108th Annual Conference Souvenir Journal

ASALH

Association for the Study of ® African American Life and History

108TH ANNUAL

CONFERENCE CO-HOSTED BY THE ASALH FLORIDA BRANCHES

SEPTEMBER 20-24, 2023 JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA

HYATT REGENCY JACKSONVILLE RIVERFRONT

TABLE OF CONTENTS “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.” ― Carter G. Woodson, Founder

05 PRESIDENT'S WELCOME 07 ACADEMIC PROGRAM COMMITTEE WELCOME 09 LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS COMMITTEE WELCOME 11 EXECUTIVE THEME SUMMARY 12 ABOUT ASALH 15 EXECUTIVE COUNCIL 17 PUBLICATIONS 21 SPONSORS 25 SCHEDULE OF EVENTS 37 SESSIONS 45 IN-PERSON AUTHOR'S BOOK SIGNING 55 VIRTUAL AUTHOR'S BOOK TALK EVENTS 59 FILM FESTIVAL 60 EXHIBITORS 65 AWARDS 80 BRANCH PRESIDENTS

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ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF AFRICAN AMERICAN LIFE AND HISTORY®

2023 BLACK HISTORY THEME: BLACK RESISTANCE

WELCOME FROM THE ASALH PRESIDENT Dear Conference Participants: Welcome to the 108th Annual Meeting and Conference of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History. Our national conference in Jacksonville, Florida has a very special theme this year: Black Resistance.

This is a theme that will shape the mission of our conference because the state of Florida and its governor have in effect declared war on the teaching of Black History. As the oldest organization in the United States whose mission is “to promote, research, preserve, interpret and disseminate information about Black life, history and culture to the global community,” ASALH is coming to Florida to challenge the restrictions on the teaching of Black History and to assist Florida residents in resisting the “anti-woke” policies of the state’s politicians.

This year’s conference will have several programs and events to engage the citizens of Florida in resisting the draconian policies of its governor and legislature. We are holding several community events to highlight the importance of teaching Black History, defending free speech, and challenging draconian laws and policies. For example, the conference will open on Tuesday evening with a community forum to discuss the importance of teaching Black History. On Wednesday, ASALH will host two public plenary sessions. Then on Thursday, ASALH will host Resistance Day by going to James Weldon Johnson Park where members of ASALH will read “banned books” and challenge Florida’s anti-First Amendment legislation and policies. ASALH will send a clear message of how to resist those who try to stymy free speech, the free exchange of ideas, and teaching the facts of American history.

It is quite apropos that ASALH is having its annual conference in Jacksonville this year. Recently, the city has suffered the shooting of three African Americans by a racist gunman who joined the trend of white supremacists targeting African Americans in their efforts to intimidate us and to start a race war. Thus, ASALH is not only pushing back on anti-wokeness, but it is also pushing back against the racist violence that African Americans have suffered throughout American history. We are saying that “we have had enough and we will no longer be victims of racist violence.”

ASALH appreciates that you are “running to the fight” with us. While you are here please enjoy the plenary and luncheon sessions that feature Dr. Kwame Jeffries of Ohio State University, Dr. Khalil Muhammad of Harvard University, and the wonderful poetry of Sonia Sanchez. Of course, there will be other highlights of the conference, and there will be many more sessions and roundtables that will capture your attention and provide you vital information about the African American experience. Please enjoy what I know will be a very historic conference.

W. Marvin Dulaney President Association for the Study of African American Life and History JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA | THE 2023 BLACK HISTORY THEME: BLACK RESISTANCE

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ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF AFRICAN AMERICAN LIFE AND HISTORY®

2023 BLACK HISTORY THEME: BLACK RESISTANCE

WELCOME FROM ACADEMIC PROGRAM COMMITTEE Dear Conference Participants, The Academic Program Committee welcomes you to the 108th Annual Meeting and Conference of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History! We are proud to gather here in Jacksonville, Florida in the spirit of our 2023 Black History Theme, “Black Resistance, “ as a powerful coalition of scholars, community leaders, teachers, students, and activists to learn more about the myriad of ways Black people have continuously resisted oppression, discrimination, and injustice from the era of slavery to the present day.

Today, our Association is being reminded of its mission to promote, research, preserve, interpret and disseminate information about Black life, history and culture to the global community, unapologetically and without fearing consequence. ASALH’s very existence and our gathering here in Florida is an act of resistance. It honors the legacy of our founders, and signals to our detractors our unwavering commitment to educating the world about the Black experience in America, and beyond. We are excited that this year’s conference program includes a Banned Book Readout sponsored by the Social Justice Consortium, funded by the Mellon Just Futures Initiative at Howard University, which will celebrate Black History and Black Resistance through the reading, acting, and artistry of ASALH and other banned book authors.

Our program is packed with workshops, papers, roundtables, panel discussions, posters, film sessions, and events that provide nuanced perspectives on how Black people resisted slavery through acts of rebellion, the preservation of culture and religion, and pursuit to obtain education. Researchers of the late 18th and early 19th century will educate our attendees on how African American women and men resisted through political organizing and mobilization, health advocacy and activism, and the development of educational institutions, such as HBCUs. During the 1950s and 1960s, Black resistance took the various forms of protests, sit-ins, music, literature, art, and mass demonstrations. More contemporary scholars will offer new perspectives on mass incarceration, policing, economic disparity, and racially motivated acts of violence.

Our meeting will also offer time to reflect on historic anniversaries in African American history. While in Florida we will reflect and honor the victims of the 1923 Rosewood Massacre that happened less than two hours away from our gathering. We will commemorate the 60th Anniversary of the March on Washington and offer new approaches to studying and thinking about its legacy. Finally, panelists will discuss the impact and significance of Hip Hop’s 50th anniversary to Black life, culture, and politics.

The Academic Program Committee leadership extends its deepest gratitude to our National President, the Vice Presidents and members of the Executive Council, the Executive Director, and all the committee chairs and heads whose hard work has made the 108th meeting and conference an educational and engaging experience that features innovative research and robust conversation. It is a time for us to reflect on a history that encompasses a rich tapestry of experiences, struggles, and triumphs. It is a testament to the spirit of Black communities that have persisted centuries of adversity. As we come together for this conference, we have the opportunity to study the past, analyze the present, and envision a future where equity and justice prevail for Black communities worldwide. Together, we can continue to celebrate and learn from the diverse forms of resistance as we continue our journey in the Black freedom struggle.

Sincerely, Lionel Kimble, Vice Chair Academic Program Committee Darius Young, Vice Chair Academic Program Committee Daryl Scott, Vice Chair Academic Program Committee

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ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF AFRICAN AMERICAN LIFE AND HISTORY®

2023 BLACK HISTORY THEME: BLACK RESISTANCE

WELCOME FROM LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS COMMITTEE Dear Conferees: It is indeed a special privilege and a pleasure to welcome you to Jacksonville, Florida for the Association for the Study of African American Life and History,108th Meeting and Conference on behalf of the James Weldon Johnson Branch of ASALH, and the other five branches of the ASALH Florida Coalition, Dorothy Turner Johnson Branch of Orlando, Manasota Branch, ASALH of Tampa Bay, St. Petersburg Branch, and South Florida Branch.

Thank you for coming to help us fight for education. Now more than ever, it is important that we come together and take a stand against the assault on African American History being taught in our schools.

The conference theme is “Black Resistance,” and we see this as an opportunity to defend the teaching of Black History in the state and to support the citizens, teachers and scholars who are on the front line against the laws that hinder the teaching of the truth in this state and all states. This also is an excellent opportunity to collaborate and to have a successful national conference and meeting.

The mission of the ASALH is to promote research, preserve, interpret, and disseminate information about Black life, history, and culture to the global community. It is headquartered in Washington, D.C. It has branches internationally and locally. Locally, the James Weldon Johnson Branch of ASALH operates at Jacksonville Urban League, whose current president, Dr. Richard Danford, is one of the founders. It was organized by a group of African American Commissioners of the Northeast Florida Sesquicentennial Celebration in 1995, at which time the charter was granted.

Again, we welcome you to the city of Jacksonville, Florida.

Sincerely,

Hazel Gillis Chair, Local Arrangements Committee President, James Weldon Johnson Branch of ASALH

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2023 EXECUTIVE THEME SUMMARY: BLACK RESISTANCE African Americans have resisted historic and ongoing oppression, in all forms, especially the racial terrorism of lynching, racial pogroms, and police killings since our arrival upon these shores. These efforts have been to advocate for a dignified self-determined life in a just democratic society in the United States and beyond the United States political jurisdiction. During the 1950s and 1970s the United States was defined by actions such as sit-ins, boycotts, walk outs, strikes by Black people and white allies in the fight for justice against discrimination in all sectors of society from employment to education to housing. Black people have had to consistently push the United States to live up to its ideals of freedom, liberty, and justice for all. Black people also have sought ways to nurture and protect Black lives, and for autonomy of their physical and intellectual bodies through armed resistance, voluntary emigration, nonviolence, education, music, literature, sports, media, and legislation/politics.

Black-led institutions and affiliations have lobbied, litigated, legislated, protested, and achieved success. In an effort to live, maintain, and protect economic success Black people have organized/planned violent insurrections against those who enslaved them, or choose to self-liberate as seen by the actions those who left the plantation system. Black people established faith institutions to organize resistance efforts; and it was a space that inspired folk to participate in the movements and offered sanctuary during times of crisis.

To promote awareness of the myriad of issues and activities media outlets were developed including radio shows, podcasts, and newspapers. Additionally, Black people created and built cultural centers such as libraries, fraternal and sororal orders/organizations, associations were founded to support the intellectual development of communities to collect and preserve Black stories, sponsor Black history and literature events, and were active in the quest for civil, social, and human rights. Black medical professionals worked with others to establish nursing schools, hospitals, and clinics to provide spaces for Black people to get quality health care.

Similarly, whether in elementary, secondary, or higher education institutions, education has been used as a way for Black people and communities to resist the narrative that Black people are intellectually inferior. When Carter G. Woodson founded Negro History Week (NHW) in 1926, he saw it as to provide a space and resources to educate critically students about their history. As a result, students at all levels of education were at the forefront of the Civil Rights Movement, Black Power Movements, and social justice movements from the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries. Often African Americans used African American spirituals, gospel, folk music, hip-hop, and rap have been used to express struggle, hope, and for solidarity in the face of racial oppression. In general, the arts have been used to counter stereotypes, to imagine a present and future with Black people in, to illustrate societal issues including white and state sanctioned violence, sexual politics, as motivation, for strength against harassment, and to experience freedom. Unfortunately, when Black athletic activists have spoken up they suffer personal and economic consequences due to their stances, speech, and actions, but to them it has been worth it to see changes.

