Association for the Study of African American Life and History 89TH ANNUAL BLACK HISTORY LUNCHEON FEBRUARY 28, 2015 Marriott Wardman Park Hotel • Washington, D.C. ASALH • 2225 Georgia Avenue • Suite 331 • Washington, DC 20059 • www.asalh.org • Phone: 202-238-5910 FEBRUARY 28, 2015 SEPTEMBER 9, 2015 Association for the Study of African Annual Black History Month Luncheon Centennial Founder’s Day Event Marriott Wardman Park Washington, D.C. American Life and History (ASALH) Washington, D.C. FOUNDERS OF BLACK HISTORY MONTH SEPTEMBER 21-27, 2015 A CENTURY OF BLACK LIFE, HISTORY AND CULTURE SEPTEMBER 9-12, 2015 Centennial Meeting and Conference 1915-2015 Centennial Founder’s Day Events Sheraton Hotel Downtown Chicago, Illinois Atlanta, Georgia Join Us for Our DECEMBER 19, 2015 Help us Celebrate Carter G. Woodson Birthday Celebration our Centennial! Centennial Events Washington, D.C. For more information about our events, visit www.asalh.org. ASALH 2225 Georgia Ave, NW, Suite 331 Washington, D.C. 20059 Phone: (202) 238-5910 • Fax: (202) 986-1506 Email: [email protected] • www.asalh.org Find us on Tweet Us! @ASALH Facebook! with #ASALH100 Support The ASALH Centennial Fund DONATION LEVELS Founders Club - $1,915 (or more) Visionaries - $1,000 - $1,914 Woodson Fellows - $500 - $999 Trailblazers - $100 - $499 Reader’s Circle - $25 - $99 Donors will be acknowledged in Centennial materials and at key Centennial activities. Donors above $250 will receive an ASALH Centennial pin. Officers of Executive Council Welcome to the 89th Annual Black History Luncheon during the Centennial Year of ASALH. Dr. Daryl Michael Scott President Howard University When Carter G. Woodson established the Association, he did so in large measure to transform how Dr. Janet Sims-Wood Vice President for Membership people of African descent in America saw themselves and how other Americans perceive them. In Prince George’s County College this effort, Negro History Week, now Black History Month, marks his most lasting impact on Ms. Zende Clark American society and culture. For a month each year, African American life, history, and culture take Secretary Fordham University center stage in American and Canadian life. In Britain, a month-long celebration takes place as well. Mr. Troy Thornton What started off as a reform of Lincoln Day and Douglass Day has become a centerpiece in much of Treasurer Goldman Sachs & Co. New York, NY the English-speaking world. Ms. Sylvia Y. Cyrus Executive Director For decades now, the media have loved to raise the question of whether there needs to be a Black Class of 2015 History Month. Quite often people who know too little about Woodson and ASALH’s work really Ms. Dorothy Bailey believe that he advocated only few days be set aside for the study of Black people’s history. Prince Georges County Truth Branch,Md. Advocates of Black History 365 are often so undereducated as to be mis-educated, not knowing that Dr. Sheila Flemming-Hunter Black Rose Foundation Woodson promoted the idea that February would be when people celebrated what they had studied Dr. Lionel Kimble and learned all year. Others argue that Black history should be part and parcel of American history Chicago State University without knowing that Woodson promoted the idea that Black history was part of our—as in Dr. Edna Green Medford American—history; in our own particular history we would not dim one bit the lustre of any star in Howard University our firmament. We would not learn less of George Washington, ‘First in War, First in Peace and First Ms. Gina Paige in the Hearts of his Countrymen’; but we would learn something also of the three thousand Negro African Ancestry soldiers of the American Revolution who helped make this ‘Father of our Country’ possible.” If the Dr. Annette Palmer Morgan State University critics would only read Woodson, they would not have to reinvent him anew each year. Mr. Randy Rice Farmers Insurance, Sierra Madre, Ca. What has changed from Woodson’s time to ours has been a decline in the belief in history in Dr. Paula Seniors Virginia Tech American society. Two years after his death in 1950, the Daughters of the American Revolution attempted to establish February as American History Month, ignoring Negro History Week and the Class of 2016 Dr. Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham contributions of immigrants from Eastern and Southern Europe. By the 1970s, that movement failed Harvard University as Black History Month took off. In the early 1960s, the historian Richard Hofstadter made his case Dr. Cornelius Bynum that America was anti-intellectual by pointing out how Americans had little use for history. In our Purdue University own time, history is being crowded out of the public schools by the testing regime of No Child Left Dr. Jim C. Harper Behind and the skills regime of the Common Core. Self-knowledge is in fashion largely among Black North Carolina Central University folks alone. Dr. Monroe Little Indiana University As we celebrate “A Century of Black Life, History and Culture,” we must take on an expanded Mr. Gilbert Smith Washington, D.C. mission. We must be the people who make history matter before the American public. We must show Ms. Greer Stanford-Randle how history is essential for the maintenance of a democracy. And we must cure not only the mis- Huber Heights, OH education of the Negro, but also the mis-education of the American. Class of 2017 Dr. Thomas C. Battle Howard Univ. Morland Spingarn (Ret.) Enjoy this luncheon and your time with us today. Dr. Martha Biondi Northwestern University Dr. James B. Stewart Pennsylvania State University (Ret.) Dr. Nikki M. Taylor Dr. Daryl Michael Scott Texas Southern University National President Dr. Gladys Gary Vaughn Cabin John, Md. Ms. Greer Stanford-Randle Huber Heights, OH CELEBRATING our CENTENNIAL LUNCHEON MISTRESS OF CEREMONY A’LELIA BUNDLES A’Lelia Bundles is at work on her fourth book, The Joy Goddess of Harlem: A’Lelia Walker and the Harlem Renaissance, a biography of her great- grandmother, whose parties, friendships, international travels and arts patronage made her a central figure of the era. On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker (Scribner)— a biography of her great- great-grandmother — was named a New York Times Notable Book and received the Association of Black Women Historians’ Letitia Woods Brown Book Prize. Bundles was a network television news executive and producer for thirty years, first at NBC News, and then at ABC News where she was the Washington, D.C. deputy bureau chief. She currently is chairman of the board of the National Archives Foundation, a Columbia University trustee, and sits on the advisory boards of the March on Washington Film Festival and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study’s Schlesinger Library at Harvard. As president of the Madam Walker/A’Lelia Walker Family Archives, Bundles shares the history of her famous ancestors through speeches, publications, documents, photographs and several public initiatives. Her young adult biography, Madam C. J. Walker: Entrepreneur received an American Book Award. Her pictorial history, Madam Walker Theater Center: An Indianapolis Treasure, was published by Arcadia Books. Bundle’s articles and essays have appeared in the New York Times Book Review, Parade, Ms., O Magazine, Essence, TheRoot.com, several encyclopedias, including Black Women in America and African American National Biography, and on her websites at www.aleliabundles.com and www.madamcjwalker.com. She has been a keynote speaker at Harvard University, the Library of Congress, London City Hall and dozens of universities, conventions and book festivals. She also has appeared on ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, BBC, NPR and other major networks. Among her broadcast journalism awards are an Emmy and a duPont Gold Baton. Bundles is a lifetime member of ASALH. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2015 4 Marriott Wardman Park Hotel | Washington, D.C. LUNCHEON KEYNOTE SPEAKER DARYL MICHAEL SCOTT The luncheon keynote address will be delivered this year by none other than the ASALH National President, Dr. Daryl Michael Scott. Scott is a professor of History at Howard University, where he served as chair of the department from 2005-2009. Born and raised on the south side of Chicago, Scott’s coming of age was during the Civil Rights movement and the Black Power era. After serving in the U.S. Army, he attended Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, earning a bachelor’s degree, followed by a doctorate in History from Stanford University. His teaching career includes appointments at Columbia University in New York City and as Director of African American Studies at the University of Florida at Gainesville. Scott is the recipient of four fellowships including the Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship for Minority Scholars and the Carter G. Woodson Institute Fellowship. His honors include ASALH’s Mary McLeod Bethune Service Award, the Ralph Metcalf Mini-Chair at Marquette University, and a Scholar-in-Residence at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. His published works include Contempt and Pity: Social Science and the Image of the Damaged Black Psyche, 1880-1996, which won the Organization of American Historians’ James Rawley Prize for best work on race relations. He is editor of The Mis-Education of the Negro, Carter G. Woodson’s Appeal, and a newly published edition of Edwin B. Henderson’s The Negro in Sports, all of which are published by the ASALH Press. He is currently working on a history of white nationalism in the American South from 1865-1965 entitled, The Lost World of White Nationalism. While Scott is a member of many associations, he is first and foremost a member of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH).