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110TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE SEPT. 24-28, 2025

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MESSAGE FROM REV. RAPHAEL WARNOCK, GA SENATOR 5 LETTER FROM THE ACADEMIC PROGRAM COMMITTEE 7

LETTER FROM THE ASALH PRESIDENT 9 EXECUTIVE THEME SUMMARY 17 ABOUT ASALH 19 EXECUTIVE COUNCIL 23 ASALH PUBLICATIONS 25 SPONSORS 31 SCHEDULE OF EVENTS 37 HOTEL LOCATIONS 49 HOTEL MAP 51 MENUS 53 FEATURED SESSIONS 57 AUTHORS’ BOOK SIGNING EVENT 74 EXHIBITORS 84 AWARDS 90 BRANCH PRESIDENTS 106 STAFF 110 CALL FOR PROPOSALS 112 MEMBER REMEMBRANCE PROGRAM 114

Please note! A. Philip Randolph, Addie L. Wyatt, and Bayard Rustin

Replacement Name Badges are $25 Academic Program Journals are $15

Welcome to Atlanta FROM REV. RAPHAEL WARNOCK, US SENATOR FOR GEORGIA & ANDRE DICKENS, MAYOR OF ATLANTA

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

110TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE | ATLANTA, GEORGIA | SEPTEMBER 24-28, 2025

WELCOME FROM THE ASALH PRESIDENT Dear ASALH Family, I first read The Mis-Education of the Negro as a high school junior, assigned by my Social Studies teacher during Black History Month. At the time, my focus had been on Malcolm X, and I was beginning to question everything. My father, a former Civil Rights activist turned pastor, introduced me to Black men and women who had risked their lives for our freedom. Sitting in those rooms, I listened as my father and his friends shared the stories that were missing from my textbooks. When I mentioned reading Woodson, they insisted it belonged in my core library, alongside the works of The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Dr. King’s Why We Can’t Wait, Kwame Ture and Charles V. Hamilton’s Black Power, and The Holy Bible. My mother later added Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, reminding me that any book list without Black women was incomplete. (I once shared this list with Dr. Angelou, who wholeheartedly agreed that any book list that did not include her books was not a list at all.) I "met" Woodson on the page that year, combing through his work, trying to understand what he was calling on us to do. I continued to study him through college and I began to take his words as a personal challenge. I put a few of his quotes on my dorm door and read them in moments of despair. When I failed at something, I would commit to trying harder because “In the long run, there is not much discrimination against superior talent.” And when I doubted myself and my work as a history major, I would remember that I was learning our history to teach it because “If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated.” For the past year, as the 30th person and eighth woman to serve as president of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), I have often reflected on my years studying and reading the work of Dr. Woodson. I did not know that back then, I was being prepared to stand in this space to continue the work that he started on September 9, 1915, in Chicago, Illinois, when he founded ASALH. The goal then and now was to promote, research, preserve, interpret, and disseminate information about Black life, history, and culture to the global community. As we enter our 110th Annual Conference, themed "African Americans and Labor," I am delighted to welcome you into this carefully curated space of Black knowledge, creativity, and inspiration. This conference is designed as your opportunity to engage and reconnect with old friends, network with colleagues, present new research, and build community as you discuss solutions to current challenges. Our program offers a wealth of opportunities to do all of that and much more. This is a time to consider launching a Freedom School in your city so that you can explore concrete strategies to defend democracy locally, and work together to share curricula and resources with schools and churches. It is a time to both rest and plan. It has been a difficult year, and we have some very challenging times ahead of us. Lean on this community, support one another, and take collective action to defend our shared truths. We are at a critical moment in history but as I wrote earlier in my "Response to the White House’s Directive to Review Smithsonian Institution Museums," we knew that this moment was coming. We have been preparing, and we are ready. Our work to uphold the legacies of Dr. Carter G. Woodson, W.E.B. Du Bois, Mary McLeod Bethune, Ella Baker, Constance Baker Motley, Derrick Bell, Harriet Tubman, Paul Robeson, Dorothy I. Height, Juanita Jackson Mitchell, Vincent Harding, and Barbara Jordan, among many others, demand that we stay ready. Our work as truth seekers obliges us to “speak the truth to the people” and demands that we stay ready. Our work to preserve the history of our experience and plant the seeds for future knowledge and resistance to sprout demands that we stay ready. Earlier this year, I released ASALH's North Star, highlighting ten things to do to practice small daily acts of intentional resistance. I share it here now so that it is recorded for future generations, our dropped breadcrumbs that will hopefully help them continue to move forward. May the road that we are traveling rise to meet us. Harakati zinaendelea!

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WELCOME FROM THE ASALH PRESIDENT (CONT.) ASALH’S NORTH STAR 1.Support organizations and causes you believe in. Defend, fund, and protect them with your resources. 2.Create local communities of action and accountability where you can work together to demand justice and equality. Audre Lorde teaches us that “the master’s tools cannot dismantle the master’s house,” but they can disrupt the natural tendency to normalize the horror and the terror that we are experiencing in this moment. 3.Show up and be present in spaces where you are not expected to be, which means planning to attend all party community meetings to speak up about what is happening in this country. You should call your Republican and Democratic Representatives: flood their inboxes, write them, call them, tweet them, visit them: do not let up because they will take your silence as a form of being complicit. 4.Grade your representatives and share the results as widely as possible. Let them know they are being watched and held accountable. 5.Write opinion pieces for your local paper. Do a monthly history spot on your local radio. Contact your local television stations to offer your expertise on what is happening in our country and in your city. Influence others in your immediate community to spark bigger change. 6.Organize strategic marches. People power attracts attention—use it to amplify your message. 7.Set the agenda with your team, not just officials. Make your leaders accountable to your collective vision. 8.Vote with your money! Make intentional, thoughtful purchases whenever possible. Shop local, buy small, and keep the money circulating within your community. (Remember: boycotts affect workers. Establish support for those impacted by store closures or job reductions.) 9.Consider running for office. We need bold advocates ready to defend and advance our interests. 10.Use every platform you have to defend and teach our history. We are the keepers of our stories. We must make sure that we are planting the seeds of who we are and what we have contributed to the building of this country in our children so that they never forget how we survived and thrived in this country. Refute every falsehood; deny our detractors legitimacy. Bending toward social justice, Karsonya Wise Whitehead ASALH National President, 2025-2027 Founding Executive Director of The Karson Institute for Race, Peace & Social Justice Professor of Communication and African and African American Studies, Loyola University Maryland

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WELCOME FROM THE LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS COMMITTEE Members and guests, It is with great pride and deep honor that we welcome you to Atlanta, Georgia, for the Association for the Study of African American Life and History’s 110th Annual Conference. On behalf of the Atlanta Branch of ASALH and the Local Arrangements Committee, we extend warm greetings to all of you—scholars, educators, students, community leaders, activists, and supporters of Dr. Carter G. Woodson’s vision. This year’s conference is especially meaningful as we gather in Atlanta, a city with a rich history of struggle, resilience, scholarship, and activism. Our conference theme, African Americans and Labor, calls us to reflect on the countless contributions African Americans have made to the building of this nation, even in the face of exploitation, exclusion, and systemic inequities. We see this gathering as both an act of remembrance and a call to action—to uplift the truth of our history, to honor the workers who built and sustain our communities, and to ensure that future generations know and carry forward this legacy. We are grateful to each of you for contributing your scholarship, creativity, and commitment to this work. Together, we carry forward Dr. Woodson’s vision of making Black history an integral part of the nation’s story and the global community. On behalf of the Atlanta Local Arrangements Committee, thank you for joining us for the 110th ASALH Annual Conference to celebrate our brilliant shared history. May this conferencedeepen our resolve, strengthen our collaborations, and inspire us to continue speaking truth to power. Sincerely, Sean Whitney Jones President, Atlanta Branch of ASALH Co-Chair, Local Arrangements Committee Dr. Eric D. Duke Chair, Department of African American Studies, Africana Women’s Studies and History at Clark Atlanta University Co-Chair, Local Arrangements Committee

110TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE | ATLANTA, GEORGIA | SEPTEMBER 24-28, 2025

WELCOME TO ATLANTA: CELEBRATE BLACK EXCELLENCE AT ASALH 110TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE Sean Jones, President of the ASALH Atlanta Branch, extends a warm welcome to all attendees of the 110th Annual ASALH Conference! We are thrilled to host you in the city of Atlanta, a hub of Black history, culture, and excellence. This year’s theme, “African Americans and Labor,” explores the contributions of Black Americans in shaping our nation’s workforce, economy, and culture. The conference will feature engaging panels, workshops, and networking opportunities that highlight historical achievements and amplify the voices of the next generation of leaders. If you haven’t registered yet, don’t wait register now to secure your place at this historic gathering. Join us in celebrating, learning, and advancing the legacy of Dr. Carter G. Woodson. We look forward to welcoming you to Atlanta and sharing this extraordinary experience together! Warm regards, The ASALH Team

2025 EXECUTIVE THEME SUMMARY: AFRICAN AMERICANS AND LABOR 2026 marks a century of national commemorations of Black history. Dr. Carter Godwin Woodson, George Cleveland Hall, William D. Hartgrove, Jesse E. Moorland, Alexander L. Jackson, and James E. Stamps institutionalized the teaching, study, dissemination, and commemoration of Black history when they founded the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASNLH) on September 9, 1915. In 1925, when Dr. Carter G. Woodson planned the inaugural week-long observance of Black history, he could hardly have anticipated the imprint he would leave on the world. From Negro History Week to Black History Month, ASALH has carried forth the tradition, and the observances have become part of the warp and weft of American culture and increasingly the global community. For our 100th theme, the founders of Black History Month urge us to explore the impact and meaning of Black history and life commemorations in transforming the status of Black peoples in the modern world. As part of the global African diaspora, people of African descent in the United States have viewed their role in history as critical to their own development and that of the world. Along with writing Black histories, antebellum Black scholars north of slavery started observing the milestones in the struggle of people of African descent to gain their freedom and equality. Revealing their connection to the diaspora, they commemorated the Haitian Revolution, the end of the slave trade, and the end of slavery in Jamaica. They observed American emancipation with Watch Night, Jubilee Day, and Juneteenth celebrations. Eventually they feted the lives of individuals who fought against slavery, most notably Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass. The scholar Arthur A. Schomburg captured the motivation of Black people to dig up their own history and present it to the world: “The American Negro must remake his past in order to make his future.” When Carter G. Woodson, as director of the Association, established Negro History Week, he did so as part of that tradition. Yet, by concentrating the attention of the American public on the scientific findings of historians, he sought to turn the commemorations more forthrightly into a far-reaching, organized, and sustained effort to transform how Black folks viewed themselves and how the world viewed them. Year after year, he built Negro History Week into an African American and American cultural institution. He set the themes and provided materials to illustrate the contributions people of African descent had made to the movement of history and modern culture. As his contemporary W. E. B. Du Bois put it, "He literally made this country ... recognize and celebrate each year a week in which it studied the effect which the American Negro has had upon the life, thought and action in the United States. I know of no other man who in a lifetime has unaided built up such a national celebration." Since the passing of the founder, ASALH has continued his work, making Negro History Week and Black History Month an even more deeply rooted American institution. On February 10, 1976, during the United States Bicentennial, President Gerald R. Ford became the first president to issue a message recognizing Black History Month. Then in 1986, Congress passed Public Law 99-244 designating February as Black History Month. These efforts have made February the month when Black history finds its way not simply into the schools of the American nation, but also into cultural heritage sites (museums, archives, libraries, parks, etc.), public squares, workplaces, houses of worship, and homes across the land and across the oceans. These institutions offer sites to discover and learn more about African American history through programming, camps, book displays, and exhibitions. To understand the modern world, especially nations where Black peoples form a significant population, one must grapple with the impact that the public observances have had on the past and the present. This year, when we are also commemorating the 250th anniversary of United States independence, it is important to tell not only an inclusive history, but an accurate one. We have never had more need to examine the role of Black History Month than we do when forces weary of democracy seek to use legislative means and book bans to excise Black history from America’s schools and public culture. Black history’s value is not its contribution to mainstream historical narratives, but its resonance in the lives of Black people.

110TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE | ATLANTA, GEORGIA | SEPTEMBER 24-28, 2025

OUR VISION The vision of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History is to be the premier Black Heritage learned society with a strong network of national and international branches and partners whose diverse and inclusive membership will continue the Woodson legacy.

OUR MISSION The mission of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH®) is to promote, research, preserve, interpret, and disseminate information about Black life, history, and culture to the global community.

STRUCTURE The Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH®) is headquartered in Washington, D.C., at 301 Rhode Island Ave, NW in Washington, DC. The Association operates as local, state, and international branches promoting greater knowledge of African American history through education, research, and publishing programs. FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: Portrait of Dr. Carter G. Woodson, ca. 1915; Unidentified man (far left), William Brewer, H. Council Trenholm, Sr., Helen Edmonds, Martin Luther King, Jr., L.D. Reddick and Charles Wesley attended the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History Annual Meeting in Montgomery, Alabama in 1957; Mary McLeod Bethune, Lucy Harth Smith, and Dr. Carter G. Woodson at ASALH's Annual Conference in Chicago, Illinois in 1940; Committee in charge of the celebration of the 20th anniversary of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, 1935. Dr. Carter G. Woodson is sitting to the far left, Vivian G. Harsh is sitting in the center (white blouse). The Association for the Study of African American Life and History (EIN: 53-0219640) is a tax-exempt 501 (c)(3) organization. Contributions to ASALH are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.

ASALH FORMER PRESIDENTS 1916-1917 George Cleveland Hall

1986-1988 William Harris

1917-1920 Robert E. Park

1989-1990 Andrew Brimmer

1921-1930 John R. Hawkins

1991-1993 Robert Harris, Jr.

1931-1936 John Hope

1993-1995 Janette Hoston Harris

1936-1951 Mary McLeod Bethune

1995-1997 Bettye J. Gardner

1952-1964 Charles Harris Wesley

1997-1999 Edward Beasley

1965-1966 Lorenzo J. Greene

1999-2001 Samuel DuBois Cook, Sr.

1966-1967 J. Reuben Sheeler

2001-2003 Gloria Harper Dickinson

1968-1970 J. Rupert Picott

2004-2006 Sheila Y. Flemming

1971-1973 Andrew Brimmer

2007-2009 John E. Fleming

1974-1976 Edgar Toppin

2010-2012 James B. Stewart

1977-1980 Charles Walker Thomas

2013-2015 Daryl Michael Scott

1981-1982 Earl E. Thorpe

2016-2021 Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham

1983-1984 Samuel L. Banks

2022-2024 W. Marvin Dulaney

1984-1985 Jeanette Cascone (acting)

PRESENT Karsonya Wise Whitehead

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EXECUTIVE COUNCIL

KARSONYA WISE WHITEHEAD

ANITA SHEPHERD

PRESIDENT

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VICE PRESIDENT FOR PROGRAMS

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JournalofAfricanAmericanHistory Formerly the Journal of Negro History Founded by Carter G. Woodson, January 1, 1916

EDITOR BERTIS D. ENGLISH Alabama State University ASSOCIATE EDITOR DERRICK P. ALRIDGE University of Virginia, Charlottesville ASSISTANT EDITOR CRYSTAL R. SANDERS Emory University BOOK REVIEW EDITOR MAURICE ROBINSON Alabama State University ASSISTANT BOOK REVIEW DERRYN E. MOTEN EDITOR Alabama State University EDITORIAL ASSISTANT DAVID TAYLOR COOK Alabama State University

Journal of African American History Editorial Board LESLIE ALEXANDER Rutgers University

WILL GUZMÁN North Carolina Central University

JEFFREY O. G. OGBAR University of Connecticut

SHAWN L. ALEXANDER University of Kansas

MAURICE J. HOBSON Georgia State University

RUSSELL RICKFORD Cornell University

DAVARIAN L. BALDWIN Trinity College

MARTHA S. JONES Johns Hopkins University

NIKKI M. TAYLOR Howard University

CHARISSE BURDEN-STELLY Wayne State University

CHERISSE JONES-BRANCH Arkansas State University

ULA YVETTE TAYLOR University of California, Berkeley

KAREN COOK BELL Bowie State University

BLAIR L. M. KELLEY University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

STEPHANIE J. SHAW Ohio State University

DENNIS C. DICKERSON Vanderbilt University

IBRAM X. KENDI Boston University

QUITO J. SWAN George Washington University

JELANI M. FAVORS North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University

CHARLES MCKINNEY JR. Rhodes College

AUGUSTUS C. WOOD University of Illinois UrbanaChampaign

VALERIE GRIM University of Indiana-Bloomington

KHALIL GIBRAN MUHAMMAD Harvard University KEVIN J. MUMFORD University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

DARIUS J. YOUNG Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University

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Association for the Study of African American Life and History

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THE MEMBERS BOOKSHELF Peek into the pages of our past with the ASALH Bookshelf. This collection of books offers a rich repository of knowledge and insight into the African American experience penned by our ASALH members. WWW.ASALH.ORG/BOOKSHELF

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Black History Bulletin NATIONAL COMMUNICATION AWARD RECIPIENT

LAVONNE I. NEAL, PH.D. | CO-EDITOR

ALICIA L. MOORE, PH.D. | CO-EDITOR

Professor Emerita and retired associate vice president, Administration and Finance, Northern Illinois University

Department chair and Cargill Endowed Professorship in Education holder, Southwestern University

Black History Bulletin Editorial Board DAVID CAMPOS University of the Incarnate Word

JASON KAHLEED HAYES Education Strategist

KATHERINE SCOTT STURDEVANT Pikes Peak State College

JOSEPH E. FLYNN Northern Illinois University

ALISA C. NORRIS Paul Quinn University

ALEXANDER GOODWIN Southwestern University

GENEVA GAY University of Washington

PAUL LARUE (RET.) Washington High School, Ohio

GWENDOLYN WEBB Texas A&M University

SATASHA GREEN-STEPHEN Minnesota State

KIM PEARSON The College of New Jersey

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OUR 2025 SPONSORS (CONT.) SAPPHIRE SPONSOR

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THE MEMBER'S BOOKSHELF

Did you know that ASALH has the most comprehensive collection of Books about African American Life and History? Did you also know that most of them were written by ASALH members?

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AfricanAmericanHeritage BusTour THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25 | 7:30 AM – 12:00 NOON Tour will drive by or stop at the following locations: Black Art Museum, Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historical Park and MLK Birth Home, Wheat Street Baptist Church, Historic Atlanta Life Building, Atlanta Daily World Newspaper, Royal Peacock Ballroom, Big Bethel AME Church, Odd Fellows Historic Building - John Wesley Dobbs, 1st Black Radio Station –WERD AM, Historic Atlanta Life Insurance Building, SCLC Headquarters Ebenezer Baptist Church, 1st Black Firefighters Station

AtlantaWestside&1906 RaceMassacreTour SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 28 | 8:30 AM – 5:00 PM Tyler Perry Studio-Madea House, Shrine of the Black Madonna Church and Cultural Center, West Hunter Street Baptist Church/Rev. Ralph David Abernathy, Wrens Nest, Hammonds House Museum, 1128 Oak Street - store formerly owned by H. Rap Brown – SNCC, Sweet Auburn Avenue, Apex Museum – Presentation by Dr. Candy Tate, Southview Cemetery, Southview Cemetery Historic Presentation TOUR LOCATIONS ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE WWW.ASALH.ORG/CONFERENCE OR CALL 202.238.5910 Photos (from top to bottom): Atlanta skyline (© 2017, Gene Phillips, Courtesy of ACVB & AtlantaPhotos.com), Ebenezer Baptist Church, Martin Luther King Jr. National Historical Park, Martin Luther King Jr. Birth Home (©2014, James Duckworth, Courtesy of ACVB & AtlantaPhotos.com)

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS ALL EVENTS ARE HOSTED AT THE OMNI WILLIAM PENN HOTEL UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED. ALL TIMES ARE EST.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2025 10:15 - 11:45 P.M.

CONCURRENT SESSIONS

12:00 - 1:45 P.M.

CONCURRENT SESSIONS

1:30 - 3:30 P.M.

ASALH EXECUTIVE COUNCIL MEETING

2:15 - 3:45 P.M.

CONCURRENT SESSIONS

2:15 - 3:45 P.M.

HINE-HORNE BOOK ROUNDTABLE: IF WE DON’T GET IT: A PEOPLE’S HISTORY OF FERGUSON

4:00 - 5:30 P.M.

OPENING PLENARY SESSION: THE FIRE NOW!

6:00 - 8:00 P.M.

OPENING RECEPTION SPONSORED BY THE NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION

7:00 - 8:30 P.M.

CONCURRENT SESSIONS

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2025 7:30 A.M. - 12:00 P.M.

AFRICAN AMERICAN HERITAGE BUS TOUR

8:30 - 9:50 A.M.

CONCURRENT SESSIONS

8:30 - 9:50 A.M.

KEY SESSION: REMEMBERING AND MEMORIALIZING BLACK LABOR: PUBLIC HISTORY AS PRESERVATION AND POLICY-MAKING

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8:30 - 9:50 A.M.

THE STATUE OF LIBERTY IS BLACK: PERSPECTIVES FROM A VOLATILE RESEARCH PROJECT

8:30 - 9:50 A.M.