Nearly 179 years ago, the Rev. Henry Highland Garnett proposed that the only path to freedom, justice, and equality; self-determination; and/or social transformation is resistance. In thunder tones, Garnett shouted, "Let your motto be resistance! resistance! RESISTANCE!” By resisting Black people have achieved triumphs, successes, and progress as seen in the end of chattel slavery, dismantling of Jim and Jane Crow segregation in the South, increased political representation at all levels of government, desegregation of educational institutions, the passage of Civil Rights Act of 1964, the opening of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History in DC and increased and diverse representation of Black experiences in media. Black resistance strategies have served as a model for every other social movement in the country, thus, the legacy and importance of these actions cannot be understated.

This is a call to everyone, inside and outside the academy, to study the history of Black Americans’ responses to establish safe spaces, where Black life can be sustained, fortified, and respected.

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ABOUT ASALH

Established on September 9, 1915, by Dr. Carter G. Woodson, we are the Founders of Black History Month and carry forth the work of our founder, the Father of Black History.

We continue his legacy of speaking a fundamental truth to the world–that Africans and peoples of African descent are makers of history and co-workers in what W. E. B. Du Bois called, “The Kingdom of Culture.” ASALH’s mission is to create and disseminate knowledge about Black History, to be, in short, the nexus between the Ivory Tower and the global public. We labor in the service of Blacks and all humanity.

ASALH is the world’s oldest learned society devoted to the research, education, culture, and history of people of African descent. Dr. Carter G. Woodson is the recognized “Father” of Black history. From its inception, ASALH has remained the paramount organization dedicated to promoting scholarship involving the life and history of African Americans.

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.

The Association for the Study of African American Life and History (EIN: 530219640) is a tax-exempt 501 (c)(3) organization. Contributions to ASALH are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.

FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: PORTRAIT OF DR. CARTER G. WOODSON, CA. 1915; DR. CARTER G. WOODSON IN HIS LIBRARY, 1948; DR. CARTER G. WOODSON'S HOME OFFICE, 1538 NINTH STREET IN NORTHWEST, WASHINGTON, D.C.

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ABOUT ASALH

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

CURRENT W. Marvin Dulaney

1984-1985 Jeanette Cascone (acting)

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EXECUTIVE COUNCIL

DR. IDA E. JONES

MS. AAISHA HAYKAL

VICE PRESIDENT FOR MEMBERSHIP

VICE PRESIDENT FOR PROGRAMS

MS. VALERIE HOLT

MS. SYLVIA Y. CYRUS

TREASURER

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

DR. W. MARVIN DULANEY PRESIDENT

MRS. SUSAN SIMMS MARSH, ESQ. SECRETARY

EXECUTIVE COUNCIL MEMBERS Mr. Jeffrey A. Banks

Mr. Moses Massenburg

Ms. Denise Rolark Barnes

Dr. Lopez D. Matthews, Jr.

Prof. Lyman A. Brodie

Dr. Zebulon Vance Miletsky

Prof. Gloria J. Browne-Marshall

Dr. Gregory Mixon

Dr. Cornelius L. Bynum

Dr. Kimberly Mosley

Dr. Sundiata K. Cha-Jua

Dr. Kenvi Phillips

Dr. Deidre Foreman

Rev. Anita Shepherd

Dr. Jarvis R. Givens

Dr. Arwin D. Smallwood

Dr. Eric Jackson

Dr. Gladys Gary Vaughn

Mr. Omar Eaton-Martinez

Dr. David Walton Dr. Tara White

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ASALH PUBLICATION EDITORS & BOARDS

JOURNAL OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY Formerly the Journal of Negro History Founded by Carter G. Woodson, January 1, 1916 EDITOR PERO G. DAGBOVIE Michigan State University ASSOCIATE EDITORS DERRICK P. ALRIDGE University of Virginia, Charlottesville DAINA RAMEY BERRY University of Texas at Austin MANAGING EDITOR AND LASHAWN D. HARRIS BOOK REVIEW EDITOR Michigan State University SOCIAL MEDIA DIRECTOR MARIA HAMMACK University of Pennsylvania EDITORIAL ASSISTANT AJAMU DILLAHUNT-HOLLOWAY Michigan State University

JOURNAL OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY EDITORIAL BOARD LESLIE ALEXANDER Arizona State University

TIFFANY M. GILL Rutgers University

KHALIL GIBRAN MUHAMMAD Harvard University

SHAWN L. ALEXANDER University of Kansas

THAVOLIA GLYMPH Duke University

KEVIN MUMFORD University of Illinois

ERICA ARMSTRONG DUNBAR Rutgers University

CHERYL D. HICKS University of Delaware

CELIA E. NAYLOR Columbia University

DAVARIAN L. BALDWIN Trinity College

DAVID H. JACKSON JR. North Carolina Central University

RUSSELL RICKFORD Cornell University

MIA BAY University of Pennsylvania

DAVID H. JACKSON JR. North Carolina Central University

STEPHANIE J. SHAW The Ohio State University

KEISHA N. BLAIN Brown University

MARTHA S. JONES Johns Hopkins University

NIKKI M. TAYLOR Howard University

STEPHANIE Y. EVANS Georgia State University

IBRAM X. KENDI Boston University

ULA Y. TAYLOR University of California, Berkeley

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ASALH PUBLICATION EDITORS & BOARDS

BLACK HISTORY BULLETIN CO-EDITOR LA VONNE NEAL CO-EDITOR ALICIA MOORE

BLACK HISTORY BULLETIN EDITORIAL BOARD DAVID CAMPOS

SATASHA GREEN-STEPHEN

KIM PEARSON

University of the Incarnate Word

Minnesota State

The College of New Jersey

CHARLES DUKES

JASON KAHLEED HAYES

KATHERINE SCOTT STURDEVANT

Florida Atlantic University

Education Strategist

Pikes Peak Community College

JOSEPH E. FLYNN

PAMELA LAMAR-DUKES

ANGELA M. WARD

Northern Illinois University

Florida Atlantic University

Urban Public School Equity Leader

GENEVA GAY

PAUL LARUE

GWENDOLYN WEBB-HASAN

University of Washington

(RET.) Washington High School, Ohio

Texas A&M University

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SPECIAL THANKS TO THE 108TH ANNUAL MEETING AND VIRTUAL CONFERENCE CO-HOSTS

Welcome Remarks from Sen. Geraldine F. Thompson

Welcome Remarks from Rodney L. Hurst Sr.

Welcome Remarks from Hazel Gillis, President of James Weldon Johnson Branch

Welcome Remarks from Jacqueline Hubbard, Esq., President, St. Petersburg, FL Branch

ASALH of Tampa Bay Leontyne Middleton, President Dorothy Turner Johnson Branch Central Florida Manuel Jones, President James Weldon Johnson Branch Jacksonville, FL Hazel Gillis, President

Welcome Remarks from David G. Wilkins, President of the Manasota Branch

Manasota Branch David G. Wilkins, President St. Petersburg Branch Jacqueline Hubbard, Esq., President South Florida Branch Charlene Farrington, President

SPONSORS

SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR 2023 SPONSORS D I A M O N D S P O N S O R

G O L D S P O N S O R S

RODNEY L. HURST, SR. S I L V E R S P O N S O R S

BRONZE SPONSOR

TERRELL HOGAN YEGELWEL, P.A.

MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY EMERALD SPONSOR

RUBY SPONSOR

MICHAEL BLAYLOCK GEORGE & HAZEL GILLIS UNIVERSITY MASS AMHERST AFRO AMERICAN STUDIES

MARGARET & ROBERT SEIDLER JEFF BANKS SUSAN SIMMS MARSH

MEDIA SPONSORS

FILM FESTIVAL SPONSORS

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SPONSORS

SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR 2023 PATRONS LANELLE PHILLMOM SUSAN MARSH ASALH SOUTH FLORIDA, INC. HISTORIC MT ZION AME CHURCH ST. JOSEPH MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH MOUNT SINAI MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH OLIVER & CHRISTINE MCNAIR DUVAL COUNTY DEMOCRATIC BLACK CAUCUS AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN, JACKSONVILLE BRANCH THE BLACK ARCHIVES HISTORY & RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF SOUTH FLORIDA, INC. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN IN JACKSONVILLE JACKSONVILLE PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND PROF. MICHELLE DUSTER GERALD & GEORGIA PRIBANIC

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SCHEDULE

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS ALL EVENTS ARE HOSTED AT THE HYATT REGENCY JACKSONVILLE RIVERFRONT UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2023 EST 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM EST

THE VALUE OF BLACK HISTORY FORUM (LOCATED AT THE BETHEL CHURCH)

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2023 EST 7:00 AM - 5:00 PM EST

WEDNESDAY TOUR OF ST. AUGUSTINE

10:00 AM - 11:40 AM EST

FLORIDA COALITION FREEDOM SCHOOLS

10:00 AM - 11:40 AM EST

CONCURRENT SESSIONS

2:00 PM - 3:40 PM EST

CONCURRENT SESSIONS

5:30 PM - 7:30 PM EST

NATIONAL UNDERGROUND RAILROAD NETWORK TO FREEDOM AT 25

7:30 PM - 9:30 PM EST

WEDNESDAY OPENING RECEPTION

7:45 PM - 10:00 PM EST

THE POISON GARDEN (FILM FESTIVAL)

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SCHEDULE

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2023 EST 7:30 AM - 5:00 PM EST

THURSDAY TOUR OF JACKSONVILLE

8:30 AM - 9:40 AM EST

CONCURRENT SESSIONS

10:00 AM - 11:40 AM EST

CONCURRENT SESSIONS

12:00 PM - 1:45 PM EST

FREEDOM TO LEARN: THURSDAY LUNCHEON

12:00 PM - 9:30 PM EST

EXHIBITS

2:05 PM - 3:40 PM EST

CONCURRENT SESSIONS

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM EST

BLACK STUDENT RESISTANCE

5:15 PM - 6:45 PM EST

BANNED BOOK READ OUT (LOCATED AT JAMES WELDON JOHNSON PARK)

7:00 PM - 8:00 PM EST

CONCURRENT SESSIONS

7:30 PM - 9:00 PM EST

AUTHORS’ BOOK SIGNING (IN-PERSON)

7:30 PM - 9:00 PM EST

THURSDAY AUTHORS’ BOOK TALK (VIRTUAL)

