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ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF AFRICAN AMERICAN LIFE AND HISTORY ® THE

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WELCOME TO THE 110TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE The Association for the Study of African American Life and History® (ASALH) is proud to welcome you to its 110th Annual Meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, taking place from September 24th to 28th.

With the theme “African Americans in Labor,” this year’s conference will offer a vibrant program featuring scholarly sessions, workshops, historical tours, a dynamic film festival, authors’ book signings, exhibitor booths, cultural performances, networking opportunities, and much more.

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WELCOME FROM THE ACADEMIC PROGRAM COMMITTEE Dear Conference Attendees, The Academic Program Committee Welcomes you to ASALH’s 110th Annual Meeting! It is fitting that we return to Atlanta, Georgia this year, as we commemorate African Americans and Labor. As throughout the U.S., Black work and workers built Atlanta from the bottom up, resulting in powerful institutions like the Atlanta University Center colleges, Atlanta Life Insurance Company, the APEX Museum, Auburn Avenue Research Library, and the original Black Belt communities that made up the downtown sector. Gathering this year at the Omni helps us trace the history of transformation and struggle that resulted in modern-day downtown Atlanta. Positioning the Black worker at the center of our history adds a critical layer to scholarly rigor and critique. Black labor in the U.S. is at a critical crossroads today and Atlanta continues to be a decisive battleground. Thus, we are looking forward to yet another successful and critical Atlanta meeting.

The theme of African Americans and Labor provides us a dynamic range of sessions for scholars, activists, independent researchers, visual artists, archivists, curators, teachers, musicians, and so many more. Our plenaries both celebrate legacies of Black Studies in working class communities—the legacy and scholarship of Professor Joe W. Trotter, Jr— and critique the current condition of the Black worker and our debates on liberation—Toward a Theory of Liberation: The State of Black Radicalism Today. Those debates carry on with amazing workshops and media sessions. This includes sessions on building freedom schools, publishing with the Journal of African American History, building Black history with the National Parks Service, and community organizing with Black Alliance for Peace.

In other words, the themes, sessions, ideas, and debates that occur this year will have profound effects on our mission to preserve and strengthen the power of African American History and Black Studies. Currently, our solidarity ensures our long-lasting capacity to control and implement our history in our communities and across the world.

As an organization that was part of the dawn of Black Studies in the academy, ASALH recognizes the powerful minds that have passed. We are happy to offer a session that honors the legacy of Black Studies scholar Robert L. Allen. We also commemorate the centennials of the founding of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and the birth of Malcolm X. As the chair of the Academic Program Committee, I commend the exhaustive and thankless work of every member of the committee for assisting in the construction of this powerful conference. This conference would also not be possible without the graduate and undergraduate students who make up our Woodson Ambassadors. MY utmost appreciation goes out to Evelyn Jackson, Aaisha Haykal, and Sylvia Cyrus, who worked tirelessly to ensure that we present the best conference possible. Lastly, I thank you for attending and taking ownership of African American history and Black Studies.

Sincerely, Augustus C. Wood, Chair Academic Program Committee

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PARTICIPANT INDEX Numbers following names indicate session numbers Acey, Yvonne B., 243 Acosta Corniel, Lissette, 148 Adams, Ashley F., 094 Adams, Beatrice J, 019, 126, 153, 238 Adams, Jaminique, 122 Adams, John E., 003, 030, 057, 243, 296 Adams, Luther, 292 Addai, Adwoa, 279 Adekoya, Emillion, 208 Adelson, Laetitia, 122 Agezeh, Ovie Richard, 288 Agwu, Brittney, 011 Ahmed, Sumayya, 113 Ahmed, Veronica Coates, 169 Aiello, Thomas, 137 Ajamu, Veda, 267 Akbar, Maisha, 020 Aldridge, Andrew, 077 Alexander, Larry Kenneth, 024, 114 Alexander, Shawn L., 112 Ali-Goudlock, Madinah, 013, 076 Allen, Jody L., 219 Allen, Madge, 243 Allen, Marcus Anthony, 096 Allen, Todd, 205 Alridge, Derrick, 116, 179, 195, 275, 295 Alvarado, Jose, 072 Amaker, Arthur, 274 Amen, Kali-Ahset, 165 Amos, Dejah, 096 Anderson, Cassie, 236 Anderson, James D, 086 Anderson, James D., 195 Anderson, Marvin, 060 Anderson, Reynaldo, 041, 224, 246 Anderson, Sarah, 017 Andrews, Amelia Anne, 230 Andrews, Eleanor, 258 Anokye, A. Duku, 200 Archer, Rose, 204 Arenson, Adam, 191 Arkansas Press, The University of, 078 Arline-Bradley, Shavon, 287, 297 Armfield, Christy, 243 Asante, Marcus, 042 Ashaolu, Gloria Jesuyemi, 210 Asheeke, Toivo, 110 Ashley, John H., 003, 030

Atkinson, Barbara, 256 Atlanta, Visit, 078 Austin, Curtis, 068 Austin, Jeanelle, 060 Averett, Samantha, 134 Averette-Phillips, Omari, 118 Awolola, Olaolu, 160 Aziz, M., 080 Baer, Andrew, 064 Baham, Eva Semien, 009, 271 Bailey, Anne C., 165 Bailey, Trenton, 219 Baldwin, DeeDee, 201 Bannerman, Joseph, 011 Banton, Arthur, 064 Baraka, Ajamu, 294 Barnes, Kelli, 015 Barnes, Mollie, 152 Barnes, Riché, 192, 219 Barnes, Sirocus, 213 Baron, Lindamichelle, 021 Barrett, Logan, 227 Bartholomew, Malik, 009 Barton, Nathalie, 023 Bascomb, Lia T, 071, 163 Basile, Vincent, 010 Batzell, Rudi, 117, 261 Bauldwin, Amaya, 046 Baxter, Brandon, 063 Bayard, Marc, 245 Beatty, Adisa Vera L., 277 Bedasse, Monique, 194 Belt, Leia, 118 Bendolph, Angelia, 039 Benjamin Golden, Kathryn E, 214 Benton, Loron, 004, 071, 239 Berger, Jane, 245 Best, Felton O., 147 Bethune, Evelyn, 004, 034, 136, 154, 180 Bevel, Felicia, 199, 235 Biggs, Adam, 022 Bing, Charlea, 239 Birchmier, Chelsea, 064, 187, 273 Black, Ray, 010 Blackmer, Peter, 137, 219, 278 Blackmon, Doug, 190 Blackshear, Carolyn S., 243

Bland, Robert David, 177 Blyden, Nemata, 215 B Miller, Kim, 025 Boatner, Katie, 067 Bolsmann, Chris, 007 Bombo, Elijah, 073, 280 Bond, Beverly, 233 Boris, Eileen, 270 Bostick, Kamille Henry, 180 Boston, Martin Luther, 291 Boyd, Melba, 083 Bradley, Lisa, 180 Bradley, Stefan M., 036, 070 Branch of ASALH, Romare Bearden, 209 Brennan, Amanda, 076 Brewer, Herbert, 146, 215 Brimmer, Brandi C., 177 Bristow, Margaret Bernice Smith, 052, 156 Broadnax, Micha, 171 Brock, Lisa, 197 Brodie, Lyman, 243 Brodnax, David, 211 Brogdon, Anthony, 026 Brooks, Jessica, 272 Brooks, Robin, 085 Brooks, Jr, George B., 162 Brown, Arthur, 072 Brown, Barrye, 113 Brown, Candace S., 085 Brown, Carolyn, 182 Brown, Drew D., 137 Brown, Eddie, 160 Brown, Jocelyn, 274 Brown, Lisa, 166 Brown, Millicent E, 131 Brown, Ras MIchael, 110 Brown, Wanda K., 247 Brown Pellum, Kimberly, 120 Brown- Smith, Tailar, 180 Broyld, Daniel J., 015, 161 Bruce, Lucile, 087 Bruchko, Erica, 096 Brumfield, Elizabeth Jean, 076 Brunson, Takkara, 188 Brutus, Jean-Pierre, 167 Bryan, Benjamin, 063 Bryan, Carlos, 154

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Bryant, Sherwin K., 038, 134, 168 Buchanan, Heather, 219 Buchanan, Kaela Iman, 047 Budhai, Chalisa, 192 Buffins, Mansur Ali, 166 Burden-Stelly, Charisse, 088, 107, 163 Burkes, Trice, 010 Burkholder, Zoe, 102 Burns, Keon A, 098 Burroughs, Dennis, 042 Burroughs Project, The Nannie Helen, 078 Burrowes, Carl Patrick, 193 Burton Steele, Alysia, 272 Bwa Mwesigire, Bwesigye, 029

by BMAK, Saxx Apparel, 078 Byfield, Judith, 182 Byfield, Natalie, 182 Bynes, Kiamsha, 123 Bynoe, Vivian, 180 Byrd, Brandon R., 029, 177 Cadeau, Sabine F, 261 Campbell, Kwadjo, 040 Canavera, Mark, 013 Carey, Harmon R., 042 Carey, Ida Lee, 243 Carey-Agyemang, Miya, 005 Carlson, Chuck, 007 Carney, Christina, 200 Carney, Christina, 219 Carr, Renatto, 187 Carter, David C., 061 Carter, Lana, 035, 136 Carter, Mickell, 250 Carter Johnson, Tenesha, 039, 157 Cassidy, Chas, 074 Castilla, Alisa, 269 Cathey, Arlinda Fair, 267 Cha-Jua, Sundiata Keita, 003, 030, 090, 170, 186, 206, 254, 294 Chambers, Glenn, 084 Chambers, Michael L., 131 Chambliss, Julian C, 189 Chapman, Rava Shelyn, 038 Chapman-Hilliard, Collette, 269 Chapple, Reginald, 131 Chennault, Ronald, 179 Cherry, Jacqueline, 051 Childress, DaNia, 113 Chisholm, Alex, 180

Choice, The Scholars, 078 Choudhury, Abinash Dash, 016 Chresfield, Michell, 177 Christian, Shawn, 229 Chunda, Elizabeth, 112 Ciceron, Moesha, 269 Civil Right History and Research, University of South Carolina-Center for, 078 Clark, Tanya, 041 Clemons, Kristal Moore, 179 Clemons, Too Black Joe, 187 Clothing, Afrique, 078 Coates, Kay, 096 Cobb, Charles, 170, 284 Cole, Eddie R., 195, 275, 295 Collins, Sam, 065 Collins, Tyrone, 032 Conservation Association, National Parks, 045 Conteh, Alhaji, 277 Conway, James, 027 Cooke, James Robert, 231 Cooke, Nicole, 093 Corporate Office, AARP, 078 Council, LaToya, 281 Courmon, Nick, 025 Covington-Ward, Yolanda, 215 Crafts, Zee, 078 Crawford, Vicki, 116, 283 Crenshaw, Kimberle, 287, 297 Crewe, Sandra Edmonds, 196 Crosby, Emilye, 203, 259 Crum, Melissa, 265 Crutchfield, Joshua, 155 Culbreath, Omar, 132 Cummings, Edna W, 111 Cunningham, Candace, 025, 184 Curry, Amir, 289 Cyrus, Sylvia Y., 003, 030, 044, 045, 057, 106, 129, 221, 243, 275, 296, 297 Dagbovie, Pero G., 174 Dailey, China, 268 Dalton, Miranda, 054 Dance, Eola Lewis, 193 Daniels, Maurice C., 116 Daniels-Ball, Lura, 105, 180 Darden, LaKeisha, 093 Davidson, Em, 072 Davis, Brian, 175

Davis, Christopher, 261 Davis, Crystal, 044, 089 Davis, Genevieve, 061 Davis, Jemilia S., 082 Davis, Jordyn, 046 Davis, Veronica, 039 Davis-Faulkner, Sheri, 270 Dayan, Jonathan, 273 Deas, Kendall, 103 Del, Evelyne, 040 Demery, Vergil, 217 Denmark, Rachel, 244 Dente, Louise, 216 Design, Cathy’s, 078 Dickinson, Michael, 157 Diehl, Aimee, 282 Diggs, Constance L., 091 Dirkson, Menika, 292 Dismukes, Ondra K., 013 Dixon-McKnight, O. Jennifer, 273 Djeli, Afrikan, 078 Domingo, Julio, 180 Donaldson, Bobby, 118, 131, 161 Donaldson, Le’Trice, 111, 175, 282 Dorman, Jacob, 050 Dorsey, Albert, 087, 201 Dorsey, Jeffrey, 132 Douglas, Andrew, 028 Drake, Russell, 033, 219 Draughn, Larry, 115 Duke, Eric, 057 Duncan, Erica, 029 Duncan, Kristen, 180 Duncan, Monique, 135 Duncan, Natanya P., 003, 030, 057, 088, 188, 219, 233 Dunlap, Broderick, 250 Dunn, Stephane, 183, 202 Duplessis, Chloe, 056 Durington, Matthew, 065 Durnell-Uwechue, Nannetta, 147 Durrett, Tasanee, 031 Dworkin, Ira, 212 Dyssou, Nanda, 253 Eaves, Shannon Camille, 150 Eddins, Crystal, 110 Edgar, Donna, 035 Edwards, Patriann, 037, 135 Ekeh, Greg, 038 Ellen, Asha, 053

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Ellis, Erleen, 273 Ellis, Jeremiah, 031, 272 Ellis, Reginald K., 099, 155 Ellison, Jessica, 092 Emmert, Jessina, 112 England, Tanya, 091, 219 English, Bertis D, 129, 174 Erickson, Ansley, 086 Ervin, Keona Katrice, 043 Etienne, Leslie, 071, 090, 170, 297 Evans, Freddi Williams, 009, 271 Evans, Stephanie Y., 122, 150, 181 Ewing, K.T., 255

Francis, Theodore S., 261 Francis, Theodore, 084 Franklin, V.P., 174 Frazier, Nishani, 067, 246 Frazier, Valerie, 279 Freeman, Rodney E., 209 Freeman, Tyrone McKinley, 181 French, Scot A., 189 Frink, Xavier, 160 Frinks, Lucy Brenda, 243 Frye, Kayla J, 018 Frye, Kourtney, 018 Fuentes, Marisa J, 182

Gray, D. Ryan, 009 Gray, LaVerne, 093 Gray Houston, Karen, 219 Greason, Walter, 024, 041, 060, 114, 148, 167, 189, 219, 224, 246, 263 Green, Meghan L, 082 Greene, Clarreese, 288 Greene, Robert, 177 Greenwell, Ava Thompson, 240 Griffin, Derek Andrew, 011 Griffin, Willie, 118 Guillory, Monique, 009 Guzman, Will, 099, 219

Fair, Alexandra Kathryn, 028 Faisal, Rashid, 178, 241 Falu, Rachael, 038, 239 Farmer, Ashley, 202, 251 Fashion, African High, 078 Fashions, Aziz, 078 Fashions, Heritage International, 078 Fawkes, Rosalie, 004 Felder, James L., 121 Felipe, Ashanty, 248 Ferrin, Tim, 141 Fielder, Tim, 041, 224 Fields, Whitney, 227 Fields-Black, Edda L., 219 Fields-Smith, Cheryl, 012 Figuero-Vásquez, Yomaira, 194 Firmin, Titus, 175 Flaherty, Karen, 219 Fleming, Julius B, 260 Flemming, Sophia Muriel, 016 Fletcher, Kami, 052 Fletcher, Paul, 256 Flores-Clemons, Raquel, 113 Flowe, Douglas James, 050, 227 Fong, Sarah, 051 Fonseca, Desmond, 250 Forbes, Yasmin, 092 Ford, Na’Imah, 120 Foreman, Deirdre, 003, 030, 091, 219, 243, 254 Fortado, Stephanie, 055, 064, 135, 163, 278 Fortenberry, Allen, 069 Foster, Letoshia, 027 Foster, Theodore R, 131 Fowler, Gwendolyn, 123 Fowler, William, 014

Gallagher, Sean, 252 Galloway, Tiana, 013, 121, 138 Gannaway, Jada, 210 Garcia, John J, 228 Gardner, Morris, 093, 183 Gardner, Roberta, 093 Gardner, Solomon, 100 Gardner, Tiffany, 100 Garrett-Scott, Shennette, 087, 233 Garrison, Isabella, 187 Gatson, Torren Leon, 168, 248 Gault, Erika, 207 Gault, Ntare Ali, 207 Gay, Shanequa M, 286 Gayle, Janette, 261 Gaytán Cuesta, Andrea, 235 Gemeda, Guluma, 011 Gentry, Charles, 031 George, Atim Eneida, 154, 240 George, Clarence, 291 Georgia Press, University of, 078 Gibbs, I’Maya, 169 Gibbs, Michelle Cowin, 189 Giles, Freda S., 230 Gillis, Hazel, 096, 243 Girardeau, Arnetta, 211 Glisson, Susan, 236 Glover, Mary Custis, 236 Glover, Vivian, 165 Godzinski, Michael, 009 Goldfield, Mike, 083 Goldman, Adria, 140 Goncalves, John, 067 Gosa, Jamaal W, 049, 213 Grace-Williams, Michelle, 076 Graham, Diedre, 039 Graves, Kelisha, 270

Haager, Julia, 061 Haggler, Patricia, 021 Haines, Errin, 245 Hall, Kayla, 180 Halley, Brian, 101 Halsey, Jessica, 018, 133 Hamilton, Tikia K., 102, 295 Hamlin, Francoise N., 282 Hammack, Maria Esther, 252 Hammond, Stephen, 236 Haney, Bridget, 191 Hangan, Margaret, 200 Hardiman, Diamond, 139 Hardin, Zachary, 039, 068 Hardy, Everett, 297 Harold, Claudrena Nolanda, 255 Harper, Jim C., 195, 275 Harris, Alexa, 140 Harris, Christopher D., 098 Harris, Felecia C, 285 Harris, Jerome, 180, 243 Harris, Johari, 179 Harris, Kyle Quinton, 020 Harris, LaShawn, 084, 202, 219, 292 Harris, Leslie M., 186 Harris Hayes, Sheena, 202, 233 Hartman, Ian, 258 Hawk, Emily, 169 Haworth, Colette, 073, 280 Hayes, Michael, 180 Hayes, Worth Myrick-Harris, 132, 179 Haykal, Aaisha, 003, 030, 057, 093, 156, 185, 209, 243, 296, 297 Haynes, Imani, 072 Head, David L., 178, 241 Hearns, Fred, 090 Heffernan, Laura, 235

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Helton, Laura, 229 Henderson, Edwin B., 055 Henderson, Tammy L. Sanders, 146 Herd-Clark, Dawn, 020 Herndon, Daisy B, 180 Herschthal, Eric, 214 Hewins-Maroney, Barbara, 118 Hewitt, Huey, 028 Hill, Carl Frederick, 098 Hill, Marbella Eboni, 281 Hill Butler, Deidre, 285 Hobbs, Tameka, 229 Hobson, Courtney, 236 Hobson, Maurice, 097, 116, 195, 219, 275 Hodges, Conor, 043 Holden, Vanessa, 150, 282 Holland, Regina, 092 Holmes, Jasmine, 087 Holmes, Melanie, 103, 212 Holness, Lucien, 098 Hopson, Cheryl R., 018 Horne, Gerald, 036, 088, 107, 193, 252 Horne, Odell, 130 House, Anton D., 054, 057, 156, 237, 293 House, Gloria, 172 Houseworth, Leslie, 204 Howard, Ashley, 057, 070, 107 Howard, Jasmin C, 238 Howard, Phillip, 142 Hozempa, Jacob, 112 Hughes, Sakina, 050 Humphrey, Theophilus, 180 Hungspruke, Christina, 224 Hunter, Tera W., 083 Huntley, Aria, 180 Hynes, Claire, 189 Igeleke, Ekundayo, 173 Iglehart, Hope, 230 IGWEDIBIA, ADAOMA EUGENIA, 038 Illinois Press, University of, 078 Imani, Jocelyn, 044 Ingram, Angela, 074 Ingram, Joshua, 173, 294 International, The Foundation, 078 Irvin, PM, 250 Isom, Deena A., 103, 219 issacs, yoni D, 047 Jackson, Andrea, 171 Jackson, David H, 099

Jackson, Eric R., 086, 119 Jackson, Eric, 065 Jackson, Evelyn, 057 Jackson, Kellie Carter, 080, 184, 284 Jackson, Regine, 071 Jackson, Ronald, 026 Jackson, Tanisha, 286 Jackson-Brown, Grace, 247 Jacobs, Sean, 007 James, Joy, 107 Janak, Jaden, 036 Javadi, Aaron Summer, 031 Jeffers-Coly, Phyllis, 171 Jefferson, La’Nora, 238 Jeffries, Hasan Kwame, 203 Jeffries Leonard, Kimberly, 003, 030 Jenkins, Charlotte A., 219 Jenkins, Jerry Rafiki, 016 Jenkins, William, 279 Jett, Felecia D., 243 Jewelry, Universal Love, 078 JImmeh, Joe, 151 Johnson, Aaron, 176, 219 Johnson, Aisha M., 003, 030, 057, 093, 156, 209, 231, 247, 268, 297 Johnson, Andre E., 014, 098, 130 Johnson, Charles Denton, 073, 280 Johnson, Donald Lee, 219 Johnson, Hannibal B., 258 Johnson, Karen Ann, 179 Johnson, Kenya, 136 Johnson, Marion, 026, 160 Johnson, Maude L., 243 Johnson, Moriah, 012 Johnson, Olivia, 126 Johnson, Otis, 063 Johnson, Violet Showers, 208 Jones, Donald M, 219 Jones, Jewel, 258 Jones, Joseph, 219 Jones, Kimberly, 157 Jones, Mattie, 219 Jones, Maureen, 113 Jones, Michelee Theresa, 237 Jones, Obe Lee, 274 Jones, Rhonda, 134 Jones, Ryan, 267 Jones, William, 245 Jones-Branch, Cherisse R., 233 Jordan, Jamon, 231 Jordan, Joshua, 026

Joseph, Peniel E., 184, 205, 219, 251 & Joyous Journeys, The African Outlets LLC, 078 Kalisik, Frank, 272 Keith, Celeste, 015 Kelley, Blair LM, 186 Kelly, William, 015 Kendi, Ibram X, 205, 251 Kerr-Ritchie, Jeffrey R., 212 Khaiphanliane, Aaliyah, 016 Kilgore, Brittney, 122 Kimble, Yasmene, 096 Kimble, Jr., Lionel, 003, 030, 156 Kindell, Tymesha-Elizabeth, 077 King, Chad, 080 King, Kenneth, 169 King, Kisha Bevane, 243 King, Shannon, 077, 292 Kitchens, Adria, 124 Klanderud, Jessica, 125 Knight, Anthony B., 190 Kornegay, Sean, 038, 217 Kossie-Chernyshev, Karen L., 181 Kruse, Beth, 087 Kutzler, Evan, 231 Kwoba, Brian, 088, 219, 255 LaBon, Aysha, 014 Laing, Justin, 049 Lande, Jonathan, 282 Langley, April Catherine Elizabeth, 103 Lanier, Walter J, 003, 030, 275 LaRoche, Cheryl J., 236 Lau, Peter F., 066 Lawler, Andrew, 252 Lawton, Bishop W., 137, 227, 278 LeFlore-Ejike, JoAnna, 251 Lehman, Christopher, 219 Leverette Hall, Tru, 199, 235 Levy, LaTaSha B., 256 Lewin, Camren Alexa, 137 Lewis, Allison M, 112 Lewis, Andrea, 102 Lewis, Cathleen Susan, 031 Lewis, Karen, 219 Lewis, Terrance Joshua, 011, 180 Lewis -Timmons, Monet, 239 Library Trust, HBCU Digital, 078 Lindsey, Donnie, 269

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Lindsey, Howard, 178, 241 Lindsey, Lydia, 278 Lindsey, Treva, 005 Linker, Destiney Lynn, 227 Little, Mahaliah A, 097, 238 Littleton, LaNeice, 076 Logan, Georgiana, 180 London, Grace, 061 London, Lizette, 289 Long, Ameshia, 011 López Baquero, Constanza, 199 Losier, Toussaint, 043 Lowe, Geremy, 180 Lowe, Turkiya, 094 Lyn, Karl, 134 Mack, Willie, 278 Mackey, Timothy, 063 Maginn, Andrew, 212 Makalani, Minkah, 125, 194, 250 Manburg, Iris, 204 Mapp, James R., 219 Marcano, Chayanne, 065 March, Kyra, 018, 051, 123, 134 Marchiel, Rebecca K, 023 Marcum, Jade, 085 Marks, Claude, 172 Marsh, Jatisha, 014, 051, 211 Marshall, Cona, 249 Marshall Chapman, Sophia, 008 Martin, Myriah, 214 Martin, Waldo, 066 Maseru, Noble, 052 Masghati, Emily, 023, 264 Massachusetts Press, University of, 078 Massengale, CoCo, 011 McAllister, L. Greg, 200 McAllister, Paul Langston, 175 McCandless, Liam, 067 McCarl, Clayton, 235 McCarthy, Justine K., 064 McCaskill, Ari Ahmad, 137 McCaskill, Barbara, 152 McCloud, Rebekah, 180 McCorkindale, Deirdre, 191 McCray, Kenja, 219, 274, 283 McCray, Shirl, 243 McDowell, Nyabingha Zianni, 159 McDuffie, Erik S., 255 Mchie, Benjamin, 268 McInnis, Jarvis C, 260

McMillian, Kiyree, 053 McNeil, Adam X, 157 McPherson, Jane, 152, 230 McQueen, Dwight, 059, 299 Media, ASALH, 078 Medine, Carolyn J., 016 Meeks, Tomiko Michelle, 003, 030, 057, 169, 208 Merritt, Candice, 126 Middleton, Leontyne, 243 Miletsky, Zebulon Vance, 003, 030, 057, 060, 125, 184, 205, 246 Miller, Uzoma, 274 Milligan Garcia, Bianca, 074 Mincey, Arcilous, 219 Mislan, Cristina, 043 Mitchell, Allison Mashell, 153 Mitchell, Katie, 219 Mixon, Gregory Lamont, 118, 282 Modisa, LoRen LaDette, 082 Mohr, Ashley, 076 Momon, Tiffany, 248 Moncrease, Anita, 178, 241 Monroe, Kimberly, 277 Monroe, Jr., George, 100 Moore, Haley, 046 Moore, JoCora, 153 Moore, Julia Robinson, 285 Morgan, Alaina, 050 Morgan, James, 003, 030 Morris, DuJuan Anthony, 136 Morris, Naja, 035 Morrison, Brian, 165 Mosley, Paul, 063 Mosser, Gianna, 101 Moten, Crystal, 003, 030, 070, 181, 219 Moultrie, Monique, 048 Mount, Guy Emerson, 264 Mowatt, Rasul, 187 Muhammad, Nafeesa, 097, 140, 283 Murphy, Britney, 023 Murphy, Mary Elizabeth B., 270 Murphy, Ric, 236 Murray, Maxwell, 007 Murray, Tracy, 089 Murray Ross, Courtney, 228 Murugaiya, Sharanya, 076 Musgrove, George Derek, 047 Myburgh, Brittany, 180 Myers, Ardie, 180

Nachescu, Ileana, 225 Nadasen, Premilla, 225 Nagaraja, Tejasvi, 043 Nance, Nichole, 013 Neal, Ronald Brian, 076 Nelson, Angela Marie, 135 Neville, Helen, 206 Newby, Ashley, 249 Newby, Jessica A., 249 Newell, Margaret, 125 Newman, Christopher, 212 New Orleans Studies, Midlo Center for, 078 Newsome, Frederick V., 219 Newsreel, Third World, 078 Nichols, Casey, 225 Nichols, Patrick Kekoa, 154 Nichols, Se’Maj, 046 Nicholson, Andre, 140 Nicol, Donna J., 219 Nirde, Adrienne, 165 Norwood, Christopher, 229 Nwadi, Sopuruchukwu, 052 Oakley, Blake, 069 O’Brien, Michael J., 231 of Florida, University Press, 078 of Mississippi, University Press, 078 Ogbar, Jeffrey, 095, 219 Okoli, Chinaza Amaeze, 228 Okwandu, Udodiri, 028 Oliver, Keisha, 076, 268 Onaci, Edward, 057, 080, 172 Onuoha, Alexandria C., 281 Osei, Johari, 068 Ossa, Luisa Marcela, 148 Outler, Anthony, 264 Oyarzun, Yesmar, 022 Packer, Tiffany, 120 Parker, Alison M., 005 Parker, Jason, 154 Parker, Kai, 264 Parker, Robert, 072 Parker-Redmond, Sonjia, 019 Parks, Erin, 046 Pate, Thomas, 104 Patterson, Robert J, 085 Patterson, Valerie L., 208 Pauling, Deysha, 136 Payne, Samantha, 029

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Reid, Joy, 287, 297 Rejuvenation Cream, Egyptian Harvest, 078 Rhodes, Joan, 009 Rhone, Angela, 147 Richardson, Judy, 203, 259 Richardson, Renee, 135 Riley, Grace, 244 Riley Jr., Leonard, 244 Ringel, Paul, 180 Ritchie, Thomas, 231 Roane, J.T., 214 Roberts, Andrea R, 180 Roberts, Joseph, 248 Robinson, Deborah, 247 Rochester Press, University of, 078 Rogers, Justin, 199 Rogers, Milton, 132 Rolark Barnes, Denise, 003, 030 Rome-Taylor, Tokie M, 286 Rooks, Noliwe, 102 Ross, Cheyenne, 289 Ross, Jordan, 062 Ross, Zaree, 162 Roy, Ariel, 094, 161 Royster, Michael D., 096 Rucker, Jessica A., 153, 203, 259 Ruff, Duan, 010 Russell, Alexandria, 005 Russell, Tashieka Adjoa, 180 Rye, Jr., Eddie, 256 Sahmedu, Seshat Eumel, 051 Salow, Jessica, 200 Salter, Krewasky, 111 Sanders, Amber, 279 Sanders, Crystal R., 003, 030, 057, 086, 102, 156, 204, 260, 295 Sanders-Senu, LaRonda, 140 Sankofa, Neith, 048 Scanlan, Sophia, 240 Schechter, Patricia A., 061 Schlabach, Betsy, 096 Schwalbe, Emily A, 168 Scott, Aishah, 022 Scott, Daryl Michael, 003, 030, 057, 146, 156 Scott, Jermaine, 007 Scott, Michelle, 104, 188, 219 Scruggs, Camesha, 003, 030, 297 Seals, Jason, 149

