Souvenir Journal 2015 by ASALH

A+E NETWORKS CONGRATULATES ASALH ON YOUR CENTENNIAL ANNIVERSARY

September 23, 2015

C I T Y O F A T L A N T A

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As Mayor of the City of Atlanta, it is my pleasure to welcome the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) as you host the 100th Annual ASALH Meeting and Conference.

Founded in 1915 by Dr. Carter G. Woodson, the dedication of ASALH is rooted in the study and appreciation of African-American History, which is vital to our city and country. As a collective force, you inspire us all to make positive impacts in our communities. As you gather for this event, the City of Atlanta thanks you for your invaluable efforts and endeavors to bring together and educate our residents.

While in our city, we encourage attendees to explore the many attractions Atlanta has to offer including: the Dr. Martin L. King Jr. Center, the Georgia Aquarium, the World of Coca-Cola, CNN Center, Centennial Olympic Park, Woodruff Arts Center, Atlanta Botanical Garden, Children’s Museum of Atlanta, National Center for Civil and Human Rights, College Football Hall of Fame and many more. We invite you to share in our Southern hospitality, sample cuisine at our many fine restaurants and enjoy the rich and diverse heritage of our city.

On behalf of the people of Atlanta, I extend best wishes to you for a memorable and remarkable event.

Sincerely,

Mayor Kasim Reed

Kasim Reed MAYOR

September 24, 2014

ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF AFRICAN AMERICAN LIFE AND HISTORY,INC.

2225 Georgia Ave., NW, Suite 331, Washington, DC 20059

Phone (202) 238-5910 Fax (202) 986-1506 Website: www.asalh.org • Email: info@asalh.net

Dear ASALH Members and Conventioneers,

Officers of Executive Council

ASALH Convention Participant:

Dr. Daryl Michael Scott

President Howard University

Dr. Janet Sims-Wood

Vice President for Membership

Prince George’s County College

On behalf of the Executive Council of the Association for the Study of African American and History, we welcome you to our 99th Annual Convention. As we explore this year’s national Black history theme, Civil Rights in America, we hope to inspire you to reflect on the struggle for equality in America.

Ms. Zende Clark

Secretary Fordham University

Mr. Troy Thornton Treasurer

Goldman Sachs & Co. New York, NY

Ms. Sylvia Y. Cyrus Executive Director

Class of 2015

Ms. Dorothy Bailey Prince Georges County Truth Branch, MD

Words cannot express how honored I am to greet you at this Centennial Annual Meeting and Conference for our organization, ASALH. I often reﬂect on Dr. Woodson and the vision he cultivated over 100 years ago. To uphold this vision, we must continue to innovate as we provide the history and accomplishments of our people, in order to garner support from more organizations and individuals. I would like to thank each of you for your support, which has made this celebration of 100 years possible.

I am extremely proud to have served as your leader for the past thirteen years. ASALH’s success is owed to a great team of supporters whom I would like to thank. To my dedicated and over-worked staff, please know how much I appreciate all that you do. Byron Dunn, Alfreda Edwards, Karen May, and our newest member, Liesl Semper, have been great advocates for ASALH. Thank you for standing by my side to do what sometimes seems impossible.

As W.E.B DuBois wisely stated, “There is no such force in the world as the force of a determined to rise. The human soul cannot be permanently chained.” While the brutal dehumanization of African Americans was continually used to sever black morale, the united effort black individuals around the nation formeda foundation of hope and perseverance that is still in our communities today. To counteract systems of oppression people of African descent organizations such as the Colored Convention movement and the National Associationfor Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) that provided African Americans a platform to their lived experiences with the rest of the world.

Dr. Sheila Flemming-Hunter Black Rose Foundation, Atlanta, GA

Dr. Lionel Kimble Chicago State University

We are honored to hold our 99th Annual Convention in Memphis, Tennessee, a city rich African American history. While the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. dramatically the atmosphere in Memphis, it remains a thriving site of civil rights activism and economic opportunity for African Americans. As you explore these historic grounds, we encourage you to on the numerous musicians that began their careers on Beale Street (including W.C. Handy, father of blues) and the brilliant hits that were written at the Lorraine Motel, the site of Dr. Luther King Jr’s death. It is our hope that youare able to experience all that Memphis has offer and that these historic surroundings deeply enrich your convention experience.