7:30 PM - 9:00 PM EST

JOURNAL OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY RECEPTION

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SCHEDULE

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2023 EST 8:00 AM - 6:30 PM EST

EXHIBITS

8:30 AM - 9:40 AM EST

CONCURRENT SESSIONS

10:00 AM - 11:40 AM EST

CONCURRENT SESSIONS

10:15 PM - 11:45 PM EST

INVISIBLE HISTORY (FILM FESTIVAL)

12:00 PM - 1:45 PM EST

FRIDAY WOODSON LUNCHEON

2:05 PM - 3:40 PM EST

CONCURRENT SESSIONS

2:05 PM - 3:40 PM EST

CONCURRENT FILM FESTIVAL SESSIONS

2:05 PM - 3:40 PM EST

THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF JOHN BRACEY

4:00 PM - 6:00 PM EST

A. PHILIP RANDOLPH AND THE BLACK FREEDOM STRUGGLE

6:15 PM - 7:15 PM EST

ASALH MEMBER REMEMBRANCE CEREMONY

7:00 PM - 9:00 PM EST

FRIDAY RECEPTION AND MOTOWN REVIEW

7:30 PM - 9:00 PM EST

FRIDAY AUTHOR BOOK TALK VIRTUAL

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SCHEDULE

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2023 EST 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM EST

EXHIBITS

8:30 AM - 9:40 AM EST

CONCURRENT SESSIONS

8:30 AM - 9:40 AM EST

AGENTS OF CHANGE (FILM FESTIVAL)

8:30 AM - 9:40 AM EST

BLACK RESISTANCE ACROSS TIME AND SPACE

10:00 AM - 11:15 AM EST

CONCURRENT FILM FESTIVAL SESSIONS

10:00 AM - 11:40 AM EST

CONCURRENT SESSIONS

10:00 AM - 11:40 AM EST

SOCIAL JUSTICE TOOLKIT - HOW TO USE THE NEW TOOLKIT

11:30 AM - 12:00 PM EST

CONCURRENT FILM FESTIVAL SESSIONS

12:00 PM - 1:45 PM EST

JOHN BLASSINGAME LUNCHEON

12:00 PM - 1:45 PM EST

CONCURRENT SESSIONS

2:05 PM - 3:40 PM EST

THE REBELLIOUS LIFE OF MRS. ROSA PARKS (FILM FESTIVAL)

2:05 PM - 3:40 PM EST

CONCURRENT SESSIONS

4:00 PM - 6:00 PM EST

BLACK WOMEN RESISTANCE

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM EST

SATURDAY AUTHOR BOOK TALK VIRTUAL

7:30 PM - 10:00 PM EST

SATURDAY AWARDS BANQUET

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SCHEDULE

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2023 EST 7:00 AM - 5:00 PM EST

SUNDAY TOUR OF KINGSLEY PLANTATION AND AMERICAN BEACH

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COMMUNITY FORUM

THE VALUE OF BLACK HISTORY: A COMMUNITY FORUM TUESDAY, 19TH, 2023 | 6:30 - 8:30 P.M. EST THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

DR. W. MARVIN DULANEY

REV. KIM MCKISSICK

IMAM LATEEF A. MAJIED

MODERATOR University of Illinois UrbanaChampaign

SPEAKER ASALH President

SPEAKER The Bethel Church

SPEAKER Jacksonville Masjid of Al-Islam

CLIFF ALBRIGHT

ISAIAH RUMLIN

JAMETORIA BURTON

JOE ROSS, SR.

PANELIST Black Voters Matter Fund

PANELIST NAACP

PANELIST Florida State College

PANELIST Northside Coalition

SUNDIATA CHA-JUA

REV. KARL SMITH

LOIS B WILKINS

REP. ANGELA NIXON

PANELIST 11th Episcopal AME District

PANELIST AACRC

PANELIST

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ASALH PLENARY SESSIONS

THE NATIONAL UNDERGROUND RAILROAD NETWORK TO FREEDOM PROGRAM AT 25 WEDNESDAY, 2OTH, 2023 | 5:30 - 7:30 P.M. EST THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC ALAN SPEARS

ADRIENNE NIRDÉ

EDDA FIELDS BLACK

MODERATOR NPCA

SPEAKER NC African American Heritage Commission

SPEAKER Carnegie-Mellon University

TURKIYA LOWE

GERALD MCWORTER

SPEAKER NPS

SPEAKER University of Illinois

BLACK STUDENT RESISTANCE THURSDAY, 21ST, 2023 | 4:00 - 5:00 P.M. EST THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

DARIUS YOUNG

JELANI FAVORS

SHIRLETTA KINCHEN

MODERATOR FAMU

SPEAKER NCAT

SPEAKER Univ. of Louisville

STEFAN BRADLEY

BRIAN JONES

ZEBULON MILETSKY

SPEAKER Amherst

SPEAKER Schomburg

SPEAKER Stony Brook

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ASALH PLENARY SESSIONS

CULTURE FOR SERVICE, SERVICE FOR HUMANITY: A. PHILIP RANDOLPH AND THE BLACK FREEDOM STRUGGLE FRIDAY, 22ND, 2023 | 4:00 - 6:00 P.M. EST THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

ANDRE JOHNSON

MARK ANTHONY NEAL

CHAIR University of Memphis

SPEAKER Duke University

LIONEL KIMBLE

OMAR EATONMARTINEZ

SPEAKER Chicago State

SPEAKER National Trust for Historic Preservation

BLACK WOMEN RESISTANCE SATURDAY, 23RD, 2023 | 4:00 - 6:00 P.M. EST THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

JASMIN YOUNG

ULA TAYLOR

NATANYA DUNCAN

SPEAKER UC Richmond

SPEAKER UC Berkley

SPEAKER Queens College

ROBYN SPENCER

BLAIR KELLEY

SPEAKER Lehman College

SPEAKER Center for the Study of the American South

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PRESIDENTIAL SESSIONS

FLORIDA COALITION FREEDOM SCHOOLS WEDNESDAY, 20TH, 2023 | 10:00 - 11:40 A.M. EST THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

HAZEL GILLIS

JACQUELINE HUBBARD

MANUAL JONES

CLIFF ALBRIGHT

SPEAKER President of the ASALH James Weldon Johnson Branch

SPEAKER President of the ASALH St. Petersburg Branch

SPEAKER President of the ASALH Dorothy Turner Johnson Branch

SPEAKER Cofounder/Executive Director Black Voters Matter Fund

THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF JOHN BRACEY FRIDAY, 22ND, 2023 | 2:05 - 3:40 P.M. EST

DARYL MICHAEL SCOTT

STEPHANIE Y. EVANS

SONIA SANCHEZ

SPEAKER Morgan State University

SPEAKER Georgia State University

SPEAKER Poet Laureate

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ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF AFRICAN AMERICAN LIFE AND HISTORY®

ANNUAL CONFERENCE

CAN'T JOIN US IN JACKSONVILLE? JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA | CO-HOSTED BY THE ASALH FLORIDA BRANCHES

REGISTER FOR THE VIRTUAL CONFERENCE!

PLENARY SESSIONS BLACK STUDENT RESISTANCE | THUR. 4:00 – 5:00 PHILLIP A. RANDOLPH | FRI. 4:00 PM EST BLACK WOMEN RESISTANCE | SAT. 4:00 PM THE NATIONAL UNDERGROUND RAILROAD NETWORK TO FREEDOM PROGRAM | WED. 5:30 PM EST

KEY SESSIONS THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF JOHN BRACEY | FRI. 2:00 PM EST MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE | SAT. 2:00 PM EST ROSEWOOD MASSACRE | FRI. 10:00 AM EST OPPOSITIONAL CULTURE: RAP AS RESISTANCE | FRI. 10:00 AM ES T THE FIGHT TO PRESERVE ZORA NEALE HURSTON'S LITERARY LEGACY | THUR. 10:00 AM ES T

SOCIAL JUSTICE SESSIONS BLACK RESISTANCE ACROSS TIME AND SPACE | SAT. 8:30 AM EST TEACHING BLACK HISTORY AS RESISTANCE | SAT. 10:00 AM EST

OTHER SESSIONS SAY THEIR NAMES: RECOVERING GHOSTLINED NARRATIVES OF RACIAL VIOLENCE | THUR. 2:00 PM EST CHALLENGING RACISM AT THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA DURING THE “STOP WOKE” ERA | FRI. 2:00 PM EST RACISM IN AMERICAN PUBLIC LIFE: AN INTERVIEW WITH DR. JOHNNETTA BETSCH COLE | SAT. 10:00 AM EST TEACHING AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY IN HIGH SCHOOL AS RESISTANCE | SAT. 2:00 PM EST UNTOLD STORIES OF FLORIDA'S HISTORY AND THE COASTAL HERITAGE AT RISK TASKFORCE | THUR. 10:00 AM EST

DEATH, PROPERTY, AND FREEDOM AS RESISTANCE | FRI. 8:30 AM EST THIS IS HOW WE WIN: BLACK RESISTANCE THROUGH HIGHER EDUCATION | THUR. 8:30 AM EST BLACK RESISTANCE IN MULTIRACIAL CONTEXTS | FRI. 8:30 AM EST

2023 BLACK HISTORY THEME: BLACK RESISTANCE REGISTER AT WWW.ASALH.ORG/CONFERENCE OR 202.238.5912

Author's BOOK signing EVENT

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2023 | 7:30 P.M. – 9:00 P.M. EST IN-PERSON AT THE HYATT REGENCY JACKSONVILLE RIVERFRONT

African Roots/American Culture

Africana Health Psychology

SHEILA WALKER

MARILYN LOVETT HAMPTON

A Journey Far

A Right Worthy Women

ARCILOUS MINCEY

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AUTHOR’S BOOK SIGNING EVENT

At the Table of Power

The Bethune Blueprint

DIANE MARIE SPIVEY

EVELYN BETHUNE

BETHUNE: Out of Darkness into the Light of Freedom

Blackdom, New Mexico

TIMOTHY E. NELSON

EVELYN BETHUNE

Black Inventors Poetry in Motion

RENEE BEST

46 108TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE | SEPTEMBER 20-24, 2023

Before Busing

ZEBULON MILETSKY

AUTHOR’S BOOK SIGNING EVENT

Continually Working

Coming Full Circle

WANDA S. LLOYD

CRYSTAL M. MOTEN

Florida's Historic African American Homes

The Forgotten QB's

JADA WRIGHT GREENE

EARL KITCHINGS

Free the Land

From "N Word" to Mr. Mayor

EDWARD ONCAI

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AUTHOR’S BOOK SIGNING EVENT

From Scapegoats to Lambs

CHARLES BROWN

Journey to Shaolin Temple

It was Never About a Hotdog and a Coke!