Seidemann, Ryan, 009 Seidler, Margaret, 032, 219 Sembe, Karina, 160 Serafini, Sidonia, 152 Seraile, William, 216 Service History Project, National Park, 078 Sewell, Jon, 237 Sewell, Regina, 048 Shakir, Ameenah, 120 Shannon, Jerry, 230 Shaw, Todd C, 103, 232 Shelton, Jason, 130 Shepherd, Anita M., 003, 030, 185, 243, 296, 297 Sherley, Eshe, 225 Silas, DeShaun, 012 Sillen, Andrew, 219 Simmons-Bennett, Adreonna Nicole, 057 Simmons-Thorne, Naomi, 157 Simms, Jill-Capri, 130 Simone, Tika, 266 Simpson, Gaynell, 196 Sims, Christopher, 180, 268 Sims-Alvarado, F. Karcheik, 095 Siracusa, Anthony C., 284 Sloboda, Agatha, 119 Smallwood, Arwin, 073, 280 Smith, Andrea L., 291 Smith, Darius Caleb, 273 Smith, Hampton, 228 Smith, Holly, 283 Smith, Jana, 009, 271 Smith, Joyya, 091, 254 Smith, Larissa Michele, 066, 121 Smith, Mark, 038 Smith, Robert, 142 Smith, Tanisha, 137, 162 Smith, Vern, 219 Smith, William J, 055 Sneed, Kymara, 020 Snipes, Pat, 138 Solutions, LLC, Seeking Insights for, 078 Soucek, Jonathan, 055 Soylu, Mary, 180 Spears, Alan, 044 Spears, Charles Alan, 089 Spence, Cynthia Neal, 097 Stanier, Will, 180 Stanley, Rosalind Caldwell, 268

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Thornton, Taylor Monet, 015 Threat, Charissa, 181 Tilghman, John, 151 Timmons, Shirley, 031, 052 Tinnie, Gene, 042 Tinnie, Wallis Hamm, 039 Tinson, Christopher, 068 Todd, Traci, 141 Todd-Breland, Elizabeth, 219, 245 Torres, Bianki, 237 Towns, Shaleace NIchelle, 076 Travers, Kimberley N, 098 Trawick-Junta, Jayden, 077 Treadwell, Aaron, 155 Trotter, Joe W., 083, 117, 186 Trout, Steven, 282 Turner, Crystasany R, 082 Turner, Lou, 278 Turnmire, Rebekah, 131

Tarik, Latif Ashanti, 277 Tate, R. Candy, 190 Taylor, Deitrah, 053, 096 Taylor, Dr. Maya, 034 Taylor, Kieran, 244 Taylor, Marquis, 062 Taylor, Terry, 072 Taylor, Ula Yvette, 088, 163 Teague, Janira, 283 Teasdell, Annette, 075 Terry, Scott, 211 Terry-Elliott, Jessica, 211 The University of Arizona, Department of Africana Studies, 076 Thiam, Amina, 104 Thomas, Brooke, 062 Thomas, Christina J, 153, 203 Thomas, Felicia Yvonne, 146 Thomas, IAsia, 226 Thomas, Loneise, 211 Thomas, Terrance, 206 Thomas, Tiffany Guillory, 271 Thomas McNair, Kimberly, 085 Thompson, Albert Russell, 057, 293 Thompson, Heather Ann, 232 Thompson, Tyechia, 018, 133 Thompson-Robinson, Melva, 027

Ulrich, Noah, 104 Ultra Omni, Victor, 028 Umoja, Akinyele, 107, 172, 232, 284 Umutoniwase, Brenda, 289 University Press, Louisiana State, 078 University Press, Vanderbilt, 078 University Press, Wayne State, 078 Veenhuis Barajas, Ethan, 210 Viglini, Nicole, 087 Vincent, Godfrey, 151 Vincent-Williams, Regina, 051 Virginia Press, University of, 078 Voltz, Noel, 125 Wald, Gayle, 141, 219 Walker, Sydney, 046 Wallace, Gwendolyn, 214 Wallace-Sanders, Kimberly, 005 Walters, Jacob R, 055 Walton, David Mathew, 003, 030, 057, 069, 243, 293, 296 Warrior, Destiny, 092 Webber, Randall, 096, 219 Welch, Bernetta DeNeice, 243 Wells, Ashley, 130 Wertheimer, Richard, 226 West, Tyanna, 168 Whitaker, Matthew C., 200 White, Chenita, 035 White, Deborah Gray, 182 White, Derrick E., 077, 183 White, Morgan, 018 White, Tara, 168, 188

Whiteside, Jamilah, 138 Wiggins, Tiffany, 082 Wiley, Amber, 086, 119, 219 Wilkerson, Theron, 162 Wilkins, David G., 158 Wilkins, Ebony, 158, 219 Wilkins, Lois B., 158 Wilkins, Paris, 138 Williams, Angelica, 180 Williams, Chad, 194 Williams, Cinnamon, 126 Williams, Doretha K., 171 Williams, Frederick, 014, 219 Williams, Ife, 187 Williams, Jeffery, 054 Williams, Jordan, 004 Williams, Naomi R., 070, 117, 186 Williams, Regina G, 082 Williams, Sade, 035 Williams, Shawn Lamar, 039 Williams, Stephanie, 101 Willis, Ajanae, 071 WIllis, Kiana, 122 Willis, Vincent D., 097 Wilmoth, Idalia, 135 Wilson, Carlton Eugene, 003, 030 Wilson, Tiana U, 225 Wimby, Monique, 160, 289 Winter, Alan, 219 Winters, Andrew, 248 Wise Whitehead, Karsonya, 003, 030, 045, 057, 090, 106, 108, 129, 156, 184, 185, 206, 219, 221, 243, 254, 275, 287, 296, 297 Withers, Trey, 139 Wood, Augustus, 003, 030, 057, 117, 156, 170, 186, 206, 219, 232, 234, 278 Woodfolk-Anthony, Kendra, 130, 154 Woodrum, Robert, 026 Woodson, Craig D., 004, 218 Woodson, Elizabeth, 004, 138 Wright, Kelechi, 096 Wright, Vanessa, 006 Wright-Greene, Jada, 090 Wyatt, Willie, 256 Wyatt Odem, Sharon, 074 Young, Courtney, 040 Young, Darius J, 099, 251 Young, Jarvis, 018 Young, Zoe, 073, 237, 280 Zehyoue, Elijah Robert, 193, 215 Zow, Ashton, 279

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SCHEDULE AT A GLANCE WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2025 8:00 a.m.

Conference Registration Redwood Pre-Function Area - M1 North Tower Registration Check-In

9:00 a.m.

Executive Council Private Work Session Birch - AV Atrium Level South Tower

10:15 a.m.

“Telling Our Own: Biography as a Tool of Black Historical Preservation. Part II.” Pine - AV Atrium Level South Tower Creating their Own Worlds: The Insurgent Education Practices of Black Girls’ and Women’s Clubs Spruce - AV Atrium Level South Tower Sankofa Chicago: The Labor of Teaching Truth in a Time of Erasure Maple A - AV Atrium Level South Tower Black Soccer in the United States: Diasporic Formations, Migrations, and Labors in the Twentieth Century Maple B - AV Atrium Level South Tower Bridging Generations—Engaging Gen Z in African American History Through Deliberative Forums Maple C- AV Atrium Level South Tower The Cultural Repatriation of Nineteen African Americans from Leipzig, Germany to New Orleans, Louisiana Oak- AV Lobby Level South Tower Learn it to the younguns: African American Male Academics Laboring for the Next Generation Dogwood A - AV M1 North Tower “The Right to Learn: Black Educational Struggles from SelfDirected Freedom to Systemic Fight” Dogwood B - AV M1 North Tower "Flipping the Script": How Black Families Use Homeschooling to Redefine Black Domesticity on Their Terms" Cottonwood A - AV M1 North Tower “Redefining the #BlackJob: Labor, Justice, and Legacy in African American Workspaces” Hickory-AV M3 North Tower

“Telling Our Own: Biography as a Tool of Black Historical Preservation. Part I.” Hazelnut - AV M3 North Tower Ready Set Revolution: Preparing for the Commemoration of America 250 in 2026 Int'l Ballroom B-AV - M2 North Tower Plenary Sessions From the Global to the Human Soul: Problems and Possibilities in Black Labor Int'l Ballroom C - AV - M2 North Tower Sessions

12:00 P.M. Reclaiming African Culinary Labor: Teaching African Heritage Cooking for Community Health and Empowerment Pine- AV Atrium Level South Tower The Griot Lives On: Black Storytelling, Memory, and Literary Lineage Spruce- AV Atrium Level South Tower Children of the Struggle: Tuskegee, Black Intra-South Migration, and the Civil Rights Generation Maple A-AV Atrium Level South Tower Commemorating the 110th anniversary of the Fort Valley Ham and Egg Show, 1916-2026 Maple B- AV Atrium Level South Tower Empowering the Uncertified: Black Women’s Grassroots Teacher Training and Leadership Maple C- AV Atrium Level South Tower In Protest and Practice: Black Labor in the Fight for Health Justice Oak - AV Lobby Level South Tower Mediating Black Labor: Grassroots Organizing, the Nonprofit Sector, and the Politics of Reform Dogwood A - AV M1 North Tower Was racial slavery illegal under English law?

Dogwood B - AV M1 North Tower Social Media and Black Ingenuity Cottonwood A - AV M1 North Tower “Beneath the Magnolia: Black Lives, Labor, and Pollution in the Southern Landscape” Hazelnut - AV M3 North Tower

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Health Gaps and Roadblocks: How Racism, COVID-19, Historical Mental-Health Disparities, and New Policy Shifts Are Shaping Nursing, Public Health, and Teaching the Next Generation Hickory-AV M3 North Tower The Many Meanings of Labor: Anarchist, Social, and Reproductive (1879-1990) Int'l Ballroom B-AV - M2 North Tower Plenary Sessions

The Labor of Storytelling: How Black Narratives Shape Public Policy and Economic Power Hazelnut - AV M3 North Tower African Roots/American Fruits: Re-Presenting the Middle Passage’s Empowering Legacy Int'l Ballroom B-AV - M2 North Tower Plenary Sessions Roundtable — 'Race, Labor, and Wars at Home' Int'l Ballroom C- AV - M2 North Tower Sessions

Worldmaking Across Centuries Int'l Ballroom C- AV - M2 North Tower Sessions

4:00 p.m.

1:30 p.m.

“The Fire Now! How Budgets and Policies are Undermining Preservation of the African American Experience Int'l Ballroom B-AV - M2 North Tower Plenary Sessions

Executive Council Meeting Birch - AV Atrium Level South Tower

6:00 p.m.

2:15 p.m.

“Tides, Mines, and Assembly Lines: The Journey of Black Labor in Shaping Economic Landscapes” Pine - AV Atrium Level South Tower Teacher Development Workshop with Arts-Based Learning Spruce - AV Atrium Level South Tower Leadership, Labor, and Legacy: Lessons from The Owl and the Great Tree for Community Resilience Maple A - AV Atrium Level South Tower Intergenerational Algorithms and Critical Conversations Maple B - AV Atrium Level South Tower Black Imprints and Speculative Visions: Labor, Memory, and Representation in Visual and Print Culture Maple C - AV Atrium Level South Tower A Hine-Horne Book Roundtable: Stefan Bradley's If We Don't Get It: A People's History of Ferguson Oak - AV Lobby Level South Tower Ori at Work: African Spiritual Technologies of Black Labor, Resistance, and Resilience Dogwood A- AV M1 North Tower “Verse as Vessel: Black Poetic Labor, Memory, and Liberation” Dogwood B- AV M1 North Tower

Opening Reception Int'l Ballroom D- M2 North Tower Meal Functions

7:00 p.m.

Oral History Research: Black Women and NCCU Alumna Pine - AV Atrium Level South Tower UMBC Graduate Student Panel on Black Politics Spruce - AV Atrium Level South Tower “Zavobe Oyen’ike” (The Wise Womb Deserves Honor and Care) Maple B - AV Atrium Level South Tower “We All We Got”: Exploring Black Radical Tradition through Black Educational Excellence and Media Culture at Dr. Carter Woodson Academy Maple C - AV Atrium Level South Tower Hidden Histories: African American Hidden Histories: Prisons, Circuses, Magic, and Extraterrestrials Oak- AV Lobby Level South Tower Pushed, Policed, and Professional: Black Women Navigating Labor from Slavery to STEM Dogwood A- AV M1 North Tower “Keeping the Culture, Healing the People: Black Labor and the Architecture of Health” Dogwood B- AV M1 North Tower

“The Burden of Exceeding Expectations: Black Labor, Emotional Toll, and Community Resilience” Cottonwood A- AV M1 North Tower

The Perfect Gift Cottonwood A- AV M1 North Tower

Black History, Black Studies, and Afrofuturism Hickory - AV M3 North Tower

“Defining the Frame: Black Manhood, Media, and the Struggle for Recognition” Hazelnut- AV M3 North Tower

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“Leading the Game: Black Leadership in Sports, Politics, and Intellectual Life” Int'l Ballroom B-AV - M2 North Tower Plenary Sessions

“Prepared to Lead: Black Power, Community Struggle, and the Infrastructure of Liberation” Dogwood B - AV M1 North Tower

The Centennial State and Black Coloradans Int'l Ballroom C- AV - M2 North Tower Sessions

Student HBCU Archival Research Cottonwood A - AV M1 North Tower

8:30 p.m.

A Hine-Horne Book Roundtable: Ashley Howard's Midwest Unrest: 1960s Urban Rebellions and the Black Freedom Movement Int'l Ballroom A- AV M2 North Tower (Presidential Sessions)

Academic Program Committee Meeting Spruce- AV Atrium Level South Tower

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2025 7:00 A.M. Conference Registration Redwood Pre-Function Area- M1 North Tower Registration Check-In

7:30 A.M. Atlanta Heritage Bus Tour Motor Lobby - Tour Bus Loading Area South Tower

8:30 A.M. Anti-Racism: Five Years after George Floyd and Breonna Taylor Birch - AV Atrium Level South Tower Intersectional Ideas and Third World Consciousness, 19001990 Pine - AV Atrium Level South Tower From Periphery to Center: New Directions in Black Greek Letter Organization History Spruce - AV Atrium Level South Tower The Origin, Evolution and Impact of the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA) Local 1414 in Savannah Maple A-AV Atrium Level South Tower Architecture, Activism, and the Black Urban Experience: Struggles for Space and Survival Maple B - AV Atrium Level South Tower The Statue of Liberty is Black: Perspectives from a Volatile Research Project Maple C - AV Atrium Level South Tower Teaching the History of the Civil Rights Movement: Reflections on Two Decades NEH Summer Institutes Oak - AV Lobby Level South Tower Remembering and Memorializing Black Labor: Public History as Preservation and Policy-Making Dogwood A - AV M1 North Tower

“Dignity in the Dust: Global Black Labor at the Crossroads of Empire and Industry” Juniper - AV M2 North Tower TITAN: The Legacy of Reginald F. Lewis..."Why should white guys have all the fun?"

Cypress - M2 North Tower Documenting African American Life in Indian Woods, North Carolina Sycamore - M2 North Tower Forged in Steel: African American Lives in Chicago’s Calumet Region Hazelnut - AV M3 North Tower Telling Our Stories: Expanding the Narrative on Inclusive Education At Home and Abroad Hickory - AV M3 North Tower Woodson Lightning Round Session #1 Int'l Ballroom B-AV - M2 North Tower Plenary Sessions Echoes of the City: Race, Popular Culture, and Urban Space in 20th Century America Int'l Ballroom C-AV - M2 North Tower Sessions

9:00 A.M. Thursday Int'l Ballroom EF Exhibits Int'l Ballroom EF- M2 North Tower

9:30 A.M. 10.000 Black Men Named George (2002), Dir: Robert Townsend Magnolia - AV M2 North Tower

10:15 A.M. "Having Our Own Backs": The Past and Present State of Black Self- and Community Defense Birch - AV Atrium Level South Tower ACLS Key Session Placeholder Pine - AV Atrium Level South Tower

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Black Motherscholarship Within and Beyond the Academy: Reconceptualizing Radical Futurity Spruce- AV Atrium Level South Tower

Scholars Transforming the Academy: Histories Created, Reimagined, and Retold Int'l Ballroom C- AV - M2 North Tower Sessions

Carter Woodson and the Centrality of Black Labor for the Founders of African American Social Science Maple A - AV Atrium Level South Tower

12:00 P.M.

Author Meets Engaged Readers: Quito Swan's "Born a Sufferah Dancehall Music's Insurgent Soundscapes" Maple B - AV Atrium Level South Tower Death and Grief Among Black Communities Maple C - AV Atrium Level South Tower Scholars’ Roundtable: Black Public High Schools, 1870-1970 Oak - AV Lobby Level South Tower Black Narratives of Self-Determination in NineteenthCentury Mississippi Dogwood A - AV M1 North Tower Building Harlem's Global World: Lessons from Hubert Harrison and the Women of Universal Negro Improvement Association Dogwood B - AV M1 North Tower Standing Up Pullman: Teaching Authentic Coalition Building to Preserve Black and Labor Histories Cottonwood A - AV M1 North Tower Reportback on ASALH 2025 Freedom Schools Int'l Ballroom A- AV M2 North Tower (Presidential Sessions) Black Power Black Poison: The Southern Plantation, Foreign-Born Black Movement of the Great Migration, Labor Stress and Burnout Juniper- AV M2 North Tower From Strike to Strategy: Using History Habits of Mind to Examine Black Labor Organizing Cypress- M2 North Tower When They Dare to Be Powerful: The Legacy of Black Women in Librarianship Sycamore- M2 North Tower Bringing Economic Agency to Black Atlanta: The Legacy of the Herndons and Black Economics in Atlanta,1867-1877 Hickory-AV M3 North Tower Telling Our Stories: The National Park Service and ASALH Advancing African American Civil Rights History Hazelnut- AV M3 North Tower Woodson Lightning Round #2 Int'l Ballroom B-AV - M2 North Tower Plenary Sessions

"I Have Been Treated As If I were Not a Man:" Exploring the Post-Bellum State Colored Conventions Maple B- AV Atrium Level South Tower Emmett J. Scott: “The only man who could walk on snow without leaving footprints” Oak- AV Lobby Level South Tower The Montpelier Descendants Committee (MDC): An International Model for Descendant-led History-Telling and Academic Research Focused on Black Intelligentsia Dogwood B- AV M1 North Tower Book Publishing 101 Cottonwood A- AV M1 North Tower A Labor of Love: New Perspectives on the History of Black Teachers from Jim Crow through School Desegregation Int'l Ballroom A- AV M2 North Tower (Presidential Sessions) (Re)Defining American Greatness: An Interdisciplinary Analysis of the U.S. Past, Present, and Afro-Futurism Juniper- AV M2 North Tower Graduate Student Trends in African American History: Black Labor Narratives in Maryland Hazelnut- AV M3 North Tower The Roads We've Traveled History Project and Other Tools for Branch Fundraising Hickory-AV M3 North Tower Thursday Luncheon Int'l Ballroom D- M2 North Tower Meal Functions

2:15 P.M. Towards a Theory of Liberation: The State of Black Radicalism Today Int'l Ballroom B-AV - M2 North Tower Plenary Sessions

3:00 P.M. Fourth Convening and Live Radio Broadcast- "Today with Dr. Kaye" Dogwood A- AV M1 North Tower

3:50 P.M. The Pruitt-Igoe Myth (2011), Dir. Chad Freidrichs Magnolia- AV M2 North Tower

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4:00 P.M. New Perspectives and Expanded Histories of African Americans in the Lowcountry and Caribbean pre-1875 Birch- AV Atrium Level South Tower A Hine-Horne Book Roundtable: Colonel Edna Cumming's A Soldier's Life: A Black Woman's Rise from Army Brat to Six Triple Eight Champion Pine- AV Atrium Level South Tower The Unrelenting Labor of Black Journalists, Fancy Girls, Opera Singers, and Wrestlers in Dangerous Times Spruce- AV Atrium Level South Tower Sustaining Black Archives Maple A-AV Atrium Level South Tower Something Old, Something New: The Criminal Enslavement of 500,000 Black Colonials and Afrofuturism in the 21st Century Maple B - AV Atrium Level South Tower A Litany of Labor: The Soundtrack of Black Musical Innovation and Intellectual Resistance Maple C - AV Atrium Level South Tower Mary Frances Early and Myra Elliott: The Fight to End Segregation in Higher Education in Georgia Oak - AV Lobby Level South Tower New Books on African Americans and Labor Dogwood B - AV M1 North Tower Race, Work, Community, and Resistance: Black People at Work, In Service, and Resisting Cottonwood A - AV M1 North Tower

Anti-Blackness and Passing: Biracial/Mixed Race Identity and the Black Community in the 21st Century Int'l Ballroom B-AV - M2 North Tower Plenary Sessions Ar’n’t I a Woman? : Reflections on Black Women’s Lives and Labors After Forty Years Int'l Ballroom C - AV - M2 North Tower Sessions

6:00 P.M. Thursday Night Out Bus Load Motor Lobby - Tour Bus Loading Area South Tower

6:15 P.M. Booker’s Place: A Mississippi Story (2012), Dir. Raymond De Felitta Magnolia- AV M2 North Tower

6:30 P.M. Thursday Night Out & Journal Of African American History Reception University Student Center

7:00 P.M. “Politics, Preaching, and the Future of Black Faith: Reimagining Labor and Leadership in the Black Church” Birch - AV Atrium Level South Tower Where Do We Go From Here? Lessons Learned and Strategies for Teaching, Researching, and Preserving Civil Rights History Pine - AV Atrium Level South Tower Seeking and Finding Power in Protest, Land, and Beauty Spruce - AV Atrium Level South Tower

Community Forum: Black Public High Schools, 1870-1970 Int'l Ballroom A - AV M2 North Tower (Presidential Sessions)

"James A. Emanuel: A Poet in Exile" Film Maple A-AV Atrium Level South Tower

Teaching as Technology in the Age of AI Juniper - AV M2 North Tower

“Inheriting the Struggle: Black Youth, Kinship, and the Labors of Survival” Maple B- AV Atrium Level South Tower

Rehabilitating Historic African American Schools Cypress - M2 North Tower Ink and Action: Six Black Feminist Voices of The_Collective Rewriting the World Sycamore - M2 North Tower Facilitating Health Equity Dialogues: Using Theater to Transform Communities Hickory-AV M3 North Tower Harnessing the Maternal: Black Women, Reproductive Labor, and Activism Hazelnut- AV M3 North Tower

“Innovating History: Black Religiosity, Cultural Spaces, and the Power of Preservation” Maple C- AV Atrium Level South Tower “Modern by Design: Black Innovation, Resistance, and Leadership in the Digital Age” Dogwood A- AV M1 North Tower “Fighting for the Block: Black Community Formation, Culture, and Collective Power” Int'l Ballroom A- AV M2 North Tower (Presidential Sessions)

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“Reclaiming the Narrative: The Urgent Necessity of Black History in Education and Justice” Cypress- M2 North Tower

Black Women, Education, and the Radical Work of Citizenship in the Rural American South Oak - AV Lobby Level South Tower

Reckoning with the History of Philanthropic Institutions: A Case Study of What is Owed to Black Communities Sycamore- M2 North Tower

Black Women’s Work: Understanding Local Organizing Traditions Within the Civil Rights Movement Dogwood A- AV M1 North Tower

Cultural Productions, Black Audiences, and Mass Media: Interrogating Narratives and Amplifying Voices Hazelnut- AV M3 North Tower The Legacy of Ella Jenkins, the First Lady of Children's Music Hickory-AV M3 North Tower "54 Miles to Home" & "African History in Lisbon, Portugal" Int'l Ballroom B-AV - M2 North Tower Plenary Sessions

8:30 P.M. Killer of Sheep (1978), Dir. Charles Burnett Magnolia- AV M2 North Tower

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2025 7:00 A.M. Conference Registration Redwood Pre-Function Area- M1 North Tower Registration Check-In

8:00 A.M.

“Allied Forces: Black Women, Global Labor, and the Politics of Military Equity” Dogwood B- AV M1 North Tower Black Expression as Resistance: Art, Faith, and Activism in the 20th Century Cottonwood A- AV M1 North Tower 2026 Conference Planning Meeting Int'l Ballroom A- AV M2 North Tower (Presidential Sessions) “Stolen Futures: Reproductive Labor, Separation, and the Business of Slavery” Juniper- AV M2 North Tower Documenting Family Stories: A Hands-On Workshop for Preserving Black Heritage Cypress - M2 North Tower Limitation to Liberation: Activating the Power Within Sycamore - M2 North Tower “Nations Within Nations: Diasporic Memory and the Politics of Pan-African Belonging” Hazelnut - AV M3 North Tower

Friday Int'l Ballroom EF Exhibits Int'l Ballroom EF- M2 North Tower

8:30 A.M. “A Woman’s Work is Never Done”: Gender, Labor, & Justice in the Atlantic World in the 17th, 18th, & 19th Centuries Birch- AV Atrium Level South Tower

Preserving Civil Rights in Uncertain Times: Partnerships, Programming, and Promotion through ASALH Hickory - AV M3 North Tower

The Cost of Labor, The Fight for Justice: Perspectives on the 2024 US Presidential Campaign Pine- AV Atrium Level South Tower

“Roots and Rivers: Black Ecologies of Healing, Justice, and Environmental Vision” Int'l Ballroom B-AV - M2 North Tower Plenary Sessions

Afro-Latinx History and the Black Caribbean Spruce- AV Atrium Level South Tower

The Life and Legacy of Robert L. Allen Int'l Ballroom C- AV - M2 North Tower Sessions

Through Their Eyes: Stories of Anti-Blackness Maple A-AV Atrium Level South Tower

9:00 A.M.

Association of Black Women Historians Annual Business Meeting Maple B- AV Atrium Level South Tower Black Working Class Struggles Against Neoliberalism In the African Diaspora Maple C- AV Atrium Level South Tower

Sorry to Bother You (2012), Dir. Boots Riley Magnolia- AV M2 North Tower

10:15 A.M. State of African American Historical and Cultural Preservation: Charting a Collective Defense Pine- AV Atrium Level South Tower

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Workforce and Human Resource Development (HRD): Stolen Black Labor in the Age of AI Spruce- AV Atrium Level South Tower

Liberation and Education: Perspectives on Black Educational Thought Hickory - AV M3 North Tower

New Jersey Reparations Council Maple A - AV Atrium Level South Tower

Poster Session Int'l Ballroom Foyer- M2 North Tower

“Black Public Histories of the Lower Cape Fear (North Carolina)” Maple B - AV Atrium Level South Tower “From Soul to Stage: Black Cultural Power, Performance, and the Politics of Healing” Maple C - AV Atrium Level South Tower A Discussion on the History of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee's Freedom Schools with Charles Cobb, Jr. Oak - AV Lobby Level South Tower Black Memory in the Digital Age: Preserving, Curating and Making Accessible African American Archives through Digital Collections Dogwood A - AV M1 North Tower Crusaders for Justice: Robert & Mabel Williams' Memoirs and Their Value for the Twenty-First Century Dogwood B- AV M1 North Tower Theory Thursdays - Political Education to Challenge AntiAfrikan Disinformation Cottonwood A- AV M1 North Tower "Participating in the Legacy of Carter G. Woodson: The Significance of Publishing in The Journal of African American History."

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The ABWH Booklist: A Discussion of Black Women's Historiography Int'l Ballroom B-AV - M2 North Tower Plenary Sessions Toward Black Healing: The Uses of Autobiography and Biography in Finding Wellness Int'l Ballroom C- AV - M2 North Tower Sessions

12:00 P.M. Issues in Social Justice and Sports Through the Lens of College Football Oak - AV Lobby Level South Tower Framing The "Freedom Season": A Meditation on 1963 Int'l Ballroom C- AV - M2 North Tower Sessions John Blassingame Luncheon Int'l Ballroom D- M2 North Tower Meal Functions

2:15 P.M. The Legacy and Scholarship of Joe William Trotter, Jr. Int'l Ballroom B-AV - M2 North Tower Plenary Sessions

4:00 P.M. Teaching, Torture, and Terror: Black Bodies Under Siege in Historical Context Birch - AV Atrium Level South Tower We Live in Pictures & Words: Finding the Labors of Black Women in Non-Traditional Archives Pine - AV Atrium Level South Tower

Black Military Service in the Twentieth Century: Race, Remembrance, and Resistance Juniper- AV M2 North Tower

The Town That Freedom Built: Black Labor, Black Townships, and Afrofuturist Imaginaries Spruce - AV Atrium Level South Tower

Averting the White Gaze: Black Students’ Narratives and Counter-Narratives as Paths to Liberation Cypress - M2 North Tower

Chattahoochee Brick Company & Conviction Leasing: A Community's Memorial Project Maple A - AV Atrium Level South Tower

The Civil War and the Black Past: An African American Intellectual History Roundtable Sycamore - M2 North Tower

Mobility, Opportunity, and Choice: A Black Family's Journeys to Oberlin, Canada, Kansas City, and California Maple B - AV Atrium Level South Tower

Cornelius Henderson "Hidden Figure": Chief Structural Engineer the Ambassador Bridge and the Detroit –Windsor Tunnel Hazelnut- AV M3 North Tower

Black Strategic Mothering and (Re)productive Labor in the Afterlives of Slavery Maple C - AV Atrium Level South Tower

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Sovereignty in Black: Atlantic Africans and the Quest for Freedom Oak - AV Lobby Level South Tower

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Black Studies in a Dark Conjuncture Dogwood A - AV M1 North Tower

Assault on the 14th: The Challenge for Freedom & Slam Buffalo: Inside the Njozi Petry Slam Experience: Documentaries Birch - AV Atrium Level South Tower

Holding Aloft Vistas of Purple and Gold: Writing the History of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Dogwood B - AV M1 North Tower

“Gentility, Labor, and Reality: Unpacking Black Immigrant Experiences in Twentieth-Century America” Pine - AV Atrium Level South Tower

Safety Net Experiences among Family Safety Nets: Social Welfare Policies and Social Support Among African American Grandmothers Raising Their Grandchildren Cottonwood A - AV M1 North Tower

Information Professionals of ASALH (IP of ASALH) Meeting and Are You A Librarian? The Untold Story of Black Librarians Spruce - AV Atrium Level South Tower

Howard Mellon Workshop: Social Justice and Labor Int'l Ballroom A - AV M2 North Tower (Presidential Sessions)

Stories Yet Untold: Biography As a Vehicle for Excavating New Histories, Methods, Possibilities in Black Women’s History.

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Clara’s Fruit (2025), Dir. Matthew Morgan; Hollywood Shuffle (1987), Dir. Robert Townsend Magnolia - AV M2 North Tower Africana Studies and Digital, Public, and Environmental Humanities at UNF, Part I Juniper - AV M2 North Tower Fruits of our Labor: Black Arizonans Built The American Southwest Cypress - M2 North Tower “Until it is Faced”: Using Primary Sources to Tell the Story of Civil Rights in Mississippi Sycamore - M2 North Tower A Labor of Freedom, Then and Now with the Movement History Initiative Hickory - AV M3 North Tower Book Roundtable: Mary Phillips, Black Panther Woman: The Political and Spiritual Life of Ericka Huggins Hazelnut - AV M3 North Tower The Burdens and Benefits of Black Women's Labor as Activism Int'l Ballroom B-AV - M2 North Tower Plenary Sessions A Hine-Horne Book Roundtable: Peniel Joseph's Freedom Season: How 1963 Transformed America's Civil Rights Revolution Int'l Ballroom C- AV - M2 North Tower Sessions

6:15 P.M. Kufundisha: A Framework for ASALH Freedom Schools Int'l Ballroom A- AV M2 North Tower (Presidential Sessions)

“Reclaiming Roots and Resistance: New Interventions in African American Popular History” Maple B- AV Atrium Level South Tower New Directions in the African Diaspora Maple C - AV Atrium Level South Tower “Together We Can!” Reinforcing the Legacy of Black STEM Identities through Community Cultural Wealth and Culturally Relevant Pedagogy.

