara M Hadley, Oberlin University

177. 12:00 pm to 1:45 pm Roundtable Session Georgia 3-A-V Room SPELMAN WOMEN/BLACK LIVES. Chair: Noliwe Rooks, Cornell University Discussants: Tayari Jones, Rutgers University, at Newark Pearl Cleage, Alliance Theatre Riché Richardson, Cornell University Donna Akiba Sullivan Harper, Spelman College

178. 12:00 pm to 1:45 pm Roundtable Session Georgia 4-A-V Room TRUTH & TRANSITION: A ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION FOR HISTORIANS AND ARTISTS ON INTERPRETING SLAVERY, RESISTANCE AND FREEDOM THROUGH THE ARTS. Chair: Kellie Carter-Jackson, Hunter College Discussants: Alexis Peskine, Alexis Peskine Projects Michael Platt, Michael Platt Studio Helene Faussart, Les Nubians Delfeayo Marsalis, DMarsalis Productions

179. 12:00 pm to 1:45 pm Library Session Georgia 5-A-V Room ASALH INFO PROFESSIONALS MEETING.

180. 12:00 pm to 1:45 pm Film Festival Session Georgia 6-A-V Room HEALING HISTORY: THE DOCUMENTARY - A JOURNEY OF AFRICAN CENTERED EDUCATION IN THE US AND BERMUDA. Chair: Melodye Micere Van Putten, Black History Works, Inc. Commentators: Theodore and Elsie Erwin, Educators to Africa Melodye Micere Van Putten, Black History Works, Inc.

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181. 12:00 pm to 1:45 pm Panel Session Georgia 9-A-V Room CARTER G. WOODSON AND BLACK THEATRE HISTORY. Chair: Sandra Adell, University of Wisconsin-Madison Participants: Twentieth Century Black Theatre: The Early Years. Sandra Adell, University of Wisconsin-Madison Carter G. Woodson and Educational Theatre. Freda Scott Giles, University of Georgia In the Shadow of the Harlem Renaissance: African American Women Artists of Washington, D.C. Kathy A Perkins, Department of Dramatic Art, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Commentator: Amma Ghartey-Tagoe Kootin, University of Colorado-Boulder

182. 12:00 pm to 1:45 pm Paper Session Savannah 1 (Level 2 Lobby) RACE, GENDER, ACTIVISM, AND MUSIC. Chair: Dr. Robert Franklin Jefferson, University of New Mexico Participants: Black Identity and Narratives of Loss in the Civil Rights Era: “They took the drums away!”. Eric D Wright, Valencia College, Osceola Campus Jazz: The Unmasked Rhetoric. Joan Cartwright, Women in Jazz South Florida, Inc. Put It Where the Goats Can Get It: Joe Madison and Activist Talk Radio. David Alvin Canton, Connecticut College Saving Black Lives Through Rhythm Was His Business: Jimmie Lunceford’s Mission. Ronald Cortez Herd II, The W.E. A.L.L. B.E. Group INC. Southern-AfroFuturistics: Outkast, Atlanta and Afrofuturism. Maurice J Hobson, Georgia State University Commentator: Zebulon Miletsky, Stony Brook University

183. 12:00 pm to 1:45 pm Roundtable Session Savannah 2 (Level 2 Lobby) CASE STUDIES -- A PREVIEW OF THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES’ BLACK HISTORY GUIDE (PART 2 OF 2). Chair: Netisha Currie, National Archives Discussants: Tina L Ligon, National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) Shane B. Walsh, University of Maryland, College Park Wanda Williams, National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) Netisha Currie, National Archives

184. 12:00 pm to 1:45 pm Panel Session Savannah 3 (Level 2 Lobby) RESISTANCE. Chair: Monique Earl-Lewis, Morehouse College Participants: Revolt, Reparations and the National Association of Black Students (NABS): An Oral History Interview with Gwendolyn M. Patton. Richard D. Benson II, Spelman College Fantastical Resistance: Screening the Black Body from The Legend of Nigger Charley to Django. Stephane Dunn, Morehouse College Moses Dickson Dickson’s Knights of Liberty Movement in Light of Recent Scholarship on African Diasporic Cultural Transformation and Resistance. Samuel T. Livingston, Morehouse College Commentator: Corrie Claiborne, Morehouse College

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185. 1:30 pm to 3:00 pm Film Festival Session Georgia 13 VEL PHILLIPS: DREAM BIG DREAMS BY DIRECTOR/PRODUCER ROBERT TRONDSON, 57 MINUTES. Chair: Patrick Jones, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

186. 2:00 pm to 3:50 pm Panel Session Atlanta 1 THE BLACK INTELLECTUAL TRADITION IN THE UNITED STATES IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. Chair: Larry L. Rowley, University of Michigan Participants: Pan-Africanism in the Earlier Twentieth Century. Wilson Moses, Pennsylvania State University The Republic of New Afrika, Independence Struggle and International Solidarity During the Black Power Era. Edward Onaci, Ursinus College Black Conservatism. LaTasha B. Levy, Assistant Professor, University of Virginia Black Public Intellectuals in the Literary Imagination: A Contemporary History. Marlo David, Purdue University Commentator: Cornelius Bynum, Purdue University & Executive Coucil, ASALH

187. 2:00 pm to 3:50 pm Roundtable Session Atlanta 2 CHARLES H. WESLEY SEMINAR. Chair: Evelyn Higginbotham, Harvard University & Executive Council, ASALH Participant: Overturning Dred Scott: Race and Rights in Antebellum America. Martha S. Jones, University of Michigan Discussants: Jeffrey Kerr-Ritchie, Howard University Leslie M. Harris, Emory University Patricia Reid, University of Dayton Steven Hahn, University of Pennsylvania Thavolia Glymph, Duke University Tony Frazier, North Carolina Central University Jessica Millward, University of California, Irvine

188. 2:00 pm to 3:50 pm Roundtable Session Atlanta 3 SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING IN THE 21ST CENTURY. Chair: LaShawn Harris, Michigan State University Discussants: Pero Dagbovie, Michigan State University Rhonda Williams, Case Western University Randal Maurice Jelks, University of Kansas Talitha LeFlouria, Florida Atlantic University

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189. 2:00 pm to 3:50 pm Panel Session Atlanta 4 RECONSIDERING PAN-AFRICANISM IN THE BLACK POWER MOVEMENT. Chair: Yohuru Williams, Fairfield University Participants: Black Zion in the Rainforest: African-American Radicals, Guyana, and the Perils of Postcoloniality. Russell Rickford, Cornell University Africa House Inc.: Black Power and Pan-Africanism in Los Angeles, 1967-1975. Ashley Farmer, Duke University Pan-Africanism in Print: Black Booksellers and the Business of Literary Black Power. Joshua Clark Davis, University of Baltimore Commentator: Yohuru Williams, Fairfield University

190. 2:00 pm to 3:50 pm Workshop Session Atlanta 5 AIM: ACTUALIZING AND INTERPRETING THE MISSION (SUSTAINABILITY FOR ASALH’S SECOND CENTURY). Leaders: Greer Charlotte Stanford-Randle, ASALH/ Paul Laurence Dunbar Branch at Dayton, OH & Executive Council, ASALH Omope Carter Daboiku, ASALH/ Paul Laurence Dunbar Branch at Dayton, OH Mark S. Jackson, ASALH/ Manasota Branch LaNesha DeBardelaben, Michigan State University

191. 2:00 pm to 3:50 pm Paper Session Conference Room 123 AFRICAN CULTURAL CONNECTIONS THROUGHOUT THE DIASPORA. Chair: Claudia D Nelson, Coppin State University Participants: Forget Me Not - Reconciling the (Dis)Connectedness Among and Between African Americans and Africans”. Claudia D Nelson, Coppin State University Making Connections: J.B. Murray and Africa. Licia Ellen Clifton-James, University of Missouri-Kansas City The Canary Archipelago Islanders Of Louisiana: The Black Islanos. Elaine Vigne, Independent Scholar Commentator: Margaret Bernice Smith Bristow, Pearson Education Assessment Company

192. 2:00 pm to 3:50 pm Panel Session Conference Room 125 THE FORT VALLEY HAM AND EGG SHOW: REVITALIZING THE COMMUNITY THROUGH AGRICULTURE, THE ARTS AND CULTURE. Chair: Dawn J. Herd-Clark, Fort Valley State University Participants: The Call for Agrarian Reform: The Origin of the Fort Valley Ham and Egg Show. Kyle Harris, Florida State University Otis O’Neal: The Father of the Ham Show. Dawn J. Herd-Clark, Fort Valley State University Folk Music At Its Best: Ham and Eggs With A Side of Music. Cynthia Madison, Fort Valley State University Margret Toomer: The Mother of the Egg Show. Kymara J. Sneed, Fort Valley State University Commentators: Kyle Harris, Florida State University Dawn J. Herd-Clark, Fort Valley State University

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193. 2:00 pm to 3:50 pm Panel Session Conference Room 127 BLACK WOMEN’S ORGANIZATIONAL QUILTING IN THE DEPRESSION ERA. Chair: Erik McDuffie, University of Illinois Participants: “‘You may begin furnishing us with eggs as soon as possible’: Nannie Helen Burroughs and Cooperative Economics in the Great Depression.” Angela Hornsby-Gutting, Missouri State University “’Mrs. T, they say you belong to the NAACP…and that you are critical:’ Mary Church Terrell’s 1930s Organizational Work”. Alison M. Parker, College at Brockport, State University of New York “’I had learned all kinds of ways to make things happen:’ Sue Bailey Thurman’s Activism in the Search for Common Ground”. Brandy Thomas Wells, The Ohio State University Commentator: Peter Eisenstadt, Howard Thurman Papers

194. 2:00 pm to 3:50 pm Paper Session Conference Room 129 MEMORY AND COMMEMORATION OF THE BLACK PAST. Chair: Tony B Lowe, University of Georgia Participants: Is It Time for a Black National Historic Trust? Daniel R Acker, Public Historian The Slave Ship Replica Project and the International Decade for People of African Descent. Gene S Tinnie, City of Miami Virginia Key Beach Park Trust Opportunities Missed, Taken, and Taken Away: Principle, Expedience, and Memorializing in Historic Black Public Address. Katherine Scott Sturdevant, Pikes Peak Community College; Stephen Collins, Pikes Peak Community College Commentator: Tony B Lowe, University of Georgia

195. 2:00 pm to 3:50 pm Paper Session Conference Room 131 INDEPENDENCE AND BLACK LIBERATION THROUGHOUT THE DIASPORA. Chair: Kelly Hilton, Davidson College Participants: Educating for Freedom: William X Schienman, Tom Mboya, and the Struggle for an Independent Kenya. Andrew Juan Rosa, Faulty Pétion of Port-au-Prince . Andrew Wyatt Maginn, Howard University The Emergence and Impact of Mario Moorhead and His Grassroots Political Party, 1969-1986. Derick Antony Hendricks, Morgan State University “Freedom Yes, Apartheid No!”: Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. and the American Anti-Apartheid Movement. David Mathew Walton, Michigan State University Commentator: Kelly Hilton, Davidson College

196. 2:00 pm to 3:50 pm Presidential Session Georgia 10 MAKING MODERN ATLANTA: A CITY OF RE-INVENTION. Presenters: Maurice J Hobson, Georgia State University Regina Bradley, Armstrong State University Anita Law Beaty, Activist Karl Barnes, Atlanta Urban and Regional Planner Mack Wilbourn, Mack II US Ambassador Andrew J Young, The Andrew J. Young Foundation