RODNEY HURST, SR.

Just People

CHRISTOPHER WILLIAMS

FREDDIE H. GILYARD

Leading Inclusion

Love, As Usual

GENA COX

LAURA JORDAN

48 108TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE | SEPTEMBER 20-24, 2023

AUTHOR’S BOOK SIGNING EVENT

Mary McLeod Bethune the Pan-Africanist

ASHLEY ROBERTSON PRESTON

NCAT vs. NCCU

Memories of a Tuskegee Airman Nurse and Her Military Sisters

PIA JORDAN

Neither Out Far Nor In Deep

ARWIN SMALLWOOD

LEAH WILLIAMS

Outstanding Black Women of Yalobusha County

Pieces of Freedom

QUAYE REED

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AUTHOR’S BOOK SIGNING EVENT

Political Black Girl Magic

SHARON AUSTIN

Radio Active

Quilt of Souls: A Memoir

PHYLLIS BIFFLE-ELMORE

Struggle for the Street

DAVID ALVIN CANTON

JESSICA D. KLANDERUD

T.O.B.A. Time

Turtle Dove Done Dropped His Wings

MICHELLE R. SCOTT

RON DAISE

50 108TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE | SEPTEMBER 20-24, 2023

AUTHOR’S BOOK SIGNING EVENT

The Vice President's Black Wife

Unless WE Tell It...It Never Gets Told!

AMRITA CHAKRABARTI MYERS

RODNEY L. HURST SR.

Vol. 1 Real African Kings & Queens

Vol. 2 Real African Kings & Queens

TAPIWA DZINGAI

TAPIWA DZINGAI

We Wear the Mask

Yea, Lord! Moving with the Spirit

RON DAISE

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AUTHOR’S BOOK SIGNING EVENT

Your New Journey

ANTHONY J. CADE

THE MEMBER'S BOOKSHELF The Members Bookshelf is where ASALH members can have their books posted for others to learn about with links to purchase them.

WWW.ASALH.ORG/BOOKSHELF You must be a member to submit your book to the bookshelf.

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VIRTUAL

Author's BOOK talk EVENT

THURSDAY - SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21-23, 2023 Scan or click the QR code to watch online

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

ANNETTE TEASDELL Unbleaching the Curriculum

BENJAMIN WEBER American Purgatory

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

DR. LEONARD WEATHER, JR. Endometriosis, the Name of the Pain and How to Repress It

ARTIKA TYNER The Inclusive Leader

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VIRTUAL AUTHOR’S BOOK TALK EVENT

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

JOI SPENCER & KERRI ULLUCCI Anti-Blackness at School

MOZELLA MITCHELL Yea, Lord, Moving with the Spirit

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

BEVERLY W. DAVIS The Road to Redemption

AJ SAM A Journey Far

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

GLORIA BROWNE-MARSHALL She Took Justice

DIANE SPIVEY At the Table of Power

56 108TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE | SEPTEMBER 20-24, 2023

VIRTUAL AUTHOR’S BOOK TALK EVENT

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

RONALD DANIELS Igniting the Fire, Brings the Light

DE'SHAWNA YAMINI If She Can Do It, I Can, Too!

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

JOYCE MOSLEY Gram's Gift

MARY ROMNEY-SCHAAB An Afro-Caribbean in the Nazi Era

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108TH ANNUAL MEETING AND CONFERENCE

Asalh Film festival SPONSORED BY BLACK HOLLYWOOD EDUCATION AND RESEARCH CENTER AND THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR NORTHEAST FLORIDA All Films will be in The Jacksonville Hyatt Riverfront Hotel, 3rd Floor, City Terrace 4

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2023 THE POISON GARDEN | 7:45 PM - 10:00 PM EST

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2023 INVISIBLE HISTORY | 10:15 AM - 11:45 AM EST SACRED SPACES/SACRED BODIES | 2:05 PM - 3:40 PM EST TRACING OUR PATH THROUGH BRONZEVILLE | 2:05 PM - 3:40 PM EST A MILLENNIUM OF RESISTANCE TO ENSLAVEMENT | 2:05 PM - 3:40 PM EST

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2023 AGENTS OF CHANGE | 8:30 AM - 9:40 PM EST AMERICAN JUSTICE ON TRIAL | 10:00 AM - 11:15 AM EST COLOR | 10:00 AM - 11:15 AM EST THE COUNTER: 1960 | 10:00 AM - 11:15 AM EST THE COLORED GIRLS' RESTROOM | 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM EST TO THE BROWN GIRL IN THE ROOM | 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM EST THE REBELLIOUS LIFE OF MRS. ROSA PARKS | 2:05 PM - 3:40 PM EST VISIT WWW.ASALH.ORG/FILM

ASALH

Association for the Study of African American Life and History ®

108TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE

EXHIBITORS AFRICA ART MARKETPLACE BOOTHS 23-24 AFRIQUE CLOTHING AFOLABI MOJI A. BOOTH 29 ANCHORED SOLUTIONS BOOTH 20

NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION BOOTH 00 PATHFINDER PRESS BOOTH 3 SAXX CLOTHING BOOTH 10

ASALH NATIONAL OFFICE DAYTONA ROOM BLACK WOMEN HISTORIANS

THE SCHOLARS CHOICE WITH PENN PRESS BOOTH 25 SUN CITY EVENTS + ENTERTAINMENT

2ND FLOOR BLACK HISTORY 365 EDUCATION 2ND F LOOR

BOOTH 43 UNIVERSAL LOVE JEWELRY BOOTH 18

BRADLC MUSEUM AND BOOKS

UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS

BOOTH 13 CATHY'S GLOBAL

BOOTHS 6-7 UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA PRESS

BOOTH 5

BOOTH 21

COLLEGE BOARD CITY TERRACE HALLWAY COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS BOOTHS 16-17 UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS PRESS

BOOTH 27

BOOTH 42

COUNCIL OF LIBRARIES BOOTH 44

UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN BOOTH 12

CUSTOM ART BY WALDEN

UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA PRESS

BOOTH 40 DEPARTMENT OF ARMY, CP-32/EDIS BOOTH 14 EGYPTIAN HARVEST BOOTH 41 ELEGANT INSPIRATIONS BOOTH 11 THE FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL BOOTH 30 HERITAGE INTERNATIONAL FASHIONS LLC. BOOTH 19 JAMES WELDON JOHNSON BRANCH OF ASALH 2ND FLOOR KING OF KINGS CONSULTING BOOTH 15 MACMILLIAN PUBLISHERS BOOTH 26

BOOTH 28 UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH PRESS BOOTH 9 UNIVERSITY PRESS OF FLORIDA BOOTH 8 UNIVERSITY PRESS OF MISSISSIPPI BOOTH 1 UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA PRESS BOOTH 2 UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA PRESS BOOTH 4 VISIT JACKSONVILLE 2ND FLOOR ZEE CRAFTS BOOTH 22 904WARD 3RD FLOOR Thursday, 12:00 p.m. – 9:30 p.m. EST

EXHIBIT HALL HOURS: Friday, 8:00 a.m. – 6:30 p.m. EST Saturday, 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. EST

2023 Exhibitors THURSDAY, 12:00 P.M. – 9:30 P.M. EST FRIDAY, 8:00 A.M. – 6:30 P.M. EST SATURDAY, 8:00 A.M. – 5:00 P.M. EST

Scan or click the QR code to find locations

AFRICA ART MARKETPLACE

AFRIQUE CLOTHING

AFRICA ART MARKETPLACE

AFRIQUE CLOTHING AFOLABI MOJI A.

ANCHORED SOLUTIONS

ASALH NATIONAL OFFICE

THE ASSOCIATION OF BLACK WOMEN HISTORIANS

BLACK HISTORY 365 EDUCATION

CATHY'S GLOBAL BRADLC MUSEUM AND BOOKS

CATHY'S GLOBAL

COLLEGE BOARD

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS

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EXHIBITORS

CUSTOM ART BY WALDEN COUNCIL OF LIBRARIES

CUSTOM ART BY WALDEN

DEPARTMENT OF ARMY, CP-32/EDIS

EGYPTIAN HARVEST

THE FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL ELEGANT INSPIRATIONS

THE FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL

HERITAGE INTERNATIONAL FASHIONS LLC. HERITAGE INTERNATIONAL FASHIONS LLC.

JAMES WELDON JOHNSON BRANCH OF ASALH

BBM GIFTS INTERNATIONAL

MCMILLIAN PUBLISHERS

NPCA

PATHFINDER PRESS

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EXHIBITORS

SAXX CLOTHING

THE SCHOLARS CHOICE WITH PENN PRESS

SUN CITY EVENTS + ENTERTAINMENT

THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS

UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA PRESS

UNIVERSITY PRESS OF FLORIDA

UNIVERSITY PRESS OF MISSISSIPPI

UNIVERSAL LOVE JEWELRY

UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA PRESS

UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS PRESS

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EXHIBITORS

UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH PRESS

UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA PRESS

ZEE CRAFTS VISIT JACKSONVILLE

ZEE CRAFTS

904WARD

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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2023 8:30 P.M. - 11:00 P.M. EST HYATT REGENCY JACKSONVILLE RIVERFRONT

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.

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. The Council, at its discretion, may also designate individuals for special recognition who have made noteworthy accomplishments or contributions to the documentation, preservation and accurate dissemination of the Black experience through teaching, service, research, scholarship and publishing.

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. Nominees should have made significant contributions to African American history and culture with a focus on the local community where the annual meeting of ASALH is being held. Nominations must be submitted by the Local Arrangements Committee and approved by the Executive Council of ASALH.

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.

FRANCILLE WILSON CARTER G. WOODSON SCHOLAR'S MEDALLION

Francille Rusan Wilson is an Associate Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity and History at the University of Southern California. She is an intellectual and labor historian whose current research examines the intersections between black labor movements, black social scientists, and black women's history during the Jim Crow era. Her book, The Segregated Scholars: Black Social Scientists and the Creation of Black Labor Studies, 1890-1950, was awarded the Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Prize for the best book in African American Women’s history by the Association of Black Women Historians. Her other publications include “Gertrude Emily Hicks Bustill Mossell: Her Heritage, Her Impact, and Her Legacy,” Woman and Social Movements, 1600-2000, 2014; “Becoming ‘Woman of the Year’: Sadie Alexander’s Construction of a Public Persona as a Black Professional Women, 1920-1950” in Black Women, Gender & Families; “Our Foremothers’ Keepers: The Association of Black Women Historians,” in Black Women’s History at the Intersection of Knowledge and Power. She has served on the boards of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History and the Labor and Working Class History Association and is a Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians.