Oak - AV Lobby Level South Tower Energy, Climate, & Insurgent Ecologies: New Directions in Black Environmental History Dogwood A - AV M1 North Tower Black Transnational Histories: Visions of Liberia, Echoes across the Atlantic Dogwood B - AV M1 North Tower African American History & Hair-tage: The Struggle for Natural Cultural Expression Cottonwood A - AV M1 North Tower “Somebody Take Me!” Labor and Other Themes in Ryan Coogler’s Sinners Juniper- AV M2 North Tower Make a Simple Frame Version of the Ghanaian Talking Drum, the Dondo Cypress- M2 North Tower Authors Book Signing Int'l Ballroom Foyer- M2 North Tower

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7:30 P.M. Union (2024) (With Guest Chris Smalls), Dirs. Brett Story, Stephen T. Maing Magnolia- AV M2 North Tower

8:00 P.M. Friday Reception Int'l Ballroom D- M2 North Tower Meal Functions

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2025 7:30 A.M. Conference Registration Redwood Pre-Function Area- M1 North Tower Registration Check-In

8:00 A.M. Saturday Int'l Ballroom EF Exhibits Int'l Ballroom EF- M2 North Tower

8:30 A.M. The Continent and the Diaspora since 1994 Birch - AV Atrium Level South Tower

A Hine-Horne Book Roundtable: Augustus Wood's Class Warfare in Black Atlanta: Grassroots Struggles, Power, and Repression Under Gentrification Dogwood B - AV M1 North Tower African Americans and Labor: The Legacy of Work and Social Justice Cottonwood A - AV M1 North Tower Advancing Black Strategists Initiative Session Int'l Ballroom A- AV M2 North Tower (Presidential Sessions) Africana Studies and Digital, Public, and Environmental Humanities at UNF, Part II Juniper - AV M2 North Tower Finding Our Voice: The Family Circle of Arlington House Cypress - M2 North Tower "Sounds of Blackness: Music, Memory, and Labor in the Making of Popular Culture” Sycamore- M2 North Tower “There Is Always Work to Do”: Black Women and the Making of the Black South Chestnut- M3 North Tower

Everyday Struggles, Everyday Resistance: The Labor of Black Feminist Organizing in the 1960s and 1970s Pine - AV Atrium Level South Tower

Hidden Figures in Plain Sight: Black Women in the Professions of Television News, Sportswriting and Foreign Service Hickory-AV M3 North Tower

Building on Strong Legacies: The Ancestral Throughline of Black Education Activism in Pittsburgh Spruce- AV Atrium Level South Tower

“Keepers and Creators: Archiving Black Womanhood Through Story, Spirit, and Survival” Hazelnut- AV M3 North Tower

“Debilitated by Design: Race, Gender, and the Machinery of Incarceration” Maple A - AV Atrium Level South Tower

The Black Church, Inkster Project, UAW, Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP) and Henry Ford Int'l Ballroom C- AV - M2 North Tower Sessions

Freedom Making: Black Literary and Material Cultures in Early America Maple B - AV Atrium Level South Tower "Reveal The Beauty": The Literature and Art of the Harlem Renaissance Maple C - AV Atrium Level South Tower Reese Street in Athens, Georgia: An African American Neighborhood’s Fight to Retain Community and Identity Oak - AV Lobby Level South Tower “Libraries, Mergers, and Memory: Uncovering Untold Civil Rights Histories” Dogwood A - AV M1 North Tower

9:00 A.M. Ava Greenwell Film Festival: Hearing Silences: 50 Years of Black Women Faculty at Northwestern University (2025) & Mandela in Chicago (2021) Magnolia - AV M2 North Tower Branch Meeting & ASALH Member Remembrance Ceremony Int'l Ballroom B - AV - M2 North Tower Plenary Sessions

10:15 A.M. Black Power on the Docks: Charleston's International Longshoremen's Union Birch - AV Atrium Level South Tower Black Public Workers and the Dignity of Labor Pine - AV Atrium Level South Tower

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A Decade of Black Erasure: Social Media since 2015 Spruce - AV Atrium Level South Tower Findings and Implications from the National Survey on Black History Month Programming in Public Libraries Maple A-AV Atrium Level South Tower From Absence to Action: Black Craftspeople, Public History, and the Power of Collaboration Maple B - AV Atrium Level South Tower Reworking Black Archives: History, Method, and Memory in African American Life Maple C - AV Atrium Level South Tower

Toolkit Workshop on the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC): the Organizing Tradition and Freedom Teaching Hazelnut - AV M3 North Tower Transnational Transactions: Labor Dynamics in the Early 20th Century Circum-Caribbean Int'l Ballroom C- AV - M2 North Tower Sessions

11:00 A.M. The Killing Floor (1984); Dir. Bill Duke Magnolia- AV M2 North Tower

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Black Internationalism and US Imperialism during the Cold War Oak- AV Lobby Level South Tower

Preserving Historic Black Communities Birch - AV Atrium Level South Tower

Our Black Shining Prince: Malcolm X at 100 Dogwood A- AV M1 North Tower

Schooling the Empire: Global Histories of African American Education Spruce - AV Atrium Level South Tower

1776 and the Revolt Against British Rule Dogwood B- AV M1 North Tower Mastering Media as a Black Scholar Cottonwood A- AV M1 North Tower Amplifying the Voices of Generation Next, Promoting the Future of ASALH Int'l Ballroom A- AV M2 North Tower (Presidential Sessions) Hubert Harrison: Forbidden Genius of Black Radicalism Juniper - AV M2 North Tower Untold Stories and Living Legacies of Affirmative Action: Commemorating Arthur Fletcher - "Father of Affirmative Action" Cypress - M2 North Tower Emotional Eating as Labor: Rewriting the Narrative for Healing and Resilience Sycamore - M2 North Tower A Pipeline Of Black History Connecting Alaska and Oklahoma: A Roundtable Discussion Sponsored By The 400 Years of African American History Commission Chestnut - M3 North Tower New Cultural, Political, and Intellectual Histories of HBCUs: A Book Conversation between Crystal R. Sanders and Jarvis C. McInnis Hickory - AV M3 North Tower

“Sis, That’s Not Your Job": Building Boundaries to Break Burnout” Maple B - AV Atrium Level South Tower Sound, Story, and Black Rest: A Healing Workshop on Wellness as Resistance Maple C - AV Atrium Level South Tower The Corporate Equity Center: Leveraging the Power of Place and History to Combat Racial Bias and Drive Change Oak - AV Lobby Level South Tower “The Labor of Healing: Collective Memory, Movement, and Care in Black Communities” Dogwood B- AV M1 North Tower Integrating Black Psychology and Black History Consciousness to Foster Professional Socialization among Black Graduate Students Int'l Ballroom A- AV M2 North Tower (Presidential Sessions) Broaching Burroughs: New Insights into the Organizing and Legacies of Nannie Helen Burroughs Juniper - AV M2 North Tower Laboring and Labor Pangs: Forging the Culture of South Louisiana Cypress - M2 North Tower The Fabric of Freedom: Black Women's Political Labor in Everyday Life Sycamore - M2 North Tower

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“Grit and the Ground We Stand On: Histories of Black Working-Class Resistance” Chestnut - M3 North Tower Fugitive Pedagogy in the Era of Project 2025: Faculty Guide for Resistance in Higher Education Int'l Ballroom C- AV - M2 North Tower Sessions "An Unusual Emphasis on Scholarship: Carter G. Woodson.

Omega Psi Phi, and the Power of Black History."

Int'l Ballroom D - M2 North Tower Meal Functions

2:00 P.M. Black Radical Labor Festival: Finally Got the News! (1970), League of Revolutionary Black Workers & Wildcat At Mead (1972), The October League Magnolia - AV M2 North Tower

2:15 P.M. Global Ties, Radical Struggles: Pan-Africanism, Labor, and Anti-Imperialism in the 20th Century Birch - AV Atrium Level South Tower “Radical Dreams, Revolutionary Labors: Black Struggle and the Politics of Freedom” Pine - AV Atrium Level South Tower Labor of Love: The 1967 Legacy Program at the College of Charleston and Study Abroad Spruce - AV Atrium Level South Tower

#SayHerName: Black Women's Stories of Police Violence and Public Silence. Kimberlé Crenshaw and the Say Her Name Mothers Network.

Int'l Ballroom A- AV M2 North Tower (Presidential Sessions) Setting the Record Straight: Black Activism, Labor, and Communication in the Civil Rights and Cold War Eras" Juniper- AV M2 North Tower The Stakes Of Black Study: The Politics, Premises, People, and Possibilities Cypress- M2 North Tower Labor History Meets Black History: A Conversation Between ASALH and LAWCHA Sycamore - M2 North Tower Unpacking the Homecoming Chestnut- M3 North Tower Black Conservative Thought and Black Ethnocentrism Hickory-AV M3 North Tower Honoring Black Life - New Histories of Policing, and Police Brutality Hazelnut- AV M3 North Tower Radical Black Organizing for Liberation in the face of MAGA's Project 2025 Repression Int'l Ballroom B-AV - M2 North Tower Plenary Sessions

Indian Woods, North Carolina: Reclaiming Community History through US Census Data Maple A - AV Atrium Level South Tower

A Hine-Horne Book Roundtable: Crystal Sanders' A Forgotten Migration: Black Southerners, Segregation Scholarships, and the Debt Owed to Public HBCUs Int'l Ballroom C- AV - M2 North Tower Sessions

The Politics of Black Femininity in the Twenty-First Century Maple B - AV Atrium Level South Tower

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Launching the new Journal of Black Military Studies Maple C - AV Atrium Level South Tower Fostering Fresh Perspectives on African Americans’ Labor, Leadership, & Activism: Twentieth-Century Black Women’s History & the Archive Oak - AV Lobby Level South Tower Violence and Nonviolence in African American History Dogwood A- AV M1 North Tower Moving On Up: Black Women Navigate New Professional Worlds in Desegregated America from the 1960s to the Present Dogwood B- AV M1 North Tower Art as Communal Praxis: Black Women’s Visual Ecosystems in Atlanta Cottonwood A- AV M1 North Tower

Annual Business Meeting Int'l Ballroom B-AV - M2 North Tower Plenary Sessions

7:30 P.M. ASALH Annual Awards Banquet Int'l Ballroom D- M2 North Tower Meal Functions

8:00 P.M. Fannie Lou Hamer’s America (2022), Dir. Joy Elaine Davenport Magnolia - AV M2 North Tower

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2025 8:30 A.M. Post-Conference African American Heritage Bus Tour Motor Lobby - Tour Bus Loading Area South Tower

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Check-In

RegistrationRedwood Pre-Function Area- M1 North Tower Registration CONFERENCE REGISTRATION. 9:00am

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9:00 am to 12:30 pm

Meeting

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EXECUTIVE COUNCIL PRIVATE WORK SESSION. Participant: Deirdre Foreman, Carter G. Woodson Branch of ASALH Aaisha Haykal, Charleston Area Branch ASALH Walter J Lanier, African American Leadership Alliance Milwaukee James Morgan, Morgan State University Denise Rolark Barnes, The Washington Informer Newspaper David Mathew Walton Natanya P. Duncan, Queens College City University of New York Aisha M. Johnson Lionel Kimble, Jr., Organizing ASALH George Cleveland Hall Branch Tomiko Michelle Meeks, Howard University Daryl Michael Scott, Godwin House Publishers Augustus Wood, Chair of the Academic Program Committee John E. Adams John H. Ashley, Bethel Dukes Branch of ASALH Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua Kimberly Jeffries Leonard Zebulon Vance Miletsky, Manhattan Branch of ASALH Crystal Moten, Obama Foundation Chadra Dalan Pittman Crystal R. Sanders, Dr. Edna McKenzie Branch of ASALH Camesha Scruggs, Central Connecticut State University Anita M. Shepherd, James Weldon Johnson Branch of ASALH Jacksonville, FL Karsonya Wise Whitehead, Loyola University-Department of Communication Carlton Eugene Wilson, North Carolina Central University Sylvia Y. Cyrus, ASALH Executive Director 10:15am 004.

10:15 am to 11:45 am

Paper Session

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“TELLING OUR OWN: BIOGRAPHY AS A TOOL OF BLACK HISTORICAL PRESERVATION. PART II..”

Chair: Loron Benton, University of South Carolina Participants: Woodson Family Truth-Telling: A Labor of Love, Repair and Modeling. Craig D. Woodson; Elizabeth Woodson, Reckon With Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune and Her Impact on the Social Clubs of Her Era. Evelyn Bethune, Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune Family Legacy Inc W.E.B. Du Bois, American Sociology, and the Sociological Canon. Jordan Williams He Came to Lend Support. Rosalie Fawkes, Fawkes Digital Library and Archives

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10:15 am to 11:45 am

Panel Session

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CREATING THEIR OWN WORLDS: THE INSURGENT EDUCATION PRACTICES OF BLACK GIRLS’ AND WOMEN’S CLUBS. Chair: Treva Lindsey, The Ohio State University Participants: Creating Safe Spaces and Resisting Erasure: Named Memorials in the Jim Crow Era. Alexandria Russell For Phillis and Clarissa: Girls’ Work and the Early Civil Rights Activism of Washington, D.C.’s Phyllis Wheatley YWCA. Miya Carey-Agyemang Sustaining a Movement: Naming, Celebrity, and Longevity in Black Girls’ and Women’s Clubs. Alison M. Parker, University of Delaware Commentator: Kimberly Wallace-Sanders 006.

10:15 am to 11:45 am

Media Session

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SANKOFA CHICAGO: THE LABOR OF TEACHING TRUTH IN A TIME OF ERASURE. Presenter: Vanessa Wright, Tellers Untold LLC Moderator: Vanessa Wright, Tellers Untold LLC Commentator: Vanessa Wright, Tellers Untold LLC 007.

10:15 am to 11:45 am

Panel Session

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BLACK SOCCER IN THE UNITED STATES: DIASPORIC FORMATIONS, MIGRATIONS, AND LABORS IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. Chair: Jermaine Scott, Florida Atlanta University Participants: Soccer in the Chocolate City: Lincoln Phillips and the Diasporic Formation of the Washington Darts. Jermaine Scott, Florida Atlanta University David Julio, Football, Migration, and Black South African Identity. Sean Jacobs, The New School Trailblazer: Gil Heron and Black soccer in the Midwest USA. Chuck Carlson, Chicago House Athletic Club, Historian; Maxwell Murray, Community and Youth Programs Coordinator Detroit City FC 008.

10:15 am to 11:45 am

Workshop

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BRIDGING GENERATIONS—ENGAGING GEN Z IN AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY THROUGH DELIBERATIVE FORUMS. Leader: Sophia Marshall Chapman, Jackson Public Schools 009.

10:15 am to 11:45 am

Roundtable

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THE CULTURAL REPATRIATION OF NINETEEN AFRICAN AMERICANS FROM LEIPZIG, GERMANY TO NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA. Chair: Malik Bartholomew, Dillard University Presenters: Eva Semien Baham, Charles Deslondes Branch of New Orleans Freddi Williams Evans, Charles Deslondes Branch of New Orleans

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Michael Godzinski, Archaeologist for the City of New Orleans D. Ryan Gray, Midlo Center for New Orleans Studies Monique Guillory, President, Dillard University Jana Smith Ryan Seidemann, The University of New Orleans Jessica Strawn, City of New Orleans Joan Rhodes, D. W. Rhodes’ Funeral Home 010.

10:15 am to 11:45 am

Panel Session

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LEARN IT TO THE YOUNGUNS: AFRICAN AMERICAN MALE ACADEMICS LABORING FOR THE NEXT GENERATION. Chair: Vincent Basile, Colorado State University Participants: Beyond the Classroom, Faculty Student Engagement to Increase Persistence. Ray Black, Colorado State University Post 9/11 Black Veterans navigating the GI Bill in Higher Education. Trice Burkes, Colorado State University K12 Teacher Training for Mastery, Supporting Highly Qualified Culturally Relevant Teaching. Duan Ruff, Colorado State University Commentator: Ray Black, Colorado State University 011.

10:15 am to 11:45 am

Paper Session

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“THE RIGHT TO LEARN: BLACK EDUCATIONAL STRUGGLES FROM SELF-DIRECTED FREEDOM TO SYSTEMIC FIGHT.” Chair: Joseph Bannerman, Clark Atlanta University Participants: African American Struggle for Education in the Vehicle City. Guluma Gemeda, University of Michigan-Flint Rebels to Panthers: “Balanced” School Initiatives in Chattanooga and the Making of White Flight. Derek Andrew Griffin, University of Tennessee, Knoxville As the South Goes…So Goes the Nation: A Systematic Review of Black Teachers Pedagogical Practices in the American South.

Terrance Joshua Lewis; Brittney Agwu, University of Alabama School Funding Inequality and Educational Outcomes Among Minority Students in the U.S. Ameshia Long, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University Self-directed learning as self-determination: A textual analysis of learning in narratives from formerly enslaved people. CoCo Massengale, Utah State University 012.

10:15 am to 11:45 am

Roundtable

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“FLIPPING THE SCRIPT”: HOW BLACK FAMILIES USE HOMESCHOOLING TO REDEFINE BLACK DOMESTICITY ON THEIR TERMS.” Chair: Cheryl Fields-Smith, Athens Branch of ASALH (GA) Presenters: Cheryl Fields-Smith, Athens Branch of ASALH (GA) Moriah Johnson, Loyola University DeShaun Silas, Georgia Black Home Educators Network 013.

10:15 am to 11:45 am

Paper Session

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“TELLING OUR OWN: BIOGRAPHY AS A TOOL OF BLACK HISTORICAL PRESERVATION. PART I..”

Chair: Tiana Galloway, University of South Carolina at Columbia AT L A N TA , G E O R G I A | T H E 2 02 5 B L AC K H I S TO RY T H E M E : A F R I C A N A M E R I C A N S A N D L A B O R

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Participants: Juanita Jackson Mitchell: Baltimore’s Lady of the Law. Nichole Nance, Morgan State University /Dept. of History and Geography Three Facets of Henry J. Maxwell’s Leadership: Union Soldier, Businessman, and Freedmen’s Bureau Educator. Mark Canavera, University of South Carolina Cracking the Code Post Jim Crow: Dr. James Goudlock and the Labor of Liberation at Friendship College, Rock Hill, SC. Madinah Ali-Goudlock, Dr. Goudlock Legacy Black Women’s Labor: A Dance Manifesto in Sonia Sanchez’s A Blues Book for Blue Black Magical Women. Ondra K. Dismukes 014.

10:15 am to 11:45 am

Paper Session

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“REDEFINING THE #BLACKJOB: LABOR, JUSTICE, AND LEGACY IN AFRICAN AMERICAN WORKSPACES.” Chair: Jatisha Marsh, Georgia State University Participants: “What is a #blackjob?: The imperative of an oppositional gaze for interrogating racialized productive justice in the U.S. Aysha LaBon, Georgia State University Southern Pacific Railroad’s Discrimination of its Black Patrons and Employees in the 1950s, 60s, 70s, and later. William Fowler, Independent Scholar “Pointing to a Fuller Work”: A History of African American Public Address Scholarship Prior to 1960. Andre E. Johnson, University of Memphis John Baptiste Stradford: One of the Many Heroes of Black Wall Street. Frederick Williams, Omega Psi Phi 015.

10:15 am to 11:45 am

Roundtable Int’l Ballroom B-AV - M2 North Tower Plenary Sessions

READY SET REVOLUTION: PREPARING FOR THE COMMEMORATION OF AMERICA 250 IN 2026 .

Chair: Daniel J. Broyld Presenters: Taylor Monet Thornton Kelli Barnes, Mellon Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow William Kelly Celeste Keith, Claiming Freedom 016.

10:15 am to 11:45 am

Panel Session

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FROM THE GLOBAL TO THE HUMAN SOUL: PROBLEMS AND POSSIBILITIES IN BLACK LABOR. Chair: Carolyn J. Medine, University of Georgia- Institute for African American Studies Participants: The 10 Plagues of Capitalism and the Blackening of the World: Derrida and Mbembe Rethink Marx. Carolyn J. Medine, University of Georgia- Institute for African American Studies Black American Entrepreneurship and Labor: A Cultural Analysis of Aaron McGruder’s The Boondocks. Aaliyah Khaiphanliane, University of Georgia Black Hustling in a Lovecraftian Whitopia: Victor LaValle’s The Ballad of Black Tom. Jerry Rafiki Jenkins, University of Georgia, Institute for African American Studies These Women’s Work: Intergenerational Spiritual Labor in Toni Morrison’s Beloved. Sophia Muriel Flemming, University of Georgia, Institute for African American Studies On the Interior/Exterior Realms of Labor: Reading Philosophical Quest(s) of “Slave” Selfhood in Oxherding Tale. Abinash Dash Choudhury, University of Georgia, Institute for African American Studies 12:00pm 017.

12:00 pm to 1:45 pm

Workshop

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RECLAIMING AFRICAN CULINARY LABOR: TEACHING AFRICAN HERITAGE COOKING FOR COMMUNITY HEALTH AND EMPOWERMENT.

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Leader: Sarah Anderson, Oldways Preservation Trust 018.

12:00 pm to 1:45 pm

Paper Session

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THE GRIOT LIVES ON: BLACK STORYTELLING, MEMORY, AND LITERARY LINEAGE. Chair: Kyra March, Rutgers University-New Brunswick Participants: Claiming the Narrative: Folklore, Identity, and the Politics of Preservation. Morgan White, North Carolina Central University -History Department “The Women Gather: Building a Network to Embrace Black Women Writers..” Jessica Halsey, Emory University; Tyechia Thompson, Virginia Tech “Now Women Remember Everything:” Black Women Writers and Writing Black Women. Kayla J Frye, Auburn University; Kourtney Frye, University of Tennessee- Knoxville Lemuel Haynes and the Black Polemical Essay: The Inception of an African American Literary Tradition in the New World. Jarvis Young, University of Arkansas Alice Walker and “The Jackson Years”: A Meditation on Creative Writing, Region, Historical Time, and Labor. Cheryl R. Hopson, Roanoke College 019.

12:00 pm to 1:45 pm

Media Session

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CHILDREN OF THE STRUGGLE: TUSKEGEE, BLACK INTRA-SOUTH MIGRATION, AND THE CIVIL RIGHTS GENERATION. Presenter: Beatrice J Adams Commentator: Sonjia Parker-Redmond, California State University East Bay, Professor Emeritus 020.

12:00 pm to 1:45 pm

Roundtable

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COMMEMORATING THE 110TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FORT VALLEY HAM AND EGG SHOW, 1916-2026.

Chair: Kyle Quinton Harris Presenters: Dawn Herd-Clark Kymara Sneed, Mississippi University for Women Maisha Akbar, Fort Valley State University 021.

12:00 pm to 1:45 pm

Panel Session

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EMPOWERING THE UNCERTIFIED: BLACK WOMEN’S GRASSROOTS TEACHER TRAINING AND LEADERSHIP. Chair: Patricia Haggler, CUNY York College Participants: “’Home Girls’: National Baptist Publishing Board Sunday School Congress and Teacher Training in the Rural South.” Patricia Haggler, CUNY York College “Breaking Barriers: Adelaide Sanford’s Legacy in Empowering Uncertified Black Educators.” Lindamichelle Baron, City University of New York Building Pre-Service Educators: Transformative Pedagogy through Poetry and Technology. Lindamichelle Baron, City University of New York 022.

12:00 pm to 1:45 pm

Panel Session

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Chair: Adam Biggs, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Participants: Fighting HIV/AIDS and COVID-19 in Black America. Aishah Scott, Providence College Black Doctors and the Fight against Early-20th Century Racial Science. Adam Biggs, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Black Dermatologists and the Making of an Inclusive Dermatology for the 21st Century. Yesmar Oyarzun, Brandeis University 023.

12:00 pm to 1:45 pm

Panel Session

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MEDIATING BLACK LABOR: GRASSROOTS ORGANIZING, THE NONPROFIT SECTOR, AND THE POLITICS OF REFORM. Chair: Rebecca K Marchiel, University of Mississippi Participants: No Trespassing: Volunteers in Service to America Among Migrant Labor Camps, 1964-1972. Britney Murphy, Charles A. Brown Branch of Birmingham Structural Renovations: Tenant Unions and Racial Inequality in the Era of the Chicago Freedom Movement. Nathalie Barton, Postdoctoral Fellow, History Department, Vanderbilt University Managing Race: Robert C. Weaver, Labor, and the Expert Turn in Community Action. Emily Masghati, Penn State Erie Commentator: Rebecca K Marchiel, University of Mississippi 024.

12:00 pm to 1:45 pm

Roundtable

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WAS RACIAL SLAVERY ILLEGAL UNDER ENGLISH LAW? Chair: Walter Greason, Macalester College/Graphic History Company Presenters: Larry Kenneth Alexander, Ida B. Wells Center on American Exceptionalism and Restorative Justice James Brewer Stewart Walter Greason, Macalester College/Graphic History Company 025.

12:00 pm to 1:45 pm

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SOCIAL MEDIA AND BLACK INGENUITY. Presenters: Kim B Miller, Multidisciplinary Performing Artist Nick Courmon, Performing Artist and Graduate Student Leader: Candace Cunningham, University of Arkansas 026.

12:00 pm to 1:45 pm

Paper Session

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“BENEATH THE MAGNOLIA: BLACK LIVES, LABOR, AND POLLUTION IN THE SOUTHERN LANDSCAPE.” Chair: Marion Johnson, Phila-Montco Branch of ASALH Participants: Slaves Owned a Business. Anthony Brogdon, Strong Productions Making Jim Crow Pay: Charles Harry Anderson’s Racial Progress during the Nadir Period. Ronald Jackson, Jacksonville University “Industrial Unionism, Democracy, and Black Workers in Mobile, Alabama, 1937-1942”. Robert Woodrum, Perimeter College of Georgia State University Breathing In Justice: Counterstories About the Effects of Pollution in Historic Black Communities in Cancer Alley, Louisiana.

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12:00 pm to 1:45 pm

Panel Session

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HEALTH GAPS AND ROADBLOCKS: HOW RACISM, COVID-19, HISTORICAL MENTAL-HEALTH DISPARITIES, AND NEW POLICY SHIFTS ARE SHAPING NURSING, PUBLIC HEALTH, AND TEACHING THE NEXT GENERATION. Chair: James Conway, Dallas College Participants: How Structural Racism and Policy Rollbacks Deepen Mental Health Gaps in Black Communities. Letoshia Foster, Unaffiliated Advancing Black Women in Public Health Research: Confronting Structural Exclusion, Pandemic Pressures, and Anti-DEI Undermining. Melva Thompson-Robinson Commentators: Melva Thompson-Robinson Letoshia Foster, Unaffiliated 028.

12:00 pm to 1:45 pm

Panel SessionInt’l Ballroom B-AV - M2 North Tower Plenary Sessions

THE MANY MEANINGS OF LABOR: ANARCHIST, SOCIAL, AND REPRODUCTIVE (1879-1990).

Chair: Huey Hewitt, Harvard University Participants: The Labor Question in Black Anarchist Thought: A Generational Split. Huey Hewitt, Harvard University ‘Shocked Me by The Truth of My Own Rhetoric’: The Black Panther Party and eugenic state violence, 1966-1976. Alexandra Kathryn Fair Restoring Reproductive Labor: Elizabeth B. Davis, Postpartum Psychoses, and Family Planning in Black Harlem, 1960 - 1970.

Udodiri Okwandu, Rutgers University “Work Your Category!” House-structured Ballroom Culture‘s Gender and Performance Categories as Sites of Informal Labor Under duress. Victor Ultra Omni, Emory University Commentator: Andrew Douglas, Morehouse College 029.

12:00 pm to 1:45 pm

Panel Session

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WORLDMAKING ACROSS CENTURIES. Chair: Brandon R. Byrd, Vanderbilt University Participants: Worldmaking and Sustaining Community in the Midst of a Revolutionary Black Atlantic. Erica Duncan, New York University Worldmaking and the Meaning of Freedom in the Post-Emancipation United States. Samantha Payne, College of Charleston Maya Angelou’s Worldmaking in Egypt and Ghana (1961 - 1965). Bwesigye Bwa Mwesigire, California State University Dominguez Hills Commentator: Brandon R. Byrd, Vanderbilt University 1:00pm 030.

1:30 pm to 3:30 pm

Meeting

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EXECUTIVE COUNCIL MEETING. Presenter: Karsonya Wise Whitehead, Loyola University-Department of Communication Participant: Deirdre Foreman, Carter G. Woodson Branch of ASALH Aaisha Haykal, Charleston Area Branch ASALH AT L A N TA , G E O R G I A | T H E 2 02 5 B L AC K H I S TO RY T H E M E : A F R I C A N A M E R I C A N S A N D L A B O R

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Walter J Lanier, African American Leadership Alliance Milwaukee James Morgan, Morgan State University Denise Rolark Barnes, The Washington Informer Newspaper David Mathew Walton Natanya P. Duncan, Queens College City University of New York Aisha M. Johnson Lionel Kimble, Jr., Organizing ASALH George Cleveland Hall Branch Tomiko Michelle Meeks, Howard University Daryl Michael Scott, Godwin House Publishers Augustus Wood John E. Adams John H. Ashley, Bethel Dukes Branch of ASALH Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua Kimberly Jeffries Leonard Zebulon Vance Miletsky, Manhattan Branch of ASALH Crystal Moten, Obama Foundation Chadra Dalan Pittman Crystal R. Sanders, Dr. Edna McKenzie Branch of ASALH Camesha Scruggs, Central Connecticut State University Anita M. Shepherd, James Weldon Johnson Branch of ASALH Jacksonville, FL Carlton Eugene Wilson, North Carolina Central University Sylvia Y. Cyrus, ASALH Executive Director 2:15pm 031.

2:15 pm to 3:45 pm

Paper Session

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“TIDES, MINES, AND ASSEMBLY LINES: THE JOURNEY OF BLACK LABOR IN SHAPING ECONOMIC LANDSCAPES.” Chair: Shirley Timmons, Clemson University Participants: Tides of Freedom: How Black Maritime Labor Charted Routes to Economic Liberation. Tasanee Durrett, TasaneeArt “Black Labor in San Antonio, Texas: Navigating the Color Line in a Southwestern Metropolis.” Charles Gentry, City of San Antonio Black Coal Mining in Rich Hill, Missouri, 1888: Mortality, Migration, and the Shaping of Economic Landscapes. Aaron Summer Javadi Black Labor and the Aerospace Industry in Delaware. Cathleen Susan Lewis, Smithsonian Institution National Air and Space Museum Echoes of the Factory Floor: Black Women and the Twin Cities Ordnance Plant Legacy. Jeremiah Ellis 032.

2:15 pm to 3:45 pm

Workshop

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TEACHER DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP WITH ARTS-BASED LEARNING. Presenters: Margaret Seidler, Charleston Area Branch ASALH Tyrone Collins, Charleston Area Branch ASALH Leader: Tyrone Collins, Charleston Area Branch ASALH 033.