Ms. Kenya King Atlanta, GA

Dr. Edna Green Medford Howard University

Ms. Gina Paige African Ancestry, Washington, DC

Dr. Annette Palmer Morgan State University

Mr. Randy Rice Los Angeles, CA

Dr. Paula Seniors Virginia Tech

Class of 2016

Dr. Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham Harvard University

To our Centennial President, Daryl Scott, you have weathered many challenges and have proved that you have been the right leader for this historic occasion. One of your legacies is the work you have put into the ASALH publications, namely the Journal of African American History while supporting our Editor, V.P. Franklin. You have also helped revitalize the Black History Bulletin while guiding Co-Editors La Vonne Neal and Alicia Moore to strengthen this publication that is so important to our educational programming. The importance of the new publications like Fire!!!: The Digital Black Studies Journal, which is co-edited by Marilyn Thomas-House, and the Woodson’s Review, a Black History Theme magazine, will be more apparent each year. Through your leadership, the ASALH Press was created and The Mis-Education of the Negro, Message in the Music, Woodson’s Appeal, The Negro in Sports, and The History of the Elks and The History of Chi Eta Phi Nursing Sorority were all published or republished.

Our Centennial Chair Sheila Flemming-Hunter has led a team of friends, members and supporters of ASALH through a planning process for this year. Your tireless efforts and dedication to Carter G. Woodson and Mary McLeod Bethune have resulted in a year that has been beyond our expectations. Special thanks go to all the members of the team who lead events in our birthplace, Chicago, our place of incorporation, Washington, D.C., and other locations around the country.

We thank the Academic Program Committee for its leadership and hard work to orchestrate the participation of our presenters this year. We are confident that all who attend will be enlightenedand invigorated by the many expositions and dialogues that will transpire. A special to our Honorary Co-Chairs and members of the Honorary Committee for furthering the mission of ASALH in Memphis. To the Local ArrangementsCommittee, we extend a deep heartfelt thank you for many hours of dedicated service.

Dr. Cornelius Bynum Purdue University

Dr. Jim Harper North Carolina Central University

To the ASALH staff, consultants, and volunteers, know that your timeless efforts are appreciated. We acknowledge and extend a special thank you to our corporate sponsors, partners, and supporters who have helped to make this convention possible.

Dr. Monroe Little Indiana University

Mr. Gilbert Smith Washington, DC

Ms. Greer Stanford-Randle Huber Heights, OH

To our current and past Executive Council members, thank you for the time, talent and treasures that you have brought to ASALH. ASALH is an organization with a dedicated membership. We have a number of individuals attending this conference who have attended thirty or more conferences. Thank you for keeping the faith. To our branch leaders and members, it has been a delight to see the growth of our branches and in branch membership. The programming that you do in our communities is one of the important ways that we disseminate the history of African Americans.

Finally, we thank all attendees for standing with ASALH through a challenging time. We you find this meeting one that empowers you to empower others, and we hope to see you next for our Centennial Convention in Atlanta, Georgia.

Sincerely,

Class of 2017

Dr. Thomas C. Battle

Howard Univ. Moorland Spingarn (Ret.)

Dr. Martha Biondi Northwestern University

Dr. Bettye Gardner Coppin State University

Dr. James B. Stewart University of Pennsylvania

Dr. Nikki Taylor Texas State University

To all my family and friends who have supported ASALH to this momentous occasion, I say thank you and keep your dues current in order to uphold this incredible organization.

The ﬁrst one hundred years has laid a great foundation. Onward and upward and God bless you all.