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197. 2:00 pm to 3:50 pm Panel Session Georgia 11 LEGACIES: LESSONS FROM CARTER G. WOODSON AND THE ASNLH FOR K-12 EDUCATION IN THE 21ST CENTURY. Chair: Ida Jones, Howard University Moorland-Spingarn Research Center Participants: Exploring the Curriculum Theorizing of Carter G. Woodson. Anthony L. Brown, University of Texas at Austin Deracialized Black History: An Examination of K-12 School Curriculum. Keffrelyn D. Brown, University of Texas at Austin The State of African American History: A Woodsonian Approach to Black History K-12 Policy. LaGarrett King, Clemson University Teaching Race and the Color Line in U.S. History: Lessons from Yesterday’s Association for Today’s Schools. Jeffrey Aaron Snyder, Carleton College Commentator: Carl Grant, University of Wisconsin

198. 2:00 pm to 3:50 pm Roundtable Session Georgia 12 EDUCATING AFRICAN AMERICAN CHILDREN TODAY: WHAT DID ASA G. HILLIARD, III SAY. Chair: Patricia Hilliard-Nunn, University of Florida Discussants: Kenneth Nunn, University of Florida T’Shaka Bailey, Georgia State University Hakim Hilliard-Nunn, The Hilliard Firm Patricia Hilliard-Nunn, University of Florida

199. 2:00 pm to 3:50 pm Panel Session Georgia 2 --AV Room BREAKING BOUNDARIES BLACK WOMEN’S RADICAL ACTIVISM AND POLITICS. Chair: Bettye Collier-Thomas, Temple University Participants: There is a Science and Art to Making a Successful Revolution: A History of Black Women’s Radicalism in the Third World Women’s Alliance. Assata Kokayi, Northwestern University; Prudence Cumberbatch, Brooklyn College; Zinga Fraser, Brooklyn College Juanita Jackson Mitchell: Radicalism and Traditionalism in Race Leadership. Prudence Cumberbatch, Brooklyn College A Road Less Travelled Black Congressional Women’s Radical Politics. Zinga Fraser, Brooklyn College Commentator: Zinga Fraser, Brooklyn College

200. 2:00 pm to 3:50 pm Presidential Session Georgia 3-A-V Room MINORITY HEALTH AND HEALTHCARE: YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW. Chair: Dr. Louis W. Sullivan, President Emeritus, Morehouse School of Medicine Participants: The Long Journey to Health Equity in America. Dr. Louis W. Sullivan, President Emeritus, Morehouse School of Medicine The Education of African American Health Professionals. Dr. Valerie Montgomery Rice, President and Dean, Morehouse School of Medicine Cardiovascular Disease in African Americans. Dr. Elizabeth Ofili, Professor of Medicine and Chief, Division of Cardiology Morehouse School of Medicine Advances in Cancer Care in Minority Populations. Dr. Otis Brawley, Chief Medical Officer American Cancer Society Development and Functioning of the Brain. Peter MacLeish, Director, The Neuroscience Institute Morehouse School of Medicine Strategies for Health Promotion and the Prevention of Disease. Dr. David Satcher, Director, the Satcher Leadership Institute Morehouse School of Medicine U.S. Health System Reform and The Affordable Care Act. William Toby, Director, Health Care Financing Administration

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201. 2:00 pm to 3:50 pm Panel Session Georgia 4-A-V Room POLICIES, POLITICS, AND PRIDE IN THE BLACK SPORT CENTURY: NEW PERSPECTIVES IN THE HISTORY OF AFRICAN AMERICAN ATHLETICS. Chair: Adrian Burgos, The University of Illinois Participants: The Historian of Black College Football: The Legacy of Eric “Ric” Roberts. Derrick White, Dartmouth College Sport and the Making of Modern Black Conservatism. Tyran Kai Steward, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor Racial Bias: The Black Athlete and the Early War on Drugs. Theresa Runstedtler, American University

202. 2:00 pm to 3:50 pm Roundtable Session Georgia 5-A-V Room SPARKING THE GENIUS IN ACTION: EXPLORING WOODSON’S LEGACY THROUGH THE BLACK HISTORY BULLETIN. Chair: La Vonne Neal, Northern Illinois University Discussants: Karsonya (Kaye) Wise Whitehead, Loyola University Maryland Sarah Lynne Frielink Conra Gist, University of Arkansas Joseph Flynn, Northern Illinois University Alicia Moore, Southwestern University Rebecca Hunt, Northern Illinois University

203. 2:00 pm to 3:50 pm Roundtable Session Georgia 6-A-V Room OUR EXPERIENCES AS ANTHOLOGY EDITORS-DOS, DON’T, AND INTERESTING STORIES. Chair: Tiffany Gill, University of Delaware Discussants: Michael Ezra, Sonoma State University Peniel Joseph, Tufts University Komozi Woodard, Sarah Lawrence College Jeanne Theoharis, Brooklyn College Laura Warren Hill, Bloomfield College

204. 2:00 pm to 3:50 pm Roundtable Session Georgia 9-A-V Room FOREVER SUPER: BLACK MACHO AND THE MYTH OF THE SUPER WOMAN: 35 YEARS LATER. Chair: Stacey Patton, Chronicle for Higher Education Discussants: Michele Wallace, Graduate Center of the City University of New York Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Spelman College Kali Gross, The University of Texas - Austin Treva Lindsey, Ohio State University Brittney Cooper, Rutgers University Natanya Duncan, Lehigh University

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205. 2:00 pm to 3:50 pm Panel Session Savannah 1 (Level 2 Lobby) BLACK EDUCATION, DESEGREGATION, AND PRIVATE SCHOOLS. Chair: Traki Taylor-Webb, Bowie State University Participants: “Catholic Philanthropies and African American Catholic Schools”. Katrina Marie Sanders, The University of Iowa “Dual Benefits: White Philanthropy, African American Students, and the Desegregation of Elite K-12 Private Schools”. Michelle A. Purdy, Washington University in St. Louis “We Were from All Over Town”: Maintaining Racial Friendships at Desegregated Chicago Schools. Dionne Danns, Indiana University Commentator: Linda Marie Perkins, Claremont Graduate University

206. 2:00 pm to 3:50 pm Roundtable Session Savannah 2 (Level 2 Lobby) SUSTAINING AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES: LEADERSHIP OF DEPARTMENTS, PROGRAMS, AND CENTERS IN THE 21ST CENTURY. Chair: Erin N. Winkler, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Discussants: Deidre Hill Butler, Union College William Jelani Cobb, University of Connecticut Stephanie Evans, Clark Atlanta University Valerie Grim, Indiana University-Bloomington

207. 2:00 pm to 3:50 pm Panel Session Savannah 3 (Level 2 Lobby) INCLUDING STUDENTS IN ORAL HISTORY PROJECTS: PRESERVING BLACK HISTORY FOR ANOTHER CENTURY. Chair: Harry Okoh, Atlanta Metropolitan State College Participants: Southern Narratives of War: Atlanta Branch Veterans’ History Project. Candy Tate, Emory University Revisiting Oyotunji Village. Kenja R McCray, Atlanta Metropolitan State College Taking “Black Lives Matter” to CNN: An Oral History of AUC Student Protest Amid the Failure to Indict in the Killing of Mike Brown. Tara Lake, Independent Scholar Slave Grandchildren Remember. Pamela E. Foster, Afro-American Historical and Genelogical Society; Learotha Williams, Tennessee State University Commentator: Frank Johnson, Atlanta Metropolitan State College

208. 3:15 pm to 4:30 pm Film Festival Session Georgia 13 THE BEECH EXPERIEMENT: A SUCCESS STORY OF URBAN REHABILITATION BY KENNETH SCOTT, 44 MINUTES. Chair: Keeanga Yamahtta Taylor, Princeton University

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209. 4:00 pm to 4:30 pm Special Session Atlanta 1 ASALH AWARDS PROGRAM. Participants: Janet Sims-Wood, Bethel Dukes Branch of ASALH & Executive Council, ASALH Barbara Spencer Dunn, DeVereux Family Emcee: Dorothy F Bailey, PG County Branch of ASALH & Executive Council, ASALH Gina Paige, African Ancestry & Executive Council, ASALH Awardee: Daryl Michael Scott, Howard University & Centennial President, ASALH Sheila Flemming-Hunter, Clark Atlanta University & Executive Council, ASALH Cheryl Hicks, University of North Carolina Charlotte

210. 4:45 pm to 6:45 pm Plenary Session Capital Ballroom North WHO STOLE THE SOUL?’: BLACK MUSIC AND THE STRUGGLE FOR EMPOWERMENT IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. Chair: Fanon Che Wilkins, Doshisha University Participants: ‘Holding on to Dollars Til them Eagles Grin’: The Battle for Economic Ownership and Authenticity in Black Early Vaudeville Theater, 1900-1929. Michelle R. Scott, UMBC ‘Thank You for Talking To Me Africa:’ SOLAR Records and the Quest for Pan-African Economic Cooperation. Scot Brown, UCLA ‘Everybody Wants to Sing My Blues, Nobody Wants to Live My Blues’: Deconstructing Narratives of Race, Culture and Power in Black Music Scholarship’. Portia Maultsby, Indiana University ‘Who Stole the Soul?’: Music and Black Empowerment in the 1970s - A Personal Narrative. James Mtume, Grammy Award Winning Musician & Songwriter

211. 4:45 pm to 6:15 pm Film Festival Session Georgia 13 OLD SOUTH, 54 MINUTES. Chair: Cherisse Jones-Branch, Independent Scholar

212. 6:30 pm to 7:30 pm Film Festival Session Georgia 13 THIS LITTLE LIGHT OF MINE: THE LEGACY OF FANNIE LOU HAMER BY ROBIN N. HAMILTON, 26 MINUTES. Chair: Shenette Garrett-Scott, University of Mississippi

213. 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm Workshop Session Atlanta 1 ARTS INTEGRATION: HISTORICALLY SPEAKING. Leaders: Agnolia Beatrice Gay, Jacksonville James Weldon Johnson Branch Chy’na Nellon, Helping Engage Art Georgia Hudson, Helping Engage Arts

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214. 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm Panel Session Atlanta 2 BLACK CHRISTIAN NATIONALISM AND THE BLACK FREEDOM STRUGGLE. Chair: Reginald K Ellis, Florida A&M University Participants: Martin Delany’s Political Theories on Race, Religion, and Coloniialism. Sylvester Johnson, Northwestern University Bishop Henry McNeal Turner: A Black Christian Nationalist of the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries.” David H Jackson, Florida A&M University Albert B. Cleage Jr. and the Politics of Black Christian Nationalism. Darius J. Young, Florida A&M University Commentator: Ameenah Shakir, Florida A&M University

215. 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm Panel Session Atlanta 3 CHANGING THE ARCHETYPES: AFRICANA WOMEN ARE HOMEPLACE, LIBERATION, AND THE FUTURE. Chair: Jennifer Williams, Temple University Participants: Africana Women are Homeplace: (Re)centering Africana Women as Sites of Liberation. Donela Wright, Temple University Assata Shakur: Afrikan Diasporic Revolutionary Philosophy and the Continuum of the Black Radical Tradition. Ifetayo Flannery, Temple University Encoding Liberation: Akirachix and Black Girls Code designing an Africana Future. Jennifer Williams, Temple University Commentator: Mikana Scott, Temple University