2:15 pm to 3:45 pm

Workshop

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LEADERSHIP, LABOR, AND LEGACY: LESSONS FROM THE OWL AND THE GREAT TREE FOR COMMUNITY RESILIENCE. Leader: Russell Drake, Exordium Communications LLC

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2:15 pm to 3:45 pm

Workshop

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INTERGENERATIONAL ALGORITHMS AND CRITICAL CONVERSATIONS. Chair: Evelyn Bethune, Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune Family Legacy Inc Leader: Dr. Maya Taylor, Eagles Economic CDC dba Arrow Youth Leadership Council International 035.

2:15 pm to 3:45 pm

Paper Session

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BLACK IMPRINTS AND SPECULATIVE VISIONS: LABOR, MEMORY, AND REPRESENTATION IN VISUAL AND PRINT CULTURE. Chair: Lana Carter, University of Central Florida Participants: Bearing Witness: Black Artists on the Emotional and Physical Toll of Labor. Eden Reff-Presco Shaping the American Workforce: Johnson Publishing’s Influence on African American Labor. Donna Edgar; Naja Morris Color Struck: A Historiographical Film Study of Colorism and The Works of Oscar Micheaux. Chenita White, University of North Carolina Wilmington Piercing the Veil on Both Sides: Visually Representing Afrofuturism in Ryan Coogler’s Sinners. Sade Williams 036.

2:15 pm to 3:45 pm

Special Book Panel

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A HINE-HORNE BOOK ROUNDTABLE: STEFAN BRADLEY’S IF WE DON’T GET IT: A PEOPLE’S HISTORY OF FERGUSON. Discussants: Gerald Horne Jaden Janak, St. Olaf College Author: Stefan M. Bradley, Amherst College 037.

2:15 pm to 3:45 pm

Workshop

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ORI AT WORK: AFRICAN SPIRITUAL TECHNOLOGIES OF BLACK LABOR, RESISTANCE, AND RESILIENCE. Presenter: Patriann Edwards, Georgia State University Leader: Patriann Edwards, Georgia State University 038.

2:15 pm to 3:45 pm

Paper Session

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“VERSE AS VESSEL: BLACK POETIC LABOR, MEMORY, AND LIBERATION.” Chair: Sherwin K. Bryant, Rice University - Center for African and African American Studies Participants: Remember Phillis Wheatley’s “On Recollection”: An Examination of an Instructional Incantation for Feminine Creative Labor.

Rava Shelyn Chapman, The Butterfly Effecta Company The Complexity of Blackness: Audre Lorde’s Poetic Reflections on African American Life and History.” ADAOMA EUGENIA IGWEDIBIA; Greg Ekeh, Department of Educational Foundations, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka Dr. Margaret Walker: “Female, Black, and Free.” Sean Kornegay, North Carolina Central University The comparison of labor between Richard Wright and Robert Lewis Stevenson. Rachael Falu, Morgan State University; Mark Smith, University of North Alabama

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2:15 pm to 3:45 pm

Paper Session

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“THE BURDEN OF EXCEEDING EXPECTATIONS: BLACK LABOR, EMOTIONAL TOLL, AND COMMUNITY RESILIENCE.” Chair: Tenesha Carter Johnson, Bard Graduate Center Participants: Labor in “The Styx”: Memories of a Black Community on Palm Beach. Wallis Hamm Tinnie, ASALH South Florida, Inc. Good Time Railroad Man: The Journey to Reconstruct the Life of Lang Williams. Shawn Lamar Williams The Invisible Burden: African Americans, Emotional Labor, and the Toll of Workplace Inequity. Angelia Bendolph, Mobile AL Branch; Diedre Graham, Mobile AL Branch Polytechnic Progression: The Influence of Hampton Institute on Industrial Labor and African American Education During the Industrial Revolution. Veronica Davis, Echoes of Hampton Creation of a Black Public School System: Black Public Schools in Jim Crow Kentucky, 1924-1954. Zachary Hardin, University of Louisville 040.

2:15 pm to 3:45 pm

Workshop

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THE LABOR OF STORYTELLING: HOW BLACK NARRATIVES SHAPE PUBLIC POLICY AND ECONOMIC POWER. Presenters: Evelyne Del, ForeSight Communications Kwadjo Campbell, Presenter Michiel Perry, Presenter Leader: Courtney Young, Presenter 041.

2:15 pm to 3:45 pm

Roundtable

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BLACK HISTORY, BLACK STUDIES, AND AFROFUTURISM. Chair: Walter Greason, Macalester College/Graphic History Company Presenters: Walter Greason, Macalester College/Graphic History Company Tanya Clark, Morehouse College Tim Fielder, Graphic History Company Reynaldo Anderson 042.

2:15 pm to 3:45 pm

Roundtable Int’l Ballroom B-AV - M2 North Tower Plenary Sessions

AFRICAN ROOTS/AMERICAN FRUITS: RE-PRESENTING THE MIDDLE PASSAGE’S EMPOWERING LEGACY. Chair: Harmon R. Carey, Afro-American Historical Society of Delaware Presenters: Gene Tinnie, ASALH South Florida, Inc. Marcus Asante Dennis Burroughs, Middle Passage Ship Replica Project 043.

2:15 pm to 3:45 pm

Roundtable

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‘RACE, LABOR, AND WARS AT HOME’.

Chair: Keona Katrice Ervin, University of Missouri Presenters: Tejasvi Nagaraja, Cornell University

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Toussaint Losier Cristina Mislan Conor Hodges, Yale University 4:00pm 044.

4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Plenary SessionInt’l Ballroom B-AV - M2 North Tower Plenary Sessions

“THE FIRE NOW! HOW BUDGETS AND POLICIES ARE UNDERMINING PRESERVATION OF THE AFRICAN AMERICAN EXPERIENCE. Presenters: Jocelyn Imani, Trust for Public Land Robert Stanton, US Department of the Interior Sylvia Y. Cyrus, ASALH Executive Director Alan Spears, National Parks Conservation Association Moderator: Crystal Davis, National Parks Conservation Association 6:00pm 045.

6:00 pm to 8:00 pm

Reception

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OPENING RECEPTION. Greetings: Donnell Suggs, Atlanta Voice Robert E. Johnson, Atlanta Branch of ASALH Invocation: Walter J Lanier, African American Leadership Alliance Milwaukee Emcee: Sylvia Y. Cyrus, ASALH Executive Director Presenter: Zebulon Vance Miletsky, Manhattan Branch of ASALH Sponsor: National Parks Conservation Association, National Parks Conservation Association 7:00pm 046.

7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

Panel Session

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ORAL HISTORY RESEARCH: BLACK WOMEN AND NCCU ALUMNA. Chair: Charles Johnson, North Carolina Central University Participants: A Lasting Legacy: Mrs. Queen Scarborough. Haley Moore, North Carolina Central University Dana G. Jones Story. Sydney Walker, North Carolina Central University - Psychology Department If We Don’t Tell Our Story, Who Will: The Life and Work of Claudine Daye Lewis. Jordyn Davis, North Carolina Central University Deindustrialized and Dispossessed: Race, Labor, and Urban Decline in Milwaukee. Amaya Bauldwin, North Carolina Central University - Political Science Department Presentation on Shelvia Dancy. Erin Parks, North Carolina Central University - Political Science Department Paper on Nastasia Watkins. Se’Maj Nichols, North Carolina Central University 047.

7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

Panel Session

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UMBC GRADUATE STUDENT PANEL ON BLACK POLITICS. Chair: George Derek Musgrove, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Participants: “African American Clubwomen’s Mutual Aid Labor in The Woman’s Era.” Annyah St. Louis, UMBC “‘Euel Lee Marches On’”: The CPUSA, the NAACP, and the Struggle to Represent Black Labor in Maryland, 1931 to 1934. yoni D issacs, UMBC “The Impact of Desegregation on the National Newspapers Publishers Association.” Kaela Iman Buchanan, UMBC 048.

7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

Media Session

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“ZAVOBE OYEN’IKE” (THE WISE WOMB DESERVES HONOR AND CARE).

Presenters: Neith Sankofa, Georgia State University Alumni Regina Sewell Commentator: Monique Moultrie 049.

7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

Workshop

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“WE ALL WE GOT”: EXPLORING BLACK RADICAL TRADITION THROUGH BLACK EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE AND MEDIA CULTURE AT DR. CARTER WOODSON ACADEMY. Presenter: Jamaal W Gosa Leader: Justin Laing, Iota Phi Foundation of Omega Psi Phi 050.

7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

Roundtable

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HIDDEN HISTORIES: AFRICAN AMERICAN HIDDEN HISTORIES: PRISONS, CIRCUSES, MAGIC, AND EXTRATERRESTRIALS. Chair: Jacob Dorman Presenters: Sakina Hughes, University of Southern Indiana Douglas James Flowe Alaina Morgan, University of Southern California Participant: Jacob Dorman 051.

7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

Paper Session

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PUSHED, POLICED, AND PROFESSIONAL: BLACK WOMEN NAVIGATING LABOR FROM SLAVERY TO STEM. Chair: Kyra March, Rutgers University-New Brunswick Participants: The True Labor of Forced Slave Trade Maternal Labor. Regina Vincent-Williams, JCV Communications From the Mammy to the Domestic Worker to the Teacher: How Black Women’s Labor has Historically been Undervalued and Linked to Motherhood. Jacqueline Cherry, North Carolina Central University -History Department It’s Postpartum Up-pression, Not Depression: A Labor of Liberation. Seshat Eumel Sahmedu Laboring Against the Current: Black Women’s Experiences Navigating STEM Education and Workforce Entry. Jatisha Marsh, Georgia State University Reform and Refusal in “Scalloptown”: Black Women and Social Work in Southern New England. Sarah Fong, Tufts University

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7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

Paper Session

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“KEEPING THE CULTURE, HEALING THE PEOPLE: BLACK LABOR AND THE ARCHITECTURE OF HEALTH.” Chair: Shirley Timmons, Clemson University Participants: Black Death Care Work: The Labor of Keeping the Culture. Kami Fletcher Through the Atlantic to the Pacific: Medicine, Race, and Epidemic Crisis in 1793 Pennsylvania. Sopuruchukwu Nwadi, West Virginia University Labor Justice and Economic Equity: A Case for Sustainable Longevity and Development for the African American Community.

Noble Maseru, University of Pittsburgh Schools of Health Sciences Surviving the Odds: An Analysis of the Role of Community and Culture in Labor. Margaret Bernice Smith Bristow, Hampton Roads Branch of ASALH 053.

7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

Media Session

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THE PERFECT GIFT. Presenters: Deitrah Taylor Kiyree McMillian, The Historic Douglass Theatre Asha Ellen, Producer The Perfect Gift Commentator: Stanely Stewart, Producer The Perfect Gift 054.

7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

Paper Session

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“DEFINING THE FRAME: BLACK MANHOOD, MEDIA, AND THE STRUGGLE FOR RECOGNITION.” Chair: Anton D. House Participants: Manhood in Black Ink: How Editor Nick Chiles and Attorney Elisha Scott Defined Black Manhood in the Topeka Plaindealer.

Jeffery Williams “Social and Historical Dynamics Impacting Black Identity: Examining Black Males’ Journeys through Workforce Development Programs.” Miranda Dalton, North Carolina State University Black Misandry: Barriers of Acceptance in Society, Education, and Labor Markets. Robert Perkins, North Carolina Central University 055.

7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

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“LEADING THE GAME: BLACK LEADERSHIP IN SPORTS, POLITICS, AND INTELLECTUAL LIFE.” Chair: Stephanie Fortado, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Participants: From Pulpit to Pavement: William Holmes Borders and the Pursuit of Black Labor Justice. William J Smith Dr. E. B. Henderson: The Grandfather of Black Basketball. Edwin B. Henderson, Tinner Hill Heritage Foundation Harnessing “Mechanical Genius”: Speculative Labor and the Laboratory Spirit in African American Thought. Jacob R Walters, Stetson University “Everybody Wants to Rule the World”: Jesse Jackson, Economic Justice, and the Rainbow Coalition’s Electoral Turn in the 1980s.

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7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

Roundtable

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THE CENTENNIAL STATE AND BLACK COLORADANS. Presenters: AT L A N TA , G E O R G I A | T H E 2 02 5 B L AC K H I S TO RY T H E M E : A F R I C A N A M E R I C A N S A N D L A B O R

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Chloe Duplessis, History Colorado Center Ani Steele, History Colorado Center 8:30pm 057.

8:30 pm to 10:30 pm

Meeting

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ACADEMIC PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEETING. Participant: Augustus Wood Adreonna Nicole Simmons-Bennett, Romare Bearden Branch of ASALH of Charlotte, NC Natanya P. Duncan, Queens College City University of New York Eric Duke, Clark Atlanta University-The Department of African American Studies, Africana Women’s Studies and Hi Anton D. House Ashley Howard, University of Iowa Aisha M. Johnson Tomiko Michelle Meeks, Howard University Edward Onaci, Ursinus College Crystal R. Sanders, Dr. Edna McKenzie Branch of ASALH Daryl Michael Scott, Godwin House Publishers Albert Russell Thompson Zebulon Vance Miletsky, Manhattan Branch of ASALH Aaisha Haykal, Charleston Area Branch ASALH Karsonya Wise Whitehead, Loyola University-Department of Communication David Mathew Walton John E. Adams Sylvia Y. Cyrus, ASALH Executive Director Evelyn Jackson

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RegistrationRedwood Pre-Function Area- M1 North Tower Registration CONFERENCE REGISTRATION. 7:30am

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7:30 am to 12:00 pm

Tour

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ATLANTA HERITAGE BUS TOUR. Sponsor: Dwight McQueen, Director, ATL Tours 8:30am 060.

8:30 am to 9:50 am

Roundtable

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ANTI-RACISM: FIVE YEARS AFTER GEORGE FLOYD AND BREONNA TAYLOR. Chair: Walter Greason, Macalester College/Graphic History Company Presenters: Marvin Anderson, Reconnect Rondo Jeanelle Austin, Rise and Remember

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Zebulon Vance Miletsky, Manhattan Branch of ASALH 061.

8:30 am to 9:50 am

Panel Session

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INTERSECTIONAL IDEAS AND THIRD WORLD CONSCIOUSNESS, 1900-1990.

Chair: Patricia A. Schechter Participants: Anti-Colonial Feminisms: Afro-Puerto Rican Women’s Radicalism under the Influence of U.S. Empire. DJ Polite, Augusta University Teacher Training for Sex Education: Understanding Eugenics and the Social Hygiene Movement at HBCUs and Teachers Colleges.

Julia Haager, Western Carolina University Black Women and the Pill: Toni Cade Bambara and Frances Beale’s Debate over Birth Control and Black Motherhood. Grace London Transformative Origins of Reproductive Justice in New York City, 1960s-1990. Genevieve Davis, Portland State University Commentator: David C. Carter 062.

8:30 am to 9:50 am

Panel Session

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FROM PERIPHERY TO CENTER: NEW DIRECTIONS IN BLACK GREEK LETTER ORGANIZATION HISTORY. Chair: Marquis Taylor, Northwestern University Participants: “Just for What Does Your Sorority Really Stand?:” Reconsidering Black Sorority Women and sorority-sponsored service in the 20th century”. Brooke Thomas, The University of Alabama Noble Manhood and Womanhood: Black Fraternities and Sororities and Southern Expansion, 1907-1936. Marquis Taylor, Northwestern University The Politics of Black Greek-letter Organizations and Morehouse College during the Interbellum, 1919 – 1939. Jordan Ross, University of Pennsylvania 063.

8:30 am to 9:50 am

Roundtable

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THE ORIGIN, EVOLUTION AND IMPACT OF THE INTERNATIONAL LONGSHOREMEN’S ASSOCIATION (ILA) LOCAL 1414 IN SAVANNAH. Chair: Otis Johnson Presenters: Otis Johnson Paul Mosley, ILA LOCAL 1414 Timothy Mackey, ILA LOCAL 1414 Brandon Baxter Benjamin Bryan, ILA LOCAL 1414 064.

8:30 am to 9:50 am

Paper Session

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ARCHITECTURE, ACTIVISM, AND THE BLACK URBAN EXPERIENCE: STRUGGLES FOR SPACE AND SURVIVAL. Chair: Chelsea Birchmier Participants: The Roxbury Murders: Social Movements and Violence Against Black Women and Girls in 1979 Boston. Andrew Baer, University of Alabama, Birmingham Building Cleveland: Black Labor and the Passage and Dismantling of the “Fannie Lewis Law.” Stephanie Fortado, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Understanding and Addressing Resource Underutilization in Bronx Communities. Justine K. McCarthy AT L A N TA , G E O R G I A | T H E 2 02 5 B L AC K H I S TO RY T H E M E : A F R I C A N A M E R I C A N S A N D L A B O R

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The Harlem Playground (Child Care) Movement, 1934-1945. Arthur Banton 065.

8:30 am to 9:50 am

Roundtable

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THE STATUE OF LIBERTY IS BLACK: PERSPECTIVES FROM A VOLATILE RESEARCH PROJECT. Chair: Eric Jackson, Northern Kentucky University Presenters: Matthew Durington, Towson University Sam Collins, Towson University Chayanne Marcano, Independent Researcher 066.

8:30 am to 9:50 am

Roundtable

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TEACHING THE HISTORY OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT: REFLECTIONS ON TWO DECADES NEH SUMMER INSTITUTES. Chair: Melissa Stuckey, University of South Carolina Presenters: Waldo Martin, University of California-Berkeley Patricia Sullivan, University of South Carolina Peter F. Lau, The Metropolitan Career and Technical High School Larissa Michele Smith, Longwood University 067.

8:30 am to 9:50 am

Key Session

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REMEMBERING AND MEMORIALIZING BLACK LABOR: PUBLIC HISTORY AS PRESERVATION AND POLICYMAKING. Chair: Nishani Frazier, Miami University of Ohio Participants: “Uncovering the Money: Capitalist Systems in the New Orleans Slave Trade.” Liam McCandless, North Carolina State University “New Bedford Uprising: Black Power, Black Labor, and Rebellion.” John Goncalves, North Carolina State University The Life and Times of the Philadelphia Black Wobblies. Katie Boatner, North Carolina State University, Public History 068.

8:30 am to 9:50 am

Paper Session

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“PREPARED TO LEAD: BLACK POWER, COMMUNITY STRUGGLE, AND THE INFRASTRUCTURE OF LIBERATION.” Chair: Zachary Hardin, University of Louisville Participants: “Black Workers Take the Lead:” Peoples College, Fisk University, and Black/African Liberation in the early 1970s. Christopher Tinson, Saint Louis University For Us, By Us: The People’s War on Poverty in North Minneapolis. Sierra Phillips The Fire This Time: Black Preparedness, and the Politics of Survival in the Black Freedom Struggle. Curtis Austin, Arizona State University Freedom’s Blood Money: When Revolution Becomes Labor. Johari Osei, Arizona State University 069.

8:30 am to 9:50 am

Panel Session

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STUDENT HBCU ARCHIVAL RESEARCH. Chair: David Mathew Walton

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T H U R SDAY, SE PTE M B E R 25 , 2025

Participants: Uncovering Legacy: Engaging Undergraduates with HBCU History through Archival Research at Lincoln University of Missouri.

David Mathew Walton Before the Whistle: Reexamining the Origins and Impact of Lincoln University of Missouri Football Prior to 1921. Blake Oakley, Lincoln University of Missouri Educating the Educators: The History and Legacy of Teacher Training at Lincoln University of Missouri. Allen Fortenberry, Lincoln University of Missouri 070.

8:30 am to 9:50 am Sessions)

Special Book Panel Int’l Ballroom A- AV M2 North Tower (Presidential

A HINE-HORNE BOOK ROUNDTABLE: ASHLEY HOWARD’S MIDWEST UNREST: 1960S URBAN REBELLIONS AND THE BLACK FREEDOM MOVEMENT. Participant: Ashley Howard, University of Iowa Stefan M. Bradley, Amherst College Naomi R. Williams Crystal Moten, Obama Foundation 071.

8:30 am to 9:50 am

Paper Session

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“DIGNITY IN THE DUST: GLOBAL BLACK LABOR AT THE CROSSROADS OF EMPIRE AND INDUSTRY.” Chair: Loron Benton, University of South Carolina Participants: Tubal Uriah “Buzz” Butler: Fighting Empire and the Oilfields Workers’ Trade Union (OWTU) in Trinidad. Leslie Etienne, Joseph T. Taylor Branch of ASALH African Trade Unionism: A. Philip Randolph, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, and African Liberation. Zachary Peterson Holding Still in a Changing World: 20th Century Speightstown, Barbados. Lia T Bascomb Haiti and the Dignity of Black Labor. Regine Jackson, Morehouse College “Toxic Toil:” Black Workers and Their Proximity to Poison. Ajanae Willis 072.

8:30 am to 9:50 am

Roundtable

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TITAN: THE LEGACY OF REGINALD F. LEWIS...”WHY SHOULD WHITE GUYS HAVE ALL THE FUN?” Chair: Robert Parker, The Reginald F. Lewis Museum Presenters: Imani Haynes, Reginald F. Lewis Museum Em Davidson, Reginald F. Lewis Museum Jose Alvarado, Reginald F. Lewis Museum Arthur Brown, Reginald F. Lewis Museum 073.

8:30 am to 9:50 am

Panel Session

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DOCUMENTING AFRICAN AMERICAN LIFE IN INDIAN WOODS, NORTH CAROLINA. Chair: Charles Denton Johnson, North Carolina Central University Participants: Reconstruction Era Impacts on African American Residents of Indian Woods. Elijah Bombo, North Carolina Central University Trends in Family Relations, Employment and Land Ownership in Indian Woods, 1880-1910. Zoe Young, North Carolina Central University The Women of Indian Woods: Personal Reflections on Life in Indian Woods. Colette Haworth Commentator: Arwin Smallwood, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University-Department of History AT L A N TA , G E O R G I A | T H E 2 02 5 B L AC K H I S TO RY T H E M E : A F R I C A N A M E R I C A N S A N D L A B O R

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8:30 am to 9:50 am

Roundtable

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FORGED IN STEEL: AFRICAN AMERICAN LIVES IN CHICAGO’S CALUMET REGION. Chair: Angela Ingram, Chicago Public Library Presenters: Sharon Wyatt Odem, Chicago Public Library Chas Cassidy, Chicago Public Library Bianca Milligan Garcia, Chicago Public Library 076.

8:30 am to 9:50 am

Lightning RoundInt’l Ballroom B-AV - M2 North Tower Plenary Sessions WOODSON LIGHTNING ROUND SESSION #1.

Chair: James Morgan, Morgan State University Participants: Archiving Black Atlanta: Self-Determining Preservation and Community Collaborations in Black Atlanta. LaNeice Littleton, Atlanta History Center A Seat at the Table: Black Women in Leadership Positions in PWI’S vs. HBCU’S. Shaleace NIchelle Towns Beyond Exploitation: Black Panther’s Afrofuturist Reclamation of Labor. Sharanya Murugaiya Bibliophilia as Labor: Charles L. Blockson (1933-2023) Legacy. Keisha Oliver, Pennsylvania State University Black Army Nurses and Federal Service During the Civil War. Ashley Mohr Black Men and White Wealth: Labor and Politics in an Era of Economic Nationalism. Ronald Brian Neal, Wake Forest University Black Women Who Taught Me: Black Feminism and Bibliotherapy. Michelle Grace-Williams Cracking the Code Post Jim Crow: Dr. James Goudlock and the Labor of Liberation at Friendship College, Rock Hill, SC. Madinah Ali-Goudlock, Dr. Goudlock Legacy Creative Reflections on African Americans and Labor: Using AI and Art to Illuminate Contributions. Elizabeth Jean Brumfield Hip-Hop Dance: Art, Labor or Culture? An Expression of Urban Histories and Experiences. Department of Africana Studies the University of Arizona, Department of Africana Studies, The University of Arizona “Homemaker and Careerist”: Black Women and Labor, 1945-1960. Amanda Brennan, Vassar College 077.

8:30 am to 9:50 am

Panel Session

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ECHOES OF THE CITY: RACE, POPULAR CULTURE, AND URBAN SPACE IN 20TH CENTURY AMERICA. Chairs: Derrick E. White, University of Kentucky Carl Suddler, Emory University Participants: Framing Criminality: The Racial Politics of Ace Harlem, Youth Delinquency, and the Postwar Comic Book Scare. Andrew Aldridge, Emory University Between the Goalposts: Race, Resistance, and the Rise of Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium, 1965 – 1984. Tymesha-Elizabeth Kindell, Emory University From the Great Migration to Major League Reintegration: The Cultural Influence of the Kansas City Monarchs. Jayden TrawickJunta, Emory University Commentator: Shannon King, Fairfield University 9:00am 078.

9:00 am to 6:00 pm

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Afrique Clothing ASALH Media ASALH Store Aziz Fashions Cathy’s Design, Cathy’s Global Columbia University Press Egyptian Harvest Rejuvenation Cream The Foundation International HBCU Digital Library Trust Heritage International Fashions Louisiana State University Press Midlo Center for New Orleans Studies National Park Service History Project National Parks Conservation Association The Nannie Helen Burroughs Project Pathfinder Press Saxx Apparel by BMAK Seeking Insights for Solutions, LLC The Scholars Choice Third World Newsreel The African Outlets LLC and Joyous Journeys The University of Arkansas Press The University of Chicago Press Universal Love Jewelry University Press of Florida University of Georgia Press University of Illinois Press University of Massachusetts Press University Press of Mississippi University of North Carolina Press University of Rochester Press University of South Carolina Press University of South Carolina-Center for Civil Right History and Research University of Virginia Press Vanderbilt University Press Visit Atlanta Wayne State University Press Zee Crafts 9:30am 079.

9:30 am to 11:50 am

ASALH Film Festival

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10.000 BLACK MEN NAMED GEORGE (2002), DIR: ROBERT TOWNSEND. 10:15am 080.

10:15 am to 11:45 am

Roundtable

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“HAVING OUR OWN BACKS”: THE PAST AND PRESENT STATE OF BLACK SELF- AND COMMUNITY DEFENSE. Chair: Edward Onaci, Ursinus College Presenters: M. Aziz, University of Washington Kellie Carter Jackson, Wellesley College Chad King, National African American Gun Association 081.

10:15 am to 11:45 am

Key Session

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AT L A N TA , G E O R G I A | T H E 2 02 5 B L AC K H I S TO RY T H E M E : A F R I C A N A M E R I C A N S A N D L A B O R

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ACLS GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS AND OTHER BENEFITS. Chair: Joy Connolly, ACLS Presenters: Sylvia Cyrus, ASALH Executive Director 082.

10:15 am to 11:45 am

Roundtable

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BLACK MOTHERSCHOLARSHIP WITHIN AND BEYOND THE ACADEMY: RECONCEPTUALIZING RADICAL FUTURITY. Chair: LoRen LaDette Modisa Presenters: Jemilia S. Davis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Tiffany Wiggins, North Carolina Central University Regina G Williams, North Carolina Central University 083.

10:15 am to 11:45 am

Key Session

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CARTER WOODSON AND THE CENTRALITY OF BLACK LABOR FOR THE FOUNDERS OF AFRICAN AMERICAN SOCIAL SCIENCE. Chair: Tera W. Hunter, Princeton University, History and Department of African American Studies Presenters: Joe W. Trotter, Carnegie Mellon University Dept. of History Melba Boyd, Wayne State University, Department of African American Studies James Déke Pope Mike Goldfield, University of Washington 084.

10:15 am to 11:45 am

Roundtable

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AUTHOR MEETS ENGAGED READERS: QUITO SWAN’S “BORN A SUFFERAH DANCEHALL MUSIC’S INSURGENT SOUNDSCAPES.” Chair: LaShawn Harris, Michigan State University Presenters: Quito Swan, The George Washington University Glenn Chambers, Michigan State University Theodore Francis, Abilene Christian University 085.

10:15 am to 11:45 am

Panel Session

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DEATH AND GRIEF AMONG BLACK COMMUNITIES. Chair: Robin Brooks, University of Pittsburgh Participants: From Anticipatory Grief to the Other Side of Mourning. Robert J Patterson, Georgetown University Womanist Wear: Activist Witnessing, Archival Care, and Memory Work in Community Organizing. Kimberly Thomas McNair, Stanford University Death in the Heart of the Movement. Jade Marcum Trends in Cause-specific Mortality among Black Persons with Alzheimer’s Disease. Candace S. Brown, UNC Charlotte Commentator: Robin Brooks, Dr. Edna McKenzie Branch of ASALH

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10:15 am to 11:45 am

Roundtable

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SCHOLARS’ ROUNDTABLE: BLACK PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOLS, 1870-1970.

Chair: Amber Wiley, University of Oklahoma Presenters: James D Anderson Ansley Erickson, Teachers College, Columbia University Crystal R. Sanders, Dr. Edna McKenzie Branch of ASALH Participant: Eric R. Jackson, Margaret and Robert Garner Cincinnati Branch of ASALH Kay E Phillips 087.

10:15 am to 11:45 am

Panel Session

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BLACK NARRATIVES OF SELF-DETERMINATION IN NINETEENTH CENTURY MISSISSIPPI. Chair: Shennette Garrett-Scott, Association of Black Women Historians Participants: “She hired her time and hired me”: Black Women’s Commercial Networks and Value Systems in Antebellum Mississippi. Nicole Viglini, UNC Charlotte “He was called upon to go; and he must go”: African American Community Resistance in Reconstruction Mississippi. Beth Kruse, American Conservation Experience Mr. Smith Goes to Jackson: How a Young Mississippi State Representative Embodied Freedom During Reconstruction, 1874-1875.

Lucile Bruce, Wesleyan University Commentator: Albert Dorsey, Jackson State University 088.

10:15 am to 11:45 am

Key Session

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BUILDING HARLEM’S GLOBAL WORLD: LESSONS FROM HUBERT HARRISON AND THE WOMEN OF UNIVERSAL NEGRO IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION. Chair: Gerald Horne Presenters: Brian Kwoba, University of Memphis Natanya P. Duncan, Queens College City University of New York Ula Yvette Taylor, University of California Berkeley Charisse Burden-Stelly, Wayne State University 089.

10:15 am to 11:45 am

Workshop

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STANDING UP PULLMAN: TEACHING AUTHENTIC COALITION BUILDING TO PRESERVE BLACK AND LABOR HISTORIES. Presenters: Charles Alan Spears, National Parks Conservation Association Tracy Murray, Historic Pullman Empowerment Organization Leader: Crystal Davis, National Parks Conservation Association 090.

10:15 am to 11:45 am

RoundtableInt’l Ballroom A- AV M2 North Tower (Presidential Sessions) REPORTBACK ON ASALH 2025 FREEDOM SCHOOLS. AT L A N TA , G E O R G I A | T H E 2 02 5 B L AC K H I S TO RY T H E M E : A F R I C A N A M E R I C A N S A N D L A B O R

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Chair: Leslie Etienne, Joseph T. Taylor Branch of ASALH Presenters: Fred Hearns Leslie Etienne, Joseph T. Taylor Branch of ASALH Jada Wright-Greene, Manasota ASALH, Inc. Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua Commentator: Karsonya Wise Whitehead, Loyola University-Department of Communication 091.