HINE-HORNE BOOK ROUNDTABLE: MIDWEST UNREST: 1960’S URBAN REBELLIONS AND THE BLACK FREEDOM MOVEMENT

9:00 A.M. - 6:00 P.M.

EXHIBITORS

9:30 - 11:50 A.M.

FILM FESTIVAL: 10,000 BLACK MEN NAMED GEORGE (2002)

10:15 - 11:45 A.M.

CONCURRENT SESSION

10:15 - 11:45 A.M.

KEY SESSION: BUILDING HARLEM'S GLOBAL WORLD: LESSONS FROM HUBERT HARRISON AND THE WOMEN OF UNIVERSAL NEGRO IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION

10:15 - 11:45 A.M.

SCHOLARS TRANSFORMING THE ACADEMY: HISTORIES CREATED, REIMAGINED, AND RETOLD

12:00 - 1:45 P.M.

CONCURRENT SESSIONS

12:00 - 1:45 P.M.

THURSDAY LUNCHEON

2:15 - 3:45 P.M.

PLENARY SESSION: TOWARDS A THEORY OF LIBERATION: THE STATE OF BLACK RADICALISM TODAY

3:00 - 6:00 P.M.

PRESIDENTIAL SESSION: FOURTH CONVENING AND LIVE RADIO BROADCAST- "TODAY WITH DR. KAYE"

3:50 - 5:00 P.M.

FILM FESTIVAL: THE PRUITT-IGOE MYTH (2011)

4:00 - 5:30 P.M.

CONCURRENT SESSIONS

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4:00 - 5:30 P.M.

COMMUNITY FORUM: BLACK PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOLS, 1870-1970

4:00 - 5:30 P.M.

HINE-HORNE BOOK ROUNDTABLE: A SOLDIER’S LIFE: A BLACK WOMAN’S RISE FROM ARMY BRAT TO SIX TRIPLE EIGHT CHAMPION

4:00 - 5:30 P.M.

KEY SESSION: AR’N’T I A WOMAN? : REFLECTIONS ON BLACK WOMEN’S LIVES AND LABORS AFTER FORTY YEARS

6:15 - 8:15 P.M.

FILM FESTIVAL: BOOKER’S PLACE: A MISSISSIPPI STORY (2012)

6:30 - 9:30 P.M.

THURSDAY NIGHT OUT & JAAH RECEPTION

7:00 - 8:30 P.M.

CONCURRENT SESSIONS

8:30 - 10:30 P.M.

FILM FESTIVAL: KILLER OF SHEEP (1978)

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2025 8:00 A.M. - 9:00 P.M.

EXHIBITORS

8:30 - 9:50 A.M.

CONCURRENT SESSIONS

8:30 - 9:50 A.M.

KEY SESSION: BLACK WOMEN’S WORK: UNDERSTANDING LOCAL ORGANIZING TRADITIONS WITHIN THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

8:30 - 9:50 A.M.

KEY SESSION: THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF ROBERT L. ALLEN

9:00 - 11:00 A.M.

FILM FESTIVAL: SORRY TO BOTHER YOU (2012)

10:15 - 11:45 A.M.

CONCURRENT SESSIONS

CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE... 110TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE | ATLANTA, GEORGIA | SEPTEMBER 24-28, 2025

ACCELERATED READER BOOK GRADES 6-12 WWW.ARBOOKFIND.COM SEPARATE FOUNTAINS The four brightly colored panels —12 foot, square murals — show four different scenes from the historical novel, Separate Fountains, by Jonesboro native Patti Wilson Byars. The $47,000 mural project reflects four scenes from the town's past: 1950s Main Street with the author (at age 12) and her 5-year-old brother standing in front of the drug store, a gypsy woman at the gypsy camp, the legendary nomadic "Goat Man" who traveled all over the South, and a portrait of Lillian and Eula Arnold, two black women who taught at the 1940s50s Jonesboro Colored School. "Separate Fountains is a "can't put it down" book. The emotions, memories, and realistic social history that abound are captivating. A publication that adults and youth, blacks, whites, and other races and ethnic groups will find educational and inspiring, it brings one to tears and gives the readers something to ponder as the story presents a true picture of what it was like to be black — or white — growing up in the South in the early 1950s." — Althemese Barnes, Founder & Executive Director Riley House Museum of African American History and Culture Tallahassee, FL FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT SEPARATE FOUNTAINS, VISIT WWW.PATTIWILSONBYARS.COM OR WWW.AMAZON.COM

10:15 - 11:45 A.M.

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

10:15 - 11:45 A.M.

KEY SESSION: CRUSADERS FOR JUSTICE: ROBERT & MABEL WILLIAMS' MEMOIRS AND THEIR VALUE FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY

10:15 - 11:45 A.M.

KEY SESSION: LABOR HISTORY MEETS BLACK HISTORY: A CONVERSATION BETWEEN LAWCHA AND ASALH

10:15 - 11:45 A.M.

POSTER SESSION

12:00 - 1:45 P.M.

CONCURRENT SESSIONS

12:00 - 1:45 P.M.

PRESIDENTIAL SESSION: FRAMING THE "FREEDOM SEASON": A MEDITATION ON 1963

12:00 - 1:45 P.M.

FRIDAY BLASSINGAME LUNCHEON

2:15 - 3:45 P.M.

PLENARY SESSION: THE LEGACY AND SCHOLARSHIP OF JOE WILLIAM TROTTER, JR. — FRIDAY PLENARY SESSION

4:00 - 5:30 P.M.

CONCURRENT SESSIONS

4:00 - 5:30 P.M.

KEY SESSION: HOWARD MELLON WORKSHOP: SOCIAL JUSTICE AND LABOR

4:00 - 5:30 P.M.

HINE-HORNE BOOK ROUNDTABLE: FREEDOM SEASON: HOW 1963 TRANSFORMED AMERICA’S CIVIL RIGHTS REVOLUTION

4:00 - 6:00 P.M.

FILM FESTIVAL: CLARA’S FRUIT (2025)

4:00 - 6:00 P.M.

FILM FESTIVAL: HOLLYWOOD SHUFFLE (1987)

6:15 - 7:45 P.M.

KUFUNDISHA: A FRAMEWORK FOR ASALH FREEDOM SCHOOLS

CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE... 110TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE | ATLANTA, GEORGIA | SEPTEMBER 24-28, 2025

7:00 - 8:30 P.M.

CONCURRENT SESSIONS

7:00 - 10:00 P.M.

AUTHORS’ BOOK SIGNING

7:30 - 10:00 P.M.

FILM FESTIVAL: UNION (2024) (WITH GUEST CHRIS SMALLS)

8:00 - 10:00 P.M.

“BOOTS ON THE GROUND” FRIDAY NIGHT IN RECEPTION SPONSORED BY AMAWATERWAYS

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2025 8:00 A.M. - 5:00 P.M.

EXHIBITORS

8:30 - 9:50 A.M.

CONCURRENT SESSIONS

8:30 - 9:50 A.M.

HINE-HORNE BOOK ROUNDTABLE: CLASS WARFARE IN BLACK ATLANTA: GRASSROOTS STRUGGLES, POWER AND REPRESSION UNDER GENTRIFICATION

9:00 - 10:45 A.M.

FILM FESTIVAL: AVA GREENWELL FESTIVAL

9:00 - 11:45 A.M.

ANNUAL BRANCH MEMBERS’ IN-PERSON MEETING & REMEMBRANCE PROGRAM

9:00 A.M. - 2:00 P.M.

ASALH YOUTH AND EDUCATOR WORKSHOP: WHERE LEGACY MEETS INNOVATION (FREE EVENT)

10:15 - 11:45 A.M.

CONCURRENT SESSIONS

10:15 - 11:45 A.M.

KEY SESSION: BLACK PUBLIC WORKERS AND THE DIGNITY OF LABOR

10:15 - 11:45 A.M.

KEY SESSION: OUR BLACK SHINING PRINCE: MALCOLM X AT 100

10:15 - 11:45 A.M.

KEY SESSION: 1776 AND THE REVOLT AGAINST BRITISH RULE

CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE... 110TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE | ATLANTA, GEORGIA | SEPTEMBER 24-28, 2025

10:15 - 11:45 A.M.

11:00 A.M. - 1:00 P.M.

KEY SESSION: A PIPELINE OF BLACK HISTORY CONNECTING ALASKA AND OKLAHOMA FILM FESTIVAL: THE KILLING FLOOR (1984)

12:00 - 1:45 P.M.

CONCURRENT SESSIONS

12:00 - 1:45 P.M.

KEY SESSION: GRIT AND THE GROUND WE STAND ON: HISTORIES OF BLACK WORKING-CLASS RESISTANCE

12:00 - 1:45 P.M.

SATURDAY WOODSON LUNCHEON

2:00 - 3:50 P.M.

FILM FESTIVAL: BLACK RADICAL LABOR DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL

2:15 - 3:45 P.M.

KEY SESSION: GLOBAL TIES, RADICAL STRUGGLES: PANAFRICANISM, LABOR, AND ANTI-IMPERIALISM IN THE 20TH CENTURY

2:15 - 3:45 P.M.

CONCURRENT SESSIONS

2:15 - 3:45 P.M.

PRESIDENTIAL SESSION: #SAYHERNAME: BLACK WOMEN'S STORIES OF POLICE VIOLENCE AND PUBLIC SILENCE

2:15 - 3:45 P.M.

HINE-HORNE BOOK ROUNDTABLE: A FORGOTTEN MIGRATION: BLACK SOUTHERNERS, SEGREGATION SCHOLARSHIPS, AND THE DEBT OWED TO PUBLIC HBCUS

4:00 - 5:30 P.M.

ASALH ANNUAL MEMBER’S BUSINESS MEETING

7:30 - 10:30 P.M.

ASALH ANNUAL AWARDS BANQUET

8:00 - 10:00 P.M.

FILM FESTIVAL: FANNIE LOU HAMER’S AMERICA (2022)

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2025 8:30 A.M. - 5:00 P.M.

ATLANTA WESTSIDE & 1906 RACE MASSACRE TOUR

110TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE | ATLANTA, GEORGIA | SEPTEMBER 24-28, 2025

Morgan State University May Be the Right Choice for Leveling Up Your

EDUCATION DID YOU KNOW…

Morgan State is the only HBCU with a master’s degree in African American Studies.

DID YOU KNOW… Morgan has a master’s degree in Museum Studies. In as little as three semesters, you can be off to a new career at one of the many museums in the DC/Baltimore region and beyond.

DID YOU KNOW… Morgan has a PhD in History, specializing in African American, African, African Diaspora, and Modern United States History. In the HBCU World, our only counterpart is Howard University.

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As a state institution, we offer quality graduate programs for a fraction of the price of any private institution. With the changes in graduate financial aid, which caps the amount of loans a student can take, Morgan is more attractive than ever. Visit our website at www.morgan.edu and contact Professor Lawrence.Peksin@Morgan.edu for more information.