216. 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm Panel Session Atlanta 4 READING AND TEACHING THE SOULS OF BLACK FOLK. Chair: Nadine V. Nadine V. Wedderburn, SUNY Empire State College Participants: “Using Material Culture toSESSION Teach The Souls of Black Folk “. CANCELLED Whitney Battle-Baptiste, University of Massachusetts – Amherst “Teaching a Close Reading of the Text”. Frances Jones-Sneed, MCLA “ Teaching The Sorrow Songs in The Souls of Black Folk”. MaryNell Morgan-Brown, SUNY – Empire State College Commentator: Nadine V. Nadine V. Wedderburn, SUNY Empire State College

217. 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm Panel Session Atlanta 5 “TRUE, I GOT MORE FANS”: BLACKNESS AND THE SPECTACULAR PERFORMANCE OF AFFINITY. Chair: Grace Gipson, University of California, Berkeley Participants: Media, Film, and Protest Theater: On documentary and image making in Black Radical Movements. Kimberly McNair, University of California, Berkeley Killing for Kicks: Conspicuous Consumption, Gratuitous Violence and Media (Mis) Representations of Sneaker Culture. Christina Bush, UC Berkeley “It’s A Man Thing, Gina!”: Negotiating Race, Memory and Gender Politics in Martin. Patrick Johnson, Universitiy of California, Berkeley Cosplaying While Black: Performances of Transcodability in Digital Culture. Grace Gipson, University of California, Berkeley Commentator: Regina Bradley, Armstrong State University

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218. 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm Panel Session Conference Room 123 SCANDALOUS: GENDER, POWER, AND SEXUALITY IN SCANDAL. Chair: Le’Trice Donaldson, The University of Memphis Participants: Olivia Pope: Breaking the Spell of the “Magic Negro”. Jervette RaShaun Ward, University of Alaska Anchorage THE REEL AINT REAL: Scandal and black female equality. Armanthia Nicole Duncan, The University of Massachusetts-Amherst I Am the Hell and the High Water: Black Masculinities and Body Politics in Scandal. Derrick Lanois, Georgia State University Commentator: Sheena Harris, Tuskegee University

219. 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm Panel Session Conference Room 125 THE CHALLENGE OF TEACHING RACE AND RACISM AT A PREDOMINANTLY WHITE/HISPANIC SERVING INSTITUTION ON THE WEST COAST. Chair: Donna J Nicol, California State University Fullerton Participants: Black Names: Race and Perceptions of Course Value. Natalie Graham, California State University, Fullerton Teaching Blackness from Multiracial Feminism at a PWI/HSI Institution on the West Coast. Donna J Nicol, California State University Fullerton Commentator: Fenobia Dallas, Saginaw Valley State University

220. 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm Panel Session Conference Room 127 COLLEGE DAYS SWIFTLY PASS BY: BLACK COLLEGIATE PERFORMERS, PRODUCERS, AND CULTURAL PRODUCTION. Chair: Le’Mil Eiland, University of Pittsburgh Participants: “Howard Players versus Paul Robeson: Representing the American Negro Abroad”. Marvin McAllister, University of South Carolina- Columbia “Have We Woke Up Yet?: Choreographing the Persistence of Intra-Racism (with Compliments to Spike Lee)”. Faedra Carpenter, University of Maryland-College Park Recovering Narratives: Examining Black Women Theatre Artists at Historically Black Colleges. Khalid Long, University of Maryland-College Park Strolling on College Campuses: Performing Diaspora Through Gestures in Dance. Le’Mil Eiland, University of Pittsburgh Commentator: Faedra Carpenter, University of Maryland-College Park

221. 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm Paper Session Georgia 12 RACE, BIOGRAPHY, AND LEGACY. Participants: Good-Will Ambassador with Cookbook. Allison B Horrocks, University of Connecticut Serving Under Fire: Postmaster Isaiah H. Lofton of Hogansville. Tony B Lowe, University of Georgia The Contribution of African Americans to Economics: The Case of A.L. Harris and P.A. Wallace. Enrico Beltramini, Notre Dame de Namur University The Narratives of Samuel J. Battle. Matthew Guariglia, University of Connecticut Commentator: Derrick White, Dartmouth College

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222. 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm Workshop Session Georgia 2 --AV Room THE ADVENT OF TTCS - TRUTHTELLING & TRUSTBUILDING COMMISSIONS. Leaders: Theophus “Thee” Smith, Emory University Religion Department Andrew “Andy” Sheldon, SheldonSinrich, Inc. Blair Rothstein, Register Financial

223. 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm Panel Session Georgia 5-A-V Room LOCAL NARRATIVES OF POLICING, PUNISHMENT, AND THE POLITICS OF COMMUNITY CONTROL. Chair: Toussaint Losier, University of Massachusetts-Amherst Participants: “Incident at Mosque Number 7”: The Nation of Islam and a Community-Oriented Self-Defense from Police Brutality. Rasul Miller, University of Pennsylvania “A Jail Without Bars”: Winston Moore, Cook County Jail and the Local Origins of Mass Incarceration. Melanie Newport, Temple University “Crime Waves”: Land Fraud, Juvenile Delinquency, and the Politics of Community Control in Phoenix, Arizona. Anthony Pratcher II, University of Pennsylvania Commentator: Donna Murch, Rutgers-New Brunswuck

224. 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm Film Festival Session Georgia 6-A-V Room THE E-WORD: A DOCUMENTARY ON THE EBONICS DEBATE. Chair: Lionel Kimble, Chicago State University & Executive Council, ASALH Participant: The E-Word: A Documentary on the Ebonics Debate. Jonathan I Gayles, Georgia State University

225. 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm Workshop Session Georgia 9-A-V Room HOME, HISTORY, ARCHITECTURE, & PRESERVATION OF THE LAST CENTURY. Leaders: Richard Dozier, Tuskegee University Joy Kinard, National Park Service William Stanley III, Stanley Love-Stanley Architects PC Brent Leggs, National Trust for Historic Preservation

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226. 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm Reception AUC Robert Woodruff Library FRIDAY NIGHT OUT. Participants: Loretta Parham, AUC Robert Woodruff Library Cynthia Spence, UNCF/Mellon Foundation Stephanie Evans, Clark Atlanta University Michael Julian Bond, Atlanta City Council Jacquelyn Rouse, Georgia State University Tanisha Ford, University of Massachusetts Amherst Francille Wilson, University of Southern California Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Harvard University Closing Remarks: Clarissa Myrick-Harris, Morehouse College Emcee: Kathleen Phillips-Lewis, Spelman College

227. 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm Panel Session Savannah 1 (Level 2 Lobby) WE WHO ARE JAPANESE AFRICAN AMERICANISTS: INTELLECTUAL AUTOBIOGRAPHIES OF JAPAN BLACK STUDIES ASSOCIATION (JBSA) MEMBERS. Chair: Gerald Horne, University of Houston Participants: It Was Coincidence but Not Coincidence: My Thirty Years of Studying and Teaching African American Literature in Japan. Azusa Nishimoto, Aoyama Gakuin University (Japan) The Role of International Scholars in African American Studies: Teaching and Studying African American History from a Japanese Perspective. Fumiko Sakashita, Ritsumeikan University (Japan) “A Journey Toward Blackness”: Reflections on the Presence of the Other Japan, Then and Now. Yuichiro Onishi, University of Minnesota Commentator: Gerald Horne, University of Houston

228. 7:45 pm to 10:15 pm Film Festival Session Georgia 13 THE BLACK PANTHERS: VANGUARD OF THE REVOLUTION BY STANLEY NELSON, 90 MINUTES (REGISTERED CONVENTIONEERS ONLY). Chair: Robyn Spencer, Lehman College

229. 10:00 pm to 11:55 pm Special Session Savannah 2 & 3 POETRY SLAM.

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230. 8:00 am to 2:00 pm Registration Georgia Registration Office CONVENTION REGISTRATION.

231. 8:00 am to 9:40 am Film Festival Session Georgia 13 THE UNTOLD STORY OF EMMETT TILL, 70 MINUTES. Chair: Telisha Bailey, University of Mississippi Sponsor: March on Washington Film Festival

232. 8:00 am to 5:00 pm Exhibitors Georgia 7, 8 and Pre-function Area (Exhibits) EXHIBITORS. Participants: Art Publishing and Distribution by Charles Bibbs National Park Service-Southeast Regional Office Association Book Exhibit Penguin Random House Auburn Avenue Research Library on African-American retiredslaves.com Culture & History Robin Lofton Everyone’s Place Scholars Choice Farmers Insurance University of Arkansas Press Foundation International University of Georgia Press Heritage International Fashions University of Illinois Press Journal of African American History University of North Carolina Press Library Company of Philadelphia University Press Florida McFarland Publishing Waldencorart Inc. Middle Tennnessee State University YBI African Apparel National Museum of American History Zee Crafts

233. 8:30 am to 9:50 am Panel Session Atlanta 2 POLITICS OF BLACK CRIME AND PROTEST. Chair: Shannon King, The College of Wooster Participants: “White Women Forced to Live in Negro Dives”: Black Men and “White Slavery” in New York City’s Interracial Sex Trade. Douglas Flowe, Washington University in St. Louis Boiled Boyfriends and Scalded Spouses: Love, Pain, and Devious Behaviors in Twentieth Century Black America. Lauren Henley, University of Texas at Austin The Next Stage in the Struggle: Civil Rights Activists as Political Staffers. Marsha Barrett, Mississippi State University “Burn This Bitch Down”: Louis Head, Ferguson, and the Criminal Politics of Black Grief. Corinne Wohlford, Fontbonne University Commentator: Shannon King, The College of Wooster

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234. 8:30 am to 9:50 am Panel Session Atlanta 3 FROM THE COSBY SHOW TO BLACK-ISH AND EMPIRE: BLACK FAMILY REPRESENTATION VS REALITY. Chair: Tammy Henderson, UMBC Participants: Black Middle Class Flight and its Effects on the Urban Black Community. Kenneth Childs, University of Maryland Baltimore County The Migrant Family: An Afrocentric Perspective. Amir Ali, University of Maryland Baltimore County; Tammy Henderson, UMBC The Effects of Police Brutality on the Health of the Black Family. Ronald Stubblefield, New York University Law School Commentator: Tammy Henderson, UMBC

235. 8:30 am to 9:50 am Roundtable Session Atlanta 4 RETHINKING BLACK HISTORY: NIKE, BLACK MASCULINITY AND SNEAKER CULTURE IDENTITY. Chair: Billy Boyd Smith, Purdue University Discussants: Aria S. Halliday, Purdue University Ivan Jackson, Purdue University Kadari Taylor-Watson, Purdue University Billy Boyd Smith, Purdue University

236. 8:30 am to 9:50 am Panel Session Atlanta 5 SPIRITED AND SPIRITUAL: BLACK WOMEN’S POLITICAL ORGANIZING IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. Chair: John Higginson, University of Massachusetts Amherst Participants: Spiritual Not Superstitious: Black Women and Geechee Grassroots Organizing in Liberty County, Georgia, 1943-1950. Felicia Jamison, University of Massachusetts Amherst A Radical Vision for Human Rights: Loretta Ross, Transnational Feminism, and Reproductive Justice. Destiney Lynn Linker, University of Massachusetts Amherst A Matter of Choice: African American Women’s Reproductive Autonomy in the Early Twentieth Century. Joie Campbell, University of Massachusetts Amherst Commentator: Jeanne Theoharis, Brooklyn College

237. 8:30 am to 11:45 am Meeting Capital Ballroom North ASALH BRANCH WORKSHOP. Participants: Janet Sims-Wood, Bethel Dukes Branch of ASALH & Executive Council, ASALH Barbara Spencer Dunn, DeVereux Family Sylvia Y. Cyrus, Executive Director, ASALH Daryl Michael Scott, Howard University & Centennial President, ASALH Greer Charlotte Stanford-Randle, ASALH/ Paul Laurence Dunbar Branch at Dayton, OH & Executive Council, ASALH Zende Larmar Clark, Executive Council, ASALH National Secretary Dorothy F Bailey, PG County Branch of ASALH & Executive Council, ASALH Johnnieque Blackmon Love, University of Maryland Libraries Monroe Little, Executive Council, ASALH

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238. 8:30 am to 9:50 am Panel Session Conference Room 123 THE REVOLUTIONARIES SHAPING THE REVOLUTION: HIP HOP AS A MEDIUM FOR BLACK WOMEN’S LIBERATION. Chair: Rosa Clemente, UMass Amherst Participants: Black Motherhood through the eyes of a Revolutionary. Chyna Yvonne Davis, Clark Atlanta University Don’t Drink the Pickle Juice: An Examination into the Feminism of Nicki Minaj. Marcus Ta’von Haynes, Clark Atlanta University Homegirls: Helping, Healing, and Holding Each Other Down. Victoria Colston-Brooks, Clark Atlanta University Commentator: Courtney Terry, Clark Atlanta University

239. 8:30 am to 9:50 am Paper Session Conference Room 125 EDUCATION, ACHIEVEMENT, AND COMMUNITY ACTIVISM. Participants: Arts Integration, Education and Community Orginizing. Chy’na Nellon, Helping Engage Art; Agnolia Beatrice Gay, Jacksonville James Weldon Johnson Branch Better to Have than to Have Not: Black History Knowledge, Career Aspirations and Academic Performance. Valerie N. Adams-Bass, University of California, Davis; Collette Chapman-Hilliard, College of Staten Island, City University of New York (CUNY) Sustained Inequality: African-American Education in a “Post-Racial” Nation. Daniel R Davis, Kennedy-King College Teaching Black Lives Matter: Using African American History to Empower Future Leaders. Amani Marshall, Georgia State University For-profit Education and the Black Community. Wylie Jason Tidwell, Walden University

240. 8:30 am to 9:50 am Paper Session Conference Room 127 BLACK MASCULINITY AND SEXUAL IDENTITY. Chair: Randal Maurice Jelks, University of Kansas Participants: Black Social Fathers. Serie McDougal, San Francisco State University Not Power and Not Domination: Making Masculinities in the Mississippi Movement. Francis Gourrier, University of Wisconsin- Madison Return of the Mack! Black Male Empowerment in 1970s Blaxploitation Cinema. Joshua Kondwani Wright, University of Maryland Eastern Shore

241. 8:30 am to 9:50 am Paper Session Conference Room 129 BLACK WOMEN AND INCARCERATION. Chair: Ella J Davis, Wayne County Community College Participants: Assault on Black Bodies: Women and Forced Sterilization in California Prisons. Arcadia LeVias, University at Albany Black Women’s Narrative of Incarceration and Freedom. Natosha Briscoe, Clark Atlanta University Samuel F. Yette Warned Us about Mass Abortion and Incarceration. Pamela E. Foster, Afro-American Historical and Genelogical Society Commentator: Ethan Staten Roy, North Carolina Central University

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242. 8:30 am to 9:50 am Paper Session Conference Room 131 CIVIL RIGHTS AND BLACK INSTITUTIONAL LIFE, PRE-20TH CENTURY. Chair: Frances Jones-Sneed, MCLA Participants: African Lodge #1: Prince Hall Freemasonry and African Liberation in America. JEFFERY MENZISE, Morgan State University An Integrated View: Leadership Development, Institutional Analysis, and the Prince Hall Masonic Tradition. Michael Washington, Union Institute & University Making Black Lives Matter at the Nadir: Black Institutional Culture in Early Twentieth Century Atlanta. Shirley Thompson, The University of Texas at Austin Commentator: Frances Jones-Sneed, MCLA

243. 8:30 am to 9:50 am Panel Session Georgia 10 CONNECTING CENTURIES OF BLACK LIFE, HISTORY, AND CULTURE AT THE LIBRARY COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA. Chair: Erica Armstrong Dunbar, University of Delaware Participants: Carter G. Woodson and African American Education in the Long Nineteenth Century. Kabria Baumgartner, College of Wooster Criminalizing Black Life in Colonial and Early Republic Literature. Emahunn Raheem Ali Campbell, Washington and Lee Unviersity Bearing Witness: The Portraits of Early African American Ministers. Aston Gonzalez, Salisbury University Thrills: On the Affective Lifeworld of the 19th Century Sex Trade. Emily Owens, Visiting Scholar, American Academy of Arts and Sciences Commentator: Erica Armstrong Dunbar, University of Delaware

244. 8:30 am to 9:50 am Panel Session Georgia 11 LIFE, LIBERTY, AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS: EXPLORING THE MYTH OF RACIAL EQUALITY IN THE UNITED STATES. Chair: Carolyn Calloway Thomas, Indiana University Participants: Divide and Conquer: The Emergence of the Color Line in the 20th Century. Erica Cooper, Roanoke College Death at the Hands of Persons Known: Justifying Hate and the 1992 Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill. Sharoni Little, University of Southern California The Politics of Representation: Contesting Race, Voting Rights, and Privilege. Naomi Warren, University of Southern California Commentator: Carolyn Calloway Thomas, Indiana University

245. 8:30 am to 9:50 am Panel Session Georgia 12 PATTERNS OF BLACK AGENCY IN THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY ATLANTIC. Chair: William Alexander, Norfolk State University Participants: Freedom Seekers in 19th-Century Virginia. Cassandra Newby-Alexander, Norfolk State University Canga li”: African American Ideas about the Reopening the African Slave Trade. Kay Wright Lewis, Norfolk State University Francophone Black Consciousness between the Haitian Revolution and Négritude: Vastey, Linstant, and Firmin. William Alexander, Norfolk State University Commentator: Cathy Jackson, Norfolk State University

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246. 8:30 am to 9:50 am Film Festival Session Georgia 2 --AV Room RAZ BABAA AARON IBN PORI PITTS: PORTRAITS OF A REVOLUTIONARY ARTIST. Chair: Nubia Kai, University of Maryland-Baltimore

247. 8:30 am to 9:50 am Panel Session Georgia 3-A-V Room THE NEGRO IN SPORTS: PROMISES, LIMITATIONS, AND UNSETTLED DEBATES, 1900—1970. Chair: Dexter Blackman, Loyola Marymount University Participants: “African American Interscholastic and Intercollegiate Sport and the Problem of Professionalization, 1900—1930,”. J. Anthony Guillory, UMass Amherst “The Most Misunderstood Person in American Sport History: Adolph Rupp and the Complicated Politics of Integration.” Jamal Ratchford, Colorado College “The Negro Athlete and Victory”: Athletics and Athletes as Advancement Strategies in Black America, 1890s-1930s. Dexter Blackman, Loyola Marymount University Commentators: J. Anthony Guillory, UMass Amherst Jamal Ratchford, Colorado College

248. 8:30 am to 9:50 am Roundtable Session Georgia 4-A-V Room WHO IS BLACK?: AFRICAN AMERICANS IN CONVERSATION WITH PUERTO RICANS ABOUT BLACKNESS. Chair: Omar Eaton-Martinez, Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History Discussants: Jason Nichols, University of Maryland, College Park Mayra Santos, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Zaira Rivera Casellas, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Mirerza Gonzalez Velez, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras

249. 8:30 am to 9:50 am Roundtable Session Georgia 5-A-V Room TRANSNATIONAL RACIAL STRUGGLES IN SOUTH AFRICA AND NORTH AMERICA. Chair: Tracy Hucks, Davidson College Discussants: Daniel W. Aldridge, III, Davidson College Kelly Hilton, Davidson College Laurian Bowles, Davidson College Flanagan Brenda, Davidson Copllege Alice Wiemers, Davidson College Caroline Fache, Davidson College

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250. 8:30 am to 9:50 am Panel Session Georgia 6-A-V Room THE VISUAL CULTURE OF THE MODERN CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT. Chair: Nikki Brown, University of New Orleans Participants: “The history that’s buried and forgot”: Images of Birmingham and Civil Rights Movement Consensus Narratives. Julie Buckner Armstrong, University of South Florida “Discovering Hunger in America” The Politics of Race and Hunger in Photography, 1965-75”. Laurie Green, University of Texas, Austin “‘Based on a True Story:’ Remembering Civil Rights”. Bryan Jack, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville The New Orleans School Crisis from Black and White Photographers. Nikki Brown, University of New Orleans Commentator: Nikki Brown, University of New Orleans

251. 8:30 am to 9:50 am Panel Session Georgia 9-A-V Room UNCOVERING NEW ORLEANIANS’ AFRICAN DIASPORIC CULTURE: EXPLORATIONS OF MARDI GRAS INDIAN CULTURE. Chair: Tiyi Morris, Ohio State University Participants: Mardi Gras Indian Queens: The Backbone, Not the Background, of a Unique Tradition. Lenise Alexandra Sunnenberg Mardi Gras Indian Suits: Finding Empowerment Through Black History and Art. Ashley Theodore, Ohio State University Mardi Gras Indians: A Story That Runs Deeper. Rian Hamadnalla Awad, Ohio State University Mardi Gras Indians: Exploring the Intersection of History, Community, and Culture in a Unique Tradition. Torah M Silvera, Ohio State University Mardi Gras Indians: Hurricane Katrina Could Not Stop Them. Angela Whipple, The Ohio State University Commentator: Tiyi Morris, Ohio State University

252. 8:30 am to 9:50 am Roundtable Session Savannah 1 (Level 2 Lobby) USING THE ‘N-WORD’ TODAY: WHERE ARE WE, AND WHERE SHOULD WE BE HEADING? Chair: Ronald Chennault, DePaul University Discussants: Kristal Moore Clemons, Florida A&M University Charlton Copeland, University of Miami Rodney Hopson, George Mason University James Peterson, Lehigh University

253. 8:30 am to 9:50 am Panel Session Savannah 2 (Level 2 Lobby) THE LONG STRUGGLE FOR BLACK LIVES: SHADES OF FEMALE ACTIVISM 1960-2015. Chair: Linda Diane Tomlinson, Fayetteville State University Participants: “’How We Gon’ Make A Black Nation Rise?’ Theorizing ‘African-Centered Mothering’ in New Afrika”. Asantewa Sunni-Ali, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign “Transformative Politicized Activist Leadership in Atlanta, Georgia, 1964-1974: Dorothy Bolden, Ella Mae Brayboy and Pearlie Dove”. Christy Garrison-Harrison, Clark Atlanta University “‘Education Didn’t Mean a Degree, It Means How We Serve Our Race and All Humanity’: Women’s Cultural Nationalist Activism and the Campus-Community Connection, 1967-1981”. Kenja R McCray, Atlanta Metropolitan State College “’Nothing without a Woman or a Girl:’ Women in the Nation of Islam, 1960-1975.” Nafeesa Haniyah Muhammad, Georgia State University Commentator: Natanya Duncan, Lehigh University 88 Saturday, September 26, 2015