10:15 am to 11:45 am

Panel Session

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BLACK POWER BLACK POISON: THE SOUTHERN PLANTATION, FOREIGN-BORN BLACK MOVEMENT OF THE GREAT MIGRATION, LABOR STRESS AND BURNOUT. Chair: Deirdre Foreman, Carter G. Woodson Branch of ASALH Participants: The “Big House”: Plantation Prominence or Peril. Deirdre Foreman, Carter G. Woodson Branch of ASALH Spiced Roads: Examining Caribbean and African Migration, Labor and Enterprise In New York City (1890-1940). Constance L. Diggs Building Resilience in the Workforce: Using Lifestyle Medicine and Journaling to Combat Stress and Burnout. Tanya England, NYS Education Department Commentator: Joyya Smith 092.

10:15 am to 11:45 am

Workshop

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FROM STRIKE TO STRATEGY: USING HISTORY HABITS OF MIND TO EXAMINE BLACK LABOR ORGANIZING. Presenters: Destiny Warrior, NCHE Jessica Ellison, NCHE Regina Holland, NCHE Leader: Yasmin Forbes, National Council for History Education (NCHE) 093.

10:15 am to 11:45 am

Roundtable

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WHEN THEY DARE TO BE POWERFUL: THE LEGACY OF BLACK WOMEN IN LIBRARIANSHIP. Chair: Aaisha Haykal, Charleston Area Branch ASALH Presenters: Nicole Cooke LaVerne Gray, Syracuse University LaKeisha Darden, St. Philip’s College Roberta Gardner, Kennesaw State University Morris Gardner Commentator: Aisha M. Johnson 094.

10:15 am to 11:45 am

Workshop

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TELLING OUR STORIES: THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE AND ASALH ADVANCING AFRICAN AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS HISTORY.

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Chair: Ariel Roy, Association for the Study of African American Life and History Presenter: Ash Phillips, Chief of Resource Management, Martin Luther King, Jr. Leader: Reginald Chapple, National Park Service–Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historical Park 095.

10:15 am to 11:45 am

Roundtable

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BRINGING ECONOMIC AGENCY TO BLACK ATLANTA: THE LEGACY OF THE HERNDONS AND BLACK ECONOMICS IN ATLANTA,1867-1877.

Participant: Jeffrey Ogbar F. Karcheik Sims-Alvarado 096.

10:15 am to 11:45 am

Lightning RoundInt’l Ballroom B-AV - M2 North Tower Plenary Sessions WOODSON LIGHTNING ROUND #2.

Chair: Gregory Lamony Mixon, Romare Bearden Branch of ASALH of Charlotte, NC Participants: James Weldon Johnson Branch of ASALH Branch Programs and Activities - September 2024 - August 2025. Hazel Gillis, James Weldon Johnson Branch of ASALH Listening to Liberation: Hair as Resistance in Black Autonomy. Yasmene Kimble Masters and Servants: Black Barbers in Antebellum Baltimore. Marcus Anthony Allen, Organizing Triad NC Branch of ASALH Observing the Dynamics: Black labour and cultural taxation. Kay Coates Reparative Cataloging: How the African American Subject Funnel Enhances Research in Black Studies. Erica Bruchko, Emory University; Deseree Stukes, University of North Carolina at Chapel H Self-Determination, Survival, and Human Rights: From Paul to Black Liberation. Michael D. Royster, Prairie View Agricultural and Mechanical University Slavery did not end; it morphed and continued as mass incarceration of Black men. Dejah Amos, Adler University Some intellectual precursors of critical race theory. Randall Webber, Louisville, Kentucky Carter G. Woodson Branch of ASALH Sullivan, King, and the Struggle for Racial and Economic Justice for Black Workers. Leon Prieto, Clayton State University The role of Social Work’s “Hidden” Black Founders in Social Movements. Kelechi Wright, University of Houston We Wear the Mask: Labor, Love and Business at the Douglass Theatre. Deitrah Taylor Work in the Wake of Plessy v. Ferguson. Betsy Schlabach, Lawrence University 097.

10:15 am to 11:45 am

Roundtable

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SCHOLARS TRANSFORMING THE ACADEMY: HISTORIES CREATED, REIMAGINED, AND RETOLD. Chair: Cynthia Neal Spence, Spelman College Presenters: Kenton Rambsy Maurice Hobson, Georgia State University Africana Studies Vincent D. Willis Nafeesa Muhammad, Spelman College Mahaliah A Little, University of California, Irvine 12:00pm 098.

12:00 pm to 1:45 pm

Roundtable

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“I HAVE BEEN TREATED AS IF I WERE NOT A MAN:” EXPLORING THE POST-BELLUM STATE COLORED CONVENTIONS. AT L A N TA , G E O R G I A | T H E 2 02 5 B L AC K H I S TO RY T H E M E : A F R I C A N A M E R I C A N S A N D L A B O R 49

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Chair: Andre E. Johnson, University of Memphis Presenters: Kimberley N Travers, Memphis Theological Seminary Christopher D. Harris, University of Memphis Carl Frederick Hill, University of Memphis Krystion Pegues, University of Memphis Keon A Burns, Penn State University Lucien Holness, Penn State University 099.

12:00 pm to 1:45 pm

Panel Session

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EMMETT J. SCOTT: “THE ONLY MAN WHO COULD WALK ON SNOW WITHOUT LEAVING FOOTPRINTS.” Chair: Darius J Young, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University Participants: Emmett J. Scott: His Early Life, 1873-1897. Will Guzman Emmett J. Scott: The Tuskegee University Years, 1897-1917. David H Jackson, North Carolina Central University Emmett J. Scott: The Howard University Years, 1919-1957. David H Jackson, North Carolina Central University; Will Guzman Commentator: Reginald K. Ellis, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University 100.

12:00 pm to 1:45 pm

Roundtable

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THE MONTPELIER DESCENDANTS COMMITTEE (MDC): AN INTERNATIONAL MODEL FOR DESCENDANT-LED HISTORY-TELLING AND ACADEMIC RESEARCH FOCUSED ON BLACK INTELLIGENTSIA. Chairs: George Monroe, Jr., The Montpelier Descendants Committee Tiffany Gardner, One World Exchange Presenter: Solomon Gardner, The Collegiate School 101.

12:00 pm to 1:45 pm

Roundtable

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BOOK PUBLISHING 101.

Presenters: Brian Halley, University of Massachusetts Press Stephanie Williams, Wayne State University Gianna Mosser, Vanderbilt University Press 102.

12:00 pm to 1:45 pm

RoundtableInt’l Ballroom A- AV M2 North Tower (Presidential Sessions)

A LABOR OF LOVE: NEW PERSPECTIVES ON THE HISTORY OF BLACK TEACHERS FROM JIM CROW THROUGH SCHOOL DESEGREGATION. Chair: Noliwe Rooks, Cornell University Presenters: Zoe Burkholder, Montclair State University Tikia K. Hamilton, Loyola University Chicago Andrea Lewis, Spelman College Danielle T Phillips-Cunningham Crystal R. Sanders, Dr. Edna McKenzie Branch of ASALH 103.

12:00 pm to 1:45 pm

Panel Session

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(RE)DEFINING AMERICAN GREATNESS: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY ANALYSIS OF THE U.S. PAST, PRESENT, AND AFRO-FUTURISM. Chair: Melanie Holmes, University of South Carolina at Columbia Participants: “His labor made him free”: Black Labor Discrimination, DEI, and New Directions for African American Self-Determination.

Melanie Holmes, University of South Carolina at Columbia The History of Education in South Carolina Through the Lens of the Black Experience: Modeling PK-12 Education That Reflects American Greatness. Kendall Deas, University of South Carolina Internalized Whiteness Ideologies and Their Harm Across Racial and Ethnic Groups: A Theory of Whiteness and Crime Approach.

Deena A. Isom, University of South Carolina Repoliticizing the Word: The Laboring Black Woman Poet, Prophet, and Politician. April Catherine Elizabeth Langley, University of South Carolina “Help Us to Make America Great Again”: Octavia Butler, Black Freedom, and the 21st Century U.S. Constitutional Order. Todd C Shaw, Department of African American Studies, University of South Carolina 104.

12:00 pm to 1:45 pm

Panel Session

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GRADUATE STUDENT TRENDS IN AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY: BLACK LABOR NARRATIVES IN MARYLAND. Chair: Michelle Scott, UMBC Participants: An Analysis of African American Blacksmithing in Colonial Chesapeake Maryland. Amina Thiam, UMBC African American Veterans in Maryland: A Case Study of Struggle and Labor after the American Civil War. Thomas Pate, UMBC Finding Freedom and Oppression in an Oyster: Race, Labor, Violence, and Environment with Black Watermen on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, 1865-1900. Noah Ulrich, UMBC Commentator: Michelle Scott, UMBC 105.

12:00 pm to 1:45 pm

Workshop

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THE ROADS WE’VE TRAVELED HISTORY PROJECT AND OTHER TOOLS FOR BRANCH FUNDRAISING. Leader: Lura Daniels-Ball, Our Authors Study Club Branch of ASALH 106.

12:00 pm to 1:45 pm

Luncheon

Int’l Ballroom D- M2 North Tower Meal Functions

THURSDAY LUNCHEON. Greetings: Reggie Chapelle, National Park Service Andre Dickens, City of Atlanta Michael Hodge, Atlanta University Center Consortium Invocation and Grace: Byron Thomas, Glenn Memorial United Methodist Church Emcee: Ernie Suggs, Atlanta Journal Constitution Benediction: Will Gravely, Refuge Community Church Atlanta 2:15pm 107.

2:15 pm to 3:45 pm

Plenary SessionInt’l Ballroom B-AV - M2 North Tower Plenary Sessions

TOWARDS A THEORY OF LIBERATION: THE STATE OF BLACK RADICALISM TODAY. AT L A N TA , G E O R G I A | T H E 2 02 5 B L AC K H I S TO RY T H E M E : A F R I C A N A M E R I C A N S A N D L A B O R

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Presenters: Charisse Burden-Stelly, Wayne State University Gerald Horne Akinyele Umoja, Georgia State University African American Studies Joy James, Williams College Moderator: Ashley Howard, University of Iowa 3:00pm 108.

3:00 pm to 6:00 pm

Presidential Session

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FOURTH CONVENING AND LIVE RADIO BROADCAST- “TODAY WITH DR. KAYE.” Presenter: Karsonya Wise Whitehead, Loyola University-Department of Communication 3:50pm 109.

3:50 pm to 5:00 pm

ASALH Film Festival

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THE PRUITT-IGOE MYTH (2011), DIR. CHAD FREIDRICHS. 4:00pm 110.

4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Panel Session

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NEW PERSPECTIVES AND EXPANDED HISTORIES OF AFRICAN AMERICANS IN THE LOWCOUNTRY AND CARIBBEAN PRE-1875.

Chair: Toivo Asheeke Participants: The Gullah-Geechee Wars, 1715-1870. Toivo Asheeke Women, Self-liberation and the Intra-American Slave Trade. Crystal Eddins Black Hunters, Maroons, and Fugitive Geographies in the South Carolina Lowcountry. Ras MIchael Brown 111.

4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Special Book Panel

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A HINE-HORNE BOOK ROUNDTABLE: COLONEL EDNA CUMMING’S A SOLDIER’S LIFE: A BLACK WOMAN’S RISE FROM ARMY BRAT TO SIX TRIPLE EIGHT CHAMPION. Chair: Kurt Piehler, N/A Discussants: Le’Trice Donaldson, Auburn University Krewasky Salter Author: Edna W Cummings, Cummings and Cummings, LLC 112.

4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Panel Session

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THE UNRELENTING LABOR OF BLACK JOURNALISTS, FANCY GIRLS, OPERA SINGERS, AND WRESTLERS IN DANGEROUS TIMES. Chairs: Allison M Lewis, Greater Kansas City Black History Study Group (ASALH Branch) Shawn L. Alexander, The University of Kansas-African and African American Studies

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Participants: The Labor and Spatial Movements of Fancy Girls in Antebellum New Orleans. Jessina Emmert, University of Kansas No One Asks What the Role of a Journalist is in a Movement: Hoyt Fuller, The Black Arts Movement and the Negro Digest/Black World. Elizabeth Chunda Spinarooni: Booker T. Huffman, Hulk Hogan, and the Night White Nationalism Broke Kayfabe. Jacob Hozempa, University of Kansas The Death of DEI: Black Opera in the Fight Against American Fascism. Allison M Lewis, Greater Kansas City Black History Study Group (ASALH Branch) 113.

4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Roundtable

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SUSTAINING BLACK ARCHIVES. Chair: DaNia Childress, College of Charleston Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture Presenters: Barrye Brown, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture The New York Public Library Maureen Jones, The Moorland-Spingarn Research Center at Howard University Sumayya Ahmed, Black Metropolis Research Consortium Raquel Flores-Clemons, Black Metropolis Research Consortium, Chicago Public Library 114.

4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Roundtable

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SOMETHING OLD, SOMETHING NEW: THE CRIMINAL ENSLAVEMENT OF 500,000 BLACK COLONIALS AND AFROFUTURISM IN THE 21ST CENTURY. Chair: Larry Kenneth Alexander, Ida B. Wells Center on American Exceptionalism and Restorative Justice Presenter: Walter Greason, Macalester College/Graphic History Company 115.

4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Workshop

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A LITANY OF LABOR: THE SOUNDTRACK OF BLACK MUSICAL INNOVATION AND INTELLECTUAL RESISTANCE. Leader: Larry Draughn, Guilford County Schools 116.

4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Media Session

Oak- AV Lobby Level South Tower

MARY FRANCES EARLY AND MYRA ELLIOTT: THE FIGHT TO END SEGREGATION IN HIGHER EDUCATION IN GEORGIA. Presenter: Vicki Crawford, Morehouse College Moderator: Maurice C. Daniels, Athens Branch of ASALH (GA) Derrick Alridge, University of Virginia Commentators: Chris Strickland, Georgia State University Maurice Hobson, Georgia State University Africana Studies 117.

4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Roundtable

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NEW BOOKS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS AND LABOR. Chair: Joe W. Trotter, Carnegie Mellon University Dept. of History Presenters: AT L A N TA , G E O R G I A | T H E 2 02 5 B L AC K H I S TO RY T H E M E : A F R I C A N A M E R I C A N S A N D L A B O R

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Rudi Batzell, Lake Forest College Augustus Wood Naomi R. Williams 118.

4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Panel Session

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RACE, WORK, COMMUNITY, AND RESISTANCE: BLACK PEOPLE AT WORK, IN SERVICE, AND RESISTING. Chair: Bobby Donaldson, University of South Carolina-Center for Civil Right History and Research Participants: The Community Men of the North Carolina and South Carolina Militias, 1865-1885. Gregory Lamont Mixon, Romare Bearden Branch of ASALH of Charlotte, NC Erased Histories, Enduring Inequities: The Legacy of Sundown Practices in Iowa. Leia Belt, University of California Merced “A stumbling block”: Black Knights of Labor and Race in Atlanta. Omari Averette-Phillips, UC Davis Black Nursing in Omaha, Nebraska: Fortitude and Determination. Barbara Hewins-Maroney, University of Nebraska Omaha Trezzvant W. Anderson and Black Press Activism During World War II, 1942-1945. Willie Griffin, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte 119.

4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Key SessionInt’l Ballroom A- AV M2 North Tower (Presidential Sessions)

COMMUNITY FORUM: BLACK PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOLS, 1870-1970.

Presenter: Agatha Sloboda Leader: Amber Wiley, University of Oklahoma Commentators: Eric R. Jackson, Margaret and Robert Garner Cincinnati Branch of ASALH Kay E Phillips 120.

4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Panel Session

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TEACHING AS TECHNOLOGY IN THE AGE OF AI. Chair: Na’Imah Ford, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University Participants: Curating Our Own Stories, On Our Own Terms: Public History Exhibitions and the Making of Student Activists in Research and Storytelling. Tiffany Packer, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University Get Ready with Me: Black Women, Beauty Regimens, and The Art of Self Regard before Social Media. Kimberly Brown Pellum, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University To Train a Black Army: Creating the FAMU School of Business and Industry. Ameenah Shakir, University of Houston 121.

4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Panel Session

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REHABILITATING HISTORIC AFRICAN AMERICAN SCHOOLS. Chair: Larissa Michele Smith, Longwood University Participants: “Reconstructing Education: Research into the Freedmen Schoolhouse in Smithfield, NC.” Tiana Galloway, University of South Carolina at Columbia “Historic Preservation in Uncertain Times: Rehabilitating Elizabeth City State University’s Rosenwald School and Principal’s House.” Melissa Stuckey, University of South Carolina “What is happening at South Carolina’s Oldest Black High School Building: Lincoln High School?” James L. Felder 122.

4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Roundtable

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INK AND ACTION: SIX BLACK FEMINIST VOICES OF THE_COLLECTIVE REWRITING THE WORLD. Chair: Brittney Kilgore Presenters: Laetitia Adelson, University of Georgia Kiana WIllis, University of Georgia Bri’Ann Price, University of Georgia Jaminique Adams, University of Georgia Commentator: Stephanie Y. Evans, Georgia State University 123.

4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Panel Session

Hazelnut- AV M3 North Tower

HARNESSING THE MATERNAL: BLACK WOMEN, REPRODUCTIVE LABOR, AND ACTIVISM. Chair: Kiamsha Bynes, Rutgers University, New Brunswick Participants: Rethinking Reproductive Strategies in the Antebellum Era: Black Women and Infanticide in Nineteenth-Century Virginia. Keiara Price, Rutgers University - New Brunswick

By Force or By Fire: Black Mother’s Fight Against the Apprenticeship System During Reconstruction. Kyra March, Rutgers University-New Brunswick Labor of Love? Mother Power, Reproductive Labor, and the Welfare Rights Movement. Gwendolyn Fowler, Rutgers University New Brunswick 124.

4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Workshop

Hickory-AV M3 North Tower

FACILITATING HEALTH EQUITY DIALOGUES: USING THEATER TO TRANSFORM COMMUNITIES. Leader: Adria Kitchens, Out of Hand Theater 125.

4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Roundtable Int’l Ballroom B-AV - M2 North Tower Plenary Sessions

ANTI-BLACKNESS AND PASSING: BIRACIAL/MIXED RACE IDENTITY AND THE BLACK COMMUNITY IN THE 21ST CENTURY. Chair: Jessica Klanderud, Berea College Presenters: Jessica Klanderud, Berea College Noel Voltz, Case Western Reserve University Zebulon Vance Miletsky, Manhattan Branch of ASALH Minkah Makalani, Johns Hopkins University Margaret Newell, Ohio State University 126.

4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Key Session

Int’l Ballroom C- AV - M2 North Tower Sessions

AR’N’T I A WOMAN? : REFLECTIONS ON BLACK WOMEN’S LIVES AND LABORS AFTER FORTY YEARS. Chair: Cinnamon Williams, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Presenters: Candice Merritt, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Beatrice J Adams Olivia Johnson, Emory University

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6:00pm 127.

6:00 pm to 6:15 pm

Tour

Motor Lobby- Tour Bus Loading Area South Tower

THURSDAY NIGHT OUT BUS LOAD. 6:15pm 128.

6:15 pm to 8:15 pm

ASALH Film Festival

Magnolia- AV M2 North Tower

BOOKER’S PLACE: A MISSISSIPPI STORY (2012), DIR. RAYMOND DE FELITTA. 6:30pm 129.

6:30 pm to 9:30 pm

Reception

Clark Atlanta University, University Student Center

THURSDAY NIGHT OUT AND JOURNAL OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY RECEPTION. Participant: Bertis D English, Harper Councill Trenholm Branch of Montgomery Greetings: George T. French, Clark Atlanta University El-Mahdi Holly, Georgia State Representative District 116 Karsonya Wise Whitehead, Loyola University-Department of Communications

7:00pm 130.

7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

Paper Session

Birch- AV Atrium Level South Tower

“POLITICS, PREACHING, AND THE FUTURE OF BLACK FAITH: REIMAGINING LABOR AND LEADERSHIP IN THE BLACK CHURCH.” Chair: Kendra Woodfolk-Anthony, Morgan State University Participants: Power, Sex, Race, and the 2024 United Methodist Church General Conference. Odell Horne, Evangelical Seminary Between Healing and Hiding: Mental Health and Labor in the Black Church. Ashley Wells, Washington State University, School of Languages, Cultures, and Race An Exploratory Study of Church Discord: The Root, The Research, The Remedy. Jill-Capri Simms, Plumb Line Consulting LLC Nondenominational Protestants: Do They More Closely Resemble Mainline, Evangelical, or Black Protestants in RELTRAD? Jason Shelton, University of Texas at Arlington “Preaching Will Move the People Sooner or Later”: Bishop Henry McNeal Turner and the Rhetorical Pedagogy of Preaching.

Andre E. Johnson, University of Memphis 132.

7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

Panel Session

Spruce- AV Atrium Level South Tower

SEEKING AND FINDING POWER IN PROTEST, LAND, AND BEAUTY. Chair: Worth Myrick-Harris Hayes, Morehouse College Participants: Pearls in Power: Gendered Protest in A Respectable Revolution. Jeffrey Dorsey, Morehouse College “He Got Forty Acres and a Mule, Where Mine”: Examining Culture, Customary Law, and Land Sovereignty within the Clarendon County African American Community. Omar Culbreath, Morehouse College Painted Power: The History and Impact of Black Men in Makeup. Milton Rogers, Morehouse College Commentator: Worth Myrick-Harris Hayes, Morehouse College

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7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

Media Session

Maple A-AV Atrium Level South Tower

“JAMES A. EMANUEL: A POET IN EXILE” FILM. Presenter: Tyechia Thompson, Virginia Tech Commentator: Jessica Halsey, Emory University 134.

7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

Paper Session

Maple B- AV Atrium Level South Tower

“INHERITING THE STRUGGLE: BLACK YOUTH, KINSHIP, AND THE LABORS OF SURVIVAL.” Chair: Sherwin K. Bryant, Rice University - Center for African and African American Studies Participants: Newises and the Parade. Samantha Averett, City Colleges of Chicago

By Force or By Fire: Black Youth and their Kin’s Fight Against the Apprenticeship System During Reconstruction. Kyra March, Rutgers University-New Brunswick Laboring Under Uplift: Black Childhood, Industrial Education, and Carceral Power in the Jim Crow South. Rhonda Jones 135.

7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

Paper Session

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“INNOVATING HISTORY: BLACK RELIGIOSITY, CULTURAL SPACES, AND THE POWER OF PRESERVATION.” Chair: Stephanie Fortado, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Participants: If These Walls Could Talk – Hauntology, Institutionalized Antiblackness, and Transformative Praxis in Cultural Spaces. Idalia Wilmoth, Indiana University, Black Student Union Ori at Work: African Spiritual Technologies of Black Labor, Resistance, and Resilience. Patriann Edwards, Georgia State University Freedom Braids: The History, Preservation, and Ingenuity of African Hair Braiding. Monique Duncan, Sweet Pea Books Of Hustlers and Labor in Good Times. Angela Marie Nelson, Bowling Green State University The Fire was my Rage Made Manifest: Examining the Resourceful Use of Black Religiosity in Lovecraft Country. Renee Richardson, Prairie View Agricultural and Mechanical University 136.

7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

Paper Session

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“MODERN BY DESIGN: BLACK INNOVATION, RESISTANCE, AND LEADERSHIP IN THE DIGITAL AGE.” Chair: Lana Carter, University of Central Florida Participants: Technology Is Not the Devil: Empowering African American Women of Faith in Business Through Digital Innovation*. Evelyn Bethune, Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune Family Legacy Inc We’ve Been the Code: Womanism as a Theory for the Future of Labor. Kenya Johnson, Morgan State University African American Leadership and the Modernization of Raleigh-Durham International Airport. Deysha Pauling, North Carolina Central University -History Department Harry Pace, Black Swan, and the Birth of Black Owned Electronic Entertainment. DuJuan Anthony Morris 137.

7:00 pm to 8:30 pm Sessions)

Paper Session

Int’l Ballroom A- AV M2 North Tower (Presidential

“FIGHTING FOR THE BLOCK: BLACK COMMUNITY FORMATION, CULTURE, AND COLLECTIVE POWER.” Chair: Bishop W. Lawton

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T H U R SDAY, SE PTE M B E R 25 , 2025

Participants: Swimming While Black: Race, Resistance and the Pursuit of Leisure and Recreation in 1950s Baltimore. Tanisha Smith, Morgan State University The People’s Housing: The Stella Wright Rent Strike and Community Control of Public Housing. Ari Ahmad McCaskill, Albion College; Peter Blackmer, Eastern Michigan University The Proud Jewel of the Eastside: The Drew League’s Role in Strengthening Community and Culture. Drew D. Brown, University of Florida The White Bastard on the School bus: Worth County, Georgia’s School Boycott, 1968-1969. Thomas Aiello, Valdosta State University Alfredda C. Delaney and Her Fight to Revitalize Mechanicsville. Camren Alexa Lewin, University of Tennessee Knoxville 138.

7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

Paper Session

Cypress- M2 North Tower

“RECLAIMING THE NARRATIVE: THE URGENT NECESSITY OF BLACK HISTORY IN EDUCATION AND JUSTICE.” Chair: Tiana Galloway, University of South Carolina at Columbia Participants: American Dreams and Nightmares: A Comparative Analysis of Postbellum American Historical Narratives. Anna Sumner, Trinity Washington University Should Black History Be Taught in High School? Paris Wilkins, North Carolina Central University -History Department Changing the Trajectory for Black St. Louis Students: The Implementation of Black History by Julia Davis, 1920-1980. Jamilah Whiteside $200 Billion a Year: White Appropriation of Black Labor and How We Redress It. Elizabeth Woodson, Reckon With Before the Middle Passage: The Rich and Diverse History of African Americans Before the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Pat Snipes, Before Slavery Experience 139.

7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

Roundtable

Sycamore- M2 North Tower

RECKONING WITH THE HISTORY OF PHILANTHROPIC INSTITUTIONS: A CASE STUDY OF WHAT IS OWED TO BLACK COMMUNITIES. Chair: Trey Withers, National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy Presenters: Trey Withers, National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy Diamond Hardiman, Free Press 140.

7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

Roundtable

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CULTURAL PRODUCTIONS, BLACK AUDIENCES, AND MASS MEDIA: INTERROGATING NARRATIVES AND AMPLIFYING VOICES. Chair: Nafeesa Muhammad, Spelman College Presenters: Adria Goldman, University of Mary Washington Alexa Harris, Norfolk State University LaRonda Sanders-Senu, Middle Georgia State University Andre Nicholson, Middle Georgia State University 141.

7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

Roundtable

Hickory-AV M3 North Tower

THE LEGACY OF ELLA JENKINS, THE FIRST LADY OF CHILDREN’S MUSIC. Chair: Gayle Wald Presenters: Tim Ferrin

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Traci Todd Gayle Wald 142.

7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

Media SessionInt’l Ballroom B-AV - M2 North Tower Plenary Sessions

“54 MILES TO HOME” AND “AFRICAN HISTORY IN LISBON, PORTUGAL.” Presenters: Robert Smith, Alabama State University Quenton Stokes-Brown, Wake Forest Moderator: Phillip Howard Commentator: Robert Pierre 8:30pm 143.

8:30 pm to 10:30 pm

ASALH Film Festival

Magnolia- AV M2 North Tower

KILLER OF SHEEP (1978), DIR. CHARLES BURNETT.

Friday, September 26, 2025 7:00am 7:00 am to 8:00 pm 144.

Check-In

RegistrationRedwood Pre-Function Area- M1 North Tower Registration CONFERENCE REGISTRATION. 8:00am

145.

8:00 am to 6:30 pm

Exhibitor

Int’l Ballroom EF- M2 North Tower

FRIDAY INT’L BALLROOM EF EXHIBITS. 8:30am 146.

8:30 am to 9:50 am

Panel Session

Birch- AV Atrium Level South Tower

“A WOMAN’S WORK IS NEVER DONE”: GENDER, LABOR, AND JUSTICE IN THE ATLANTIC WORLD IN THE 17TH, 18TH, AND 19TH CENTURIES. Chairs: Felicia Yvonne Thomas Daryl Michael Scott, Godwin House Publishers Participants: The Curious Work of Justice in 17th Century Colonial Virginia: The Extraordinary Life of Elizabeth Key. Tammy L. Sanders Henderson Black Women’s Intellectual Work in 18th Century Massachusetts. Felicia Yvonne Thomas The Life and Legacy of Jane Waring Roberts: Gender, Power, and Black Nationhood in the 19th Century Atlantic World. Herbert Brewer, Morgan State University 147.

8:30 am to 9:50 am

Panel Session

Pine- AV Atrium Level South Tower

THE COST OF LABOR, THE FIGHT FOR JUSTICE: PERSPECTIVES ON THE 2024 US PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN. Chair: AT L A N TA , G E O R G I A | T H E 2 02 5 B L AC K H I S TO RY T H E M E : A F R I C A N A M E R I C A N S A N D L A B O R

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Nannetta Durnell-Uwechue, Florida Atlantic University Participants: The Cost of Labor, The Fight for Justice: Historical, Philosophical and Religious Perspectives on the 2024 US Presidential Campaign. Felton O. Best, Central Connecticut State University The Cost of Labor, The Fight for Justice: Communicative Perspectives on the 2024 US Presidential Campaign. Nannetta DurnellUwechue, Florida Atlantic University The Cost of Labor, The Fight for Justice: Political Perspectives on the 2024 US Presidential Campaign. Deandre J. Poole, Florida Atlantic University The Cost of Labor, The Fight for Justice: Pedagogical Perspectives on the 2024 US Presidential Campaign. Angela Rhone, Florida Atlanta University Commentator: Felton O. Best, Central Connecticut State University 148.

8:30 am to 9:50 am

Workshop

Spruce- AV Atrium Level South Tower

AFRO-LATINX HISTORY AND THE BLACK CARIBBEAN. Chair: Walter Greason, Macalester College/Graphic History Company Presenters: Walter Greason, Macalester College/Graphic History Company Lissette Acosta Corniel Luisa Marcela Ossa Leader: Luisa Marcela Ossa 149.

8:30 am to 9:50 am

Media Session

Maple A-AV Atrium Level South Tower

THROUGH THEIR EYES: STORIES OF ANTI-BLACKNESS. Presenter: Jason Seals, Merritt College Commentator: Jason Seals, Merritt College 150.

8:30 am to 9:50 am

Workshop

Maple B- AV Atrium Level South Tower

ASSOCIATION OF BLACK WOMEN HISTORIANS ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING. Chair: Vanessa Holden, University of Kentucky Presenter: Shannon Camille Eaves, College of Charleston Leader: Stephanie Y. Evans, Georgia State University 151.