HOTEL LOCATIONS THE OMNI ATLANTA HOTEL AT CENTENNIAL PARK - HOST HOTEL 190 MARIETTA ST NW, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, 30303

Location: North Tower, M1

Location: North Tower, M2

Dogwood A

Int’l Ballroom A

Dogwood B

Int’l Ballroom B

Cottonwood A

Int’L Ballroom C

Location: South Tower Atrium Level

Redwood

Int’l Ballroom D

Birch

Redwood Pre-Function Area

Int’l Ballroom EF

Pine

Int'l Ballroom Foyer

Spruce Maple A, B, & C

Walnut

Int'l Ballroom Foyer & Pre-Function Lobby 1

Hazelnut

Magnolia

Hickory

Juniper

Chestnut

Cypress

Pecan

Sycamore

Location: North Tower, M3

Location: South Tower Lobby Level Oak

Pre-Function Lobby 2

THE THURSDAY NIGHT OUT AND JAAH RECEPTION IS AT CLARK ATLANTA UNIVERSITY, UNIVERSITY STUDENT CENTER 223 JAMES P. BRAWLEY DRIVE, S.W., ATLANTA, GA 30314

THE SATURDAY YOUTH DAY PROGRAM IS AT MOREHOUSE COLLEGE, SALE CHAPEL 830 WESTVIEW DRIVE, S.W.. ATLANTA, GA 30314

110TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE | ATLANTA, GEORGIA | SEPTEMBER 24-28, 2025

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110TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE | ATLANTA, GEORGIA | SEPTEMBER 24-28, 2025

RECEPTION, BANQUET, & LUNCHEON MENUS Wednesday Reception

Friday Luncheon Buffet

STATIONED APPETIZERS Crudité Display Chopped Salad with Diced Cucumber, tomato, onion, red bell pepper, carrot curls, buttermilk ranch, white balsamic vinaigrette

SALADS Classic Caesar salad Marinated vegetable salad (vegan friendly - no cheese)

CARVING STATION Smoked Beef Brisket Carving Station with dinner rolls and Peach Bourbon Mop Sauce Mashed Potato Bar (made with Dairy Free Oat Milk) with choice of toppings (including real bacon bits, cheddar cheese, sour cream, traditional butter, green onion, roasted bell peppers, diary free butter, caramelized onions)

MAINS Chicken piccata with a lemon and caper white wine sauce Seared Mahi Fillet with Pineapple pico de gallo

SOUTHERN STATION Louisiana Shrimp and grits Carolina pulled chicken bbq Fried green tomatoes with black-eyed pea relish SWEETS Banana pudding tarts Peach Cheesecake

Thursday Luncheon Buffet SALADS Mixed green salad | baby greens, shredded carrots, cherry tomato, cucumbers, cheese (all on the side) with choice of dressings MAINS Orzo pasta salad with summer squash Roasted chicken with natural jus Seared salmon with corn relish SIDES Garlic mashed potatoes Glazed carrots DESSERT Key lime pie

SIDES Garlicky sautéed green beans Rice Pilaf DESSERT Chef’s choice of miniature Italian-inspired desserts

Friday Reception SLIDER COMPANY Wagyu Beef Burgers | Aged cheddar cheese, balsamic onions, garlic aioli Sweet Tea Brined Fried Chicken | Pimento cheese, dill pickles vegan black bean sliders Chips MAC AND CHEESE STATION Cavatappi Pasta, smokey pimento cheese sauce Brisket Burnt Ends / Garlic Local Shrimp Scallions, wild mushrooms, pickled jalapeno, grilled corn and black beans, shaved manchego, shaved pecorino SWEET GREENS SALADS Baby Field Greens | shaved carrots, cucumbers, heirloom cherry tomatoes, red onions, cheddar cheese balsamic vinaigrette and green goddess Southern Caesar | shaved parmesan, cornbread croutons, smokey caesar dressing ASSORTED MINI DESSERTS Assorted Macaroons Eclairs, Cream Puffs Chocolate Caramel Tart

110TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE | ATLANTA, GEORGIA | SEPTEMBER 24-28, 2025

RECEPTION, BANQUET, & LUNCHEON MENUS Saturday Luncheon Buffet

Saturday Banquet

SALADS Arugula and quinoa salad with roasted root vegetables and citrus vinaigrette Spinach and strawberry salad with poppy seed dressing

SALADS Baby Kale Salad | Arugula, honeycrisp apple, shaved Manchego, pomegranate dressing

MAINS Southern fried chicken Georgia trout with succotash

MAINS Citrus-Brined Chicken, herbed farro, green beans

SIDES Braised collard greens Red Beans and Rice DESSERT Red velvet cake

DESSERT Georgia bourbon pecan pie

ATTIRE LUNCHEONS & THURSDAY NIGHT OUT: BUSINESS OR BUSINESS CASUAL ATTIRE IS APPROPRIATE. EVENING BANQUETS & RECEPTIONS: DRESSY OR BUSINESS ATTIRE IS APPROPRIATE.

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110TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE | ATLANTA, GEORGIA | SEPTEMBER 24-28, 2025

PLENARY SESSIONS

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HOW BUDGETS AND POLICIES ARE UNDERMINING PRESERVATION OF THE AFRICAN AMERICAN EXPERIENCE

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2025 | 4:00 - 5:30 P.M. EST THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

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POSTER SESSION FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2025 | 10:15 - 11:45 A.M. EST THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

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ASALH PRESENTS THE 110TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE

FILM FEST SEPTEMBER 24-28, 2025

OMNI ATLANTA HOTEL AT CENTENNIAL PARK ATLANTA, GA

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2025 10,000 BLACK MEN NAMED GEORGE (2002) | 9:30 A.M. THE PRUITT-IGOE MYTH (2011) | 3:50 P.M. BOOKER’S PLACE: A MISSISSIPPI STORY (2012) | 6:15 P.M. KILLER OF SHEEP (1978) | 8:30 P.M.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2025 SORRY TO BOTHER YOU | 9:00 A.M. CLARA’S FRUIT (2025) | 4:00 P.M. HOLLYWOOD SHUFFLE (1987) | 4:00 P.M. UNION (2024) (WITH GUEST CHRIS SMALLS) | 7:30 P.M.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2025 AVA GREENWELL FESTIVAL | 9:00 A.M. HEARING SILENCES: 50 YEARS OF BLACK WOMEN FACULTY AT NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY MANDELA IN CHICAGO THE KILLING FLOOR (1984) | 11:00 A.M. BLACK RADICAL LABOR DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL | 2:00 P.M. FINALLY GOT THE NEWS! (1970) WILDCAT AT MEAD (1972) FANNIE LOU HAMER’S AMERICA (2022) | 8:00 P.M.

FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF AFRICAN AMERICAN LIFE AND HISTORY® WWW.ASALH.ORG

Author's BOOK signing EVENT

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2025 | 7:00 P.M. - 10:00 P.M. EST IN-PERSON AT THE OMNI ATLANTA HOTEL AT CENTENNIAL PARK

Do You Remember?

Raising the Race

TRENTON BAILEY

RICHÉ BARNES

The Bethune Blueprint

Unleashing Black Power

EVELYN BETHUNE

PETER BLACKMER

110TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE | ATLANTA, GEORGIA | SEPTEMBER 24-28, 2025

AUTHOR’SBOOKSIGNINGEVENT

Victors: A Novel of Love, War

Disreputable Women

HEATHER BUCHANAN

CHRISTINA CARNEY

The Roads We've Traveled

The Owl and the Great Tree

LURA DANIELS-BALL

RUSSELL DRAKE

An Efficient Womanhood

Healing Words

NATANYA DUNCAN

TANYA ENGLAND

110TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE | ATLANTA, GEORGIA | SEPTEMBER 24-28, 2025

AUTHOR’SBOOKSIGNINGEVENT

Combee

Discovering My Southern Legacy

EDDA L. FIELDS-BLACK

DEIRDRE FOREMAN

The Graphic History of Hip Hop, volume 1

Emmett J. Scott

WALTER GREASON

WILL GUZMAN

Tell Her Story

With Faith in God and Heart and Mind

LASHAWN HARRIS

MAURICE J. HOBSON, EDDIE R. COLE JR., JIM C. HARPER II, DERRICK P. ALRIDGE

110TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE | ATLANTA, GEORGIA | SEPTEMBER 24-28, 2025

AUTHOR’SBOOKSIGNINGEVENT

Daughter of the Boycott

Gratuitous Angst in White America

KAREN GRAY HOUSTON

DEENA A. ISOM

Gullah Cuisine

This Far By Grace!

CHARLOTTE A. JENKINS

DONALD L. JOHNSON

The Presumption

Black, Not Historically Black

DONALD JONES

JOSEPH JONES

110TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE | ATLANTA, GEORGIA | SEPTEMBER 24-28, 2025

AUTHOR’SBOOKSIGNINGEVENT

Freedom Season

Hubert Harrison

PENIEL JOSEPH

BRIAN KWOBA

It Took Courage

Chance or Circumstance?

CHRISTOPHER P. LEHMAN

JAMES R. MAPP

Essential Soldiers

Before Busing

KENJA MCCRAY

ZEBULON MILETSKY

110TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE | ATLANTA, GEORGIA | SEPTEMBER 24-28, 2025

AUTHOR’SBOOKSIGNINGEVENT

Prose to the People

The Vice President's Black Wife

KATIE MITCHELL

AMRITA MYERS

Authentic African American Poetry

Black Woman on Board

FREDERICK NEWSOME

DONNA J. NICOL

America's Black Capital

Children of the Struggle and the Ancestors Who Stayed

JEFFREY OGBAR

SONJIA PARKER REDMOND & BEATRICE J. ADAMS

110TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE | ATLANTA, GEORGIA | SEPTEMBER 24-28, 2025

AUTHOR’SBOOKSIGNINGEVENT

Black Panther Woman

A Southern Underground Railroad

MARY PHILLIPS

PAUL PRESSLY

Ọkunrin (A Man)

T.O.B.A. “Time”

AJ SAM

MICHELLE SCOTT

"Payne-ful” Business

Kidnapped at Sea

MARGARET SEIDLER

ANDREW SILLEN

110TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE | ATLANTA, GEORGIA | SEPTEMBER 24-28, 2025

AUTHOR’SBOOKSIGNINGEVENT

Where Colors Meet

THE SISTERS OF SEEKING INSIGHTS FOR SOLUTIONS

Ghost Skins

VERN E. SMITH

Become the Pebble

Hidden Hospitality

BONNYECLAIRE SMITH STEWART

CALVIN STOVALL JR.

Memoir of John Baptiste Stradford

I Didn't Come Here to Lie: My Life and Education

LESLEE STRADFORD

ELIZABETH TODD-BRELAND PH.D.

110TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE | ATLANTA, GEORGIA | SEPTEMBER 24-28, 2025

AUTHOR’SBOOKSIGNINGEVENT

This Is Rhythm

A Balm in Gilead

GAYLE WALD

RANDALL C. WEBBER

My Mother’s Tomorrow

Savior's Day

KARSONYA WISE WHITEHEAD

ALAN WINTER

Model Schools in the Model City

Zora, the Story Keeper

AMBER WILEY

EBONY WILKINS

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Class Warfare in Black Atlanta

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Awards Banquet SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2025 7:30 P.M. - 10:30 P.M. EST OMNI ATLANTA HOTEL AT CENTENNIAL PARK

The Annual ASALH Awards Banquet recognizes the contributions of ASALH members, community and national leaders who have made significant contributions to African American history.

Each year, ASALH presents several awards to recognize community leaders and those who make significant contributions to the preservation of African American history.

CARTER G. WOODSON SCHOLAR'S MEDALLION

Established in 1993, the Carter Godwin Woodson Scholars Medallion is presented to a scholar whose career is distinguished through at least a decade of research, writing, and activism in the field of African American life and history.

MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE SERVICE AWARD

This award was established in tribute to Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune because of her dynamic leadership and her years of contributing to education, women’s history, and African-American life and culture. Dr. Bethune served as the first woman president of ASALH from 1936 to 1951 and is one of the most outstanding women role models in our history.

LIVING LEGACY AWARD

In partnership with Farmers Insurance, the ASALH Living Legacy Awards honor African American women and men across the country engaged in extraordinary work to improve communities, institutions, organizations and family life.

FREEDOM SCHOLAR AWARD

A Freedom Scholar seeks to empower and inspire. A Freedom Scholar provides a direct benefit to African-American communities locally or nationally. ASALH has initiated the Freedom Scholar award to honor early scholars of any discipline who can demonstrate that their field of study is having a direct positive impact on the life of African-Americans.

THE ASALH LUMINARY AWARD

The ASALH Luminary Award was established to recognize the outstanding work and contributions related to the mission and goals of ASALH, including the local branch, by a person in the locale of the annual convention.

COUNCIL AWARD OF SPECIAL RECOGNITION

ASALH established the Award of Special Recognition to acknowledge the contributions of individuals, institutions and corporations that make a substantial contribution to the success of ASALH in pursuing the mission of its founder, Dr. Carter G. Woodson.

PRESIDENT’S SERVICE AWARD

The President’s Service Award is presented to an individual who has made exceptional contributions to the African American community, locally and nationally. The President of ASALH selects an individual whose record of community service exemplifies one of the most important objectives of ASALH: selfless service to the African American community.

THE DOROTHY PORTER WESLEY AWARD

The Dorothy Porter Wesley Award was established in 2018 by the Information Professionals of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) to honor and document the outstanding work of Information Professionals; Bibliophiles, Librarians, Archivists, Curators and Collectors. Many of our Information Professionals have also played a major role in supporting the work of ASALH, by serving in leadership roles and as members.

ASALH ANNUAL AWARDS BANQUET PROGRAM LESLIE ETIENNE, MASTER OF CEREMONIES Introduction of Master of Ceremonies

Sylvia Y. Cyrus, Executive Director

Welcome, Occasion & Introduction of Executive Council

Karsonya Wise Whitehead, President

Greetings from Host Committee Chair

Michael Julian Bond, Atlanta City Councilman

Invocation & Grace

Rev. Shawn Drains, Senior Pastor, Saint Paul AME Church

Dinner is Served

PRESENTATION OF AWARDS AWARDEES

PRESENTERS

Branch Awards

Anita Shepherd, Vice President for Membership

The Dorothy Porter Wesley Award Awardee: Loretta Parham

Aaisha Haykal, Vice President for Programs

ASALH Luminary Award Presentations Awardee: Sheila Flemming Awardee: Rachanice Candy Tate Awardee: Mary Frances Early

Michael Julian Bond, Atlanta City Councilman Sean Jones, Atlanta Branch President and LAC Chair Eric Duke, LAC Co-Chair

Freedom Scholar Award Presentation Awardee: Arlisha Norwood

Aisha Johnson, Awards Committee

Council Award of Special Recognition Presentations Awardee: Yolanda Covington-Ward Awardee: Woodson House National Park Service Staff Awardee: Vedet Coleman-Robinson Awardee: LaVonne Neal Awardee: Alicia Moore

Camesha Scruggs, Awards Committee Chair Sylvia Cyrus, Executive Director Sylvia Cyrus, Executive Director Aaisha Haykal, Vice President for Programs Aaisha Haykal, Vice President for Programs

Living Legacy Award Presentation Awardee: Kevin James

Leslie Etienne, Awards Committee

Mary McLeod Bethune Service Award Presentation Awardee: Natanya Duncan

Everett Hardy, Awards Committee

Carter G. Woodson Scholars Medallion Awardee: Stephanie Y. Evans Awardee: Deirdre Cooper Owens

Camesha Scruggs, Awards Committee Chair Camesha Scruggs, Awards Committee Chair

President’s Service Award Awardee: Kimberlé Crenshaw

Karsonya Wise Whitehead, President

Closing Remarks

Sylvia Y. Cyrus, Executive Director

Benediction

Music provided by Evelyn Bethune, Atlanta Branch of ASALH

LORETTA PARHAM THE DOROTHY PORTER WESLEY AWARD

Loretta Parham is Emerita CEO & Library Director of the Robert W. Woodruff Library of the Atlanta University Center, Inc., the single library shared by four member HBCU institutions. (Clark Atlanta University, the Interdenominational Theological Center, Morehouse College and Spelman College) Under her leadership and fundraising, $26M in renovations were completed. The library was awarded the ACRL 2016 Excellence in Academic Libraries Award. With more than 30 years in the profession her experience includes: Director of the Hampton University Library, Deputy Director of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Pa., District Chief of the Chicago Public Library (CPL) and other professional positions with the Chicago Public Schools and City Colleges. An active leader, scholar and engaging speaker, Parham was named the ACRL 2017 Academic Research Librarian of the Year, the 2016 Distinguished Alumna of the University of Michigan School of Information Sciences, and a “Mover & Shaker” by the industry publication Library Journal. She has authored articles on HBCU libraries and archives, and diversity. Parham is co-founder and past chair of the HBCU Library Alliance. She is the proud daughter of the late Amanda S. Rudd, the first female and Black Library Commissioner of the Chicago Public Library.

SHEILA FLEMMING LUMINARY AWARD A Ph.D. in African and African American History, Sheila is Founder and President of the Black Rose Foundation for Children. The mission of the foundation is to provide resources to organizations seeking to empower children, through programs, services, and advocacy. Sheila is author of Bethune-Cookman College 1904-1994: The Answered Prayer to a Dream and she has contributed articles on African and African America women, Nelson Mandela, Mary McLeod Bethune, and Black Women’s Health in published works and reviewed textbooks for the UNA/USA. Her teaching and research interests include the history of Black higher education, African and African American history, with special emphasis on women and race relations. She and her daughters (Attorney Alero Afejuku and Dr. Ayo Gathing) authored two children’s books and recently penned an article, “Love Lessons: Black Women Teaching Black Girls to Love,” in Black Women’s Mental Health: Balancing Strength & Vulnerability, edited by Stephanie Y. Evans, Kanika Bell & Nsenga K. Burton. Having served on several national boards, an Archivist for the African Heritage Studies Association, a member of the Board of Directors of Moore-Myers Children’s Fund in Jacksonville, FL and former National President of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History.

RACHANICE CANDY TATE LUMINARY AWARD

Dr. Rachanice (Ray-sha-niece) Candy Tate joined the Tuskegee University Library Division as Curator and Co-Director of The Legacy Museum on May 1, 2024. She also holds a joint appointment in the Department of Fine and Performing Arts. Tate is an alumna of Emory University (BA, Art History), Georgia State University (MPA, Nonprofit Administration), University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (MA, Art History), and Clark Atlanta University (DAH, History). Dr. Tate is a community organizer and institution builder. She incorporated and served as Branch Historian for the Atlanta Branch of the Association for the Study of African American Life & History (ASALH) from 2015-2019. She helped establish the Veterans’ History Project with the Atlanta History Center, deposited the Branch’s archives with the Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library, and created a partnership with Juneteenth Atlanta Parade & Music Festival. The 2016 ASALH theme “Hallowed Grounds: Sites of African American Memory” inspired her to work with the National Park Service to restore Atlanta’s History Fountain (Stone) Hall and Wheat Street Baptist Church. Tate has helped establish the Athens and the Savannah Branches of ASALH following her paternal and maternal lineage.

MARY FRANCES EARLY LUMINARY AWARD

On August 16, 1962, Mary Frances Early became the first African American to graduate from the University of Georgia with a master’s degree in music education. Inspired by Charlayne Hunter-Gault and Hamilton Holmes, Ms. Early made a deliberate choice to enroll at UGA alongside them to desegregate the graduate school. Still disappointed by the lack of diversity and persistent segregation on campus after graduating, she returned to UGA in 1964 to earn her educational specialist degree in music education. She later became a music teacher in Atlanta Public Schools where she continued to challenge injustice and expand access to music for all students before being promoted to music director of the school system. During her career, she worked with teachers in the system’s 100-plus schools and oversaw the music curriculum, budget, textbooks, and more. Ms. Early retired in 1994 after working for 37 years in public schools. She later taught at Morehouse College and Spelman College as an adjunct professor and served as head of the music department at Clark Atlanta University. The University of Georgia’s College of Education was named in her honor in February 2020. On January 23, 2025, Georgia’s U.S. Senator Raphael Warnock read Ms. Early’s accomplishments and the impact of her work at UGA and beyond into the Congressional Record.

SENATOR REV. RAPHAEL WARNOCK LIMINARY AWARD

Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock grew up in Kayton Homes public housing in Savannah, born one of twelve brothers and sisters raised in coastal Georgia. His father, a veteran, small businessman, and preacher, grew up in Burke and Screven County, GA. Senator Reverend Warnock’s mother grew up in Waycross, GA, where she spent summers picking tobacco and cotton. A graduate of Savannah’s Sol C. Johnson High School, Senator Raphael Warnock’s mother and extended family still lives in the Savannah area. Senator Warnock is a proud graduate of Morehouse College; after graduating from Morehouse, he went onto earn a PhD and begin his career ordained in the ministry. For over 15 years, Senator Warnock has served as Senior Pastor at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, the former pulpit of Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. He is the youngest pastor selected to serve in that leadership role at the historic church. Senator Warnock was elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in the January 5, 2021, special election runoff for the term ending January 3, 2023, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Johnny Isakson, a seat previously held by appointed Senator Kelly Loeffler. He took the oath of office on January 20, 2021.