MOSES MASSENBURG MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE SERVICE AWARD

In 2016 Moses Massenburg entered his Ph.D. at Michigan State University after a decade of studying African American women’s history grassroots spaces. Dr. Masssenburg began his public career in Black history when he bagged groceries at Whole Foods Market in Santa Cruz during his undergraduate studies under Dr. Angela Davis and Dr. Bettina Aptheker. He fondly recalls giving customers at his cash register lightening lectures on a different lesson in Black history every two minutes. For example, if someone purchased organic Okra he highlighted how West African women braided Okra seeds into their children’s hair to prepare them for their journeys to unfamiliar lands.

Or, if they purchased peanut butter for their babies, he spoke of George Washington Carver’s consulting southern Universities on how growing peanut plants returns nitrogen into soil depleted by cotton plants. Dr. Massenburg's public engagement grew tremendously when he led efforts to organize an ASALH branch in Atlanta. Together with a team of dedicated officers, he revived Dr.Woodson’s Association in a city once associated with such towering luminaries as Dr. W.E.B. DuBois, Dr. C.T. Vivian, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

ROSAHN "ROSE" WHITEHORN MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE SERVICE AWARD

Rosahn C. Whitehorn (Rose), is a dedicated member of the Hampton Roads Branch. As creator and current manager of their Facebook page, she has played a significant role in promoting local initiatives as well as supporting ASALH's yearly themes, raising awareness about the contributions of the African American community. In 2017, Ms. Whitehorn joined ASALH's National PR & Marketing Committee. In this role, she focused on expanding ASALH's Social Media reach through campaigns and highlighting the activities of Branches both locally and abroad. Following the outbreak of COVID-19, Ms. Whitehorn's responsibilities increased significantly. She played a crucial role in editing, reviewing, and promoting the marketing material for the last three National conferences. Her efforts have helped to ensure the success of these conferences, despite the challenges posed by the pandemic. Ms. Whitehorn is a graduate of Norfolk State University's History Department, located in Norfolk, Virginia. Her educational background in History, coupled with her passion for research and local history, has fueled her commitment to ASALH and her dedication to promoting African American history and culture.

SUNDIATA CHA-JUA COUNCIL AWARD OF SPECIAL RECOGNITION Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua teaches in the departments of African American Studies and History at the University of Illinois. He authored America’s First Black Town, Brooklyn, Illinois, 1830-1915; Sankofa: Racial Formation and Transformation, Toward a Theory of African American History and co-edited Race Struggles with Theodore Koditschek and Helen Neville. He has published scores of articles in leading journals, including “The Long Movement’ as Vampire: Temporal and Spatial Fallacies in Recent Black Freedom Studies” in the Journal of African American History which co-won the OAH EBSCOhost America: History and Life Award for the best journal article in United States History, 2007-2009. Cha-Jua has been President of the National Council for Black Studies (201-2012, 2012-2014), Senior Editor of The Black Scholar(20112015) and Associate Editor of the Journal of African American History (20152018). Since September 2015, he has written a biweekly Op-Ed commentary, “RealTalk: A Black Perspective” for the News Gazette of Champaign, Illinois.

Dr. Cha-Jua is a founding scholar/trainer of the Policing in a Multiracial Society Program (PSMP). Started in 2012, PSMP provides systematic anti-racial bias education and training for police recruits attending the University of Illinois’s Police Training Institute (PTI) and researches the racial attitudes of police and the effectiveness of anti-racist training. Cha-Jua has been engaged with local and national Black liberation movement organizations since his teen years. He has been a member of the executive board of the St. Louis-based Organization for Black Struggle (OBS), a member of the National Council of the Black Radical Congress (BRC) and is an organizer for the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement (MXGM).

BARBARA SPENCER DUNN COUNCIL AWARD OF SPECIAL RECOGNITION

Barbara Spencer Dunn is a youth and family advocate with an extensive legacy of service and leadership. Her service to ASALH includes serving as Vice President of Membership. Since 2013, she served as Co-Chair of the Woodson Home Committee, making remarkable contributions with the interpretation, rehabilitation and preservation of the Carter G. Woodson Home National Historic Site. The Committee received the National Capital Area's Hartzog Group Award for Outstanding Volunteer Service This led to the signing of a Master Cooperative Agreement with the National Park Service and managing additional task agreements through ASALH’s National Heritage Sites Research Committee. Dunn was appointed to the Maryland Commission on African American History and Culture. Mrs. Dunn serves on the Professional Development Team for a textbook entitled Black History 365. Dunn’s book, Before and Beyond the Niagara Movement: As the Youth See It, was evaluated and approved by Prince George’s County Maryland Public Schools as a supplemental US history teaching resource.

Selected activities were developed and are being promoted nationally by ASALH. Mrs. Dunn is a Bowie State University graduate and recipient of several awards for her service work in local and global communities.

Barbara is married to Carl and they have three children.

BETTYE GARDNER COUNCIL AWARD OF SPECIAL RECOGNITION

Dr. Bettye J. Gardner, Emerita Professor of History, Coppin State University, received her B.A. and M.A. degrees in History from Howard University and her Ph.D. from George Washington University. She has served as Project Director and/or Consultant for various Humanities projects and National Conferences. She represented ASALH on the Congressional Task Force on “The Use of Slave Labor in the Building of the U.S. Capitol”. While at Coppin State University, Dr. Gardner chaired the Intellectual Life Committee. Her scholarship has appeared in various journals, magazines, and edited works. She has lectured extensively on 19th Century African American Communities, focusing on Baltimore’s Free Black Community. Dr. Gardner has served as National President and Executive Council Member of ASALH; Federal Commissioner, Bethune House Historical Site; Executive Board, Humanities Council of Washington. Since 2008, she has chaired the Carter G. Woodson Home Historic Site Committee. The Committee was awarded the National Capital Area’s Hartzog Group Award for Outstanding Volunteer Service for their remarkable contributions. The Committee restructured the final exhibit gallery dedicated to Dr. Woodson’s legacy, securing the donation of approximately 200 historic photographs and 140 original artifacts, many of which will be featured in the permanent exhibit at the Carter G. Woodson National Historic Site.

JOE MADISON COUNCIL AWARD OF SPECIAL RECOGNITION

Joe Madison, The Black Eagle, is a civil rights activist, author and groundbreaking radio personality. He has built a legacy of using his voice to help oppressed people and those who are powerless against the injustices affecting them in their everyday lives. A tenacious leader in the cause for social justice, he uses his show as a platform for inspiring action on critical issues. A native of Dayton, Ohio, in 1971, Madison received his BA degree in sociology from Washington, St Louis University. Three years later he moved to Detroit and, at the age of 24, he was named executive director — the youngest — of the NAACP’s 10,000-member Detroit chapter in 1974. From 1986-1994, he served as the NAACP’s national political director where he led a series of successful voter registration marches, including a cross-country “march for dignity” from Los Angeles to Baltimore that also garnered thousands of signatures for an anti-apartheid bill in Congress. In 2019, Madison received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Washington University for his work as a groundbreaking radio personality and human rights activist.

Joe Madison and his wife Sharon have been married for more than 45 years and they currently reside in Washington, D.C.

DIANE E. MILLER COUNCIL AWARD OF SPECIAL RECOGNITION

Diane Miller served as the national program manager for the National Park Service, National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom from 1999 until her retirement in August 2023. Diane began her career at the NPS in 1984 working in the National Register of Historic Places programs.

She received her MA in History from the University of Maryland and BAs in History and Anthropology from Ohio University. In December 2019 she received her PhD from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Her dissertation, “Wyandot, Shawnee, and African American Resistance to Slavery in Ohio and Kansas,” highlights tribal involvement with the Underground Railroad. Through the Network to Freedom program, Diane worked to highlight unknown historic sites and stories connected to resistance to oppression through escape and flight—the Underground Railroad.

ANNETTE TEASDELL COUNCIL AWARD OF SPECIAL RECOGNITION

Dr. Annette Teasdell is an education consultant, scholar, and author.

She is currently an Assistant Professor of Curriculum and Instruction at Clark Atlanta University. A 2022 United Negro College Fund Teaching and Learning Fellow, she is committed to excellence in education. She has received national acclaim as an Asa G. Hilliard III and Barbara A. Sizemore Research Fellow by the American Educational Research Association (AERA). Grounding her research in over 15 years of teaching at the post-secondary and secondary levels, Annette Teasdell believes in the transformative power of education. She holds a Doctorate in Curriculum and Instruction with a concentration in Urban Education from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Her research centers on the fundamental belief that culturally responsive pedagogy combined with a curriculum that is accurate, relevant, and appropriate, and whose educational processes are humane can yield improved student outcomes. Her research has been published in multiple peer-reviewed journals. Dr. Teasdell is the co-author of two books–Race, Class, Gender, and Immigrant Identities in Education: Insights and Perspectives from First and Second Generation Ethiopian Students published by Palgrave MacMillan and Unbleaching the Curriculum: Enhancing Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Beyond in Schools and Society by Rowman and Littlefield.

MICHELLE DUSTER LIVING LEGACY AWARD

Michelle Duster is an author, speaker, public historian, professor, and champion of racial and gender equity. Her most recent book is Ida B. Wells, Voice Of Truth (Henry Holt & Co). And a year before, her Book, Ida B. The Queen: The Extraordinary Life And Legacy Of Ida B. Wells, was released. She also co-wrote the popular children’s history book, Tate and His Historic Dream; co-edited Impact: Personal Portraits of Activism; Shifts: An Anthology of Women's Growth Through Change; Michelle Obama’s Impact on African American Women and Girls; and edited two books that include the writings of her paternal great-grandmother, Ida B. Wells. She also was involved in the development of the Ida B. Wells doll, released in January 2022, which is part of Mattel's Inspiring Women Barbie doll series. Her advocacy has led to multiple public history projects including street names, monuments, historical markers, murals, and documentary films highlighting women and African Americans, including Wells. She is a native Chicagoan who earned her B.A. in Psychology from Dartmouth College, and M.A. in Media Studies from The New School in New York City. She also completed MFA film and video production coursework at Columbia College Chicago.