8:30 am to 9:50 am

Panel Session

Maple C- AV Atrium Level South Tower

BLACK WORKING CLASS STRUGGLES AGAINST NEOLIBERALISM IN THE AFRICAN DIASPORA. Chair: John Tilghman, Tuskegee University Participants: Black Workers and the Class Struggle in Trinidad and Tobago. Godfrey Vincent, Tuskegee University The Inner Harbor, Black Working Class, and the Coming of Neoliberalism. John Tilghman, Tuskegee University Firestone, Rubber Plantations, and Black Workers in Liberia. Joe JImmeh, Tuskegee University

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Commentator: Godfrey Vincent, Tuskegee University 152.

8:30 am to 9:50 am

Panel Session

Oak- AV Lobby Level South Tower

BLACK WOMEN, EDUCATION, AND THE RADICAL WORK OF CITIZENSHIP IN THE RURAL AMERICAN SOUTH. Chair: Barbara McCaskill, Athens Branch of ASALH (GA) Participants: “In Her Own Words: Amoretta Daise’s ‘Memory’ of the First Years at Penn School.” Mollie Barnes, University of South Carolina Beaufort “Cultures of Advice: Mrs. C. J. Calloway and The Negro Farmer.” Sidonia Serafini, Appalachian State University “Real Estate and Rural Education: Judia Jackson Harris, Landownership, and Literacy.” Jane McPherson, University of Georgia School of Social Work Commentator: Barbara McCaskill, Athens Branch of ASALH (GA) 153.

8:30 am to 9:50 am

Key Session

Dogwood A- AV M1 North Tower

BLACK WOMEN’S WORK: UNDERSTANDING LOCAL ORGANIZING TRADITIONS WITHIN THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT. Chair: Beatrice J Adams Participants: “She’d do whatever is necessary”: Black Women and Florida’s Civil Rights Movement in Reflection. Allison Mashell Mitchell, Assistant Professor, Africana Studies Department, University of Notre Dame “To Become a Part of a Society that is Meaningful”: The Ella Jo Baker Intentional Community Cooperative and the DC Housing Cooperative Movement. Jessica A. Rucker, University of Maryland College Park “To Serve My People: Modjeska Monteith Simkins and the Local Roots of Activism in Columbia, South Carolina.” JoCora Moore, Elizabeth City State University “One of The Sleepless Ones:” The Activism and Autobiographies of Mississippi Freedom Fighter Mrs. Winson Hudson. Christina J Thomas 154.

8:30 am to 9:50 am

Paper Session

Dogwood B- AV M1 North Tower

“ALLIED FORCES: BLACK WOMEN, GLOBAL LABOR, AND THE POLITICS OF MILITARY EQUITY.” Chair: Kendra Woodfolk-Anthony, Morgan State University Participants: Playing the Angels’ Game: Preserving the Laborlore of Black Foreign Service Women. Atim Eneida George, Antioch University Breaching the Color Line: Afro-Asian Alliances and Racial Capitalism in Hawaiʻi’s Wartime Labor Economy. Patrick Kekoa Nichols, The University of Georgia “Uncle Sam on Miguel Street: Port-of-Spain, World War II, and the Battle of the Black Atlantic.” Jason Parker, Texas Agricultural and Mechanical University Bridging the Gap: Advancing Equity and Support for African American Veterans in Civilian Life. Carlos Bryan, North Carolina Central University - Social Work Dr. Bethune, Eleanor Roosevelt, and A. Philip Randolph: Strategic Alliances Advancing Military Equity, 1933–1945. Evelyn Bethune, Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune Family Legacy Inc 155.

8:30 am to 9:50 am

Panel Session

Cottonwood A- AV M1 North Tower

BLACK EXPRESSION AS RESISTANCE: ART, FAITH, AND ACTIVISM IN THE 20TH CENTURY. Chair: Marquita Reed, Tennessee State University -Brown-Daniel Library Participants: AT L A N TA , G E O R G I A | T H E 2 02 5 B L AC K H I S TO RY T H E M E : A F R I C A N A M E R I C A N S A N D L A B O R

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Tongues of Fire. Aaron Treadwell, Middle Tennessee State University “Open the prison gate”: Safiya Bukhari, The Black Liberation Army, and the Prison Poetry of Abolition. Joshua Crutchfield, Northwestern University Voices of Change: Cultural Activism in the Black Freedom Struggle, 1950s-1970s. Marquita Reed, Tennessee State University -Brown-Daniel Library Commentator: Reginald K. Ellis, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University 156.

8:30 am to 9:50 am

MeetingInt’l Ballroom A- AV M2 North Tower (Presidential Sessions) 2026 CONFERENCE PLANNING MEETING.

Participant: Karsonya Wise Whitehead, Loyola University-Department of Communication Margaret Bernice Smith Bristow, Hampton Roads Branch of ASALH Aaisha Haykal, Charleston Area Branch ASALH Aisha M. Johnson Augustus Wood Daryl Michael Scott, Godwin House Publishers Lionel Kimble, Jr., Organizing ASALH George Cleveland Hall Branch Crystal R. Sanders, Dr. Edna McKenzie Branch of ASALH Anton D. House 157.

8:30 am to 9:50 am

Paper Session

Juniper- AV M2 North Tower

“STOLEN FUTURES: REPRODUCTIVE LABOR, SEPARATION, AND THE BUSINESS OF SLAVERY.” Chair: Tenesha Carter Johnson, Bard Graduate Center Participants: Managerial Maternalism: Gender, Slavery, and the Domestic Workplace. Keiara Price, Rutgers University - New Brunswick On Slavery and Alienation: Rethinking the Marxist View of Alienated Labor. Naomi Simmons-Thorne, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Love, Loss, and The Auction Block: The Domestic Slave Trade in Urban America. Michael Dickinson, Virginia Commonwealth University The Slightest Blow in Anger Might Be Cruelty: Class and racial capitalism in reproductive labor. Kimberly Jones, University of Denver “stole my Child from me and Sent it to Virginia”: Black Mothers and the Separation of Children in the Revolutionary South. Adam X McNeil, Rutgers University-New Brunswick 158.

8:30 am to 9:50 am

Workshop

Cypress- M2 North Tower

DOCUMENTING FAMILY STORIES: A HANDS-ON WORKSHOP FOR PRESERVING BLACK HERITAGE. Presenters: David G. Wilkins, Manasota Branch of ASALH Lois B. Wilkins, Manasota Branch of ASALH Leader: Ebony Wilkins, National Louis University 159.

8:30 am to 9:50 am

Workshop

Sycamore- M2 North Tower

LIMITATION TO LIBERATION: ACTIVATING THE POWER WITHIN. Leader: Nyabingha Zianni McDowell 160.

8:30 am to 9:50 am

Paper Session

Hazelnut- AV M3 North Tower

“NATIONS WITHIN NATIONS: DIASPORIC MEMORY AND THE POLITICS OF PAN-AFRICAN BELONGING.”

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Chair: Marion Johnson, Phila-Montco Branch of ASALH Participants: Crossing Borders and Color Lines: How a Brazilian Soldier Became a Poster Child for U.S. Abolitionism. Karina Sembe, Boston University Justice and Reconciliation: From Henry Highland Garnet to Harvey Johnson. Xavier Frink, Jackson State University Ekimogun Cultural Festival: A Transnational Nexus for Ondo Hometown Associations in 20th Century North America. Olaolu Awolola, Morgan State University Avenging Chief Sam: A Missing Back-to-Africa Movement across Galveston’s Commemorative Landscape. Eddie Brown, Independent Scholar Freedom, Polysemous Freedom:. Monique Wimby, Emory University 162.

8:30 am to 9:50 am

Paper SessionInt’l Ballroom B-AV - M2 North Tower Plenary Sessions

“ROOTS AND RIVERS: BLACK ECOLOGIES OF HEALING, JUSTICE, AND ENVIRONMENTAL VISION.” Chair: Tanisha Smith, Morgan State University Participants: Nourish the Soul, Nourish the Soil: Black Women’s Connection to Nature as Healing. Zaree Ross, Georgia State University Roots of Abolition Ecologies: Du Bois’s Environmental Vision in the Wake of the Mississippi Flood. David Strickler, University of Tennessee, Knoxville An Ancient Science : Aquaculture, Integrated Agriculture, and the African Diaspora. Anthony Pratcher; George B. Brooks, Jr, NxT Horizon, LLC Upon a Silver Salver: Water, Hospitality, and the Habits of Lady Justice. Theron Wilkerson, Auburn University 163.

8:30 am to 9:50 am

Key Session

Int’l Ballroom C- AV - M2 North Tower Sessions

THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF ROBERT L. ALLEN. Moderator: Stephanie Fortado, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Participant: Charisse Burden-Stelly, Wayne State University Ula Yvette Taylor, University of California Berkeley Lia T Bascomb 9:00am 164.

9:00 am to 11:00 am

ASALH Film Festival

Magnolia- AV M2 North Tower

SORRY TO BOTHER YOU (2012), DIR. BOOTS RILEY. 10:15am 165.

10:15 am to 11:45 am

Roundtable

Pine- AV Atrium Level South Tower

STATE OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL PRESERVATION: CHARTING A COLLECTIVE DEFENSE. Chair: Brian Morrison, The William J. Watkins, Sr. Educational Institute Presenters: Kali-Ahset Amen, Atlanta Branch of ASALH Anne C. Bailey Vivian Glover, South Carolina African American Heritage Commission Adrienne Nirde, NC African American Heritage Commission

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10:15 am to 11:45 am

Panel Session

Spruce- AV Atrium Level South Tower

WORKFORCE AND HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT (HRD): STOLEN BLACK LABOR IN THE AGE OF AI. Chair: Lisa Brown, Texas Agricultural and Mechanical University - College Station Participants: 1 Workforce and Human Resource Development (HRD) Stolen Black Labor in the Age of AI. Lisa Brown, Texas Agricultural and Mechanical University - College Station; Mansur Ali Buffins, Boston Public Schools 2 Workforce and Human Resource Development (HRD) Stolen Black Labor in the Age of AI. Lisa Brown, Texas Agricultural and Mechanical University - College Station 3 Workforce and Human Resource Development (HRD) Stolen Black Labor in the Age of AI. Mansur Ali Buffins, Boston Public Schools Commentator: Mansur Ali Buffins, Boston Public Schools 167.

10:15 am to 11:45 am

Workshop

Maple A-AV Atrium Level South Tower

NEW JERSEY REPARATIONS COUNCIL. Leaders: Jean-Pierre Brutus, New Jersey Institute for Social Justice Walter Greason, Macalester College/Graphic History Company 168.

10:15 am to 11:45 am

Panel Session

Maple B- AV Atrium Level South Tower

“BLACK PUBLIC HISTORIES OF THE LOWER CAPE FEAR (NORTH CAROLINA).”

Chair: Tara White, Harper Councill Trenholm Branch of Montgomery Participants: Foreshore Plantation Archaeology in Brunswick County, NC.” Emily A Schwalbe, Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin; Tyanna West, North Carolina Central University; Sherwin K. Bryant, Rice University - Center for African and African American Studies; Tara White, Harper Councill Trenholm Branch of Montgomery; Torren Leon Gatson, Middle Tennessee State University Black Labor in Maritime North Carolina. Tyanna West, North Carolina Central University Black Histories of Brunswick County: Mapping the Present along the Black Cape Fear.” Sherwin K. Bryant, Rice University Center for African and African American Studies Commentator: Torren Leon Gatson, Middle Tennessee State University 169.

10:15 am to 11:45 am

Paper Session

Maple C- AV Atrium Level South Tower

“FROM SOUL TO STAGE: BLACK CULTURAL POWER, PERFORMANCE, AND THE POLITICS OF HEALING.” Chair: Tomiko Michelle Meeks, Howard University Participants: Blues So Deep: An Afrofuturist and Black Feminist Examination of Healing in The Deep. Veronica Coates Ahmed The Utility of Beef: Tracing Black Artistic Conflict from Baldwin and Malcolm X to Kendrick and Drake. Kenneth King Karamu House: A Vehicle for Cleveland’s Black Arts Movement. I’Maya Gibbs, W.E.B. DuBois Department of Afro-American Studies, University of Massachusetts, Amherst “We Can Dance About It”: Community Engagement, Cultural Pride, and Creative Labor in HBCU Dance Programs. Emily Hawk, Department of History, Dickinson College 170.

10:15 am to 11:45 am

Key Session

Oak- AV Lobby Level South Tower

A DISCUSSION ON THE HISTORY OF THE STUDENT NON-VIOLENT COORDINATING COMMITTEE’S FREEDOM SCHOOLS WITH CHARLES COBB, JR.

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FR IDAY, SE PTE M B E R 2 6, 2025

Chair: Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua Presenters: Charles Cobb, SNCC Veteran Augustus Wood Leslie Etienne, Joseph T. Taylor Branch of ASALH 171.

10:15 am to 11:45 am

Roundtable

Dogwood A- AV M1 North Tower

BLACK MEMORY IN THE DIGITAL AGE: PRESERVING, CURATING AND MAKING ACCESSIBLE AFRICAN AMERICAN ARCHIVES THROUGH DIGITAL COLLECTIONS. Presenters: Andrea Jackson, Black Metropolis Research Consortium Micha Broadnax, Harvard University HBCU Radio Preservation Project, HBCU Radio Preservation Project Doretha K. Williams, National Museum of African American History and Culture Phyllis Jeffers-Coly, Diasporic Soul 172.

10:15 am to 11:45 am

Key Session

Dogwood B- AV M1 North Tower

CRUSADERS FOR JUSTICE: ROBERT AND MABEL WILLIAMS’ MEMOIRS AND THEIR VALUE FOR THE TWENTYFIRST CENTURY. Chair: Edward Onaci, Ursinus College Presenters: Akinyele Umoja, Georgia State University African American Studies Claude Marks, Freedom Archives Gloria House, University of Michigan-Dearborn and Wayne State University 173.

10:15 am to 11:45 am

Workshop

Cottonwood A- AV M1 North Tower

THEORY THURSDAYS - POLITICAL EDUCATION TO CHALLENGE ANTI-AFRIKAN DISINFORMATION. Leaders: Joshua Ingram, Black Men Build Ekundayo Igeleke, Black men Build 174.

10:15 am to 11:45 am

WorkshopInt’l Ballroom A- AV M2 North Tower (Presidential Sessions)

“PARTICIPATING IN THE LEGACY OF CARTER G. WOODSON: THE SIGNIFICANCE OF PUBLISHING IN THE JOURNAL OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY.” Presenters: Bertis D English, Harper Councill Trenholm Branch of Montgomery Pero G. Dagbovie, Michigan State University- Department of History V.P. Franklin 175.

10:15 am to 11:45 am

Panel Session

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BLACK MILITARY SERVICE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: RACE, REMEMBRANCE, AND RESISTANCE. Chair: Le’Trice Donaldson, Auburn University Participants: Unequal Schools, Unequal Service: How Educational Segregation Shaped Black Military Life on the Cold War Home Front. Brian Davis, Florida State University Black Soldiers, Psychiatry, and the Issue of Maladjustment during World War II. Paul Langston McAllister Off Limits: The U.S. Army’s Fair Housing Campaign in the D.C. Metro. Titus Firmin, University of Kansas AT L A N TA , G E O R G I A | T H E 2 02 5 B L AC K H I S TO RY T H E M E : A F R I C A N A M E R I C A N S A N D L A B O R

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Commentator: Le’Trice Donaldson, Auburn University 176.

10:15 am to 11:45 am

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AVERTING THE WHITE GAZE: BLACK STUDENTS’ NARRATIVES AND COUNTER-NARRATIVES AS PATHS TO LIBERATION. Leader: Aaron Johnson, Archetype Consulting 177.

10:15 am to 11:45 am

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THE CIVIL WAR AND THE BLACK PAST: AN AFRICAN AMERICAN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY ROUNDTABLE. Chair: Robert David Bland, University of Tennessee Knoxville Presenters: Brandi C. Brimmer Brandon R. Byrd, Vanderbilt University Robert Greene Michell Chresfield, Cornell University 178.

10:15 am to 11:45 am

Panel Session

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CORNELIUS HENDERSON “HIDDEN FIGURE”: CHIEF STRUCTURAL ENGINEER THE AMBASSADOR BRIDGE AND THE DETROIT –WINDSOR TUNNEL. Chair: David L. Head, ASALH Detroit Branch Participants: Cornelius Langston Henderson, Sr., 1887 – 1976: The Early Life. Howard Lindsey, ASALH Detroit Branch; Anita Moncrease, ASALH Detroit Branch; David L. Head, ASALH Detroit Branch; Rashid Faisal, ASALH-Detroit Cornelius Henderson “Hidden Figure”: International Footprints at the Canadian Bridge Company (CBC). David L. Head, ASALH Detroit Branch Cornelius Henderson “Hidden Figure”: Making History on the Detroit Side of the Boarder. Anita Moncrease, ASALH Detroit Branch; Howard Lindsey, ASALH Detroit Branch; David L. Head, ASALH Detroit Branch; Rashid Faisal, ASALH-Detroit Cornelius Henderson, The Talented Tenth, and the Ambassador Bridge. Rashid Faisal, ASALH-Detroit; Anita Moncrease, ASALH Detroit Branch; Howard Lindsey, ASALH Detroit Branch; David L. Head, ASALH Detroit Branch 179.

10:15 am to 11:45 am

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LIBERATION AND EDUCATION: PERSPECTIVES ON BLACK EDUCATIONAL THOUGHT. Chairs: Derrick Alridge, University of Virginia Ronald Chennault, DePaul University Participants: “‘To Recreate an Afrikan Mind’: New Concept Development Center and Black Power Education in Chicago.” Worth Myrick-Harris Hayes, Morehouse College “Anna Julia Cooper and Septima Poinsette Clark: Adult Education for Freedom, Racial Advancement, and Political Activism.”

Karen Ann Johnson “Mind Stayed on Freedom”: The History and Legacy of the Children’s Defense Fund Freedom Schools® Program.” Kristal Moore Clemons, Children’s Defense Fund “‘I Got a Lot to Be Mad About’: The Anti-Blackness of Social Emotional Learning and Paths to Liberation.” Johari Harris “Education for Liberation in Black/Africana Studies and African-centered Education.” James Benjamin Stewart, Manasota Branch of ASALH 180.

10:15 am to 11:45 am

Poster Session

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POSTER SESSION. Chair: Thura Mack, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Adreonna Nicole Simmons-Bennett, Romare Bearden Branch of ASALH of Charlotte, NC Participants: A Crisis Within the Crisis: Attrition of Black Male Educators. Michael Hayes, University of North Carolina at Charlotte “A Seat at the Table: A Collection of Oral Histories Exploring the Intersection of Labor and Culinary Traditions.” Marquita Reed, Tennessee State University -Brown-Daniel Library Black Health in Appalachia: Coal Mining in West Virginia and the Associated Health Outcomes for African Americans. Georgiana Logan, Marshall University Black Labor Universal. Christopher Sims, Intercultural Leadership Institute Black on the Homefront - Highlighting the Black Experience During WWII. Tashieka Adjoa Russell, Recent Graduate, Museum Studies Master of Arts program, Southern University at New Orleans Charleston Area Branch ASALH Celebrating 30 years- Preserving, Promoting and Protecting Black History. Jerome Harris, Charleston Area Branch ASALH Creative Labor, Collective Memory: Expanding Access to African American Art History. Brittany Myburgh; Mary Soylu Designing Freedom: Black Press Labor from Reconstruction to the Black Arts Movement. Kayla Hall, Athens Branch of ASALH (GA) Everyday Labor of Black History. Ardie Myers, Bethel Dukes Branch of ASALH In Conversation: Spotlight on African American Life and History. Rebekah McCloud, Central Florida Dorothy Turner Johnson Branch of ASALH Ishmael, Minny, and Elizabeth Keith: Following a Family from Enslavement to Freedom, 1842-1851. Will Stanier, University of Georgia Libraries Liberty in Ink: Bondage and Freedom at the Press. Angelica Williams, University of South Carolina-Center for Civil Right History and Research Necessity as Invention: Black Entrepreneurial Labor and the fight for Economic Agency in Atlanta. Theophilus Humphrey, Georgia State University - African American Studies Preserving the Narrative: Black Rap and Black Student Life During the Early Years of Integration at USC. Julio Domingo, University of South Carolina-Center for Civil Right History and Research Rising through Resistance: Black Women’s Pursuit of Higher Education. Aria Huntley, North Carolina Central University SEIU Black Security Officers’ Unionization Campaign in Los Angeles, A Landmark Example of How Labor Organizing Can Be a Tool for Racial and Economic Justice. Lura Daniels-Ball, Our Authors Study Club Branch of ASALH Shemancipation: African American Women’s Experience of Turning 50. Lisa Bradley, Henry Ford College Silenced Narratives: Epistemicide and the Threat to Black Cultural Memory. Vivian Bynoe, Georgia Southern University “The bridges that carried us over”: Centering Political Strategies and Tactics in Teaching the Black Freedom Struggle. Mary E Potorti, MCPHS University The Friendship and Collaborative Accomplishments of Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune and Eleanor Roosevelt. Evelyn Bethune, Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune Family Legacy Inc “The Importance of Historical Truth” - The Port Chicago explosion and the atomic bomb. Daisy B Herndon, The PCW Project (Port Chicago Witness) The Jeanes Education and Arts Initiative. Paul Ringel, High Point University; Kamille Henry Bostick, Center for Racial Equity in Education; Virginia Summey The Outsider Preservation Initiative: Participatory Research Approaches to Place Documentation and Regeneration. Andrea R Roberts, University of Virginia The Paulinian Age: Black Queen to Move, the Story of an Enslaved Woman’s Path to Freedom and Social Rights. Kendric Perkins, Historic New Orleans Collection We Dance to Be Seen: Divine Feline and the Value of Black Dance Teams at PWIs. Tahnija Person, Ohio University We Will Not Be Weary in Well Doing: An Historical Overview of Black Teachers Navigating Contentious Teaching Contexts.

Kristen Duncan, Clemson University; Alex Chisholm, Clemson University; Terrance Joshua Lewis Working for the Vote: An Analysis of the Effect of Changing Voting Laws on the Black Working Class in the United States. Tailar Brown- Smith 181.

10:15 am to 11:45 am

Panel SessionInt’l Ballroom B-AV - M2 North Tower Plenary Sessions

THE ABWH BOOKLIST: A DISCUSSION OF BLACK WOMEN’S HISTORIOGRAPHY. Chairs: Crystal Moten, Obama Foundation Karen L. Kossie-Chernyshev, Texas Southern University AT L A N TA , G E O R G I A | T H E 2 02 5 B L AC K H I S TO RY T H E M E : A F R I C A N A M E R I C A N S A N D L A B O R

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Participants: ABWH Booklist Committee Member 1. Sierra Phillips ABWH Booklist Committee Member 2. Tyrone McKinley Freeman, Joseph T. Taylor Branch of ASALH ABWH Booklist Committee Member 3. Charissa Threat, Chapman University Commentator: Stephanie Y. Evans, Georgia State University 182.

10:15 am to 11:45 am

Roundtable

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TOWARD BLACK HEALING: THE USES OF AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND BIOGRAPHY IN FINDING WELLNESS. Chair: Deborah Gray White, Rutgers University Presenters: Natalie Byfield Carolyn Brown, Rutgers Marisa J Fuentes, Rutgers University Judith Byfield, Cornell University 075.

10:30 am to 11:45 am

Panel Session

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TELLING OUR STORIES: EXPANDING THE NARRATIVE ON INCLUSIVE EDUCATION AT HOME AND ABROAD. Chair: Annette Teasdell, Clark Atlanta University | School of Education Participants: The Legacies of Elizabeth Evelyn Wright and Mary McCleod Bethune: Establishing HBCUs to Empower Today’s Youth. Zaakira Sadrud-Din, Tuskegee University-Department of History and Political Science Black Podium Power: Tommie Smith, John Carlos and Their Olympic Protest. Annette Teasdell, Clark Atlanta University | School of Education; R.A. Ptahsen-Shabazz, Nassau Community College Expanding the Narrative on Inclusive Education Around the World: A Senegalese Journey. Annette Teasdell, Clark Atlanta University | School of Education 12:00pm 183.

12:00 pm to 1:45 pm

Panel Session

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ISSUES IN SOCIAL JUSTICE AND SPORTS THROUGH THE LENS OF COLLEGE FOOTBALL. Chair: Derrick E. White, University of Kentucky Presenters: Morris Gardner Stephane Dunn Carl Suddler, Emory University 184.

12:00 pm to 1:45 pm

Presidential Session

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FRAMING THE “FREEDOM SEASON”: A MEDITATION ON 1963.

Chair: Karsonya Wise Whitehead, Loyola University-Department of Communication Presenters: Peniel E. Joseph, University of Texas at Austin - Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs Zebulon Vance Miletsky, Manhattan Branch of ASALH Kellie Carter Jackson, Wellesley College Discussant: Candace Cunningham, University of Arkansas

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JOHN BLASSINGAME LUNCHEON. Invocation and Grace: Anton Elwood, Saint Phillips AME Church Greetings: Rhonda Taylor, Georgia House of Representatives Mawuli Davis,Civil Rights Attorney Karsonya Wise Whitehead, Loyola University-Department of Communications Emcee: Rarione Maniece, Reporter/Anchor 11Alive News Benediction: Hermon Skip Mason, Interdenominational Theological Center 131.

12:00 pm to 1:45 pm

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WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? LESSONS LEARNED AND STRATEGIES FOR TEACHING, RESEARCHING, AND PRESERVING CIVIL RIGHTS HISTORY. Chair: Bobby Donaldson, University of South Carolina-Center for Civil Right History and Research Presenters: Michael L. Chambers Theodore R Foster Rebekah Turnmire, University of South Carolina-Center for Civil Right History and Research Millicent E Brown, Independent Historian and Museum Consultant, Lightbright, LLC Reginald Chapple, National Park Service--Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historical Park

2:15pm 2:15 pm to 3:45 pm

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THE LEGACY AND SCHOLARSHIP OF JOE WILLIAM TROTTER, JR. Moderator: Naomi R. Williams Participant: Augustus Wood Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua Blair LM Kelley, National Humanities Center Leslie M. Harris, Northwestern University Commentator: Joe W. Trotter, Carnegie Mellon University Dept. of History 186a.

4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Panel Session

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CARTER G. WOODSON’S LIVING LEGACY: HOW HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS HAVE TAKEN BOLD STEPS TO ENSURE BLACK INTELLECTUALISM IS PART OF THE HIGH SCHOOL CONVERSATION. Presenters: Amari Joseph Tomel Lucas Tyler McCullough Christian Pierre-Louis Hudson Sherwood AT L A N TA , G E O R G I A | T H E 2 02 5 B L AC K H I S TO RY T H E M E : A F R I C A N A M E R I C A N S A N D L A B O R 69

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Liam Sherwood Oliver Sutton Solomon Gardner, The Collegiate School 4:00pm 187.

4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Paper Session

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TEACHING, TORTURE, AND TERROR: BLACK BODIES UNDER SIEGE IN HISTORICAL CONTEXT. Chair: Chelsea Birchmier Participants: Teaching While Black: Labor, Gender, and the Lynching of Roxie Elliott in 1890s Alabama. Isabella Garrison, University of Alabama Laundering Black Rage: The Laundering of the Tulsa Massacre. Rasul Mowatt, Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management, College of Natural Resources and Affiliate, North Carolina State University; Too Black Joe Clemons, Black Myths Podcast and Black Alliance for Peace Come As You Are, Hoods Not Required: The 1942 Lynching of James Person in Illinois. Renatto Carr, Southern Illinois University Reliving the Past: Exploring the Connections of the Racial Uprising and Riots of 1919, 1968, and 2020 in Chicago. Brandon Stokes Digital Humanities project that maps resistance of Africans and African Descendants to enslavement, colonialism, and segregation.

Ife Williams, African Heritage Studies Association 188.

4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Panel Session

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WE LIVE IN PICTURES AND WORDS: FINDING THE LABORS OF BLACK WOMEN IN NON-TRADITIONAL ARCHIVES. Chair: Tara White, Harper Councill Trenholm Branch of Montgomery Participants: Grown Folks’ Business: Life Writing and Black Women’s Legacy Making. Michelle Scott, UMBC Photographing Eusebia Cosme y Almanza: Portraits of a Black Cuban Performer, 1930s-1950s. Takkara Brunson One Picture and One Hundred Poems: Building the Archive of Ethel Trew Dunlap White Woman Black Nationalist Poet. Natanya P. Duncan, Queens College City University of New York 189.

4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Panel Session

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THE TOWN THAT FREEDOM BUILT: BLACK LABOR, BLACK TOWNSHIPS, AND AFROFUTURIST IMAGINARIES. Chair: Walter Greason, Macalester College/Graphic History Company Participants: Eatonville, Florida: The Case for Preservation. Scot A. French, Central Florida Dorothy Turner Johnson Branch of ASALH Room for Recovery: Reclaiming Black Women’s Knowledge of Place and Space Making. Michelle Cowin Gibbs, California State University Long Beach Commentator: Julian C Chambliss, Michigan State University 190.

4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Panel Session

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CHATTAHOOCHEE BRICK COMPANY AND CONVICTION LEASING: A COMMUNITY’S MEMORIAL PROJECT. Chair: R. Candy Tate, Atlanta Branch of ASALH Participants: Slavery By Another Name: The Chattahoochee Brick Company. Doug Blackmon, OAH Mattie Crawford, Blacksmith and the Fight to Remember and Reconcile. Donna Y Stephens, Proctor Creek Stewardship Council

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Chattahoochee Brick Company Memorial and Greenspace: City of Atlanta. Anthony B. Knight, City of Atlanta Commentator: R. Candy Tate, Atlanta Branch of ASALH 191.

4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

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MOBILITY, OPPORTUNITY, AND CHOICE: A BLACK FAMILY’S JOURNEYS TO OBERLIN, CANADA, KANSAS CITY, AND CALIFORNIA. Chair: Melissa Stuckey, University of South Carolina Participants: Canadian Freedom: The Jones Family and Black Canadian Life outside of Enslaved Status. Deirdre McCorkindale, University of Guelph “‘By Fair Means or Foul’: The Visionary Life of Anna H. Jones’”. Bridget Haney, State Historical Society of Missouri The Jones Family Crossing the Border: Opportunity from Ontario to Oberlin, British Columbia to California. Adam Arenson, Iona University 192.

4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

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BLACK STRATEGIC MOTHERING AND (RE)PRODUCTIVE LABOR IN THE AFTERLIVES OF SLAVERY. Chair: Riché Barnes, University of Florida Participants: Black Strategic Mothering, Maternal Loss, and the Say Her Name Movement for Black Lives. Riché Barnes, University of Florida Interrogating the History of Misogynoir. Victoria Peters, University of Florida Resilience, Representation, and Restoration: Intersecting Narratives of Black and Brown Women. Chalisa Budhai, University of Florida 193.

4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

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SOVEREIGNTY IN BLACK: ATLANTIC AFRICANS AND THE QUEST FOR FREEDOM. Chair: Gerald Horne Participants: Black Sovereignty in the Age of White Supremacy. Elijah Robert Zehyoue, Howard University, Department of History Black Sovereignty in Nineteenth Century Liberia: A Confluence of Antecedents and Traditions. Carl Patrick Burrowes Black Sovereignty in Memory. Eola Lewis Dance, VISION Collective LLC 194.