Best regards,

Michael Scott Sylvia Y. Cyrus National President Executive Director

Dr. Gladys Gary Vaughn Cabin John, MD

and disseminate information about Black life, history and culture to the global community...ASALH Mission

Officers of Executive Council

Dr. Daryl Michael Scott

President Howard University

Dr. Janet Sims-Wood Vice President for Membership

Prince GeorgeÕs County College

Ms. Zende Clark

Secretary Fordham University

Mr. Troy Thornton Treasurer

Goldman Sachs & Co. New York, NY

Ms. Sylvia Y. Cyrus Executive Director

Class of 2015

Ms. Dorothy Bailey

Prince Georges County Truth Branch, MD

Dr. Sheila Flemming-Hunter Black Rose Foundation, Atlanta, GA

Dr. Lionel Kimble Chicago State University

Ms. Kenya King Atlanta, GA

Dr. Edna Green Medford Howard University

Ms. Gina Paige African Ancestry, Washington, DC

Dr. Annette Palmer Morgan State University

Mr. Randy Rice Los Angeles, CA

Dr. Paula Seniors Virginia Tech

Class of 2016

Dr. Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham Harvard University

Dr. Cornelius Bynum Purdue University

Dr. Jim Harper North Carolina Central University

Dr. Monroe Little Indiana University

Mr. Gilbert Smith Washington, DC

Ms. Greer Stanford-Randle Huber Heights, OH

Class of 2017

Dr. Thomas C. Battle

Howard Univ. Moorland Spingarn (Ret.)

Dr. Martha Biondi Northwestern University

Dr. Bettye Gardner Coppin State University

Dr. James B. Stewart University of Pennsylvania

Dr. Nikki Taylor Texas State University

Dr. Gladys Gary Vaughn Cabin John, MD

September 23, 2015

Dear ASALH Convention Participants,

On behalf of the Executive Council of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, we welcome you to the Centennial Meeting! In celebrating our centennial, we are asking you to explore events and milestones that we have traveled as a people in the course of our organizationÕs first century.

When Carter G. Woodson called together James E. Stamps, William B. Hartgrove, George Cleveland Hall, and A. L. Jackson on September 9, 1915, people of African descent lacked the most basic rights in American society. Woodson brought them together under the belief that the dissemination of knowledge would play a vital role in empowering black people to transform themselves and how they are seen in the eyes of the world. ASALH still believes in knowledge for empowerment and transformation. Our mission continues unabated, and we carry forth work of our founders.

Holding the Centennial meeting in Atlanta is fitting. Chicago and Washington, respectively, are the cities where we were founded, but Atlanta has been the place where we have returned frequently to renew our spirit as an organization. Over the last century, Atlanta has become a hub in the Africa diaspora, revealing the complex changes that have taken place within the Black world and the United States more generally.

This year’s program is befitting of a Centennial in many ways. As V.P. Franklin retires from teaching and continues his work as editor of The Journal of African American History, we celebrate and explore his long-career of research and publishing. Leading scholars have come to participate on plenaries that reflect the role of music in our history, and the significance of black women in the African diaspora. Dignitaries have lent their names and involvement in Presidential Sessions that span the range of issues confronting us from health care to the status of Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Finally, we are introducing a new formatÑseminars named after leading ASALHitesÑto increase intellectual engagement on provocative topics in a national forum.

As with any Centennial, there are legions of people to thank, and we will do so elsewhere. Here, we will thank those whose efforts have made yet another Annual Meeting a great success. The Academic Program Committee, once again led by Lionel Kimble and Cornelius Bynum, has done an outstanding job in putting together a stellar program. Our Local Arrangement Committee, headed by Dr. Akinyele Umoja, has opened the doors to the city. The ASALH staff, consultants, and volunteers have risen to the occasion. Woodson would be proud of everyone involved, especially Sylvia Cyrus, our executive director. It has been a pleasure and an honor to serve with everyone.