254. 8:30 am to 9:50 am Panel Session Savannah 3 (Level 2 Lobby) UNDERSTANDING SLAVERY AND EMANCIPATION IN THE DEEP SOUTH, 1830S-1865. Chair: Miller William Boyd III, University of Mississippi Participants: Reassessing the Invisible Institution: Enslaved People’s Spiritual Lives in the Antebellum Southern Hill Country of Mississippi. Justin Isaac Rogers, University of Mississippi “Shall I Continue to Feed Them?”: The Origins of Federal Contraband Policy in the Arkansas Delta, 1862-1863. Roy Wisecarver, Texas A&M University Experiences of Self-Emancipated African Americans in Mississippi Contraband Camps, 1862-1865. Kristin Bouldin, university of Mississippi Commentator: Shennette Garrett-Scott, University of Mississippi

255. 10:00 am to 11:50 am Panel Session Atlanta 2 BLACK POLITICS IN THE POST-CIVIL RIGHTS METROPOLIS: LEFT, RIGHT, AND CENTER. Chair: Brett Gadsden, Emory University Participants: From Protest to Entrepreneurism: Leon H. Sullivan, Opportunities Industrialization Centers Inc., and Black Economic Empowerment in the United States. Jessica Ann Levy, Johns Hopkins University “What Do I Do When Capital Goes on Strike?”: Kenneth Cockrel, DARE, and the Dilemmas of Black Governance in Detroit. Austin McCoy, University of Michigan Elephants on Sweet Auburn: Atlanta’s Black Republicans at the Dawn of Post-Civil Rights Era. Danielle Lee Wiggins, Emory University Commentator: Francoise Hamlin, Brown University

256. 10:00 am to 11:50 am Library Session Atlanta 3 AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN IN THE ACADEMY: THREE GENERATIONS, THREE PERSPECTIVES, AND WHAT BRINGS AND HOLDS US TOGETHER? Chair: Lionel Kimble, Chicago State University & Executive Council, ASALH Discussants: Johnnieque Blackmon Love, University of Maryland Libraries Tahirah Akbar-Williams, University of Maryland Libraries Asma Neblett, University of Maryland Karen Jefferson, Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library

257. 10:00 am to 11:50 am Panel Session Atlanta 4 HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT: AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN AND THE RECLAMATION OF “SPACE.” Chair: Natanya Duncan, Lehigh University Participants: Ona Judge: The President’s Runaway Slave Woman. Erica Armstrong Dunbar, University of Delaware “Half in Shadow: The Life and Legacy of Nellie Y. McKay.” Shanna Green Benjamin, Grinnell College “African American Women in the Shadow of Outer Space: Black Women and the making of NASA”. Duchess Harris, Macalester College; Margot Lee Shetterly, The Human Computer Project Inc Commentator: Natanya Duncan, Lehigh University

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258. 10:00 am to 11:50 am Panel Session Atlanta 5 BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE: SEARCHING FOR BLACK WOMEN’S REDEMPTION IN CONTEMPORARY CULTURE AND FICTION. Chair: Sika Dagbovie-Mullins, Florida Atlantic University Participants: Unsung Ways of Knowing in Contemporary Neo-Slave Narratives. Regis Marlene Mann, Florida Atlantic University Comedic Transgressions: Black Women Performing Slavery in the Twenty-First Century. Sika Dagbovie-Mullins, Florida Atlantic University Sister Saviors: Black Women as Support Networks for Incarcerated Black Males. Nghana Lewis, Tulane University Commentator: Pero Dagbovie, Michigan State University

259. 10:00 am to 11:50 am Paper Session Conference Room 123 RACE AND PSYCHOLOGICAL/MEDICAL SCIENCE. Chair: Deborah Moorhead, Nicholls State University Participants: African American Environmental Nostalgia: Collective Social-Ecological Memories. Douglas Williams, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Robin Jarrett, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Politicizing Medical Education: Race/Gender and the Redefinition of Medical Professionalization, 1968-1973. Ameenah Shakir, Florida A&M University The Strange History and Career of Drapetomania: The Mania that Caused Negro Slaves to Runaway, 1851-1865. Dann J. Broyld “Healthcare Diplomacy: ELAM and the African-American Experience”. Kwasi Densu, Florida A & M University “They had a lounge we had a locker room”: Black Women Hospital Workers in Charleston. Jewell Debnam, Michigan State University Commentator: Claudia D Nelson, Coppin State University

260. 10:00 am to 11:50 am Panel Session Conference Room 125 RACE AND SEXUALITY IN FICTIONAL NARRATIVES. Chair: Latangela Lajuan Crossfield, Clark Atlanta University Participants: Beyond Westeros: Fantasizing Blackness in the Fantasy Genre. Dexter Gabriel, SUNY-Stony Brook Life Upon These Shores: Robert Hayden’s “Middle Passage” and Samuel R. Delany’s Atlantis: Model 1924. Lavelle Porter, New York City College of Technology, CUNY The Inability to Uncage the Myth: An Analysis of James Baldwin’s Black Female Characters. Tiffani J Smith, Claremont Graduate University Commentator: Tiffani J Smith, Claremont Graduate University

261. 10:00 am to 11:50 am Panel Session Conference Room 127 BLACK MASCULINITY: PERFORMANCE, HEALTH, AND COLORISM. Chair: Jonathan I Gayles, Georgia State University Participants: Black Men and Gender Minstrelsy. Brittany Sessions, Georgia State University The Intersection of Black Masculine Identity and Mental Health. Jasmine Thomas, Georgia State University He’s Dark, Dark: Exploring Colorism among Black Males. Edlin Veras, Georgia State University Commentator: Jonathan I Gayles, Georgia State University 90 Saturday, September 26, 2015

262. 10:00 am to 11:50 am Roundtable Session Conference Room 129 “BLACK WOMEN HISTORIANS IN TEXAS AND THEIR CROSS-GENERATIONAL MEMORIES, FROM THE 1980S TO THE PRESENT”. Chair: Karen Kossie-Chernyshev, Texas Southern University Discussants: Bernadette Pruitt, Sam Houston State University Yvonne Davis Frear, San Jacinto College Antrece Baggett, Houston Community College-Southeast Shennette Garrett-Scott, University of Mississippi

263. 10:00 am to 11:50 am Panel Session Conference Room 131 CLAIMING GEOGRAPHIES OF FREEDOM: SLAVERY AND RESISTANCE IN THE ANTEBELLUM SOUTH AND SOUTHWEST. Chair: Catherine Clinton, University of Texas at San Antonio Participants: ‘Go, You Are Free’”: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Gendering of Native American Slaveholding in Antebellum Oklahoma and Texas. Nakia D Parker, University of Texas at Austin “Moved and Seduced by the Instigation of the Devil”: Enslaved Women and Infanticide in the 19th Century American South. Signe Peterson Fourmy, University of Texas at Austin Commentator: Sasha Turner, Quinnipiac University

264. 10:00 am to 11:50 am Panel Session Georgia 10 PRESERVING AND PRESENTING OUR HISTORY WITH TRADITIONAL AND DIGITAL MEDIA PLATFORMS. Chair: TaKeia Anthony, Edward Waters College, Jacksonville, Florida Participants: Preparing and Presenting Oral Histories. Angela Williamson, ASALH JWJ Branch, Clay County Historic Preservation Board, Southern New Hampshire University Storytelling: Linking the Past to the Present. Sameila Adams, ASALH James Weldon Johnson Branch Artistic Expressions in Cultural History. Laurence Walden, Jazz Art Decor Commentators: Abraham J. Williamson, Harvard Law School Ricci DeForest, W.E.R.D. Radio, Madame C.J. Walker Museum Atlanta, Georgia

265. 10:00 am to 11:50 am Panel Session Georgia 11 W. E. B. DU BOIS: MAN AND THEORIST. Chair: Rava Shelyn Chapman, Clark Atlanta University Participants: High Hope and Fixed Purpose: Frederick Douglass and the Talented Tenth on the American Plantation. La’Neice Littleton, Clark Atlanta University Harlem Voices: Colorism and Multiple Consciouness in New Negro Fiction. Ebony Perro, Clark Atlanta University Hypocrisy in the Life of W. E. B. Du Bois: Reconstructing Selective Memory. Bonnyeclaire Smith-Stewart, Clark Atlanta University Commentator: Courtney Terry, Clark Atlanta University

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266. 10:00 am to 11:50 am Panel Session Georgia 12 OBAMA, RACE, AND RHETORIC. Chair: Ronald Chennault, DePaul University Participants: Rhetoric vs. Reality: A Discourse Analysis of President Obama’s Views on Teachers Versus His Teacher Reform Initiatives. Karen Johnson, University of Utah Obama, Post-Racialism and the New American Dilemma. Zebulon Miletsky, Stony Brook University Are African American Students the Only Ones Who Make Excuses? Obama’s Commencement Addresses at Morehouse and Barnard. Ronald Chennault, DePaul University Commentator: Derrick Alridge, University of Virginia

267. 10:00 am to 11:30 am Film Festival Session Georgia 13 ORDINARY PEOPLE, EXTRAORDINARY DEEDS, 60 MINUTES. Chair: Crystal Sanders, Pennsylvania State University Panelists: Mary Liuzzo Lillieboe, Yvette Johnson, Sarah Collins Rudolph Sponsor: March on Washington Film Festival

268. 10:00 am to 11:50 am Roundtable Session Georgia 2 --AV Room SOS--CALLING ALL BLACK PEOPLE-BLACK ARTS MOVEMENT ARTISTS, ACTIVISTS AND IMPACT. Chair: James Smethurst, University of Massachusetts Amherst Discussants: Candy Tate, Emory University John Bracey, University of Massachusetts - Amherst Sonia Sanchez, Temple University--Emeritus Jim Alexander, Artist

269. 10:00 am to 11:50 am Presidential Session Georgia 3-A-V Room CIVIL RIGHTS AND CIVIL WRONGS: THE SHAPING OF BLACK LIFE, HISTORY AND CULTURE IN AMERICA THROUGH THE EYES OF THREE GENERATIONS. Chair: Christi Griffin, The Ethics Project Participants: Civil Rights and Civil Wrongs: The Shaping of Black Life, History and Culture in America through the Eyes of Three Generations. US Ambassador Andrew J Young, The Andrew J. Young Foundation Civil Rights and Civil Wrongs: The Shaping of Black Life, History and Culture in America through the Eyes of Three Generations. Dr. Bernard Lafayette, The Southern Christian Leadership Conference Civil Rights and Civil Wrongs: The Shaping of Black Life, History and Culture in America through the Eyes of Three Generations. Christi Griffin, The Ethics Project Commentator: Redditt Hudson, The Ethics Project, Co-Founder, National Coalition of Law Enforcement Officers for Justice (NCLEOJ) Panelists: Mary Liuzzo Lillieboe, Yvette Johnson, Sarah Collins Rudolph Sponsor: March on Washington Film Festival