ARLISHA NORWOOD FREEDOM SCHOLAR AWARD

Arlisha R. Norwood is an assistant professor of history at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore. Her research focuses on 19th-century African American history with an emphasis on Black women and the Civil War. Specifically, her work examines single African American women in the Civil War and post-Civil War eras. Her research has been supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Virginia Humanities. She earned a B.A. in history from Dillard University, an M.A in history from Texas Southern University, and a Ph.D. in history from Howard University.

YOLANDA COVINGTON-WARD COUNCIL AWARD OF SPECIAL RECOGNITION Yolanda Covington-Ward is Department Chair and Professor in the W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She previously served as Chair of the Department of Africana Studies at the University of Pittsburgh from 2019-2022. She is former President of the Association for Africanist Anthropology and an Advisory Board member of the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Michigan and a B.A. in Afro-American Studies from Brown University. Her research focuses on embodiment, identity, religion, performance, and politics, emphasizing the agency of people of African descent in transforming the worlds around them. Her first book Gesture and Power: Religion, Nationalism, and Everyday Performance in Congo (Duke University Press, 2016) was awarded the 2016 Amaury Talbot Award for African Anthropology and the 2017 Elliott P. Skinner Book Award. Her second book, Transformation through Migration: Community, Conflict, and Identity in the Liberian Diaspora, is currently under contract at the University of Pennsylvania Press. She co-edited two volumes, Embodying Black Religions in Africa and Its Diasporas (Duke University Press) and African Performance Arts and Political Acts (University of Michigan Press).

WOODSON HOUSE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE STAFF COUNCIL AWARD OF SPECIAL RECOGNITION

The 2026 re-opening of the Carter G. Woodson Home National Historic Site will represent the culmination of a 50-year effort between ASALH and the National Park Service (NPS). In 1976, ASALH developed plans to convert the site into a museum and learning center about Dr. Woodson’s life. In the same year, the NPS officially designated the Woodson Home as a National Historic Landmark National Park Service site, and in 2005, it became the 389 th unit of the NPS. Special thanks go to recently retired Superintendent Tara Morrison, who, during her almost ten-year tenure, ensured that the completion of the Carter G. Woodson Home was a priority. Countless administrators and the entire staff of National Capital Parks-East have worked tirelessly and through many challenges to restore, interpret, and share the historical importance of Dr. Woodson and ASALH. This award is to recognize the partnership with ASALH and the dedicated work and commitment that the Woodson House staff has exemplified.

VEDET COLEMAN-ROBINSON COUNCIL AWARD OF SPECIAL RECOGNITION

Vedet Coleman-Robinson, Ph.D. serves as the president and CEO of the Association of African American Museums (AAAM), a mission-driven nonprofit organization whose members bring to the forefront stories of civil rights and social injustice, chronicle the strides that have been made in those areas and emphasize inequalities that still exist today. As AAAM’s president and CEO, Coleman-Robinson provides resources to ensure members remain resilient and nimble and can serve as beacons of hope in times of social unrest. Coleman-Robinson was appointed as AAAM’s executive director in 2019 and was named president and CEO in 2024. Under her leadership, AAAM’s membership has increased by over 270%, and more than $6.5 million has been raised for the nonprofit organization. Dr. Coleman-Robinson, initiated into Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. through the Alpha Eta Chapter, holds a Bachelor of Arts in U.S. history from Virginia State University and a Master of Arts and a Doctor of Philosophy in U.S. history with a minor in public history from Howard University.

LAVONNE NEAL COUNCIL AWARD OF SPECIAL RECOGNITION

Dr. La Vonne I. Neal—is Professor Emerita at Northern Illinois University (NIU) and Associate Vice President, Administration & Finance (RET.) / NIU. Throughout her professional career, she led rapidly changing operations in three diverse professions: (1) higher education operations; (2) production operations in the corporate sector; and (3) military intelligence operations in the U.S. Army. Also, Dr. Neal is Co-Editor for the award-winning Black History Bulletin, an ASALH academic journal; and recipient of: (1) Two National Book Awards; (2) Two National Leadership Awards; and (3) University Teaching Awards. Over the course of her academic career as Dean of the College of Education at NIU and Dean of the College of Education at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs (UCCS), Neal implemented a new culture of assessment and led digital transformation throughout the colleges’ programs. She has demonstrated experience in fostering process improvement and innovation, while serving in both academic and administrative roles. Neal is a teacher-educator whose research in the design and implementation of culturally responsive teaching methods has earned global recognition.

ALICIA MOORE COUNCIL AWARD OF SPECIAL RECOGNITION

Dr. Alicia L. Moore is the Cargill Endowed Professor of Education at Southwestern University, in Georgetown, Texas, and a nationally recognized leader in Culturally Responsive Pedagogy, Diversity, and Equity in Higher Education. For over two decades, she has served as co-editor of The Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) Black History Bulletin. In this role, she curates accessible, classroom-ready content for educators committed to teaching Black history with depth and integrity. Dr. Moore is the recipient of the prestigious ASALH Mary McLeod Bethune Service Award, recognizing her outstanding contributions to the advancement of Black history education. She was also selected as one of 15 scholars to attend the White House’s Black History Month celebration under President Barack Obama and ASALH. As an educational consultant, Dr. Moore partners with institutions to build inclusive learning environments and develop curriculum resources that center historically marginalized voices. Her work consistently challenges structural inequities and promotes educational justice. Through scholarship, advocacy, and mentorship, Dr. Moore continues to shape a more inclusive and equitable future for students and educators nationwide.

MESHA WILLIAMS COUNCIL AWARD OF SPECIAL RECOGNITION

Mesha Y. Williams is a dedicated social media editor who specializes in creating impactful digital content for labor organizations. She was a newspaper reporter for the Gadsden Times and the Spartanburg Herald Journal. She also served as the Online Coordinator for the Education Writers Association and as a weekend Web Editor for WTOP.com, the website of WTOP radio station. Mesha volunteers for the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, marketing its annual Black History Luncheon. She provides black facts for social media to highlight the historical figures and movements in relation to the annual themes. A native of Nashville, TN, Mesha is an alumna of Spelman College and has a Master’s Degree in Journalism and Public Affairs from American University. She earned a Digital Marketing certificate from the Parsons School of Design at The New School. Mesha served as a docent at the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration and has volunteered at the Freer Sackler Museum. She is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., and now serves as co-president on the board of directors of Historic Dupont Circle Main Streets. She is a notary and is the owner of 108 Notary Services, LLC.

KEVIN JAMES LIVING LEGACY AWARD

Dr. Kevin James is the 19th President of Morris Brown College, a historical Black college in Atlanta, Georgia. Under his leadership, the college regained accreditation after a nearly twenty-year hiatus, becoming the first HBCU to achieve such a feat. Driven by a commitment to Morris Brown's legacy, he initiated the #TheHardReset campaign, successfully restoring the institution to compliance and recognition by the Department of Education. With a career spanning over 23 years as an educator, administrator, executive business leader, and motivational speaker, Dr. James brings a wealth of experience to his role as the Chief Executive Officer of the college. He has been responsible for stabilizing finances, expanding academic offerings, increasing fundraising, launching a new five-year strategic plan, and achieving record-breaking enrollment in the past two decades. Under Dr. James’ leadership, the institution secured full accreditation from the Transnational Association of Christian Colleges and Schools (TRACS) on April 26, 2022, enabling the college to regain access to federal financial aid programs and Title IV funding. He also solidified Morris Brown College's reinstatement as a participant in the Strengthening Historically Black Colleges and Universities program under Title III.

NATANYA DUNCAN MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE SERVICE AWARD

Natanya Duncan is the Director of Africana Studies at Queens College City University of New York and an Associate Professor of History. A historian of the African Diaspora, her research and teaching focuses on global freedom movements of the 20th and 21st centuries. Duncan’s research interest includes constructions of identity and nation building amongst women of color; migrations; color and class in Diasporic communities; and the engagements of intellectuals throughout the African Diaspora. Her new book, through The University of North Carolina Press, An Efficient Womanhood: Women and the Universal Negro Improvement Association, focuses on the distinct activist strategies in-acted by women in the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), which Duncan terms an “efficient womanhood.” Following the ways women in the UNIA scripted their own understanding of Pan Africanism, Black Nationalism and constructions of Diasporic Blackness, the work traces the blending of nationalist and gendered concerns amongst known and lesser known Garveyite women.

LARRY LESTER MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE SERVICE AWARD

Larry Lester is a dynamic and engaging keynote speaker, renowned for his transformative storytelling on the vital contributions of Black Americans to American society. With over 45 years of experience in sports and Black history, Lester has inspired audiences at corporate events, academic conferences, and leadership symposiums, empowering leaders, teams, and organizations to connect with the rich history of Black achievement, particularly in the ever-evolving world of sports. The author of Black Baseball’s National Showcase: The East-West All-Star Game, The Negro Leagues Book (Volumes 1 and 2), Caged Champions: Colorful Firsts in U.S. Sports and over a half-dozen more titles is a widely recognized authority on sports history. His résumé includes research contributions to more than 240 published books and blessed with requests to write six forewords, along with appearances in awardwinning documentaries Never Drop the Ball and The League... Read more...

STEPHANIE Y. EVANS CARTER G WOODSON SCHOLAR MEDALLION

Stephanie Y. Evans, PhD, is a Professor of Black Women's Studies (Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies & affiliate faculty in African American Studies) at Georgia State University. She served as department chair for twelve consecutive years at Georgia State University, Clark Atlanta University, and University of Florida. Dr. Evans co-founded the Chair at the Table international network of Black women higher education administrators. She has been a member of the Association of Black Women Historians (ABWH) since 2003 and is the 2025 ABWH National Director. Dr. Evans is author and co-editor of nine books. Her single-authored works include, Black Feminist Writing: A Practical Guide to Publishing Academic Books (SUNY 2024), Black Women's Yoga History: Memoirs of Inner Peace (SUNY 2021), and Black Women in the Ivory Tower, 1850-1954: An Intellectual History (UF 2007). She is lead co-editor of five books including, Dear Department Chair: Letters from Black Women to the Next Generation of Leaders (Wayne State 2023) and Black Women's Mental Health: Balancing Strength and Vulnerability (SUNY 2017). She has served as a consultant to editors of several forthcoming interdisciplinary book projects. Find the full profile for Professor Evans online at www.professorevans.net

DEIRDRE COOPER OWENS CARTER G WOODSON SCHOLAR MEDALLION

Deirdre Cooper Owens is an Associate Professor of History and Africana Studies at the University of Connecticut. Between 2018-2023, she simultaneously directed the Program in African American History at the Library Company of Philadelphia and the medical humanities program at the University of Nebraska. She was the only Black woman in the country who served as director of an academic medical humanities program. She is an Organization of American Historians’ Distinguished Lecturer, a past American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists Fellow, and a member of the American Antiquarian Society. Time Magazine named her as one of the country’s “best historians.” For fifteen years, Dr. Cooper Owens has worked with an array of organizations, birth workers, artists, as a consultant and expert on the history of Black women’s contributions to modern American gynecology. Further, Cooper Owens has won several prestigious awards for her scholarship and advocacy work. Her book, Medical Bondage: Race, Gender and the Origins of American Gynecology, won a Darlene Clark Hine Book Award from the Organization of American Historians as the best book written in African American women’s history. She's currently working on a popular biography about Harriet Tubman that examines her life through the lens of disability.