JOHNNETTA B. COLE LIVING LEGACY AWARD

Johnnetta Betsch Cole is a noted anthropologist, educator, author, speaker, and consultant on inclusion, diversity, and equity. Dr. Cole served as President of both historically Black colleges for women in the United States, Spelman College and Bennett College, a distinction she alone holds. She also served as the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art Director and Senior Consulting Fellow at the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. In 2004, Cole was the first African American to serve as the Chair of the Board of United Way of America. She recently served in the voluntary position of Chair of the Board and Seventh President of the National Council of Negro Women. She is an emerita member of the Dr. Maya Angelou Foundation board. Currently, she serves on the board of the A. L. Lewis Museum on Historic American Beach in Fernandina Beach, Florida. She was the first woman appointed to the board of CocaCola Enterprises and the first Black woman appointed to Merck’s board of directors. Dr. Cole has received numerous awards and is the recipient of 70 honorary degrees. On March 21, 2023, Dr. Cole was awarded a National Humanities Medal by President Joseph R. Biden.

RONALD SAUNDERS LIVING LEGACY AWARD

Ronald B. Saunders, a fervent supporter of ASALH, is presently serving his third term as President of the Dr. Edna B. McKenzie Branch. Ronald is a dynamic poet, prolific writer, lecturer, mentor, coach, and a long time civil and human rights activist. Under Ronald's unswerving guidance, the Dr. Edna B. McKenzie Branch is a quintessential model of collaboration with other ASALH branches. A testament to Ronald’s leadership is that EBM was selected for Branch of the Year for 2022. A highlight of the collaboration is seen in its Negro Mountain Project in Garrett County Maryland which involved stakeholders in Maryland, Pennsylvania and ASALH Branches. The Negro Mountain Project’s purpose is to preserve the history of the courageous African American frontiersman for which the mountain was named. The innovative and inspiring Dr. Charles R. Drew Virtual Knowledge Bowl is the brainchild of Ronald and the first of its kind among ASALH Branches. Ronald is one of the founders of the Pittsburgh based National Black Political Caucus. He is also the founder of the Penn Hills, Pa Advisory Council to the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission. Ronald is the recipient of numerous awards and is married to Judith. They have one daughter Tamara.

SENATOR JAMES T. HARGRETT LIVING LEGACY AWARD

James T. Hargrett, Jr. is a native of Tampa, Florida. He attended Clark Atlanta University and graduated from Morehouse College. Hargrett earned an M.B.A. from Atlanta University and became a successful banking administrator. He was manager of the Community Federal Savings & Loan Institution in Tampa when he was elected to the Florida House of Representatives in 1982 -- the first black person to hold that distinction from Hillsborough County. He served there until 1992, when he was elected to the Florida Senate. Hargrett is a member of the Pi Iota Chapter of the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc. and has earned numerous service awards, including the Dedication and Devotion in Education Award from Hillsborough County Public Schools. In 1994 he and House of Representatives legislator Rudy Bradley successfully sponsored the legislation that required public schools in the State of Florida to teach African American history. This law provides the political basis for resistance to the current opposition to today's struggle to keep black history in the curriculum of public schools in Florida.

MARVIN DUNN LUMINARY AWARD RECIPIENTS

A former naval officer, a renowned historian, an expert on race and ethnic issues and a community advocate, Dr. Marvin Dunn has dedicated his career to preserving and sharing Florida’s Black history. He is professor emeritus in the Department of Psychology at Florida International University, retiring as Chairperson of that Department. He authored Black Miami in the Twentieth Century and A History of Florida: Through Black Eyes. He also co-authored The Miami Riot of 1980: Crossing the Bounds and is the producer and director of three documentary films. Dr. Dunn founded Roots in the City, an urban gardening program and founded the Dr. Marvin Dunn Academy for Community Education, a public high school for at-risk students in Miami.

In 2021, Dr. Dunn founded the Miami Center for Racial Justice. The Center focuses on preserving and telling the stories of racial violence in Florida and works for racial reconciliation and healing.

LOVETTE W. HARPER LUMINARY AWARD RECIPIENTS The month of March has been declared Women’s History Month to highlight the contributions of women to events in history and society. It is celebrated in the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia, corresponding with International Women’s Day on March 8th. Lovette W. Harper was recognized on March 15th as Woman of the Year by the Friends of the Betty J. Johnson North Sarasota Public Library and the African American Cultural Resource Center of the Betty J. Johnson North Sarasota Library. Tributes were made to Mrs. Harper for her many years of service by the various organizations she is affiliated with including the African American Cultural Resource Center, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., The Association for the Study of African American History (ASALH) and Friends of the Library. Mrs. Harper is a retired New York State educator who retired to Sarasota over 25 years ago. She has had an interest in African American history and African art and culture, based on her travels to eight African countries and studies at three African universities – the University of Ethiopia in Addis Ababa, the University of Nairobi in Nairobi, Kenya and the University of Tanzania in Dar es Salaam.

As a founder and curator of the African American Cultural Resource Center, Mrs. Harper developed programs and exhibitions that included The Tuskegee Airmen, Newtown Then and Now, Newtown Youth Past and Present and hosted annual Kwanzaa celebrations. In 2008, Mrs. Harper donated her collection of African Art to her undergraduate HBCU, Tuskegee University’s Legacy Museum.

GWENDOLYN ZOHARAH SIMMONS LUMINARY AWARD RECIPIENTS

Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons is currently an Assistant Professor of Religion and affiliated faculty in the Women Studies Department at the University of Florida. Simmons received her BA from Antioch University in Human Services and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Religion with a specific focus on Islam from Temple University and a Graduate Certificate in Women’s Studies. Simmons’ primary academic focus in Islam is on the Shari’ah (Islamic Law) and its impact on Muslim women, contemporarily. The focus areas for her teaching at this time include Islam, Women, Religion and Society; Women and Islam, African American Religious Traditions, and Race, Religion, and Rebellion.

Simmons has a long history in civil rights, human rights, and peace work.

She was on the American Friends Service Committee staff, a Quaker peace, justice, human rights, and international development organization headquartered in Philadelphia, Pa. for twenty-three years. During her early adult years as a college student and thereafter, she was active with the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). She spent seven years working full-time on Voter Registration and desegregation activities in Mississippi, Georgia, and Alabama during the height of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960′s.

LIZZIE POLLY ROBINSON BROWN JENKINS LUMINARY AWARD RECIPIENTS

Lizzie Polly Robinson Brown Jenkins was born October 25, 1938, in Archer, Florida. She grew up on a farm with her parents, Ura McIntyre Robinson and Theresa Brown Robinson, who were skilled farmers. The youngest of five children reared in a nurturing home, she was expected to excel, to remember her strong upbringing, and to live a meaningful, purpose-driven life. Lizzie was educated at Archer Negro High School and graduated from Lincoln High School in 1957. She received a BS Degree in Education from Florida Memorial University and a Master’s degree from Nova University. Like her aunt Mahulda (the Rosewood school teacher from 1915 1923), Jenkins went on to teach in the Alachua County Public School System for 33 years. She retired at age 55 to assist with her mother’s declining health and to dedicate her life to preserving the history of Rosewood, Florida. Jenkins has amassed nearly 30 years of Rosewood research, striving to authenticate, document, and position a legacy for a new generation. Jenkins, a treasured storyteller, is often lauded for her storytelling style based on facts without prejudice. Jenkins has authored and published books on the histories of Rosewood, Alachua County, and Archer, Florida. She continuously shares her research and story through public lectures at colleges and universities, K 12 schools, churches, and community organizations, both locally and statewide.

CHARLES E. COBB JR. LUMINARY AWARD RECIPIENTS

Charles E. Cobb, Jr. is a visiting professor of Africana Studies at Brown University. He is a distinguished journalist and former member of National Geographic Magazine’s editorial staff. He currently is Senior Writer and Diplomatic Correspondent for AllAfrica.com, the leading online provider of news from and about Africa. From 1962-1967 he served as a field secretary for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in Mississippi. He began his journalism career in 1974 as a reporter for WHUR Radio in Washington, D.C. In 1976 he joined the staff of National Public Radio as a foreign affairs reporter, bringing to that network its first regular coverage of Africa. From 1985 to 1997, Cobb was a National Geographic staff member, traveling the globe to write stories on places from Eritrea to Russia’s Kuril Islands. He is also the co-author, with civil rights organizer and educator Robert P. Moses, of Radical Equations, Civil Rights from Mississippi to the Algebra Project, and On the Road to Freedom, a Guided Tour of the Civil Rights Trail. His latest book is This Nonviolent Stuff’ll Get You Killed, a finalist for the 2015 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for nonfiction. On July 24, 2008 the National Association of Black Journalists honored Cobb’s work by inducting him into their Hall of Fame.

LISA R. BROWN FREEDOM SCHOLAR AWARD

Dr. Brown, an Assistant Professor in the Adult Education, Social Innovation, and Entrepreneurship program, teaches master's and doctorallevel students at UIW in the Dreeben School of Education Graduate Studies department. She is collaborating with Dr. William A. Darity Jr. (Duke University) and other scholars on a William T. Grant Foundation study to explore reparations for Black American descendants of slaves and freedmen. That work resulted in a 2023 book, The Black Reparations Project, published by UC Press. Brown's chapter is "Reparations and Adult Education: Civic and Community Engagement for Lifelong Learners." She is a member of the National Reparations Planning Committee (RPC) to develop proposals and national coalition building to pursue federal Reparations. Her service includes presentations on reparations during Black History Month in 2023 for the Freedom Bloc in Akron, Ohio. She and a subcommittee of RPC members presented before the U.S. Office of Management and Budget regarding plans to revise SPD15 on Race and Ethnicity standards. Brown holds an MPA and bachelor's in Biology with a minor in Chemistry and is a member of the AAACE, Kappa Delta Pi International Honor Society, the Commission for Professors of Adult Education, the WFSF, IARSLCE, ASALH, and Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority.

TAKEIA N. ANTHONY FREEDOM SCHOLAR AWARD

Dr. TaKeia N. Anthony is the Interim Dean of the Whitney Young Honors Collegium and Graduate Studies and the Academic Support Liaison for the Center of Excellence for the Study of Kentucky AfricanAmericans (CESKAA) at Kentucky State University. She is a native of Bowling Green, Kentucky, and the first African American woman to earn a Ph.D. in history. She serves on the Board of Directors of the African-American Museum-Bowling Green Area and was the 2015 recipient of the Women of Achievement, Native Daughter Award, given by the Bowling Green Human Rights Commission. She is an alumna of Howard University in Washington D.C. and North Carolina Central University (NCCU) where she was inducted into the 2016 Class of 40 Under 40. Prior to joining Kentucky State University, Dr. Anthony was an Assistant Professor of History at NCCU where she won the 2020 College of Arts and Sciences Excellence in Teaching Award and the 2019 College of Arts and Sciences Excellence in Research Award. She served as an Assistant Professor of History and Director of Public History at Edward Waters College in Jacksonville, Florida. The 2017 Teacher of the Year, inducted in the 2016 Class of Jacksonville Black Pages 20 Under 40.