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270. 10:00 am to 11:50 am Panel Session Georgia 4-A-V Room INTERNATIONALIZING THE BLACK EXPERIENCE:CULTURE, POLITICS, AND HISTORY. THIS SESSION DEDICATED TO THE UNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL DECADE FOR PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT 2015-2024. THEMES: RECOGNITION, JUSTICE, AND DEVELOPMENT. Chair: Tiffany Ruby Patterson, Vanderbilt University Participants: Making the Invisible Visible: Portraying the Global African Diaspora.” Sheila Walker, United Nations “Hang your conscience on a peg’: The African National Congress and NAACP’s Efforts to Delegitimize the World Bank’s Loans to Apartheid South Africa, 1948-1953. Carol Anderson, Emory University The Other Americans: Black Women Ex-Patroits in Europe. Tracy D Sharpley-Whiting, Vanderbilt University World History in Blackface: Impact of Black People on World History. Tiffany Ruby Patterson, Vanderbilt University Commentator: Darlene Clark Hine, Northwestern University

271. 10:00 am to 11:50 am Roundtable Session Georgia 5-A-V Room SPORTS HISTORY AS CIVIL RIGHTS HISTORY. Chair: Aram Goudsouzian, Universiry of Memphis Discussants: John Matthew Smith, Georgia Tech Eric Allen Hall, Georgia Southern University Pellom McDaniels III, Emory University Louis Moore, Grand Valley State University Theresa Runstedtler, American University

272. 10:00 am to 11:50 am Panel Session Georgia 6-A-V Room BUILDING THE BLACK METROPOLIS: AFRICAN AMERICAN ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN CHICAGO. Chair: Robert Weems, Wichita State University Participants: King of Selling: The Rise and Fall of S.B. Fuller. Clovis Semmes, University of Missouri-Kansas City The Politics of the Drive-Thru Window: Chicago’s Black McDonald’s Operators and the Demands of Community. Marcia Chatelain, Georgetown University Jim Crow Organized Crime: Black Chicago’s Underground Economy in the Twentieth Century. Will Cooley, Walsh University Positive Realism: Thomas Burrell and the Development of Chicago as a Center for Black-Owned Advertising Agencies. Jason P. Chambers, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Commentator: Robert Weems, Wichita State University

273. 10:00 am to 11:50 am Panel Session Georgia 9-A-V Room SLAVERY AND SEXUALITY: NEW DIRECTIONS IN THE HISTORY OF SLAVERY. Chair: Deborah Gray White, Rutgers University, New Brunswick Participants: “Clothing Carnal Knowledge: Designing, Masking and Revealing Sexuality in the Slave Female’s Costume”. Brenda Stevenson, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) “Enchained Masculinity: African American Men of the Slave South”. Leslie M. Harris, Emory University “Liberty’s Pains and Pleasures: Enslaved Women’s Sexuality, Resistance, and Freedom in the Revolutionary Era”. Barbara Krauthamer, University of Massachusetts-Amherst Commentator: Daina Ramey Berry, University of Texas-Austin 93 Saturday, September 26, 2015

274. 10:00 am to 11:50 am Panel Session Savannah 1 (Level 2 Lobby) NOVEL APPROACHES TO TEACHING THE MODERN CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT. Chair: Ava Purkiss, University of Virginia Participants: ‘A Share of all Remembering’: Teaching the Civil Rights Movement in the Round. Deborah E. McDowell, University of Virginia Mapping Local Struggle: Digital, Fictional and Archival Geographies in the Classroom. Laura E. Helton, Penn State University Education for Liberation: Two Models of Freedom School Praxis. Nicole Burrowes, Brown University Commentator: LaTasha B. Levy, University of Virginia

275. 10:00 am to 11:50 am Panel Session Savannah 2 (Level 2 Lobby) BLACK WOMEN’S HISTORICAL SOURCES: NEW PERSPECTIVES, NEW DIRECTIONS. Chair: Sharita Jacobs Thompson, Independent Scholar Participants: “They were a Danger to Themselves”: Black Women, Involuntary Commitment and the Michigan Mental Hygiene System during the Early 20th Century. Shelby Pumphrey, Michigan State University “I Don’t Have Time for the Folly of Racism”: Merze Tate and the Pioneering of Black Women Students at Predominately White Universities in the Midwest. LaNesha DeBardelaben, Michigan State University Worthy Daughters of the Soil: Benevolence and the American West Indian Ladies Aid Society, 1915-1936. Janelle Edwards, Michigan State University Commentator: Shannon King, The College of Wooster

276. 10:00 am to 11:50 am Panel Session Savannah 3 (Level 2 Lobby) STEPPING OUTSIDE OF NORMATIVE NARRATIVES: MUSIC, PATRIOTISM, ANARCHISM, AND VISUAL ARTS. Chair: Lia T. Bascomb, Georgia State University Participants: Feelin’ Myself: Narrative Experiences of Female Hip Hop Artists. Jessie Feigert, Georgia State University Give Me Liberty: Dark Horse Comic, Martha Washington-An Afrofuturistic Reimagined Black American Icon. Grace Gipson, University of California, Berkeley Grown Folks Don’t Need Government: A Case for African Anarchism in Black Liberation Efforts. John Horhn, Georgia State University Soul: From Music to the Visual Arts. Danielle Rosenthal, Georgia State University Commentator: Lia T. Bascomb, Georgia State University

277. 11:45 am to 1:45 pm Film Festival Session Georgia 13 NESHOBA: THE PRICE OF FREEDOM BY MICKI DICKOFF & TONY PAGANO, 86 MINUTES. Chair: Nan Woodruff, Pennsylvania State University

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278. 12:00 pm to 1:45 pm Panel Session Atlanta 2 MOVEMENT LEGACIES: BLACK POWER SPEAKS TO THE 21ST CENTURY. Chair: Edward Onaci, Ursinus College Participants: The Changing Same: Urban Communities and Rebellion Aftermath. Ashley M. Howard, Loyola University New Orleans “No Strings Attached?”: The Legacy of Black Power’s Church-Based Funding. Kerry Pimblott, University of Wyoming Funding the “Revolution”: Black Power. White Church Money and the Financial Architects of Black Radicalism 1966 – 1976. Richard D. Benson II, Spelman College Commentator: Stephanie Seawell, Illinois Labor History Society

279. 12:00 pm to 1:45 pm Panel Session Atlanta 3 EDUCATIONAL JUSTICE, PROTEST SONGS, AND MASS INCARCERATION: A SURVEY AND CRITIQUE OF THE AFRICAN AMERICAN STRUGGLE FOR JUSTICE. Chair: Ronald Jemal Stephens, Purdue University Participants: Unlocking the Golden Door of Freedom: Booker T. Washington as a Pioneer of Educational Justice. Keturah Nix, Purdue University African American Artists in the Global Fight for Justice:Black Music and the Framing of Protest Songs during the Anti-Apartheid Struggle. Jonathan Richard Freeman, Purdue University Prison nation: Lies, corporate ties, and the pursuit of pursuit of Profit: Re-Imaging the Privatization of Prisons and the 21st Century Mass Incarceration Crisis. Na’eemah Webb, Purdue University Commentator: Ronald Jemal Stephens, Purdue University

280. 12:00 pm to 1:45 pm Panel Session Atlanta 4 RACIAL DISCRIMINATION IN TEXAS’S CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM. Chair: Maco L. Faniel, Rutgers University Participants: The Execution of Adrian Johnson: Social Reaction to the Racial Discrimination of “Old Sparky.” Elizabeth Neucere, Sam Houston State University The War on Drugs in Houston: Lee Brown’s Crackdown on Crack. Michael “Gradie” Norman, Sam Houston State University Use of Force Reforms in the Texas Department of Corrections. Corey Ryan, Sam Houston State University Commentator: Jeffery Littlejohn, Sam Houston State University

281. 12:00 pm to 1:45 pm Panel Session Atlanta 5 UNCOVERING FORGOTTEN BRIDGES: COUNTERCULTURE, COMMUNITY BUILDING AND MIGRATION IN THE 20TH CENTURY. Chair: Glenn Chambers, Michigan State University Participants: From White Panthers to Rainbow Peoples: Counterculture, Black Power and Coalition building in Southeast Michigan. Ryan Huey, Michigan State University Crossing Racial Lines Through Print Media: The Black Panther Party and the August 29th Movement. Eddie Bonilla, Michigan State University Where Have All The Jobs Gone: Push back to Igbo Migration in British Southern Cameroon. James Blackwell, Michigan State University Commentator: Glenn Chambers, Michigan State University 95 Saturday, September 26, 2015

282. 12:00 pm to 1:45 pm Luncheon Capital Ballroom North ABWH LUNCHEON.

283. 12:00 pm to 1:45 pm Luncheon Capital Ballroon Center and South JOHN BLASSINGAME LUNCHEON. Participants: LeVar Burton, Actor Donata Russell Ross, CEO, Concessions International (Atlanta, GA) and Centennial Honorary Committee Member Speaker: Daryl Michael Scott, Howard University & Centennial President, ASALH Invocation and Grace: Rev. Frank Brown, Concerned Black Clergy of Metropolitan Atlanta, Inc Benediction: Rev. Lawrence Edward Carter, Morehouse College Emcee: Tiffany Cochran-Edwards, The Cochran Firm Entertainment: Wesley International School Choir Announcement of Partnership between ASALH and the Black Classics Press to Republish Associated Publishers Works.

284. 12:00 pm to 1:45 pm Paper Session Conference Room 123 PAN AFRICANISM. Chair: Emory S Campbell, Past Director of Penn Center Participants: A Sterling Legacy: The Impact of Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois on African Politics and History. Uraina N Pack, Independent Scholar Dreaming of Algiers in Babylon: Black Radicalism and the Fight for a Unified African Continent. Paraska Lorraine Tolan, University of Pennsylvania Carving Out A New Life: Design Motifs of the Surinam Maroon Arts. David Michael Jamison, Miami University -- MIddletown Quicksand: The Slow Demise of Black Social Science, Kelly Harris, Chicago State University Commentator: Emory S Campbell, Past Director, Penn Community Center

285. 12:00 pm to 1:45 pm Paper Session Conference Room 131 HISTORIOGRAPHY, ORAL HISTORY, AND RACIAL HERITAGE. Chair: Linda Diane Tomlinson, Fayetteville State University Participants: Charles Chesnutt: North Carolina Writer Fathers Smith College’s First Black Students, Parts 1 & 2. Pamela E. Foster, Afro-American Historical and Genelogical Society Preserving the Legacy: An Oral History of The Dr. Carter G. Woodson Museum. Sean Dickerson, University of South Florida; Vonzell Agosto, University of South Florida Principles of Malinke Historiography. Nubia Kai, University of Maryland-Baltimore The Southern Literary Renaissance of Lillian B. Horace. kYmberly Mieshia Dionne Keeton, Lincoln University - Missouri Commentator: Linda Diane Tomlinson, Fayetteville State University

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286. 12:00 pm to 1:45 pm Panel Session Georgia 10 WHAT’S LEFT IN THE BLACK FREEDOM STRUGGLE? Chair: Dayo Gore, University of California San Diego Participants: The Drifters’ Guide to “The American Negro”: Revolutionary Formations at the Crossroads of Great Migrations. W. Chris Johnson, University of Memphis Harlem, Havana and Hanoi: Robert Des Verney and Black radical political culture in the 1960s. Robyn Spencer, Lehman College A Tendency Towards Naked Power: C. L. R. James and the Limits of National Self-Determination in the Black Freedom Movement. Minkah Makalani, University of Texas at Austin Commentator: Dayo Gore, University of California San Diego