Dr. Daryl Michael Scott National President

Officers of Executive Council

Dr. Daryl Michael Scott

President Howard University

President

Dr. Janet Sims-Wood

Howard University

Vice President for Membership

Dr. Janet Sims-Wood

Prince George’s County College

Vice President for Membership

PrinceGeorge’s County College

Ms. Zende Clark

Secretary Fordham University

Mr. Troy Thornton

Treasurer

Goldman Sachs & Co. New York, NY

Treasurer

Goldman Sachs & Co. New York, NY

Ms. Sylvia Y. Cyrus

Executive Director

Ms. Sylvia Y. Cyrus

Executive Director

Class of 2015

September 23, 2015

Dear Friends of ASALH and Centennial Conventioneers:

Ms. Dorothy Bailey

Class of 2015

Prince Georges County Truth Branch, MD

Ms. Dorothy Bailey

Prince Georges County Truth Branch, MD

Dr. Sheila Flemming-Hunter Black Rose Foundation, Atlanta, GA

Dr. Sheila Flemming-Hunter

Black Rose Foundation, Atlanta, GA

Dr. Lionel Kimble Chicago State University

Ms. Kenya King Atlanta, GA

Dr. Edna Green Medford Howard University

Ms. Gina Paige

African Ancestry, Washington, DC

Ms. Gina Paige African Ancestry, Washington, DC

Dr. Annette Palmer

Morgan State University

Dr. Annette Palmer

It is with a deep sense of gratitude and passion that I welcome each of you to the Centennial Convention of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH). Like you, I caught hold of the vision of Dr. Carter G. Woodson to help ensure that the story of people of African descent is researched and disseminated throughout the world. It was during my studies at Atlanta University (now Clark Atlanta University) that I learned about ASALH. Throughout the succeeding years during my professional development I became enamored with ASALH, mainly because of Woodson’s genius that produced an organization of scholars and advocates working together on behalf of black life, culture and history. While I am a student of history and as such hope that this organization continues, I recognize that it takes all of us to ensure it thrives. Each and every one of us has something we can consistently contribute to ASALH. I strongly encourage you to reflect on this idea during this 100th anniversary and I challenge you to make a commitment to do your part to continue to help build it so that our children’s grandchildren will be able to celebrate the next hundred years.

Mr. Randy Rice

Morgan State University

Los Angeles, CA

Mr. Randy Rice Los Angeles, CA

Dr. Paula Seniors Virginia Tech

Class of 2016

Dr. Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham Harvard University

Dr. Paula Seniors Virginia Tech Class of 2016

Dr. Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham Harvard University

Dr. Cornelius Bynum Purdue University

Dr. Jim Harper North Carolina Central University

Dr. Monroe Little Indiana University

Mr.Gilbert Smith Washington, DC

Mr. Gilbert Smith Washington, DC

Ms. Greer Stanford-Randle Huber Heights, OH

Class of 2017

Dr. Martha Biondi

Class of 2017

Northwestern University

Dr. Thomas C. Battle

There are so many to thank for making the centennial year a success. The Executive Council for their confidence in me and my dear friend and leader, Susan L. Taylor, who not only leads the National Honorary Committee, she also epitomizes what it means to contribute a life’s work, quite like Woodson, on behalf of a people. We are grateful to all the members of the National Honorary Committee and Atlanta Honorary Committee. The branches in Chicago, Washington, DC, Atlanta and throughout the country are commended for the yeoman’s job of planning and implementing celebrations that underscore what we are really about: keeping and telling the story of our people in their locales because all history is local. The staff, too, led by Sylvia Cyrus, should be applauded because without them we cannot be an organization on the precipice of greatness. Most of all, I thank our National President, Dr. Daryl Scott, for without his insatiable appetite to study and know Woodson and his ability to project the limits of ASALH’s resources all while considering the possibilities for the future, I am not sure where we would be.

Dr. Bettye Gardner Coppin State University

Howard Univ. Moorland Spingarn (Ret.)