DARNELL SMITH PRESIDENT’S SERVICE AWARD Darnell Smith is Florida Blue’s market president for North Florida. Smith is responsible for Florida Blue’s financial and market growth, customer experience and community engagement across 36 North Florida counties from St. Augustine to Pensacola.Smith has been very active in serving the community through numerous organization boards and councils, including United Way of Northeast Florida, LIFT JAX, A.L. Lewis Black Opportunity and Impact Fund, Generation W, Blue Zones Jacksonville, First Coast YMCA, Sulzbacher Center, Communities in Schools Florida, World Affairs Council, Cathedral Arts Project and Feeding Northeast Florida. Smith has demonstrated leadership in developing the community through numerous board appointments including Jacksonville Chamber of Commerce, Economic Development Council of Tallahassee, Flagler College Board of Trustees, and Big Bend Minority Chamber of Commerce. He has been recognized for his contributions to the region including the American Heart Association, Junior Achievement of NE Florida, OneJax, Operation New Hope and Leadership Jacksonville. Smith was most recently the chair of the transition committee for Mayor Donna Deegan. Smith holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Florida State University.

He is a graduate of the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School and the Advanced HR Executive Program at University of Michigan.

BISHOP RUDOLPH MCKISSICK, SR. PRESIDENT’S SERVICE AWARD

Bishop McKissick, Sr. serves as Pastor Emeritus of Historic Bethel Baptist Institutional Church in Jacksonville, Florida. On January 31, 2014, Bishop McKissick, Sr., retired after 48 years as the Senior Pastor.

He is the longest-serving Pastor in the church’s history. The Jacksonville City Council recognized his many noteworthy accomplishments and renamed a portion of Hogan Street as Rudolph McKissick, Sr. Boulevard, in his honor. Bishop McKissick, Sr. earned a Bachelor’s Degree from Edward Waters College and Honorary Doctoral Degrees from Bethune Cookman University and Edward Waters College. He has also received advanced training at the Tuskegee Institute, the Music Institute of Columbia University, Princeton University, and Luther Rice Seminary. He holds membership in several organizations, including Life Membership in the NAACP and Omega Psi Phi Fraternity. In February 2014, he was the Mayor’s Trailblazer Honoree recipient of the Inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award. Bishop McKissick, Sr. has been married to the former Estelle Teresa Lee Williams; a noted retired school administrator, for 60 years. He is the father of one son, Bishop Rudolph W. McKissick, Jr. (Kimberly), and the grandfather of three: Jocelyn, Janai, and Joshua.

PAST AWARDEES CARTER G. WOODSON SCHOLARS MEDALLION

2010 Juliet Walker

2000 Alton Parker Hornsby

1993 Benjamin A. Quarles

2011 Vincent Harding

2001 Shirley Kilpatrick

1994 John Hope Franklin

2012 Collin Palmer

2002 Madlyn Calbert Rev. William E. Calbert

1995 Dorothy Porter Wesley John Henrik Clarke

2013 Deborah Gray White

1997 Adelaide M. Cromwell 1998 Edgar Toppin 1999 Arvarh E. Strickland 2000 Mary Frances Berry Edna Chappell McKenzie 2001 Bettye Collier-Thomas Darlene Clark Hine 2002 V.P. Franklin 2003 Lerone Bennett, Jr. Robert Harris 2004 Thomas Battle Nell Painter

2014 Gerald Horne 2015 David Levering Lewis 2016 Wilma King 2017 William Seraile 2018 Brenda Stevenson 2019 Bernard Powers 2021 Derrick P. Alridge Erica Armstrong Dunbar Geneva Gay 2022 Dr. Quintard Taylor Dr. Edna Greene Medford MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE SERVICE AWARD

2003 Adelaide Cromwell 2004 Rev. Richard T. Adams 2005 Edna McKenzie Elmer Geathers 2006 Bettye Gardner Elizabeth Clark-Lewis 2007 Paul Edwards Lillie Edwards 2008 Barbara Walker Dolores Nehemiah 2009 Bob Hayden 2010 Florence Radcliffe 2011 Daryl Michael Scott

2022 Alicia L. Moore Madge Allen 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 de Forest 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

2005 Walter Hill Monroe Fordham

1995 Jeanette L. Cascone

2006 Sylvia Jacobs

1996 Edgar Toppin

2007 Joseph Harris

1997 Sylvia M. Jacobs

2016 La Vonna I. Neal Lois L. Watson

2011 Howard Dodson Thomas C. Battle Carl M. Dunn Robert L. Harris

2008 Rosalyn Terborg-Penn Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham

1998 Roland C. McConnell

2018 Ruth Hodge

2012 Constance Tate

1999 Wayland McClellan

2019 Ida Jones Brenda Simmons-Hutchins

2013 Addie Richburg Frank Smith Charles “Alan” Spears

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2012 Janet Sims-Wood

2021 Sheila Flemming Bessie Mae Jackson Lopez D. Matthews Jr.

2014 Barbara Spencer Dunn

PAST AWARDEES 2014 David C. Driskell 2015 Sheila Flemming-Hunter Daryl Michael Scott 2016 Dorothy F. Bailey Louis Hicks 2017 Lori Leah Croom Michelle Duster Margot Shetterly 2018 Edgar Brookins Monroe Little Mirlene Pitre 2019 Rep. James Clyburn David L. and Yvonne B. Acey 2021 Jarvis R. Givens Fred O. Smith Sr. 2022 Brent Leggs The Links, Incorporated Valerie Maholmes LIVING LEGACY AWARD 2012 Denise Rolark Barnes Brigadier General Barbaranette T. Bolden Beverly Bond Roslyn Brock Lavern Chatman Brown Peggy Cooper Cafritz AMB Suzan Johnson Cook Marion Wright Edelman Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham Allison Hill JC Hayward Mae Jemison Bishop Vashtai McKenzie Eleanor Holmes Norton

Bernice Johnson Reagon Julieanna Richardson Paula Whetsel-Ribeau Tracey Web Lynn Whitfield 2013 Mary Frances Berry Camille Billops Roslyn M. Brock Pauletta Brown Bracy Minnijean Brown Trickey Queen Quet Marquetta L. Goodwine Eloise Greenfield Antoinette Harrell Olivia Hooker Lyn Hughes Dorothy Jones Cheryl L. Knox Latoya Lucas Naomi Long Madgett Margaret Moore Mary Moultrie Newatha Myers Consolee Nishimwe Florence Tate Najmah Thomas Camilla P. Thompson 2014 Dr. Charlene M. Dukes The Hon. Patsy Jo Hilliard Bell Hooks Freeman A. Hrabowski, III Velma Lois Jones Wyman O. Jones, Sr Joyce Ladner LaSalle D. Leffall, Jr, MD Reginald L. Weaver Raymond A. Winbush 2015 Arnold L. Mitchem Reginald Van Lee Myron A. Gray Rev. Dr. Jonathan L. Weaver Robert G. Stanton The Hon. James E. Clyburn The W.K. Kellogg Foundation 2016 Ingrid Saunders Jones Charles Bibbs

2017 Bettye Collier-Thomas Bryan Stevenson 2019 Lonnie G. Bunch 2021 Elizabeth Clark-Lewis Kenneth M. Hamilton 2022 Dr. James B. Stewart Dr. James D. Anderson Mr. Rodney Lawrence Hurst, Sr. JOHN HOPE FRANKLIN LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

ASALH LUMINARY AWARD 2019 Inaugural Winner Rev. Nelson B.Rivers, III 2021 Henry Louis Gates Freedom Scholar Award 2019 Inaugural Winners Tiffany G. B. Packer Sarah Lewis 2021 Christopher Bonner Khalid el-Hakim Aisha Johnson THE ASALH BOOK PRIZE

2015 John Lewis RAYS OF LIGHT 2015 Charles F. Bolden, Jr. Anthony Browder Lonnie G. Bunch W. Paul Coates Johnnetta B. Cole John W. Franklin Ayanna Gregory Dick Gregory Asa. G Hilliard III The Hon. Patsy Jo Hilliard Freeman A. Hrabowski, III Catherine L. Hughes Leonard Jeffries Harriett G. Jenkins Sen. Edward Kennedy, Sr. James W. Loewen Joe Madison Bette McLeod Robert Moses The Hon. Eleanor Holmes Norton Rodney H. Orr Jonathan Pourzal Rep. Louis Stokes Shelley Stokes-Hammond Mattie I. Taylor Davita Vance-Cooks Frances Cress Wesling

2021 Inaugural Winners William Darity, Jr. and Kirsten Mullen 2022 Jarvis R. Givens 2023 Quito Swan The Dorothy Porter Wesley Award Presented by the ASALH information professionals 2018 W. Paul Coates 2019 Charles L. Blockson 2020 Ms. Deborah L. Dandridge 2021 Janet Sims-Wood 2022 Ms. Frazine K. Taylor

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BRANCH PRESIDENTS

MAJELLA C. HAMILTON

ANGELIA BENDOLPH

BERTIS D. ENGLISH

LURA DANIELS-BALL

Charles A. Brown Branch of Birmingham (AL)

Mobile Branch (AL)

Harper Councill Trenholm Sr. Branch (AL)

Our Authors Study Club Branch (CA)

CHARLENE FARRINGTON

MANUEL JONES

HAZEL GILLIS

DAVID G. WILKINS, ESQ.

Central Florida Dorothy Turner Johnson Branch (FL)

James Weldon Johnson Branch (FL)

Manasota Branch (FL)

JACQUELINE WILLIAMS HUBBARD, ESQ.