287. 12:00 pm to 1:45 pm Film Festival Session Georgia 2 --AV Room WEDNESDAYS IN MISSISSIPPI: WOMEN’S MINISTRY OF PRESENCE DURING FREEDOM SUMMER 1964. Chair: Tiyi Morris, Ohio State University Commentators: Tiyi Morris, Ohio State University Marlene McCurtis, Wednesdays in Mississippi Film Project Debbie Harwell, University of Houston

288. 12:00 pm to 1:45 pmSESSION MeetingCANCELLED Georgia 3-A-V Room

289. 12:00 pm to 1:45 pm Roundtable Session Georgia 4-A-V Room RACIAL SEMANTICS, WHITE ANGST AND THE FEAR OF BLACKNESS IN OBAMA’S POST RACIAL AMERICA. Chair: Aretina Hamilton, Ohio University, Department of African American Studies Discussants: Akil Houston, Ohio University, Department of African American Studies LaToya Eaves, Middle Tennessee State University Bayyinah S. Jeffries, Department of African American Studies, Ohio University Priscilla McCutcheon, University of Connecticut Stephany Rose, University of Colorado Colorado Springs Sydney Joslin-Knapp, Ohio University, Department of African American Studies

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290. 12:00 pm to 1:45 pm Panel Session Georgia 6-A-V Room HEALTH AND WELLNESS ADVOCACY: A NEW PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT PATHWAY FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES (INVITED SESSION SPONSORED BY FIRE!!!). Chair: Ronald W Bailey, University of Illinois Participants: #BlackGirlsRun: Promoting Positive Health and Wellness Outcomes Using Social Media. Felicia Harris, University of Houston- Downtown Racial Discrimination and Mental Health: Exploring Variations in the Family Context. Sharde McNeil Smith, Department of African American Studies, University of Illinois Black Women and their Health: An Agenda for Research. Jamae Morris, Georgia State University Obstacles and Options to Faith-based HIV Service Delivery to Low-Income Inner City Residents: Perspectives of Black Clergy with Commuter Congregations. Sarita Davis, Georgia State University Commentators: Akinyele Umoja, Georgia State Universeity Safiya Omari, Associate Vice President for Research, Jackson State University,

291. 12:00 pm to 1:45 pm Panel Session Georgia 9-A-V Room AN INTEGRATED APPROACH TO PROMOTING CULTURAL HERITAGE AT HBCU: EXPLORING THE NEXUS BETWEEN THE LIBRARY, ACADEMY AND PUBLIC HISTORY. Chair: Cedric Davis, Alabama State University Participants: The National Center for the Study of Civil Rights and African American Culture: A Hub for Public Outreach and Programming. Dorothy Walker, Alabama State University The University Archives: A Symbiotic Relationship with the Library, National Center, and the History and Political Science Department. Howard Overton Robinson, Alabama State University The Academy: The History and Political Science Department and its relativity to the National Center. Dorothy Autrey, Alabama State University Establishing a Cultural Learning Place as a Library Model for Preserving Cultural Heritage and Public History at Alabama State University. Janice Franklin, Alabama State University Commentator: Mitzi Townes, Alabama State University

292. 12:00 pm to 1:45 pm Panel Session Savannah 3 (Level 2 Lobby) CIVIL RIGHTS AND BEYOND: THE BATTLE FOR SOCIAL, LEGAL, AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE IN THE DEEP SOUTH, 1940S-1970S. Chair: Telisha D Bailey, University of Mississippi Participants: “They Had the Brains but They Didn’t Have the Expertise”: African American Women’s Health Care Providers at the Taborian Hospital, 1940s-1950s Katrina Sims. Katrina R Sims, University of Mississippi White, Black, and Blue: The Battle over Black Police, Professionalization, and Police Brutality in Birmingham, Alabama, 1963-1967. Bryan Kessler, university of Mississippi Commentator: Daphne Chamberlain, Tougaloo College

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293. 2:00 pm to 3:50 pm Panel Session Atlanta 2 EXPLORING THE POLITICAL AND INTELLECTUAL IMAGINATION OF W. E. B. DU BOIS. Chair: Stephanie Shaw, Ohio State University Participants: “The Problem of Haiti as it Stands Today:” W. E. B. Du Bois on the U.S. Occupation of Haiti, 1915-1934. Brandon Byrd, Mississippi State University “I Am Ashamed of My Own Lack of Foresight”: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Troubled Legacy of World War I. Chad Williams, Brandeis University Out of Touch or Visionary?: W. E. B. Du Bois, Self-Segregation and the NAACP. Shawn Leigh Alexander, WEB Dubois An American Intellectual and Activist Commentator: Stephanie Shaw, Ohio State University

294. 2:00 pm to 3:50 pm Panel Session Atlanta 3 UNRAVELING THE CHAINS: BLACK WOMANHOOD AND THE BOUNDARIES OF GENDER AND FREEDOM. Chair: Manisha Sinha, University of Massachusetts Amherst Participants: “‘As much as I love freedom, I do not like to look upon it:’ Buying Freedom in Harriet Jacobs’ Narrative.” Julia Wallace Bernier, University of Massachusetts Amherst “‘The Fair Daughters of Africa:’ Abolitionism, Black Feminism, and the Politics of Respectability”. Nneka Dennie, University of Massachusetts Amherst “’Her voice is charming, her manner refined:’ Black Womanhood, Respectability, and Frances Ellen Watkins’ Anti-Slavery Lectures”. Johanna Maria Ortner, UMass Amherst Commentator: Manisha Sinha, University of Massachusetts Amherst

295. 2:00 pm to 3:50 pm Panel Session Atlanta 4 CONNECTING BLACK POWER IN THE AFRICAN DIASPORA. Chair: Quito Swan, Howard University Participants: Civil Rights and Black Power Movement in New Orleans, Louisiana. Greg Bosworth, Southern University and A&M College ‘We Have Done Black Things Today...Will You?’ New Concept Development Center and the Chicago Black Power Education Project.” Worth Kamili Hayes, Tuskegee University Marshall “Eddie” Conway, Black Power In Baltimore, and Political Prisoners in American Memory. John Randolph Tilghman, Tuskegee University Black Power and Pan-Africanism in Trinidad Revisited. Godrey Vincent, Tuskegee University Commentator: Quito Swan, Howard University

296. 2:00 pm to 3:50 pm Roundtable Session Atlanta 5 BLACK STUDIES AND BLACK POLITICS IN CHICAGO. Chair: Jeffrey Helgeson, Texas State University Discussants: Martha Biondi, Northwestern University & Executive Council, ASALH Keeanga Yamahtta Taylor, Princeton University Lionel Kimble, Chicago State University & Executive Council, ASALH Marcia Chatelain, Georgetown University 99 Saturday, September 26, 2015

297. 2:00 pm to 3:50 pm Roundtable Session Capital Ballroom North STOKELY CARMICHAEL: HIS LIFE AND LEGACY. Chair: Aram Goudsouzian, Universiry of Memphis Discussants: Ashley Farmer, Duke University W. Chris Johnson, University of Memphis Yohuru Williams, Fairfield University Peniel Joseph, Tufts University Charles E. Cobb, Independent Scholar

298. 2:00 pm to 3:50 pm Workshop Session Conference Room 123 TEACHING THE SOULS OF BLACK FOLK. Leaders: Frances Jones-Sneed, MCLA MaryNell Morgan-Brown, SUNY – Empire State College Whitney Battle-Baptiste, University of Massachusetts – Amherst Nadine V. Nadine V. Wedderburn, SUNY Empire State College

299. 2:00 pm to 3:50 pm Paper Session Conference Room 125 RACE AND THE DYNAMICS OF MALE/FEMALE RELATIONSHIPS. Chair: Tera Eva Agyepong, DePaul University Participants: AARMS: The African American Relationships and Marriage Strengthening Curriculum for African American Relationships Courses and Programs. Patricia Dixon, Georgia State University Conservative Gender Roles in Black Communities. Kelli Boyd, Cal State Fullerton For the Love of Black Men. Chyna Yvonne Davis, Clark Atlanta University Commentator: Tera Eva Agyepong, DePaul University

300. 2:00 pm to 3:50 pm Paper Session Conference Room 127 BLACK URBAN COMMUNITIES AND RACIAL IDENTITY. Chair: Amilcar Shabazz, University of Massachusetts Participants: Cisco Kid Has Something to Say: WAR’s Cosmopolitan Response to Ghetto Life. Travis K. Lacy, University of Nevada, Reno Crafting the “New American Minority,” Nixon, Black Progress, & America’s War on Poverty, 1969-1972. Danielle St. Julien, Binghamton University Forged by Fire: Detroit’s Riots & Rebellions and How Chaos Created a Community. Jamon Jordan, ASALH-Detroit, Vice President; Founder & CEO of Black Scroll History & Tours ‘Suburban Renewaled’: Revising the Great Migration Narrative. Chad Montrie, University of Massachusetts Lowell Commentator: Amilcar Shabazz, University of Massachusetts

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301. 2:00 pm to 3:50 pm Roundtable Session Conference Room 129 PRECARITY AND THE BLACK MIDDLE CLASS IN THE POST-RACE ERA. Chair: Simone Drake, Ohio State University Discussants: Simone Drake, Ohio State University Devin Fergus, Ohio State University Adia Harvey Wingfield, Georgia State University L’Heureux Lewis-McCoy, The City College of New York Dwan Simmons, Kennesaw State University Andrea Gillespie, Emory University

302. 2:00 pm to 3:50 pm Paper Session Conference Room 131 BLACK WOMEN’S ACTIVISM. Chair: Kevin Greene, The University of Southern Mississippi Participants: “Now is the Time to Plan for your Future”: Sarah Spencer Washington and the Black Freedom Struggle in New Jersey, 1913-1953. Hettie V Williams, Monmouth University Daughters of Ida B. Wells-Barnett: African American Womens’ Activism during the Civil Rights Movement in Chicago. William Horatio Adams, University of Kansas I Am Woman: examining the activism of women from 1958-1961. Jasmin Howard, Ohio State University Moms Mabley and the Civil Rights Movement. Sarah Wolk, UC Riverside Commentator: Shirley Thompson, The University of Texas at Austin

303. 2:00 pm to 3:50 pm Roundtable Session Georgia 10 AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY AND BLACK STUIDES OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES. Chair: V. P. Franklin, University of California, Riverside Discussants: Gerald Horne, University of Houston Sheila Walker, United Nations Jean Augustine, Commissioner, Province of Canada V. P. Franklin, University of California, Riverside

304. 2:00 pm to 3:50 pm Workshop Session Georgia 11 DR. FELIX ARMFIELD SERIES FOR EMERGING SCHOLARS: SESSION II : THE ACT OF BEING AN ACADEMIC: HOW CAN I HELP YOU? Leaders: Ula Taylor, University of California UC Berkeley Jessica Marie Johnson, Michigan State University Melanye Price, Rutgers University Jessica Millward, University of California, Irvine