KIMBERLÉ CRENSHAW PRESIDENT’S AWARD

Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw is a Professor of Law at Columbia and UCLA and is a leading authority on civil rights, Black feminist legal theory, Critical Race Theory, and race, racism and the law. She is a widely cited scholar whose groundbreaking work on intersectionality, a term she coined, has traveled globally. As an activist she launched the #SayHerName campaign which brought attention to Black women killed by police violence and she is the Executive Director of the African American Policy Forum, a gender and racial justice legal thinktank, and the Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy Studies at Columbia Law School.

Thank You! TO THE OUTGOING MEMBERS OF THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL DENISE ROLARK BARNES DEIRDRE FOREMAN KENVI PHILLIPS

Welcome TO THE RETURNING AND INCOMING MEMBERS OF THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL AAISHA HAYKAL DAVID WALTON WALTER LANIER JAMES MORGAN III TIMUR DAVIS

LESLIE ETIENNE EVERETT HARDY RANDAL WEBBER LISA BROWN

PASTAWARDEES CARTER G. WOODSON SCHOLARS MEDALLION

2013 Deborah Gray White

2004 Rev. Richard T. Adams

1993 Benjamin A. Quarles

2014 Gerald Horne

2005 Edna McKenzie Elmer Geathers

1994 John Hope Franklin

2015 David Levering Lewis

1995 Dorothy Porter Wesley John Henrik Clarke

2016 Wilma King

1997 Adelaide M. Cromwell 1998 Edgar Toppin 1999 Arvarh E. Strickland

2017 William Seraile

2008 Barbara Walker Dolores Nehemiah

2019 Bernard Powers

2009 Bob Hayden

2000 Mary Frances Berry Edna Chappell McKenzie 2001 Bettye Collier-Thomas Darlene Clark Hine

2022 Dr. Quintard Taylor Dr. Edna Greene Medford

2002 V.P. Franklin

2023 Francille Wilson

2003 Lerone Bennett, Jr. Robert Harris

2024 Pero Dagbovie LaShawn Harris

2004 Thomas Battle Nell Painter

MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE SERVICE AWARD

2006 Sylvia Jacobs 2007 Joseph Harris 2008 Rosalyn Terborg-Penn Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham 2009 Sharon Harley 2010 Juliet Walker

2007 Paul Edwards Lillie Edwards

2018 Brenda Stevenson

2021 Derrick P. Alridge Erica Armstrong Dunbar Geneva Gay

2005 Walter Hill Monroe Fordham

2006 Bettye Gardner Elizabeth Clark-Lewis

1995 Jeanette L. Cascone 1996 Edgar Toppin 1997 Sylvia M. Jacobs 1998 Roland C. McConnell 1999 Wayland McClellan 2000 Alton Parker Hornsby 2001 Shirley Kilpatrick

2011 Vincent Harding

2002 Madlyn Calbert Rev. William E. Calbert

2012 Collin Palmer

2003 Adelaide Cromwell

2010 Florence Radcliffe 2011 Daryl Michael Scott 2012 Janet Sims-Wood 2014 Barbara Spencer Dunn 2015 Louis Hicks 2016 La Vonna I. Neal Lois L. Watson 2018 Ruth Hodge 2019 Ida Jones Brenda Simmons-Hutchins 2021 Sheila Flemming Bessie Mae Jackson Lopez D. Matthews Jr. 2022 Alicia L. Moore Madge Allen 2023 Moses Massenburg Rosahn “Rose” Whitehorn 2024 Samuel Black

EXECUTIVE COUNCIL AWARD OF SPECIAL RECOGNITION 2008 John H. Bracey, Jr. Gloria Harper Dickinson James Turner Laura Ann Wilkinson Farmers Insurance Group Our Authors Study Club, Inc. 2009 Vincent deForest Faye McClure 2010 James Johnson Rev. Kenneth Hammond Everett B. Ward Dorothy Redford Rev. David Forbes Elsie Scott Marvin Pittman Charlie Nelms Ethel Jones Bynum Charles C. Brewer Madlyn Calbert Rev. William Calbert Vincent deForest Cora Dixon Elmer D. Geathers James “Buddy” Griggsby, III Frederick J. Laney Robert Stanton 2011 Howard Dodson Thomas C. Battle Carl M. Dunn Robert L. Harris 2012 Constance Tate 2013 Addie Richburg Frank Smith Charles “Alan” Spears 2014 David C. Driskell 2015 Sheila Flemming-Hunter Daryl Michael Scott 2016 Dorothy F. Bailey 2017 Lori Leah Croom Michelle Duster Margot Shetterly

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PASTAWARDEES 2018 Edgar Brookins Monroe Little Mirlene Pitre

2013 Mary Frances Berry Camille Billops Roslyn M. Brock Pauletta Brown Bracy Minnijean Brown Trickey 2019 Queen Quet Marquetta L. Rep. James Clyburn Goodwine David L. and Yvonne B. Acey Eloise Greenfield Antoinette Harrell 2021 Olivia Hooker Jarvis R. Givens Lyn Hughes Fred O. Smith Sr. Dorothy Jones Cheryl L. Knox 2022 Latoya Lucas Brent Leggs Naomi Long Madgett The Links, Incorporated Margaret Moore Mary Moultrie Valerie Maholmes Newatha Myers Consolee Nishimwe 2023 Florence Tate Sundiata Cha-Jua Najmah Thomas Barbara Spencer Dunn Camilla P. Thompson Bettye Gardner Joe Madison 2014 Diane E. Miller Dr. Charlene M. Dukes Annette Teasdell The Hon. Patsy Jo Hilliard Bell Hooks 2024 Freeman A. Hrabowski, III Sharita Jacobs Thompson Velma Lois Jones Gladys Gary Vaughn Wyman O. Jones, Sr Joyce Ladner LIVING LEGACY AWARD LaSalle D. Leffall, Jr, MD Reginald L. Weaver Raymond A. Winbush 2012 Denise Rolark Barnes 2015 Brigadier General Arnold L. Mitchem Barbaranette T. Bolden Reginald Van Lee Beverly Bond Myron A. Gray Roslyn Brock Rev. Dr. Jonathan L. Weaver Lavern Chatman Brown Robert G. Stanton Peggy Cooper Cafritz The Hon. James E. Clyburn AMB Suzan Johnson Cook The W.K. Kellogg Foundation Marion Wright Edelman Evelyn Brooks 2016 Higginbotham Ingrid Saunders Jones Allison Hill Charles Bibbs JC Hayward 2017 Mae Jemison Bettye Collier-Thomas Bishop Vashtai McKenzie Bryan Stevenson Eleanor Holmes Norton Bernice Johnson Reagon 2019 Julieanna Richardson Lonnie G. Bunch Paula Whetsel-Ribeau Tracey Web Lynn Whitfield

2021 Elizabeth Clark-Lewis Kenneth M. Hamilton

2022 James B. Stewart James D. Anderson Rodney Lawrence Hurst, Sr. 2023 Senator James T. Hargett Johnnetta B. Cole Ronald Saunders Michelle Duster 2024 Deborah Gray White Sonia Sanchez Jesse Jackson, Sr. JOHN HOPE FRANKLIN LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD 2015 John Lewis PRESIDENT’S SERVICE AWARD 2022 Milton C. Davis 2023 Darnell Smith Bishop Rudolph McKissick, Sr. 2024 Nikki Taylor Zebulon Miletsky Anthony B. Mitchell Anita Shepherd Aaisha Haykal RAYS OF LIGHT 2015 Senghor Baye Anthony Browder Lonnie G. Bunch Charles F. Bolden, Jr. Johnnetta B. Cole Paul Coates John W. Franklin Dick Gregory Asa. G Hilliard III Patsy Jo Hilliard Freeman A. Hrabowski, III Catherine L. Hughes Leonard Jeffries Harriett G. Jenkins Ted Kennedy (posthumous) James W. Loewen Joe Madison Bette McLeod

Robert Moses Rodney H. Orr Jonathan Pourzal Anthony Robinson Rep. Louis Stokes Shelley Stokes-Hammond Mattie I. Taylor Davita Vance-Cooks Frances Cress Wesling Ayanna Gregory Mike DeWine ASALH LUMINARY AWARD 2019 Inaugural Winner Rev. Nelson B.Rivers, III 2021 Henry Louis Gates 2022 Dr. Ralph Joseph Bryson (posthumous) Fred David Gray, Sr., Esq. 2023 Charles E. Cobb, Jr. Marvin Dunn Lovette W. Harper Lizzie R. Jenkins Zohorah Simmons Senator James T. Hargrett 2024 Joe Trotter FREEDOM SCHOLAR AWARD 2019 Inaugural Winners Tiffany G. B. Packer Sarah Lewis 2021 Christopher Bonner Khalid el-Hakim Aisha Johnson 2022 Dr. Shantella Sherman 2023 Lisa R. Brown TaKeia N. Anthony 2024 Ashley Jordan

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PASTAWARDEES THE ASALH BOOK PRIZE 2021 Inaugural Winners William Darity, Jr. and Kirsten Mullen 2022 Jarvis R. Givens 2023 Quito Swan 2024 Barbara D. Savage 2025 Kali Nicole Gross

THE DOROTHY PORTER WESLEY AWARD Presented by the ASALH Information Professionals

V.P. FRANKLIN LEGACY JOURNAL OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY AWARD

NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION’S H. COUNCILL TRENHOLM MEMORIAL AWARDS

2018 W. Paul Coates

2022 Dr. Maryam Aziz Kevin C. Quin

2020 Patricia Payne

2019 Charles L. Blockson 2020 Deborah L. Dandridge 2021 Janet Sims-Wood 2022 Frazine K. Taylor 2024 Ruth Hodge

NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION’S CARTER G. WOODSON MEMORIAL AWARD 2010 Distinguished Sculptor, Ed Hamilton 2011 Executive Directory of Sojourn Jeffery Steinberg

OUTSTANDING BRANCH PROGRAMING AWARD 2021 Martha’s Vineyard Branch BRANCH OF THE YEAR 2022 Dr. Edna B. McKenzie Branch (Pittsburgh, PA)

2012 Jerry Gore

Thank You!