4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

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BLACK STUDIES IN A DARK CONJUNCTURE. Chair: Minkah Makalani, Johns Hopkins University Presenters: Quito Swan, The George Washington University Monique Bedasse, New York University: Center for the Study of Africa Chad Williams, Brandeis University 196.

4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

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SAFETY NET EXPERIENCES AMONG FAMILY SAFETY NETS: SOCIAL WELFARE POLICIES AND SOCIAL SUPPORT AMONG AFRICAN AMERICAN GRANDMOTHERS RAISING THEIR GRANDCHILDREN. Chair: LaShawnDa L. Pittman AT L A N TA , G E O R G I A | T H E 2 02 5 B L AC K H I S TO RY T H E M E : A F R I C A N A M E R I C A N S A N D L A B O R

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Participants: No Longer the Village: African American Grandmother Caregivers and the Decline of Community Support Systems. Gaynell Simpson, Georgia Gwinnett College Voices of Grandparents Residing in Grandfamilies Housing. Sandra Edmonds Crewe, Howard University School of Social Work, Rutgers University School of Social Work How Well Does the “Safety Net” Work for Family Safety Nets? Economic Survival Strategies Among Black Grandmothers Raising Their Grandchildren. LaShawnDa L. Pittman 197.

4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

WorkshopInt’l Ballroom A- AV M2 North Tower (Presidential Sessions) TEACHING BLACK HISTORY AS RESISTANCE.

Leader: Lisa Brock, ASALH for the Howard/Mellon Social Justice Program Sponsor: Howard University Social Justice Consortium 198.

4:00 pm to 6:00 pm

ASALH Film Festival

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CLARA’S FRUIT (2025), DIR. MATTHEW MORGAN; HOLLYWOOD SHUFFLE (1987), DIR. ROBERT TOWNSEND. 199.

4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Panel Session

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AFRICANA STUDIES AND DIGITAL, PUBLIC, AND ENVIRONMENTAL HUMANITIES AT UNF, PART I. Chair: Felicia Bevel, University of North Florida at Jacksonville Participants: Communal Restoration Through an Orientation of Care. Tru Leverette Hall, University of North Florida “Viaje en el tiempo” by Eblin Grueso: Lament and Burial as a Call to Memory. Constanza López Baquero, University of North Florida Reassembling Antebellum Slavery’s Archives: Research, Teaching, and Public History in Northeastern Florida. Justin Rogers, University of North Florida Commentator: Felicia Bevel, University of North Florida at Jacksonville 200.

4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Roundtable

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FRUITS OF OUR LABOR: BLACK ARIZONANS BUILT THE AMERICAN SOUTHWEST. Chair: Christina Carney, University of Missouri Presenters: Jessica Salow, Arizona State University Margaret Hangan, MHanngan llc Matthew C. Whitaker, Arizona State University L. Greg McAllister, Northern Arizona University A. Duku Anokye, Arizona State University Commentator: Anthony Pratcher 201.

4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

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“UNTIL IT IS FACED”: USING PRIMARY SOURCES TO TELL THE STORY OF CIVIL RIGHTS IN MISSISSIPPI. Chair: DeeDee Baldwin, Mississippi State University Presenters:

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DeeDee Baldwin, Mississippi State University Albert Dorsey, Jackson State University Jessica Perkins Smith, Mississippi State University 202.

4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

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BOOK ROUNDTABLE: MARY PHILLIPS, BLACK PANTHER WOMAN: THE POLITICAL AND SPIRITUAL LIFE OF ERICKA HUGGINS. Chair: LaShawn Harris, Michigan State University Presenters: Ashley Farmer, University of Texas-Austin Sheena Harris Hayes, Auburn University Stephane Dunn Commentator: Mary Phillips, Department of African American Studies-University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 203.

4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Roundtable

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A LABOR OF FREEDOM, THEN AND NOW WITH THE MOVEMENT HISTORY INITIATIVE. Chair: Jessica A. Rucker, University of Maryland College Park Presenters: Emilye Crosby, Rochester Branch Judy Richardson, SNCC Legacy Project Hasan Kwame Jeffries, Ohio State University Christina J Thomas 204.

4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

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THE BURDENS AND BENEFITS OF BLACK WOMEN’S LABOR AS ACTIVISM. Chair: Crystal R. Sanders, Dr. Edna McKenzie Branch of ASALH Participants: Black Women’s Fugitive Resistance in the Civil Rights Movement. Leslie Houseworth, Emory University Behind the Voice: Spiritual Activism and the Toll of Labor in the Life of Mahalia Jackson. Iris Manburg, The University of Chicago Echoes of Resistance: Cultural Activism in the Black Freedom Struggle, 1950s-1970s. Marquita Reed, Tennessee State University -Brown-Daniel Library Commentator: Rose Archer, Emory University 205.

4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Special Book Panel

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A HINE-HORNE BOOK ROUNDTABLE: PENIEL JOSEPH’S FREEDOM SEASON: HOW 1963 TRANSFORMED AMERICA’S CIVIL RIGHTS REVOLUTION. Discussants: Ibram X Kendi Zebulon Vance Miletsky, Manhattan Branch of ASALH Todd Allen, Messiah University Author: Peniel E. Joseph, University of Texas at Austin - Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs 6:15pm

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KUFUNDISHA: A FRAMEWORK FOR ASALH FREEDOM SCHOOLS. Chair: Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua Leaders: Helen Neville Terrance Thomas Augustus Wood Commentator: Karsonya Wise Whitehead, Loyola University-Department of Communication 7:00pm 207.

7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

Media Session

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ASSAULT ON THE 14TH: THE CHALLENGE FOR FREEDOM AND SLAM BUFFALO: INSIDE THE NJOZI PETRY SLAM EXPERIENCE: DOCUMENTARIES. Presenter: Ntare Ali Gault, UMGC Commentator: Erika Gault 208.

7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

Paper Session

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“GENTILITY, LABOR, AND REALITY: UNPACKING BLACK IMMIGRANT EXPERIENCES IN TWENTIETH CENTURY AMERICA.” Chair: Tomiko Michelle Meeks, Howard University Participants: Collective Bahamian Labor - Memory-Making on Washington Avenue. Valerie L. Patterson, ASALH South Florida, Inc. “‘Gentility’ of Black Immigrant Labor in Twentieth Century America: Perceptions, Myths, and Realities..” Violet Showers Johnson, Texas Agricultural and Mechanical University Intimate Economies of Black Immigrant Bodies in an Age of U.S. Immigration and Detention Specter. Emillion Adekoya, Stony Brook University 209.

7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

Media Session

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ARE YOU A LIBRARIAN? THE UNTOLD STORY OF BLACK LIBRARIANS. Presenter: Romare Bearden Branch of ASALH, Romare Bearden Branch of ASALH of Charlotte, NC Moderator: Rodney E. Freeman, Reminisce Preservation LLC Commentator: Aisha M. Johnson 209.

7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

Meeting

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INFORMATION PROFESSIONALS OF ASALH (IP OF ASALH).

Participant: Aisha M. Johnson Aaisha Haykal, Charleston Area Branch ASALH

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STORIES YET UNTOLD: BIOGRAPHY AS A VEHICLE FOR EXCAVATING NEW HISTORIES, METHODS, POSSIBILITIES IN BLACK WOMEN’S HISTORY. Chair: Gloria Jesuyemi Ashaolu, University of California, Los Angeles Participants: In the Hidden, the Whispered, and Known: Black Women’s Biographies as Conduits of the Inscape of a Movement, Moment, and More. Gloria Jesuyemi Ashaolu, University of California, Los Angeles ‘Trailblazers and Change seekers’: The Origins of a Political Family. Jada Gannaway, Michigan State University The Matriarch of Civil Rights: Olive Beasley’s Time in Flint, Michigan. Ethan Veenhuis Barajas, Michigan State University Commentator: Ethan Veenhuis Barajas, Michigan State University 211.

7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

Paper Session

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“RECLAIMING ROOTS AND RESISTANCE: NEW INTERVENTIONS IN AFRICAN AMERICAN POPULAR HISTORY.” Chair: Jatisha Marsh, Georgia State University Participants: Defining Mammy: A Gender Analysis of the Mammy Figure. Loneise Thomas Routes and Roots- Black Migration during the Mid-20th Century. Jessica Terry-Elliott A Labor of Love - The Black Art Labor Force of FDR’s Works Progress Administration. Scott Terry, Mahogany Gallery Black Self-Defense in Nineteenth-Century Iowa. David Brodnax, Trinity Christian College Power and Preservation: Black Images in the Archives. Arnetta Girardeau 212.

7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

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NEW DIRECTIONS IN THE AFRICAN DIASPORA. Chair: Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie, Howard University Participants: Black Power in Britain: An Indictment against the 1968 Race Relations Act. Melanie Holmes, University of South Carolina at Columbia Sugar and Poison: Francois Makandal and the Politics of Haitian Vodou. Christopher Newman, Howard University Narrating the Diaspora: Analog and Digital. Andrew Maginn, Middle Tennessee State University From the Sokoto Jihad to the U.S. Civil War: African Military History in North America. Ira Dworkin, Texas Agricultural and Mechanical University Dusé Mohamed Ali, 1866-1945, International Journalist, Activist, Actor. Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie, Howard University 214.

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ENERGY, CLIMATE, AND INSURGENT ECOLOGIES: NEW DIRECTIONS IN BLACK ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY. Chair: J.T. Roane, Rutgers University - New Brunswick Participants: “Black Women in Flux: Woods, Water, and the Insurgent Ecology of the Great Dismal Swamp.” Kathryn E Benjamin Golden “Carbon Conscripts: Enslaved Women’s Labor and the Origins of Climate Change in the Colonial Chesapeake.” Eric Herschthal, University of Utah “Museum in Color: Building Pathways to Professionalism for Cultural Workers Through Research and Community.” Myriah Martin “’They’re Gonna Build a River’: Race, Energy, and Arboreal Continuance in the Santee Cooper Basin.” Gwendolyn Wallace, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 215.

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BLACK TRANSNATIONAL HISTORIES: VISIONS OF LIBERIA, ECHOES ACROSS THE ATLANTIC. Chair: Herbert Brewer, Morgan State University Participants: A Gendered History of the Erskine and Blyden Family of Liberia and Sierra Leone. Nemata Blyden, University of Virginia The Richmond African Baptist Missionary Society and the Founding of Liberia. Herbert Brewer, Morgan State University Laboring Diasporas within Africa: Congo Recaptives on the Lutheran Muhlenberg Mission in 19th Century Liberia. Yolanda Covington-Ward, W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Liberia in the African American Imagination. Elijah Robert Zehyoue, Howard University, Department of History 216.

7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

Media Session

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AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY AND HAIR-TAGE: THE STRUGGLE FOR NATURAL CULTURAL EXPRESSION. Presenter: Louise Dente, Bronx Branch of ASALH Participant: William Seraile, Manhattan Branch of ASALH 217.

7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

Media Session

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“SOMEBODY TAKE ME!” LABOR AND OTHER THEMES IN RYAN COOGLER’S SINNERS. Presenter: Sean Kornegay, North Carolina Central University Commentator: Vergil Demery, North Carolina Central University 218.

7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

Workshop

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MAKE A SIMPLE FRAME VERSION OF THE GHANAIAN TALKING DRUM, THE DONDO. Presenter: Craig D. Woodson Leader: Craig D. Woodson 219.

7:00 pm to 10:00 pm

Authors Book Signing

Int’l Ballroom Foyer- M2 North Tower

AUTHORS BOOK SIGNING. Participants: Zora, the Story Keeper. Ebony Wilkins Chance or Circumstance? A Memoir and Journey through the Struggle for Civil Rights. James R. Mapp Freedom Season: How 1963 Transformed America’s Civil Rights Revolution. Peniel E. Joseph Tell Her Story: Eleanor Bumpurs and the Police Killing That Galvanized New York City. LaShawn Harris This Is Rhythm: Ella Jenkins, Children’s Music, and the Long Civil Rights Movement. Gayle Wald Emmett J. Scott: Power Broker of the Tuskegee Machine. Will Guzman The Owl and The Great Tree. Russell Drake Roses in December: Black Life in Hanover County from Civil War to Civil Rights. Jody L. Allen “Payne-ful” Business: Charleston’s Journey to Truth. Margaret Seidler Gratuitous Angst in White America: A Theory of Whiteness and Crime. Deena A. Isom Hubert Harrison: Forbidden Genius of Black Radicalism. Brian Kwoba Discovering My Southern Legacy: Slave Culture and the American South. Deirdre Foreman Where Colors Meet: A Tapestry of Black & White - Stories of Courage, Connection & Transformation. Karen Flaherty Model Schools in the Model City: Race, Planning, and Education in the Nation’s Capital. Amber Wiley Healing Words: The Therapeutic Power of Journaling. Tanya England Black Panther Woman: The Political and Spiritual Life of Ericka Huggins. Mary Phillips Daughter of the Boycott: Carrying on a Montgomery Family’s Civil Rights Legacy. Karen Gray Houston

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Ghost Skins. Vern Smith With Faith in God and Heart and Mind: A History of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity. Maurice Hobson, Georgia State University Africana Studies Nurture: A Nurturing Approach To Trauma. Mattie Jones It Took Courage: Eliza Winston’s Quest for Freedom. Christopher Lehman, St. Cloud State University The Graphic History of Hip Hop, Volume 1 (Graphic Novel). Walter Greason Unleashing Black Power: Grassroots Organizing in Harlem and the Advent of the Long, Hot Summers. Peter Blackmer Black Woman on Board: Claudia Hampton, the California State University and the Fight to Save Affirmative Action. Donna J. Nicol I Didn’t Come Here to Lie: My Life and Education. Elizabeth Todd-Breland My Mother’s Tomorrow: Dispatches Through the Lens of Baltimore’s Black Butterfly. Karsonya Wise Whitehead Essential Soldiers: Women Activists and Black Power Movement Leadership. Kenja McCray Hidden Hospitality: Untold Stories of Black Hotel, Motel, and Resort Owners from the Pioneer Days to the Civil Rights Era. Calvin Stovall Continually Working: Black Women, Community Intellectualism, and Economic Justice in Postwar Milwaukee. Crystal Moten “Become the Pebble: An Eclectic Collection of Poems.” Bonnyeclaire Smith Stewart Prose to the People: A Celebration of Black Bookstores. Katie Mitchell Authentic African American Poetry. Frederick V. Newsome Class Warfare in Black Atlanta: Grassroots Struggles, Power, and Repression Under Gentrification. Augustus Wood An Efficient Womanhood Women and the Making of the Universal Negro Improvement Association. Natanya P. Duncan COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War. Edda L. Fields-Black A Balm in Gilead: Eulogies of Comfort. Randall Webber Gullah Cuisine by Land and Sea Publisher Heather Buchanan Victors: A Novel of Love, War and Jazz. Charlotte A. Jenkins A Journey Far: Ibere (Beginnings) and Ọkunrin (A Man). Arcilous Mincey Children of the Struggle and the Ancestors Who Stayed at The Tuskegee Institute High School Class of 1964. Sonjia Parker Redmond A Southern Underground Railroad: Black Georgians and the Promise of Spanish Florida and Indian Country. Paul Moffatt Pressly This Far by Grace, the Incredible Story of One Man’s Journey Out of Darkness into God’s Marvelous Light! Donald Lee Johnson T.O.B.A. “Time”: Black Vaudeville and the Theater Owners Booking Association in Jazz Age America. Michelle Scott Victors: A Novel of Love, War and Jazz. Heather Buchanan The Presumption: Racial Injustice in the United States. Donald M Jones A Walk in Their Kicks: Literacy, Identity, and the Schooling of Young Black Males. Aaron Johnson Do You Remember? Celebrating 50 Years of Earth, Wind and Fire. Trenton Bailey America’s Black Capital: How African Americans Remade Atlanta in the Shadow of the Confederacy. Jeffrey Ogbar Disreputable Women: Black Sex Economies and the Making of San Diego. Christina Carney Raising the Race: Black Career Women Redefine Marriage, Motherhood, and Community. Riché Barnes Black, Not Historically Black: Towards the Pan Black College and University. Joseph Jones “Savior’s Day.” Alan Winter Kidnapped at Sea; the Civil War Voyage of David Henry White. Andrew Sillen Memoir of John Baptiste Stradford: Hero of Black Wall Street. Frederick Williams 7:30pm 220.

7:30 pm to 10:00 pm

ASALH Film Festival

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UNION (2024) (WITH GUEST CHRIS SMALLS), DIRS. BRETT STORY, STEPHEN T. MAING. 8:00pm 221.

8:00 pm to 10:00 pm

Reception

Int’l Ballroom D- M2 North Tower Meal Functions

“BOOTS ON THE GROUND” FRIDAY NIGHT IN RECEPTION. Greetings: Gerald Griggs, NAACP Atlanta & Georgia Belinda Walker, National Coalition of 100 Black Women, Inc.- Metropolitan Atlanta Chapter Karsonya Wise Whitehead, Loyola University-Department of Communications Invocation: Anita M. Shepherd, James Weldon Johnson Branch ASALH Jacksonville, Fl AT L A N TA , G E O R G I A | T H E 2 02 5 B L AC K H I S TO RY T H E M E : A F R I C A N A M E R I C A N S A N D L A B O R

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Emcee: Nicole Carr Performer(s): Myran Billups Sponsor: AmaWaterways, LLC

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Check-In

RegistrationRedwood Pre-Function Area- M1 North Tower Registration CONFERENCE REGISTRATION. 8:00am

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8:00 am to 5:00 pm

Exhibitor

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SATURDAY INT’L BALLROOM EF EXHIBITS. 8:30am 224.

8:30 am to 9:50 am

Roundtable

Birch- AV Atrium Level South Tower

THE CONTINENT AND THE DIASPORA SINCE 1994.

Chair: Walter Greason, Macalester College/Graphic History Company Presenters: Walter Greason, Macalester College/Graphic History Company Tim Fielder, Graphic History Company Christina Hungspruke, Graphic History Company Reynaldo Anderson 225.

8:30 am to 9:50 am

Panel Session

Pine- AV Atrium Level South Tower

EVERYDAY STRUGGLES, EVERYDAY RESISTANCE: THE LABOR OF BLACK FEMINIST ORGANIZING IN THE 1960S AND 1970S. Chair: Tiana U Wilson, University of Pittsburgh Participants: From Old Left to New Left: Black Feminism of the 1970s. Tiana U Wilson, University of Pittsburgh Motherhood Menace: Black Women and the Politics of Love. Casey Nichols Organizing for Care: How Black Women in Atlanta Developed a Black Feminist Politics of Reproduction. Eshe Sherley, Wake Forest University Black Feminism’s Organizing Labor: From Interstitial Activism to Changing the Face of Leadership. Ileana Nachescu Commentator: Premilla Nadasen, Barnard College 226.

8:30 am to 9:50 am

Panel Session

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BUILDING ON STRONG LEGACIES: THE ANCESTRAL THROUGHLINE OF BLACK EDUCATION ACTIVISM IN PITTSBURGH. Chair:

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Allyce Pinchback-Johnson, Pinchback Consulting Participants: Towards Root Cause Inquiry: A Case Study for the Equity Advisory Panel (EAP). IAsia Thomas, The Board of Public Education of the School District of Pittsburgh For Black Women Who Have Reconsidered Flipping School Boards When Letters and Lawsuits Weren’t Enough: A Case Study on the Power Shifting Efforts of BW4BE. Allyce Pinchback-Johnson, Pinchback Consulting Commentators: IAsia Thomas, The Board of Public Education of the School District of Pittsburgh 227.

8:30 am to 9:50 am

Paper Session

Maple A-AV Atrium Level South Tower

“DEBILITATED BY DESIGN: RACE, GENDER, AND THE MACHINERY OF INCARCERATION.” Chair: Bishop W. Lawton Participants: “Domestic Carceral Labor: Race, Gender, and the Transformation of Punishment at Eastern State Penitentiary.” Whitney Fields “The Struggle of Alabama Prisoners is the Struggle of All People”: Black Power Unionism and the Carceral State. Logan Barrett, Auburn University The Longest Day and Night: Progressive Era Prison Reform and the Classification of Black Men in America’s Heart of Darkness.

Douglas James Flowe Debilitating Incarceration: The Case of Dessie X. Woods. Destiney Lynn Linker 228.

8:30 am to 9:50 am

Panel Session

Maple B- AV Atrium Level South Tower

FREEDOM MAKING: BLACK LITERARY AND MATERIAL CULTURES IN EARLY AMERICA. Chair: John J Garcia, American Antiquarian Society Participants: “‘We Admit It, If You Please’: Early Black Sermons and Itinerant Practices.” Chinaza Amaeze Okoli, Eastern Kentucky University “The Slave Ship as a Literary and Theoretical Tool in Nineteenth-Century Black Writing.” Courtney Murray Ross, The Pennsylvania State University “Fingerprinting the Soil: Reassessing Artisanal Process within Slavery Studies.” Hampton Smith, Massachusetts Institute of Technology “Andrew Cain, Abolitionist Printer in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia.” John J Garcia, American Antiquarian Society 229.

8:30 am to 9:50 am

Roundtable

Maple C- AV Atrium Level South Tower

“REVEAL THE BEAUTY”: THE LITERATURE AND ART OF THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE. Chair: Tameka Hobbs, African American Research Library and Cultural Center Presenters: Shawn Christian, Florida International University Christopher Norwood, Hampton Art Lovers Laura Helton, University of Delaware Erin Purdy, Broward County Library 230.

8:30 am to 9:50 am

Panel Session

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REESE STREET IN ATHENS, GEORGIA: AN AFRICAN AMERICAN NEIGHBORHOOD’S FIGHT TO RETAIN COMMUNITY AND IDENTITY. Chair: Freda S. Giles, Athens Branch of ASALH (GA) Participants: “Rooted in Reese Street: Standing on Their Shoulders Through Community, Education and Legacy.” Hope Iglehart, Athens Branch AT L A N TA , G E O R G I A | T H E 2 02 5 B L AC K H I S TO RY T H E M E : A F R I C A N A M E R I C A N S A N D L A B O R

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of ASALH (GA) “Preserving the African American Built Environment: National and Local Designation of Historic Resources.” Amelia Anne Andrews, Athens Branch of ASALH (GA) “Locating Three Generations of Jackson-Brydie Educators on North Finley Street.” Jane McPherson, University of Georgia School of Social Work “Black Cartographies and Community Geography: Putting Black History on the Map in Athens, Georgia.” Jerry Shannon, University of Georgia Department of Geography 231.

8:30 am to 9:50 am

Paper Session

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“LIBRARIES, MERGERS, AND MEMORY: UNCOVERING UNTOLD CIVIL RIGHTS HISTORIES.” Chair: Aisha M. Johnson Participants: Complex Solidarities: Irish Americans, Northern Ireland Civil Rights, and the Black Freedom Struggle. James Robert Cooke The Tougaloo Nine Library Sit-In at the Crossroads of Civil War and Civil Rights. Michael J. O’Brien, NOTBEMOVED.COM An Air of Inevitability: Activist Communities, Memory, and the Desegregation of Higher Education in South Carolina. Thomas Ritchie, Tuskegee University The Motor City Merger. Jamon Jordan, ASALH Detroit Branch A House of Humanity: Supporting Rosa Lee Ingram’s Children, 1948-1955. Evan Kutzler, Western Michigan University 232.

8:30 am to 9:50 am

Special Book Panel

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A HINE-HORNE BOOK ROUNDTABLE: AUGUSTUS WOOD’S CLASS WARFARE IN BLACK ATLANTA: GRASSROOTS STRUGGLES, POWER, AND REPRESSION UNDER GENTRIFICATION. Discussants: Heather Ann Thompson, University of Michigan Akinyele Umoja, Georgia State University African American Studies Todd C Shaw, Department of African American Studies, University of South Carolina Author: Augustus Wood 233.

8:30 am to 9:50 am

Panel Session

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AFRICAN AMERICANS AND LABOR: THE LEGACY OF WORK AND SOCIAL JUSTICE. Chair: Sheena Harris Hayes, Auburn University Participants: The Most Dangerous Negro Woman in America: Lucille Randolph, Invisible Architect of Black Labor Politics. Shennette GarrettScott, Association of Black Women Historians Black Washerwomen in Memphis, TN 1880-1920. Beverly Bond, The University of Memphis Black Agricultural Activism in Selma, Alabama: Samuel William Boynton and the Dallas County Negro Farm Bureau. Cherisse R. Jones-Branch “People Can Only Take So Much” : Sylvia Woods and the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression. Natanya P. Duncan, Queens College City University of New York 234.

8:30 am to 9:50 am Sessions)

Panel Session

Int’l Ballroom A- AV M2 North Tower (Presidential

ADVANCING BLACK STRATEGISTS INITIATIVE SESSION. Chair: Augustus Wood 235.

8:30 am to 9:50 am

Panel Session

Juniper- AV M2 North Tower

AFRICANA STUDIES AND DIGITAL, PUBLIC, AND ENVIRONMENTAL HUMANITIES AT UNF, PART II.

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Chair: Tru Leverette Hall, University of North Florida Participants: Africana Studies and the Archive Track. Laura Heffernan Decolonizing the Lens? Afro-Mexican Depictions in La Negrada. Andrea Gaytán Cuesta, University of North Florida Rethinking Local Black History Through the Digital: Black Cemeteries as Archives. Felicia Bevel, University of North Florida at Jacksonville Building a Collaborative Digital Edition of the Letters of Freedom (1767) of Javiera Londoño. Clayton McCarl, University of North Florida Commentator: Tru Leverette Hall, University of North Florida 236.

8:30 am to 9:50 am

Roundtable

Cypress- M2 North Tower

FINDING OUR VOICE: THE FAMILY CIRCLE OF ARLINGTON HOUSE. Chair: Courtney Hobson, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Presenters: Cheryl J. LaRoche, University of Maryland College Ric Murphy, National Strategy for Community Strategies Stephen Hammond, Arlington House Descendants’ Family Circle Membe Susan Glisson, The BIG We Mary Custis Glover, Arlington House Descendants’ Family Circle Cassie Anderson, National Portrait Gallery 237.

8:30 am to 9:50 am

Paper Session

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“SOUNDS OF BLACKNESS: MUSIC, MEMORY, AND LABOR IN THE MAKING OF POPULAR CULTURE.” Chair: Anton D. House Participants: Resistance and Song: Locating the Black Voice in Hip Hop Music. Zoe Young, North Carolina Central University “The Message in the Music:” Black Resistance in the Philly Sound. Brianna Quade, The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee The role of African American Labor in creating Music City. Jon Sewell, Middle Tennessee State University The Gospel of Willmer ‘Little Ax’ Broadnax: Sacred Music as Archive. Bianki Torres 238.

8:30 am to 9:50 am

Roundtable

Chestnut- M3 North Tower

“THERE IS ALWAYS WORK TO DO”: BLACK WOMEN AND THE MAKING OF THE BLACK SOUTH. Chair: Beatrice J Adams Presenters: Mahaliah A Little, University of California, Irvine Jasmin C Howard, Assistant Professor of History, North Carolina Central University La’Nora Jefferson, Doctoral Candidate in History, Rutgers-New Brunswick 239.

8:30 am to 9:50 am

Paper Session

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“KEEPERS AND CREATORS: ARCHIVING BLACK WOMANHOOD THROUGH STORY, SPIRIT, AND SURVIVAL.” Chair: Loron Benton, University of South Carolina Participants: Grandmothering While Black: A Twenty-First Century Story of Love, Coercion, and Survival. LaShawnDa L. Pittman Transformative travel in the lives of Black girls and women. Tijuani Phelps Jackson, Arizona State University AT L A N TA , G E O R G I A | T H E 2 02 5 B L AC K H I S TO RY T H E M E : A F R I C A N A M E R I C A N S A N D L A B O R

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“Real Hot Girl Shit or Not: The Autonomy of Black Womanhood from Sally Hemings to Meg Thee Stallion.” Rachael Falu, Morgan State University How Wolves Change Rivers : Yoruba Cosmology and the Liberation of African American Women. Charlea Bing, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University “Keepers of the Archive: Black Women Descendants and Their Archival Labor.” Monet Lewis -Timmons 240.

8:30 am to 9:50 am

Workshop

Hickory-AV M3 North Tower

HIDDEN FIGURES IN PLAIN SIGHT: BLACK WOMEN IN THE PROFESSIONS OF TELEVISION NEWS, SPORTSWRITING AND FOREIGN SERVICE. Presenters: Atim Eneida George, Antioch University Sophia Scanlan, Columbia University Leader: Ava Thompson Greenwell, Northwestern University-Medill School of Journalism 241.

8:30 am to 9:50 am

Panel Session

Int’l Ballroom C- AV - M2 North Tower Sessions

THE BLACK CHURCH, INKSTER PROJECT, UAW, BROTHERHOOD OF SLEEPING CAR PORTERS (BSCP) AND HENRY FORD. Chair: Anita Moncrease, ASALH Detroit Branch Participants: Rev. Charles Andrew Hill and the formation of the United Auto Workers Union at Ford Motor Company. Anita Moncrease, ASALH Detroit Branch; Howard Lindsey, ASALH Detroit Branch; David L. Head, ASALH Detroit Branch; Rashid Faisal, ASALH-Detroit Henry Ford and the Ford-Inkster Project. Howard Lindsey, ASALH Detroit Branch; Anita Moncrease, ASALH Detroit Branch; David L. Head, ASALH Detroit Branch; Rashid Faisal, ASALH-Detroit The Pullman Porters and Their Impact on the Black Labor Movement. Rashid Faisal, ASALH-Detroit; Howard Lindsey, ASALH Detroit Branch; David L. Head, ASALH Detroit Branch; Anita Moncrease, ASALH Detroit Branch 9:00am 242.

9:00 am to 10:45 am

ASALH Film Festival

Magnolia- AV M2 North Tower

AVA GREENWELL FILM FESTIVAL: HEARING SILENCES: 50 YEARS OF BLACK WOMEN FACULTY AT NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY (2025) AND MANDELA IN CHICAGO (2021).

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9:00 am to 11:45 am

Meeting Int’l Ballroom B-AV - M2 North Tower Plenary Sessions

BRANCH MEETING AND ASALH MEMBER REMEMBRANCE CEREMONY. Chairs: Deirdre Foreman, Carter G. Woodson Branch of ASALH Anita M. Shepherd, James Weldon Johnson Branch of ASALH Jacksonville, FL Presenters: Karsonya Wise Whitehead, Loyola University-Department of Communication David Mathew Walton Aaisha Haykal, Charleston Area Branch ASALH John E. Adams Sylvia Y. Cyrus, ASALH Executive Director Yvonne B. Acey, Memphis Area Branch of ASALH Madge Allen, Trainers Warehouse Carolyn S. Blackshear, Savannah Yamacraw Branch Ida Lee Carey, W. Marvin Dulaney Branch of ASALH Kisha Bevane King, ASALH South Florida, Inc. Shirl McCray, ASALH of Tampa Bay (Branch) Bernetta DeNeice Welch, Dr. Edna McKenzie Branch of ASALH

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Jerome Harris, Charleston Area Branch ASALH Lucy Brenda Frinks, ASALH of Tampa Bay (Branch) Lyman Brodie, University of Central Florida-Dean Office College of Arts and Humanities Participant: Donald Pinkard, Hidden History DFW LLC Leaders: Maude L. Johnson, Our Authors Study Club Branch of ASALH Leontyne Middleton, ASALH of Tampa Bay (Branch) Hazel Gillis, James Weldon Johnson Branch of ASALH 10:15am 244.