LEONTYNE MIDDLETON

SANDY DWAYNE MARTIN

Tampa Bay Branch (FL)

St. Petersburg Branch (FL)

CAROLYN S. BLACKSHEAR

SUSAN HALL DOTSON Joseph T. Taylor Branch (IN)

Savannah Yamacraw Branch (GA)

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South Florida Branch (FL)

SEAN JONES Atlanta Branch (GA)

Athens Branch (GA)

NANCY DAVIS Organizing George Cleveland Hall Branch (Chicago, IL)

BARBARA BOYD Louisville Branch (KY)

BRANCH PRESIDENTS

JACQUELINE B. WOODY

ANDRE M. LEE

MARY CHAVIS RADCLIFFE

THELMA M. JOHNSON

Prince George’s County Truth Branch (MD)

Roland McConnell Branch (MD)

The Julian Branch of Baltimore County (MD)

Martha’s Vineyard Branch (MA)

LARRY LESTER

REV. GERALD L. TRUEHART, II

DAVID HEAD Detroit Branch (MI)

Greater Kansas City Black History Study Group (MO)

EVANGELINE SIMMONS

PAMELA REESE SMITH

Bronx Branch (NY)

Rochester Branch in Upstate New York

CRAIG WOODSON

OMOPE CARTER-DABOIKU

Cleveland Branch (OH)

Dr. Carter G. Woodson Greater Trenton Branch (NJ)

ELLEN FEREBEE Manhattan Branch (NY)

CHARLOTTE ADREONNA BENNETT

MARCIA GARRISON

Romare Bearden Branch (NC)

Margaret & Robert Garner Branch (OH)

RONALD B. SAUNDERS

REGINA J. VAUGHN

Dr. Edna McKenzie Branch (PA)

Philadelphia Branch (PA)

Paul Laurence Dunbar (OH)

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BRANCH PRESIDENTS

KAREN MARIE WILLIAMS

JEROME C. HARRIS Charleston Area Branch (SC)

YVONNE B. ACEY

IDA LEE CAREY

Memphis Area Branch (TN)

W. Marvin Dulaney D/FW Branch (TX)

IDA JONES

TRAVAUGHN LOVICK

Phila-Montco Branch (PA)

AUDREY PERRY WILLIAMS

ERNEST PORTER Louisa Branch (VA)

Hampton Roads (VA)

CARTER G. WOODSON BRANCH (WASHINGTON, D.C.)

Bethel Dukes Branch (Washington, D.C.)

C. DeLores Tucker Legacy Branch (Washington, D.C.)

OUR ANCESTORS LEGACY RICHMOND BRANCH (VA)

DAVID HARRIS Huntington Tri-State Branch (WV)

JOIN AN ASALH BRANCH We have branches throughout the United States. In order to join a branch, you must first be a member of ASALH National, then you must pay the branch dues (if applicable). If interested, contact the branch representative of your choice listed on our branch directory for their meeting notices. Take your receipt to the meeting to show proof of your National Membership. Then you are eligible to join the branch. Visit ASALH.org/Join for more information.

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THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF AFRICAN AMERICAN LIFE AND HISTORY

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2024 BLACK HISTORY THEME: AFRICAN AMERICAN AND THE ARTS Conference Theme In 2024, we examine the varied history and life of African American arts and artisans. African American art is infused with African diasporic, Caribbean, and the Black American lived experiences. In the fields of visual and performing arts, literature, fashion, folklore, language, film, music, architecture, culinary, and other forms of cultural expression the African American influence has been paramount. African American artists have used art to preserve history and community memory as well as for empowerment. Artistic and cultural movements, such as the New Negro, Black Arts, Black Renaissance, hip-hop, and Afrofuturism, have been led by people of African descent and set the standard for popular trends around the world. For centuries Western intellectuals denied or minimized the contributions of people of African descent to the arts as well as history, even as their artistry in many genres was mimicked and/or stolen. However, we can still see the unbroken chain of Black art production from antiquity to the present, from Egypt across Africa, from Europe to the New World.

Proposal Types Proposals should be detailed, comprehensive, and descriptive that outline the theme, scope, and aim of the session.

Proposals that incorporate the annual theme are preferred, 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 website.

For individuals who are interested in collaborating on a panel, workshop, or roundtable, please 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.

Individual Submissions Paper Submissions: Individual(s) can submit papers. These papers will be put together with other papers on the same theme/topic by the Academic Program Committee. Papers will ONLY be accepted by non-academics, undergraduate, and graduate students on the 2024 Annual Black History Theme: African Americans and the Arts. 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 session by the Academic Program Committee. Posters have both a virtual/pre-recording and in-person component.

Session Submissions Proposals will be accepted by all affiliations and academic status. 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 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 comprised 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 will need to provide an abstract (300 words or less), a title of your presentation, your name, 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.

The submission deadlines for proposals are as follows: Early Bird Submissions will be accepted via All Academic until March 18, 2024, at 11:59 p.m. (EST). Conditional acceptance responses to Early Bird submissions will be sent out by April 21, 2024, at 11:59 p.m. (EST). After this date, the committee will accept all submissions until the deadline of April 30, 2024, at 11:59 p.m. (EST). Regular conditional acceptance submissions will be responded to by June 9, 2024, at 11:59 p.m. (EST). You will not be considered official until all session participants have joined the Association and registered for the conference.

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Congratulations to the Dorothy T. Johnson Branch of ASALH, Orlando, Florida, Manual Jones, President and Karen Adamopoulos, Founding President on the occasion of the 108th Annual Conference in Jacksonville, Florida.

Family Love, The 75th Turner Wilson Family Reunion held in Orlando Florida Memorial Day weekend 2023 hosted by Reunion President Emeritus T. Clinton Francis, wife, Lorelei Anderson-Francis and son James C. Francis, Charter Members of the Dorothy T. Johnson Branch

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ROBERT BRODIE

EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT

CONSULTANTS Terrance Friday, Technology Specialist Ryan Heathcock, Videographer Gaynelle Jackson, Conference Planner

CHERRY ASHU

HOLLY FISHER-HICKMAN

MEMBERSHIP SPECIALIST

HISTORIAN

GLORIA NKANKA

CRYSTAL BOSWELL

MEMBERSHIP SUPPORT

SPECIAL PROJECTS

Rory Gruler, Spot Design Kirsten Haakonsen, Kit Hawk Designs Delani Weaver, Web Content Specialist

KAY PHILLIPS

PROGRAMS MANAGER

LOUIS HICKS

SPECIAL PROJECTS

Kenya King, Project Manager Michael J. Schwartz, Halodezign, LLC Taylor Gresham, ASALH Support Staff

CONSULTANTS & COMMITTEES ACADEMIC PROGRAM COMMITTEE Lyman Brodie, Chair Cornelius Lyn Bynum, Vice Chair Darius J. Young, Vice Chair Lionel Kimble, Vice Chair Daphne Cooper Aaisha Haykal Valerie Holt Susan Simms Marsh Gregory Lamont Mixon Arwin Smallwood AWARDS COMMITTEE Karen Adamopolus, Chair (Orlando) Tyna Middleton (Tampa) Juanita Powell-Williams Yvette Hayes BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT Rodney Hurst, Chair Karen Adamopolus, (Orlando) David Wilkins (Manasota) Tyna Middleton (Tampa) Jaqueline Hubbard (St. Petersburg) Joan Cartwright (South Florida) Manuel Jones (Orlando) Michelle Scott Softley (St. Petersburg) COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES OUTREACH Takeia Anthony, Chair David Jamison Tameka Hobbs (South Florida) Tyrome Clark CONSULTANTS Terrance Friday, Technology Specialist Ryan Heathcock, Videographer Gaynelle Jackson, Conference Planner Rory Gruler, Spot Design Kirsten Haakonsen, Kit Hawk Designs Kenya King, Project Manager Delani Weaver, Web Content Specialist Michael J. Schwartz, Halodezign, LLC Taylor Gresham, ASALH Support Staff DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE Marvin Dulaney, Chairperson Jeffrey A. Banks Lyman Brodie Cornelius Lyn Bynum Gladys Vaughn EMCEES & ENTERTAINMENT Don Harrell (Orlando), Chair Laurence Walden Rahman Johnson

EXHIBITS, ADVERTISERS, VENDORS Manuel Jones, Chair (Orlando) Bettie Hudson Arloura Watson George Gillis Juanita Powell-Williams Jasmine Turner Terry Roundtree Khamil Ojoyo FRIDAY NIGHT - MOTOWN CONCERT Rodney Hurst Sr, Chair HEADS OF FAITH-BASED RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS, PROGRAM GREETERS Rev. Anita Shepherd, Chair Rev. Reginald L. Gundy Rev. Pierre Williams (St. Petersburg) Isaac McCullough Greeters Ricky Anderson Rodney Hurst Sr, Joyce Morgan Ennis Davis HOST COMMITTEE Rodney Hurst, Sr., Chair Lyman Brodie (Orlando) David Wilkins (Manasota) Bettie Hudson Lanelle Phillmon George Gillis Fred and Georgia Pribanic LOCAL ARRANGEMENT COMMITTEE Hazel Gillis, Chair MARKETING/PR COMMITTEE Zebulon Miletsky, Chairperson Ryan Osceola Adams Brenda Eatman Aghahowa Dominic Archibald Aaisha Haykal Louis Hicks Kenya King Janet Sims-Wood Terry W. Spicer David J. Trowbridge Tara White Rosahn C. Whitehorn Mesha Williams Andrea Young

MARKETING & PUBLICITY WORK GROUP Jasmine Turner, Chair Emanuel Washington Lanelle Philmon Joan Cartwright (South Florida) Lynn Jones (Jacksonville Free Press) Marcella Washington Frank Powell (Florida Star) PROGRAM PLANNING COMMITTEE Aaisha Haykal, Chair Tara White Ida Jones John Ashley Zebulon Miletsky Charles Ferrell Rosahn C. Whitehorn Lopez Matthews Tony Holland Jameta Barlow Gladys Gary Vaughn Shondra Allen Kimberly Mosely PUBLIC SCHOOL OUTREACH Juanita Powell-Williams, Chair Fred Hearns (Tampa) Rodney Hurst Sr, Tyrome Clark Rachel Duff Antonia Bryant Yvette Hayes TOUR GROUP Anita Shepherd, Co-Chair Rodney Hurst Sr, Co-Chair Hazel Gillis, Co-Chair Elaine Sugar Bettie Hudson Arloura Watson Georgia Pribanic Jaunita Powell-Williams Khamil Ojoyo Brenda Simmons-Hutchins Ann Chinn Marsha Phelts Carol Alexander WOODSON HOUSE COMMITTEE Aaisha Haykal, Chair Barbara Spencer Dunn Bettye J. Gardner Jarvis R. Givens Eric R. Jackson VOLUNTEER COORDINATOR Brenda Frinks Felice Franklin, Assistant Alaina Sugar, Greeter

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