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305. 2:00 pm to 3:50 pm Panel Session Georgia 12 ABILITY, LEADERSHIP, AND REMEMBRANCE STORIES: UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH PATHS IN BLACK HISTORY. Chair: Michelle R. Scott, UMBC Participants: Black Women in the West: Agency and Authority. Raquel Grinage, UMBC Able, Black, Female: Representations of Sojourner Truth in Theories of Embodiment. Camille Bethune-Brown, UMBC/ American University Remembering Randolph: Race and the Fight Against World War II Segregation in Civil Service. Jennifer Montooth, UMBC Southern Sisterhood: Race, Gender, and Power in the Baptist Church. Jordan Weddington, UMBC Commentator: Michelle R. Scott, UMBC

306. 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm Film Festival Session Georgia 13 BADDDDD SONIA SANCHEZ BY ATTIE, GOLDWATER & GORDON, 90 MINUTES. Chair: Sonya Sanchez, Temple University (Emeritus) Sponsor: California Newsreel

307. 2:00 pm to 3:50 pm Library Session Georgia 2 --AV Room AFRICANA INFORMATION PROFESSIONALS COLLABORATING, NETWORKING AND SUPPORTING ASALH BRANCHES. Chair: Johnnieque Blackmon Love, University of Maryland Libraries Discussants: Sharon E. Robinson, Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History/Central Library Vivian Fisher, Enoch Pratt Free Library Akilah Nosakhere, New Mexico State University Library Doretha Williams, George Washington University

308. 2:00 pm to 3:50 pm Presidential Session Georgia 3-A-V Room AFRICAN AMERICANS AND GLOBAL WEALTH IN THE 21ST CENTURY. Chair: James Stewart, Pennsylvania State University (Emeritus) Participants: Building Family Wealth. Donata Russell Ross, CEO, Concessions International (Atlanta, GA) New Challenges and Opportunities in the Global Economy. Thomas “Danny” Boston, Georgia Tech University Growing Changes in Capital for Businesses and Global Relationships in the African Diaspora. John Hope Bryant, CEO, Operation Hope (Atlanta, GA) Dr. Ronald Johnson, Clark Atlanta University

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309. 2:00 pm to 3:50 pm Panel Session Georgia 4-A-V Room STRENGTHS AND VULNERABILITIES IN BLACK WOMEN’S MENTAL HEALTH: TRANSFORMATIONS BETWEEN VICTIMIZATION AND VOICE. Chair: Stephanie Evans, Clark Atlanta University Participants: The Reality of TV: The Influence of Media Images on Black Women’s Mental Health. Nsenga Burton, Clark Atlanta University Selfies, Subtweets, & Suicide: Social Media as a Mediator and Agitator of Mental Health for Black Women. Joy Bradford, Clark Atlanta University Transgenerational Journey: Child Sex Trafficking and the Plight of the Black Girl and Mother. Sharnell Myles, youthSpark, Inc. From the Margins: Sacred Space as a Means of Empowerment for Women and Girls. Kanika Bell-Thomas, Clark Atlanta University Commentator: Nsenga Burton, Clark Atlanta University

310. 2:00 pm to 3:50 pm Panel Session Georgia 5-A-V Room SACRED AND PROFANE: THE FUNK/SPIRIT, PENTECOSTAL MUSIC, AND THE NASTY GROOVE. Chair: Randal Maurice Jelks, University of Kansas Participants: “‘Runnin’ From the Devil’: The Ohio Players and Sonic Representations of the Devil and Hell.”. Scot Brown, UCLA “Reverend Utah Smith: Faith, Funk, and Pentecostal Music Practices.” Anndretta Lyle, UCLA “Are You Funkified?: The Choreopoetics of Sly and the Family Stone”. Tony Bolden, University of Kansas

311. 2:00 pm to 3:50 pm Panel Session Georgia 6-A-V Room THE OLD HISTORY OF THE NEW JIM CROW: RACE AND A CENTURY OF MASS INCARCERATION. Participants: What ‘Humane’ Meant to Reconstruction-Era Prison Reformers: Defining a Moral Incarceration Regime after the Civil War Prison Atrocities? Elaine Franz Parsons, Duquesne University “Subjected to still greater punishment”: Testimonial Incapacity as a Collateral Consequence of Criminal Conviction in the 19th Century South. Pippa Holloway, Middle Tennessee State University The New Jim Crow: The Latest Manifestation Of An Old Strategy Using Narcotics To Racialize. Maco L. Faniel, Rutgers University Protesting Medicine Behind Bars: Prisoners’ and Patients’ Activism in the 1970s. Anne E. Parsons, University of North Carolina at Greensboro Chair: Elizabeth Hinton, Harvard University Commentator: Heather Ann Thompson, University of Michigan

312. 2:00 pm to 3:50 pm Panel Session Georgia 9-A-V Room DR. CARTER G. WOODSON AND DR. MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE: A DYNAMIC DUO FOR THEIR PEOPLE. Chair: Sheila Flemming-Hunter, Clark Atlanta University & Executive Council, ASALH Participants: The Carter Woodson-Mary McLeod Bethune Duo: His Assistance to Her. Elaine M. Smith, Independent Scholar Re-examining the Global Impact of Carter Woodson and Mary McLeod Bethune through National Historic Sites. Joy Kinard, National Park Service Mary McLeod Bethune and Carter G. Woodson: Quid Pro Quo? Sheila Flemming-Hunter, Clark Atlanta University & Executive Council, ASALH

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313. 2:00 pm to 3:50 pm Roundtable Session Savannah 1 (Level 2 Lobby) IN KEEPING WITH WOODSON: WORKING ACROSS DISCIPLINES IN AFRICANA STUDIES AT LEHIGH UNIVERSITY. Chair: James Peterson, Lehigh University Discussants: Susan Kart, Lehigh University Darius Williams, Lehigh University Natanya Duncan, Lehigh University

314. 2:00 pm to 3:50 pm Panel Session Savannah 2 (Level 2 Lobby) FROM SLAVERY TO FREEDOM: BLACK WOMEN IN THE AMERICAS. Chair: Noelle Trent, University of Maryland College Participants: Black Women in Sixteenth Century La Española (1502-1606). Lissette Acosta Corniel, CUNY Dominican Studies Institute “Save My Mother Gentlemen, If You Kill Me”: Genocidal Violence towards African American Women During the Civil War. Kay Wright Lewis, Norfolk State University Black Women and The Bureau’s Transportation Program in the Nation’s Capital. Sharita Jacobs Thompson, Independent Scholar Commentator: Ana Lucia Araujo, Howard University

315. 2:00 pm to 3:50 pm Roundtable Session Savannah 3 (Level 2 Lobby) PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE: THE JOURNEY OF THE AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES PROGRAM AT CLAYTON STATE UNIVERSITY. Chair: LaJuan Simpson-Wilkey, Clayton State University Discussants: Eric Bridges, Clayton State University Cynthia McKinney, Clayton State University Shannon Cochran, Clayton State University Tamika Blount, Clayton State University

316. 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm Plenary Session Capital Ballroom North GIVE LIGHT AND PEOPLE WILL FIND THE WAY: THE FUTURE OF THE FIELD OF BLACK WOMEN’S STUDIES. Chair: Natanya Duncan, Lehigh University Discussants: Farah Griffin, Columbia University Faye V. Harrison, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Jessica Marie Johnson, Michigan State University Tiffany Gill, University of Delaware Tiffany Ruby Patterson, Vanderbilt University Alondra Nelson, Columbia University

317. 4:15 pm to 6:45 pm Film Festival Session Georgia 13 MUMIA: LONG DISTANCE REVOLUTIONARY BY STEPHEN VITTORIA, 120 MINUTES. Chair: Kenja McCray, Atlanta Metropolitan State College

317.1 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm ASWH Graduate Reception Fandangles Restaurant , Lobby Level.

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318. 7:00 pm to 8:55 pm Film Festival Session Georgia 13 JESSIE OWENS BY STANLEY NELSON, 85 MINUTES. Chair: Pellon McDaniels III, Emory University

319. 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm Banquet Capital Ballroon Center and South ASALH AWARDS GALA. Participants: Moses Massenburg, Clark Atlanta University Daryl Michael Scott, Howard University & Centennial Akinyele Umoja, Georgia State Universeity President, ASALH Sheila Flemming-Hunter, Clark Atlanta University and Chair, Dorothy Bailey, ASALH Awards Committee Co-Chair National Centennial Committee. Gina Paige, ASALH Awards Committee Co-Chair Charles Bibbs, ASALH Artist-In-Residence Amina King, Introduction of Speaker Martin Mitchell, Mitchell Harpos Syphoe Sylvia Cyrus, ASALH Executive Director Janet Sims-Wood, ASALH Vice President for Membership Speaker: Susan L Taylor, National CARES Mentoring Movement, Co-Chair, Centennial National Honorary Committee Invocation & Grace: Bishop John Hurst Adams, ASALH Centennial Committee Benediction: Rev. William Flippin, Greater Piney Grove Baptist Church Emcee: Blayne Alexander, WXIA/11Alive Entertainment: Positive Arts Movement. Award Recipients: Dr. David Levering-Lewis, New York University, Carter G. Woodson Scholars Medallion Recipient The Honorable John Lewis, GA 5th Congressional District, John Hope Franklin Centennial Lifetime Achievement Award

SUNday, September 27, 2015 SUNday, SEPTEMBER 27, 2015

320. 8:00 am to 9:30 am Breakfast Capital Ballroom South ASALH ECUMENICAL BREAKFAST. Participant: Henrietta Antonin, Atlanta Life Insurance Company (Retired) Invocation and Grace: Bishop Carolyn Tyler Guidry, Elected and Consecrated Bishop African Methodist Episcopal Church Benediction: Rev. Ayana Madzimoyo, Shrine of the Black Madonna of the Pan African Orthodox Christian Church Emcee: Alexis Scott, Former Publisher, Atlanta Daily World Keynote Speaker: Rev. C.T. Vivian, C.T. Vivian Leadership Institute Entertainment: Wheat Street Baptist Church, Inspirational Sounds of Praise

321. 10:00 am to 2:30 pm Tour International Blvd. Portico (Bus departure area) Level 1 POST-CONFERENCE AFRICAN AMERICAN HERITAGE BUS TOUR.

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90TH ANNUAL BLACK HISTORY Month Luncheon & Featured Authors Event

February 20, 2016 Authors Event: 10 a.m. - 12:30 pm • Luncheon: 12:30p.m.

Renaissance Washington Hotel 999 Ninth Street NW • Washington, D.C. 20001 202-898-9000

106 107 On behalf of the 1.6 million members of the American Federation of Teachers, we salute the Association for the Study of African American Life and History for its century of proclaiming the centrality of African Americans in the making of American history.

As ASALH celebrates its centennial, the AFT joins with you in reaffirming the belief of ASALH founder Carter G. Woodson that historical truth will crush falsehoods and open the way to racial equality, opportunity and democracy for all.

Across America, the AFT is working with parents, community leaders and allies like ASALH to reclaim the promise of public education to help all children succeed. We are united in our shared commitment to reclaiming the promise of an America that values equity in its policies and equality in its practices—a nation that embraces the history and the contributions of all its people.

Randi Weingarten Lorretta Johnson Mary Cathryn Ricker president secretary-treasurer executive vice president

TheAmerican Federation of Teachers is a union of 1.6 million professionals that champions fairness; democracy; economic opportunity; and high-quality public education, healthcare and public services for our students, their families and our communities. We are committed to advancing these principles through community engagement, organizing, collective bargaining and political activism, and especially through the work our members do.

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