10:15 am to 11:45 am

Panel Session

Birch- AV Atrium Level South Tower

BLACK POWER ON THE DOCKS: CHARLESTON’S INTERNATIONAL LONGSHOREMEN’S UNION. Chair: Leonard Riley Jr., ILA Local 1422 Participants: The Women of ILA Local 1422. Rachel Denmark, International Longshoremen’s Association, Local 1422 The Legacies of the Struggle to Free the Charleston 5. Kieran Taylor, The Citadel Worker Power--Family Power. Grace Riley, ILA Local 1422 245.

10:15 am to 11:45 am

Key Session

Pine- AV Atrium Level South Tower

BLACK PUBLIC WORKERS AND THE DIGNITY OF LABOR. Chair: Errin Haines, The 19th News Participants: Public Servants: Race, Gender and the Devaluing of Essential Workers. William Jones, University of Minnesota From ‘Public Leeches’ to the ‘Parasite Class’: Dog Whistle Politics and Attacks on Public-Sector Workers Since the 1960s. Jane Berger, Moravian College The Black Partners: The Coalition of Black Trade Unionists and the Expression of Black Worker Voice, 1972-1978. Marc Bayard, Institute for Policy Studies Karen Lewis: Black Women Labor Leaders and the Fight for the Public Good. Elizabeth Todd-Breland, The University of Illinois at Chicago 246.

10:15 am to 11:45 am

Roundtable

Spruce- AV Atrium Level South Tower

A DECADE OF BLACK ERASURE: SOCIAL MEDIA SINCE 2015.

Chair: Walter Greason, Macalester College/Graphic History Company Presenters: Reynaldo Anderson Nishani Frazier, Miami University of Ohio Zebulon Vance Miletsky, Manhattan Branch of ASALH 247.

10:15 am to 11:45 am

Panel Session

Maple A-AV Atrium Level South Tower

FINDINGS AND IMPLICATIONS FROM THE NATIONAL SURVEY ON BLACK HISTORY MONTH PROGRAMMING IN PUBLIC LIBRARIES. Chair: Deborah Robinson, Program for Research on Black Americans Participants: Findings from the Black History Month Programming in Public Libraries National Study. Deborah Robinson, Program for AT L A N TA , G E O R G I A | T H E 2 02 5 B L AC K H I S TO RY T H E M E : A F R I C A N A M E R I C A N S A N D L A B O R

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Research on Black Americans The Black History Month Toolkit for Librarians. Grace Jackson-Brown, Greater Kansas City Black History Study Group (ASALH Branch) The Implications of the BHM National Study for the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. Wanda K. Brown The Implications of the BHM National Study for ASALH. Aisha M. Johnson 248.

10:15 am to 11:45 am

Roundtable

Maple B- AV Atrium Level South Tower

FROM ABSENCE TO ACTION: BLACK CRAFTSPEOPLE, PUBLIC HISTORY, AND THE POWER OF COLLABORATION. Chair: Tiffany Momon Presenters: Torren Leon Gatson, Middle Tennessee State University Andrew Winters, UNC Press Joseph Roberts, Black Craftspeople Digital Archive Ashanty Felipe, Xavier University of Louisiana Commentator: Marquita Reed, Tennessee State University -Brown-Daniel Library 249.

10:15 am to 11:45 am

Panel Session

Maple C- AV Atrium Level South Tower

REWORKING BLACK ARCHIVES: HISTORY, METHOD, AND MEMORY IN AFRICAN AMERICAN LIFE. Chair: Ashley Newby, University of Maryland, College Park Participants: the Black Studies Podcast. Ashley Newby, University of Maryland, College Park Slavery in Motion. Jessica A. Newby, Johns Hopkins University Religious History of the Underground Railroad. Cona Marshall, University of Rochester 250.

10:15 am to 11:45 am

Panel Session

Walnut-AV M3 North Tower

BLACK INTERNATIONALISM AND US IMPERIALISM DURING THE COLD WAR. Chair: Minkah Makalani, Johns Hopkins University Participants: Global Solidarity in a Time of War: The New Afrikan Struggle for Liberation and Self-Determination. Broderick Dunlap, Johns Hopkins University On Connecting the Struggles: Amílcar Cabrals Anti-Imperialism across the Pan-African Atlantic. Desmond Fonseca, Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles Hip Hop Internationalism: Black Music and Activism in the Anti-Apartheid Era. Mickell Carter, Africana Studies/Rites and Reason Theatre, Brown University Unveiling the Color Line: W.E.B. Du Bois’ Lost Theory of the Colonial System. PM Irvin, Department of Philosophy, Stanford University 251.

10:15 am to 11:45 am

Key Session

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OUR BLACK SHINING PRINCE: MALCOLM X AT 100.

Chair: Darius J Young, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University Presenters: JoAnna LeFlore-Ejike Ibram X Kendi Peniel E. Joseph, University of Texas at Austin - Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs Ashley Farmer, University of Texas-Austin

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10:15 am to 11:45 am

Key Session

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1776 AND THE REVOLT AGAINST BRITISH RULE. Chair: Gerald Horne Presenters: Sean Gallagher, University of South Carolina Maria Esther Hammack Andrew Lawler, Author and Journalist Commentator: Gerald Horne 253.

10:15 am to 11:45 am

Workshop

Cottonwood A- AV M1 North Tower

MASTERING MEDIA AS A BLACK SCHOLAR. Leader: Nanda Dyssou 254.

10:15 am to 11:45 am

WorkshopInt’l Ballroom A- AV M2 North Tower (Presidential Sessions)

AMPLIFYING THE VOICES OF GENERATION NEXT, PROMOTING THE FUTURE OF ASALH. Presenters: Karsonya Wise Whitehead, Loyola University-Department of Communication Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua Joyya Smith Leader: Deirdre Foreman, Carter G. Woodson Branch of ASALH 255.

10:15 am to 11:45 am

Roundtable

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HUBERT HARRISON: FORBIDDEN GENIUS OF BLACK RADICALISM. Chair: Brian Kwoba, University of Memphis Presenters: K.T. Ewing, The University of Alabama Erik S. McDuffie, University of Illinois Department of African American Studies Claudrena Nolanda Harold 256.

10:15 am to 11:45 am

Roundtable

Cypress- M2 North Tower

UNTOLD STORIES AND LIVING LEGACIES OF AFFIRMATIVE ACTION: COMMEMORATING ARTHUR FLETCHER “FATHER OF AFFIRMATIVE ACTION.” Chair: LaTaSha B. Levy, Howard University Dept. of Africana Studies Presenters: Paul Fletcher, Independent / Arthur A. Fletcher Foundation Eddie Rye, Jr., Urban Forum Northwest Barbara Atkinson, Independent Scholar Willie Wyatt, Independent Scholar 257.

10:15 am to 11:45 am

Workshop

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EMOTIONAL EATING AS LABOR: REWRITING THE NARRATIVE FOR HEALING AND RESILIENCE. AT L A N TA , G E O R G I A | T H E 2 02 5 B L AC K H I S TO RY T H E M E : A F R I C A N A M E R I C A N S A N D L A B O R

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10:15 am to 11:45 am

Key Session

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A PIPELINE OF BLACK HISTORY CONNECTING ALASKA AND OKLAHOMA: A ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION SPONSORED BY THE 400 YEARS OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY COMMISSION. Chair: Ian Hartman, University of Alaska Anchorage Presenters: Ian Hartman, University of Alaska Anchorage Hannibal B. Johnson, 400 Years of African American History Commission Jewel Jones, 400 Years of African American History Commission Eleanor Andrews, 400 Years of African History Commission 259.

10:15 am to 11:45 am

Workshop

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TOOLKIT WORKSHOP ON THE STUDENT NONVIOLENT COORDINATING COMMITTEE (SNCC): THE ORGANIZING TRADITION AND FREEDOM TEACHING. Presenters: Jessica A. Rucker, University of Maryland College Park Judy Richardson, SNCC Legacy Project Leader: Emilye Crosby, Rochester Branch 260.

10:15 am to 11:45 am

Panel Session

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NEW CULTURAL, POLITICAL, AND INTELLECTUAL HISTORIES OF HBCUS: A BOOK CONVERSATION BETWEEN CRYSTAL R. SANDERS AND JARVIS C. MCINNIS. Chair: Julius B Fleming, Washington University in St Louis Participants: A Forgotten Migration: Black Southerners, Segregation Scholarships, and the Debt Owed to Public HBCUs. Crystal R. Sanders, Dr. Edna McKenzie Branch of ASALH Afterlives of the Plantation: Plotting Agrarian Futures in the Global Black South. Jarvis C McInnis Black Patience: Performance, Civil Rights, and the Unfinished Project of Emancipation. Julius B Fleming, Washington University in St Louis 261.

10:15 am to 11:45 am

Panel Session

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TRANSNATIONAL TRANSACTIONS: LABOR DYNAMICS IN THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY CIRCUM-CARIBBEAN. Chair: Janette Gayle, Hobart and William Smith Colleges Participants: A Swing for Revolution: How CLR James Used Sport Literature as A Call for Black Liberation. Christopher Davis, Adelphi University Hitler’s Iron Hand: Sterilization, Colonial Policy, and Black Diaspora Labor Protest. Theodore S. Francis Global Great Migrations: Labor Recruiters, Strike Breaking, and Racial Boundaries, 1890-1920. Rudi Batzell, Lake Forest College Displacement, Forced Labor and the Sugar Sector in the Post-Genocide Dominican Republic. Sabine F Cadeau, McGill University The Movement of People and Labor Ideas Between New York City and the British West Indies in the 1930s. Janette Gayle, Hobart and William Smith Colleges 11:00am 262.

11:00 am to 1:30 pm

ASALH Film Festival

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THE KILLING FLOOR (1984); DIR. BILL DUKE. 12:00pm 263.

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Roundtable

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PRESERVING HISTORIC BLACK COMMUNITIES. Chair: Walter Greason, Macalester College/Graphic History Company Presenters: Jaime Rush, Southern Poverty Law Center Malissa Williams, Southern Poverty Law Center Anjana Joshua, Southern Poverty Law Center Detria Austin Everson, John Lewis Foundation Neil Parekh, John Lewis Foundation 264.

12:00 pm to 1:45 pm

Panel Session

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SCHOOLING THE EMPIRE: GLOBAL HISTORIES OF AFRICAN AMERICAN EDUCATION. Chair: Anthony Outler, Morehouse College Participants: Critical Bookerism: Ethiopianism, Labor, and Anti-Imperialist Education in the National Baptist Convention. Kai Parker, University of Virginia, Department of Religious Studies How HBUCs Became Colonial Outposts of the Black Pacific. Guy Emerson Mount The Explorations of Horace Mann Bond. Emily Masghati, Penn State Erie Commentator: Anthony Outler, Morehouse College 265.

12:00 pm to 1:45 pm

Workshop

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“SIS, THAT’S NOT YOUR JOB”: BUILDING BOUNDARIES TO BREAK BURNOUT.” Presenter: Melissa Crum, Mosaic Education Network Leader: Melissa Crum, Mosaic Education Network 266.

12:00 pm to 1:45 pm

Workshop

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SOUND, STORY, AND BLACK REST: A HEALING WORKSHOP ON WELLNESS AS RESISTANCE. Leader: Tika Simone, Founder, Iverna Island Foundation – Vancouver, BC, Canada 267.

12:00 pm to 1:45 pm

Roundtable

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THE CORPORATE EQUITY CENTER: LEVERAGING THE POWER OF PLACE AND HISTORY TO COMBAT RACIAL BIAS AND DRIVE CHANGE. Chair: Arlinda Fair Cathey, National Civil Rights Museum Presenters: Veda Ajamu, National Civil Rights Museum Ryan Jones, National Civil Rights Museum

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Paper Session

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“THE LABOR OF HEALING: COLLECTIVE MEMORY, MOVEMENT, AND CARE IN BLACK COMMUNITIES.” Chair: Aisha M. Johnson Participants: Healing of the Souls for African Americans: Soul Healing from The Effects of Racism. Rosalind Caldwell Stanley Covert Black Collecting as Cultural Labor. Keisha Oliver, Pennsylvania State University From Soul to System: A Comprehensive, Culturally Affirming Model for Black Well-Being. China Dailey, North Carolina Central University Simple Support for Successful Teaching. Benjamin Mchie, African American Registry African American Labor Movements: The Power of Marches, Songs, and Poems. Christopher Sims, Intercultural Leadership Institute 269.

12:00 pm to 1:45 pm

WorkshopInt’l Ballroom A- AV M2 North Tower (Presidential Sessions)

INTEGRATING BLACK PSYCHOLOGY AND BLACK HISTORY CONSCIOUSNESS TO FOSTER PROFESSIONAL SOCIALIZATION AMONG BLACK GRADUATE STUDENTS. Presenters: Donnie Lindsey, University of Georgia Moesha Ciceron, The University of Georgia Collette Chapman-Hilliard, Professor/Faculty Alisa Castilla, Graduate Student Leader: Donnie Lindsey, University of Georgia 270.

12:00 pm to 1:45 pm

Panel Session

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BROACHING BURROUGHS: NEW INSIGHTS INTO THE ORGANIZING AND LEGACIES OF NANNIE HELEN BURROUGHS. Chair: Danielle T Phillips-Cunningham Participants: “The Art of the Possible: The Intellectual and Strategic Leadership of Nannie Helen Burroughs.” Kelisha Graves, Virginia State University “Complicating a Clubwoman: Researching Nannie Helen Burroughs to Illuminate Working-Class Subjectivities.” Mary Elizabeth B. Murphy, Eastern Michigan University “Nannie Helen Burroughs: Architect of a Black Clubwomen’s Labor Movement.” Danielle T Phillips-Cunningham “Burroughs’ Organizing Legacy: Household Workers Get Trained, Speak Up, and Act Out.” Eileen Boris, Department of Feminist Studies, University of California-Santa Barbara Commentator: Sheri Davis-Faulkner, Rutgers University 271.

12:00 pm to 1:45 pm

Panel Session

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LABORING AND LABOR PANGS: FORGING THE CULTURE OF SOUTH LOUISIANA. Chairs: Eva Semien Baham, Charles Deslondes Branch of New Orleans Jana Smith Participants: Enslaved Laborers in New Orleans’ Congo Square. Freddi Williams Evans, Charles Deslondes Branch of New Orleans New Orleans’ Black Midwives: History, Healing, and Hope. Tiffany Guillory Thomas, Charles Deslondes Branch of New Orleans Building Lives, Building Community: Laboring in Rural South Louisiana. Eva Semien Baham, Charles Deslondes Branch of New Orleans

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12:00 pm to 1:45 pm

Roundtable

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THE FABRIC OF FREEDOM: BLACK WOMEN’S POLITICAL LABOR IN EVERYDAY LIFE. Chair: Alysia Burton Steele Presenters: Frank Kalisik Jeremiah Ellis Alysia Burton Steele Jessica Brooks, Hamline University 273.

12:00 pm to 1:45 pm

Key Session

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“GRIT AND THE GROUND WE STAND ON: HISTORIES OF BLACK WORKING-CLASS RESISTANCE.” Participants: “We Do This for Mike Brown”: Fast-Food Workers and Contemporary Black Working Class Struggle in St. Louis, Missouri.

Chelsea Birchmier Grace and Grit: Black Women and Charleston Hospital Workers’ Campaign. O. Jennifer Dixon-McKnight, Winthrop University Litigating Longshoremen in the Lone Star State: Black Dock Workers and the Struggle to Maintain Autonomy After the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Darius Caleb Smith Reimagining the College on the Hill: A History of the Black Working Class at Connecticut College, 1911-1955. Jonathan Dayan Welfare and the Right to Organize: Black mothers in New Orleans 1975-1999. Erleen Ellis, The University of New Orleans 274.

12:00 pm to 1:45 pm

Roundtable

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FUGITIVE PEDAGOGY IN THE ERA OF PROJECT 2025: FACULTY GUIDE FOR RESISTANCE IN HIGHER EDUCATION. Chair: Uzoma Miller Presenters: Uzoma Miller Kenja McCray Jocelyn Brown, Ohio University Arthur Amaker Obe Lee Jones, Clark Atlanta University 275.

12:00 pm to 1:45 pm

Luncheon

Int’l Ballroom D- M2 North Tower Meal Functions

“AN UNUSUAL EMPHASIS ON SCHOLARSHIP: CARTER G. WOODSON. OMEGA PSI PHI, AND THE POWER OF BLACK HISTORY.” Guest Speaker: Maurice Hobson, Georgia State University Africana Studies Derrick Alridge, University of Virginia Jim C. Harper, North Carolina Central University Eddie R. Cole Greetings: Sheila Jones, Georgia House of Representative Karsonya Wise Whitehead, Loyola University-Department of Communications Emcee: Chesley McNeil

Invocation: Jamal Bryant, New Missionary Baptist Church Benediction: AT L A N TA , G E O R G I A | T H E 2 02 5 B L AC K H I S TO RY T H E M E : A F R I C A N A M E R I C A N S A N D L A B O R

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William Smith, Wheat Street Baptist Church 161.

12:00 pm to 1:45 pm

Roundtable

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PRESERVING CIVIL RIGHTS IN UNCERTAIN TIMES: PARTNERSHIPS, PROGRAMMING, AND PROMOTION THROUGH ASALH. Chair: Ariel Roy, Association for the Study of African American Life and History Presenters: Bobby Donaldson, University of South Carolina-Center for Civil Right History and Research Daniel J. Broyld 2:00pm 276.

2:00 pm to 3:50 pm

ASALH Film Festival

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BLACK RADICAL LABOR FESTIVAL: FINALLY GOT THE NEWS! (1970), LEAGUE OF REVOLUTIONARY BLACK WORKERS AND WILDCAT AT MEAD (1972), THE OCTOBER LEAGUE. 2:15pm 277.

2:15 pm to 3:45 pm

Key Session

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GLOBAL TIES, RADICAL STRUGGLES: PAN-AFRICANISM, LABOR, AND ANTI-IMPERIALISM IN THE 20TH CENTURY. Chair: Quito Swan, The George Washington University Participants: “We Could Work Out Our Own Salvation”: Floridine “Florence” Pitters, Colonial Jamaica, Black Economic Slavery and The UNIA Repatriation Bill of Jamaica and The West Indies. Adisa Vera L. Beatty, Independent Scholar Alphaeus Hunton and the Black Internationalist Critique of U.S. Foreign Policy. Alhaji Conteh, Hunter College-CUNY Roots of Radicalization: Assata Shakur’s Early Life and the Influence of Southern Black Resistance. Kimberly Monroe, Trinity Washington University Groundings with the Working Class: Walter Rodney, Labor, and the Struggle for Liberation. Latif Ashanti Tarik, Elizabeth City State University 278.

2:15 pm to 3:45 pm

Paper Session

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“RADICAL DREAMS, REVOLUTIONARY LABORS: BLACK STRUGGLE AND THE POLITICS OF FREEDOM.” Chair: Stephanie Fortado, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Participants: “If we don’t work, nobody works”: Harlem CORE, Affirmative Action, and Black Radicalism in NYC. Peter Blackmer, Eastern Michigan University “The Idols of the Tribe”: African American Intellectuals and Labor Radicalism, 1870-1917. Willie Mack, University of Missouri Grace P. Campbell and The Legacy of Abolition Democracy: Unveiling Her Radical Vision for Black Liberation. Lydia Lindsey, North Carolina Central University Gathering Lives of Work and Struggle: How the Ethnography of Black Working People Informs Black Political Economy. Augustus Wood; Lou Turner, Department of Urban and Regional Planning Pan-African Proletariat: African American Laborers and the Fate of the Black World. Bishop W. Lawton 279.

2:15 pm to 3:45 pm

Roundtable

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LABOR OF LOVE: THE 1967 LEGACY PROGRAM AT THE COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON AND STUDY ABROAD. Chair: Valerie Frazier, College of Charleston Presenters:

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William Jenkins, Charleston Area Branch ASALH Jamirika Randall, College of Charleston 1967 Legacy Program Amber Sanders, College of Charleston 1967 Legacy Program Adwoa Addai, College of Charleston Lexi Redd, College of Charleston Ashton Zow, College of Charleston 280.

2:15 pm to 3:45 pm

Panel Session

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INDIAN WOODS, NORTH CAROLINA: RECLAIMING COMMUNITY HISTORY THROUGH US CENSUS DATA. Chair: Charles Denton Johnson, North Carolina Central University Participants: Indian Woods Census Data: 1880-1910. Zoe Young, North Carolina Central University Indian Woods Census Data 1920-1950. Elijah Bombo, North Carolina Central University Indian Woods Census Data 1790-1950. Colette Haworth Commentator: Arwin Smallwood, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University-Department of History 281.

2:15 pm to 3:45 pm

Panel Session

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THE POLITICS OF BLACK FEMININITY IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY. Chair: Danielle Procope Bell, University of Tennessee- Africana Studies Participants: Reclaiming Power: Black Women and Girls’ Resistance to Misogynoir and Far-Right Ideologies. Alexandria C. Onuoha, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Gender Incongruence: Black Masculinity, Femininity, and the Challenge of Intimacy. Marbella Eboni Hill, North Carolina State University Black Middle-Class Women, Heterosexual Marriage, and Gender. LaToya Council, Lehigh University 282.

2:15 pm to 3:45 pm

Roundtable

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LAUNCHING THE NEW JOURNAL OF BLACK MILITARY STUDIES. Chair: Francoise N. Hamlin, Brown University Presenters: Vanessa Holden, University of Kentucky Le’Trice Donaldson, Auburn University Jonathan Lande Steven Trout, University of Alabama Gregory Lamont Mixon, Romare Bearden Branch of ASALH of Charlotte, NC Aimee Diehl, University of Vermont Press 283.

2:15 pm to 3:45 pm

Panel Session

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FOSTERING FRESH PERSPECTIVES ON AFRICAN AMERICANS’ LABOR, LEADERSHIP, AND ACTIVISM: TWENTIETH-CENTURY BLACK WOMEN’S HISTORY AND THE ARCHIVE. Chair: Holly Smith, Spelman College Participants: Annie McPheeters, Civil Rights, and African American Librarianship in Atlanta. Vicki Crawford, Morehouse College Essential Disruptors: Researchers, Archivists and Collaborative Possibilities. Kenja McCray Rooting Nation Women in the Black Freedom Story of Atlanta. Nafeesa Muhammad, Spelman College Beyond Black Radicalism: Caribbean Women and Electoral Politics in Early Twentieth-Century New York City. Janira Teague, AT L A N TA , G E O R G I A | T H E 2 02 5 B L AC K H I S TO RY T H E M E : A F R I C A N A M E R I C A N S A N D L A B O R

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Morehouse College 284.

2:15 pm to 3:45 pm

Roundtable

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VIOLENCE AND NONVIOLENCE IN AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY. Chair: Anthony C. Siracusa, Colorado College Presenters: Akinyele Umoja, Georgia State University African American Studies Kellie Carter Jackson, Wellesley College Charles Cobb, SNCC Veteran 285.

2:15 pm to 3:45 pm

Panel Session

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MOVING ON UP: BLACK WOMEN NAVIGATE NEW PROFESSIONAL WORLDS IN DESEGREGATED AMERICA FROM THE 1960S TO THE PRESENT. Chair: Sonya Ramsey, UNC Charlotte Participants: Build Sister Build:” An Oral History of Nashville Opportunities Industrialization Center Director Betty Cunningham, Stories of Non-Profit Leadership and Educational and Economic Uplift, 1976-1997. Sonya Ramsey, UNC Charlotte Black Women’s Workplace and Community Leadership Runs in the Family, 1970s to the Present. Deidre Hill Butler, Union College--African Studies Program Confronting Race and Place in Jewish Spaces: Black Women Medical Professionals in Detroit’s Sinai Hospital. Julia Robinson Moore, UNC Charlotte Sewing as a Form of Resistance and Survival: Seamstress Rowena Fitzgerald, Belk Store, Danville, VA, 1960s. Felecia C Harris, University of North Carolina at Charlotte 286.

2:15 pm to 3:45 pm

Panel Session

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ART AS COMMUNAL PRAXIS: BLACK WOMEN’S VISUAL ECOSYSTEMS IN ATLANTA. Chair: Tanisha Jackson, Syracuse University Participants: Mapping Black Women’s Wellness Ecosystems in Atlanta. Tanisha Jackson, Syracuse University From Family Heirlooms to Public Rituals: Photography as Ancestral Archive. Tokie M Rome-Taylor, Independent Artist Sacred Streets: Public Art and Spiritual Resilience in Atlanta. Shanequa M Gay, Independent Artist 287.

2:15 pm to 3:45 pm Sessions)

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#SAYHERNAME: BLACK WOMEN’S STORIES OF POLICE VIOLENCE AND PUBLIC SILENCE. KIMBERLé CRENSHAW AND THE SAY HER NAME MOTHERS NETWORK. Presenters: Kimberle Crenshaw, University of California Los Angeles Moderator: Karsonya Wise Whitehead, Loyola University-Department of Communication 288.

2:15 pm to 3:45 pm

Panel Session

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SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT: BLACK ACTIVISM, LABOR, AND COMMUNICATION IN THE CIVIL RIGHTS AND COLD WAR ERAS.” Chair: Ronald Jemal Stephens, Purdue University Participants:

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Broadcasting Freedom: The Role of Black Media in the African American Struggle for Justice and Liberation. Ovie Richard Agezeh, Purdue University Truth-telling on the Radical Black Woman Activist Mae Mallory. Clarreese Greene War of Words: Robert and Mabel Williams’ Transnational Crusade for Justice and Democracy. Ronald Jemal Stephens, Purdue University 289.

2:15 pm to 3:45 pm

Roundtable

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THE STAKES OF BLACK STUDY: THE POLITICS, PREMISES, PEOPLE, AND POSSIBILITIES. Chair: Monique Wimby, Emory University Presenters: Amir Curry, Emory University Brenda Umutoniwase, Emory University Cheyenne Ross, Emory University Lizette London, Emory University 290.

2:15 pm to 3:45 pm

Key Session

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LABOR HISTORY MEETS BLACK HISTORY: A CONVERSATION BETWEEN ASALH AND LAWCHA. 291.

2:15 pm to 3:45 pm

Roundtable

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UNPACKING THE HOMECOMING. Chair: Andrea L. Smith, Prof at Sacramento State in Pan African Studies Presenters: Martin Luther Boston, Prof at Sacramento State in Pan African Studies Clarence George, Prof at Sacramento State in Pan African Studies Andrea L. Smith, Prof at Sacramento State in Pan African Studies 292.

2:15 pm to 3:45 pm

Roundtable

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HONORING BLACK LIFE - NEW HISTORIES OF POLICING, AND POLICE BRUATLITY. Chair: Menika Dirkson, Morgan State University Presenters: LaShawn Harris, Michigan State University Shannon King, Fairfield University Tonia Sutherland, Associate Professor, Information Studies School of Education and Information Studies University of Ca Luther Adams - Free Man of Color 293.

2:15 pm to 3:45 pm

Panel Session

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BLACK CONSERVATIVE THOUGHT AND BLACK ETHNOCENTRISM. Presenters: David Mathew Walton Albert Russell Thompson Anton D. House 294.

2:15 pm to 3:45 pm

Roundtable Int’l Ballroom B-AV - M2 North Tower Plenary Sessions

RADICAL BLACK ORGANIZING FOR LIBERATION IN THE FACE OF MAGA’S PROJECT 2025 REPRESSION. Chair: Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua Presenters: AT L A N TA , G E O R G I A | T H E 2 02 5 B L AC K H I S TO RY T H E M E : A F R I C A N A M E R I C A N S A N D L A B O R

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Ajamu Baraka, Black Alliance for Peace Brea Perry, Black Workers for Justice Joshua Ingram, Black Men Build 295.

2:15 pm to 3:45 pm

Special Book Panel

Int’l Ballroom C- AV - M2 North Tower Sessions

A HINE-HORNE BOOK ROUNDTABLE: CRYSTAL SANDERS’ A FORGOTTEN MIGRATION: BLACK SOUTHERNERS, SEGREGATION SCHOLARSHIPS, AND THE DEBT OWED TO PUBLIC HBCUS. Discussants: Tikia K. Hamilton, Loyola University Chicago Eddie R. Cole Derrick Alridge, University of Virginia Participant: Crystal R. Sanders, Dr. Edna McKenzie Branch of ASALH 4:00pm 296.

4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Meeting Int’l Ballroom B-AV - M2 North Tower Plenary Sessions ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING.

Participant: Karsonya Wise Whitehead, Loyola University-Department of Communication John E. Adams Aaisha Haykal, Charleston Area Branch ASALH David Mathew Walton Anita M. Shepherd, James Weldon Johnson Branch of ASALH Jacksonville, FL Sylvia Y. Cyrus, ASALH Executive Director 7:30pm 297.

7:30 pm to 10:30 pm

Banquet

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ASALH ANNUAL AWARDS BANQUET. Awardees: Vedet Coleman-Robinson, Association of African American Museums Deirdre Cooper Owens, University of Connecticut Kimberle Crenshaw, University of California Los Angeles Yolanda Covington-Ward, W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies, University of Massachusetts Amherst Natanya P. Duncan, Queens College, City University of New York Mary Frances Early, Music Educator, Civil Rights Pioneer Stephanie Y. Evans, Georgia State University Sheila Fleming, ASALH, Past President; Reparations Advocate Lionel Kimble, Jr., ASALH George Cleveland Hall Branch, Organizer Larry Lester, Greater Kansas City Black History Study Group (ASALH Branch) Alicia Lorraine Moore, Collegial Consulting La Vonne Neal, Educator, Administrator Arlisha Norwood, University of Maryland Eastern Shore Loretta Parham, HBCU Library Alliance, Interim Executive Director Candy Tate, The Legacy Museum at Tuskegee University, Curator and Co-Director Woodson House, National Park Service Staff Kelechi Wright, University of Houston Award Presenters: Aisha M. Johnson Leslie Etienne, Joseph T. Taylor Branch of ASALH Aaisha Haykal, Charleston Area Branch ASALH Anita M. Shepherd, James Weldon Johnson Branch of ASALH Jacksonville, FL

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Everett Hardy, Oberlin College Camesha Scruggs, Central Connecticut State University Sylvia Y. Cyrus, ASALH Executive Director Greetings: Michael Julian Bond Kevin E. James, Morris Brown College Raphael G Warnock, Ebenezer Baptist Church Emcee: Sylvia Y. Cyrus, ASALH Executive Director Performer: Evelyn Bethune, Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune Family Legacy Inc Invocation: Shawn Drains, Saint Paul AME Church Benediction: Kinte Grant, New Black Panther Party 8:00pm 298.

8:00 pm to 10:00 pm

ASALH Film Festival

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FANNIE LOU HAMER’S AMERICA (2022), DIR. JOY ELAINE DAVENPORT.

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8:30 am to 5:00 pm

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