2013 ASALH Life Member, Judylynn Mitchell

TO THE LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS COMMITTEE BRENDA AGHAHOWA AMY ANDREWS TRENTON BAILEY EVELYN BETHUNE DANIEL BLACK CAROLYN BLACKSHEAR JOSHUA BLOODWORTH LISA BRATTON LISA BROWN HEATHER BUCHANAN CAL BURLOCK STERLINE CALDWELL RODNEY T. COHEN RONALD D. COLEMAN VICKI CRAWFORD PATRICIA DAVIS WILLIAM DORSEY ERIC DUKE

JAVARRO M. EDWARDS TONYA ENGLAND REV. VELMA FANN ANDREA JACKSON GAVIN FREDA S. GILES KINTE GRANT WALTER GREASON ODELL HORNE JR. SEAN W. JONES AUGUSTUS “GUS” JORDAN KENYA KING AYSHA LABON SAMUEL LIVINGSTON WENDELL LOVE SANDY DWAYNE MARTIN KENJA MCCRAY CLARISSA MYRICK-HARRIS SHARRON PAIGE-WHITAKER

SYREETA PALMER-LEVERETT EBONI PRESTON LEON PRIETO JOSEPH M. ROBERTSON JAY ROY ZAAKIRA SADRUD-DIN SESHAT EUMEL SAHMEDU WILLIAM SMITH VALERIA SMITH BONNYCLAIRE STEWART CANDY TATE DAVID TAYLOR MAYA TAYLOR BOLA TILGHMAN SHIRLEY TIMMONS BERNITA WALLER RANDALL WEBBER KIM YARBER

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BRANCHPRESIDENTS

ASALH BRANCH PRESIDENTS

YVONNE B. ACEY Memphis Area Branch (TN)

MALIK BARTHOLOMEW

ANGELIA BENDOLPH

Charles Deslondes Nola Branch

Mobile Branch (AL)

ADREONNA BENNETT Romare Bearden Branch (NC)

CAROLYN S. BLACKSHEAR Savannah Yamacraw Branch (GA)

BARBARA BOYD

TY COLLINS

Louisville Branch (KY)

Charleston Area Branch (SC)

LATANYA M. EDWARDS Manasota Branch (FL)

LESLIE ETIENE Joseph T. Taylor Branch (IN)

LURA DANIELS-BALL

NANCY DAVIS

Our Authors Study Club Branch (CA)

Organizing George Cleveland Hall Branch (Chicago, IL)

ELLEN FEREBEE

MARCIA GARRISON

Manhattan Branch (NY)

Margaret & Robert Garner Branch (OH)

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BRANCHPRESIDENTS

DAVID HARRIS

HAZEL GILLIS

ROBERT C. GUNN

James Weldon Johnson Branch (FL)

Carter G. Woodson Branch (Washington, D.C.)

Huntington Tri-State Branch (WV)

DR. EDWIN T. JOHNSON

THELMA M. JOHNSON

IRENE JOHNSON-LOFTIN

Roland McConnell Branch (MD)

Martha’s Vineyard Branch (MA)

Louisa Branch (VA)

MANUEL JONES Central Florida Dorothy Turner Johnson Branch (FL)

TAMEKA BRADLEY HOBBS South Florida Branch (FL)

IDA JONES Bethel Dukes Branch (Washington, D.C.)

SEAN JONES

LARRY LESTER

ANNETTE LEWIS

Atlanta Branch (GA)

Greater Kansas City Black History Study Group (MO)

St. Petersburg Branch (FL)

OUR ANCESTORS LEGACY RICHMOND BRANCH (VA)

DR. TONDRA LODERJACKSON Charles A. Brown Branch of Birmingham (AL)

SANDY DWAYNE MARTIN Athens Branch (GA)

LEONTYNE MIDDLETON Tampa Bay Branch (FL)

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CALL FOR PROPOSALS

111th Annual Conference | NORFOLK, VA | 09. 23-27. 2026 2026 BLACK HISTORY THEME: A CENTURY OF BLACK HISTORY COMMEMORATIONS Conference Theme The ASALH Academic Program Committee is pleased to invite proposal submissions for panels, workshops, roundtables, papers, posters, media sessions, and Woodson Lightning Rounds at the 2026 ASALH Annual Meeting and Conference. The conference will be held in person in Norfolk, VA on September 23-27, 2026. As we approach our 111th ASALH conference, we seek to showcase versatile and innovative historical research that includes and reaches beyond our theme of A Century of Black History Commemorations and highlights the roles and importance of storytelling, memory, and history. On this anniversary year, we are commemorating the history of the Association and are interested in the impact of challenges and successes in institutionalizing the teaching, study, dissemination, and commemoration of Black history. From Negro History Week to Black History Month, ASALH has carried forth the tradition, and these observances have become part of the fabric of American culture and increasingly the global community. Thus, this conference provides an opportunity to examine in depth this history as forces weary of democracy seek to use legislative means, book bans, and challenges to excise Black history from America’s schools and public culture. Black history’s value is not its contribution to mainstream historical narratives, but its resonance in the lives of Black people. During this year, in which the 250th Anniversary of United States Independence is being commemorated, it is important to not only tell an inclusive history, but an accurate one. Our 111th Annual Conference will also preserve and strengthen African American history in these stressful times. Black history continues to be assaulted on multiple political fronts, and we require scholars committed to studying the African American experience across many fields, topics, and interests. We especially call on emerging scholars and graduate students to submit research from their subfields. ASALH grows stronger each year as new scholars introduce their work at our annual conference. We call on all scholars, organizations, students, independent researchers, and others interested in the African American experience to convene in Norfolk, VA, for the continued reshaping of African American history and thought. General Proposals of Black Life, History, and Culture To be included in the program, your panel proposal need not be centered on the Annual Theme. The Academic Program Committee will also accept panels and individual submissions that explore all aspects of Black life, history, and culture. Proposal Types Proposals should be detailed, comprehensive, and descriptive that outlining the theme, scope, and aim of the session. Proposals that incorporate the annual theme are encouraged, but submissions can be on a variety of temporal, geographical, thematic, and topical areas in Black history, life, and culture. Details on each can be found on the ASALH and All Academic websites. Individuals who are interested in collaborating on a panel, workshop, or roundtable, should use the Google spreadsheet, which is an informal tool to connect individuals who are seeking ideas and/or collaboration. The spreadsheet is not monitored by ASALH or the Academic Program Committee and is not part of the official submission process. cont.

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CALL FOR PROPOSALS 111th Annual Conference | NORFOLK, VA | 09. 23-27. 2026 Individual Submissions: Paper Submissions: Individual(s) can submit papers. These papers will be put together with other papers on a similar theme/topic by the Academic Program Committee. Papers will ONLY be accepted by nonacademics, undergraduate, and graduate students on the 2026 Annual Black History Theme: A Century of Black History Commemorations. Paper submissions are not guaranteed audiovisual during the conference. There will be limited slots for paper sessions at the ASALH annual meeting. Submissions that are performances or plays will not be accepted. Woodson Lightning Round/Pop-Ups: Individual(s) can submit lightning round papers/presentations. These proposals will be put together with other lightning-round proposals by the Academic Program Committee. Poster Submissions: Individual(s) and ASALH Branches can submit posters. The posters will be put together in a single or multiple sessions by the Academic Program Committee. Posters may have both a virtual/pre-recording and in-person component. Session Submissions: Proposals will be accepted by all affiliations and academic statuses. Access to audiovisuals is not guaranteed during the conference. Panels: Are sessions composed of individuals presenting different papers/presentations on a specific concept/topic/idea. Early-bird session proposals that include a request for AV will receive it. Roundtables: These are sessions that are composed of individuals presenting a single idea/concept/theme. Workshops: These are sessions that are hands-on and work to teach attendees about a particular tool, project, idea, and theme. Sessions that are performances or plays will not be accepted. Media: These are sessions that are composed of an individual film or a film panel where a moderated or group discussion of a film is conducted following the screening. Submission: All proposals are submitted in the All-Academic system. You must provide an abstract (300 words or less), a title of your presentation, your name, phone, email, and affiliation. If you are submitting a panel, workshop, roundtable, or media session, you will need the information for all the presenters. Once the proposal is submitted, the submitter and all presenters will receive an email confirmation. If you do not receive this confirmation, immediately contact the Academic Program Committee using this link ASALH - The Founders of Black History Month | Contact the Academic Program Committee. The submission deadlines for proposals are as follows: Early Bird Submissions will be accepted via All Academic until March 20, 2026, at 11:59 p.m. (EST). Conditional acceptance responses to Early Bird submissions will be sent out by April 22, 2026, at 11:59 p.m. (EST). After this date, the committee will accept all submissions until the deadline of May 18, 2026, at 11:59 p.m. (EST). Regular conditional acceptance submissions will be responded to by June 12, 2026, at 11:59 p.m. (EST). In 2025, ASALH moved to a new membership platform called YourMembership. Your password for the All Academic database is the same as YourMembership. If you do not have an account or are not a member, email the national office at membership@asalh.org for a guest account. You do not have to be a member to submit a proposal, but all presenters must join ASALH and register for the conference. The conference schedule will be available in July 2026.

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Program

ASALH 110TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE SEPTEMBER 27, 2025 OMNI ATLANTA AT CENTENNIAL PARK

Program MODERATOR: MAUDE L. JOHNSON ASALH Our Authors Study Club Inc., Los Angeles Branch

Welcome

Prayer

Anita Shepherd

ASALH National Vice President Membership

Rev. Isaac C. McCullough

ASALH James Weldon Johnson Branch

Poem

ASALH Atlanta Branch

Scripture

Leontyne Middleton

Drummers

Resolution of Respect

President ASALH Tampa Bay Branch

'FI ROOTS'

Atlanta Branch

Hazel Gillis President ASALH James Weldon Johnson Branch

Song

Aarion Pace Rhodes Singer, Recording Artist – Atlanta

Libation

Closing Remarks

Rev. David Anthony Spendcer ASALH Atlanta Branch

Dr. Karsonya Wise Whitehead

ASALH National President

In Loving Memory 2025 HONOREES Daniel R. Acker, Jr. Dr. Russell Adams Peggy Ann Miller Allen Dr. Renee Allen Albertine Fontenot Brown

Joseph G. Kotzin Erin Goseer Mitchell Dr. Derryn E. Moten Calvin W. Pearson, Sr. James "Deke" Pope

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Judge Rohoulamin Quander Edwena Reed Fath Davis Ruffins Dr. Richard A. Singletary Dr. Thelma Craig Smith Henry Tate, MD Quintard Taylor Terry Jerome "Emeka" Thomas Florida State Senator Geraldine Thompson Novella Williams Moses J. Wilson

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