Dr. Martha Biondi

Ms. Kenya King Atlanta, GA

Northwestern University

Dr. Bettye Gardner Coppin State University

Dr. James B. Stewart University of Pennsylvania

Dr. James B. Stewart

University of Pennsylvania

Dr. Nikki Taylor

Texas State University

Dr. Nikki Taylor

Texas State University

Dr. Gladys Gary Vaughn Cabin John, MD

In my estimation our past, present and future are summed up in a 1938 article in the Journal of Negro History from my “shero” and raison d’etre for my involvement in ASALH, Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune: “I charge our Association for the Study of Negro Life and History to carry forward its great mission to arm us with the facts so that we may face the future with clear eyes and sure vision.”

Sheila Flemming-Hunter, Ph.D.

National Chair

ASALH National Centennial Committee

Officers of Executive Council

Dr. Daryl Michael Scott

President Howard University

Dr. Janet Sims-Wood

Vice President for Membership

Prince George’s County College

Ms. Zende Clark

Secretary Fordham University

Mr. Troy Thornton

Treasurer

Goldman Sachs & Co. New York, NY

Ms. Sylvia Y. Cyrus

Executive Director

Class of 2015

Ms. Dorothy Bailey

Prince Georges County Truth Branch, MD

Dr. Sheila Flemming-Hunter Black Rose Foundation, Atlanta, GA

Dr. Lionel Kimble

Chicago State University

Ms. Kenya King Atlanta, GA

Dr. Edna Green Medford Howard University

Ms. Gina Paige

African Ancestry, Washington, DC

Dr. Annette Palmer

Morgan State University

Mr. Randy Rice

Los Angeles, CA

Dr. Paula Seniors Virginia Tech

Class of 2016

Dr. Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham Harvard University

Dr. Cornelius Bynum Purdue University

Dr. Jim Harper

North Carolina Central University

Dr. Monroe Little Indiana University

Mr. Gilbert Smith Washington, DC

Ms. Greer Stanford-Randle Huber Heights, OH

Class of 2017

Dr. Thomas C. Battle

Howard Univ. Moorland Spingarn (Ret.)

Dr. Martha Biondi

Northwestern University

Dr. Bettye Gardner

Coppin State University

Dr. James B. Stewart

University of Pennsylvania

Dr. Nikki Taylor

Texas State University

Dr. Gladys Gary Vaughn Cabin John, MD

September 23 – 27, 2015

Greetings,

Welcome to the 2015 annual meeting of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, the centennial gathering of this august organization! In 1915, Carter G. Woodson founded the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History to create and disseminate knowledge about black history and culture; we come together this year in Atlanta, Georgia, to continue that noble mission. In the midst of the exciting events and tours, vital meetings and discussions, and path-breaking research presentations and workshops planned for this week, please take some time to reflect on Woodson, his legacy, and the charge he left each us to call boldly for recognition of the lives, experiences, and contributions of black people. Woodson would be happy to see that his work has continued, but we need to look to the future and the work that remains even as we rightly celebrate the past.

As incidents of police violence, assaults on the Voting Rights Act, and racially motivated killings in places like Charlestown, South Carolina, make clear that not everybody believes that black lives matter, we have a duty as academics, activists, and citizens to make our voices heard. The work we do at this meeting cannot end with the closing benediction. If we are to succeed in ushering in a second 100 years of the organization, we have to be forthright in looking to our history and culture to inform persistence demands for social justice. This is the underlying premise of Woodson’s vision and we have an obligation to live up to it.

There is no better place to be this week than here. We hope that you partake fully of all that is on offer and find inspiration, rejuvenation, and fortitude to help us embark on the next 100 years with determination and calling. Welcome to Atlanta and the centennial meeting of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History!

Warmest regards,

Cornelius Bynum, Ph.D.

Centennial Academic Program

Co-Chair

Lionel Kimble, Ph. D.

Centennial Academic Program Co-Chair

Centennial National Committees

Centennial National Honorary Committee

Susan L. Taylor, Co-Chair Harry Belafonte, Co-Chair

Mrs. Billye and Mr. Hank Aaron, Dr. Mary Frances Berry, Mr. Charles Bibbs, Dr. John R. Bracey, Ms. Xernona Clayton, Mrs. Marian Wright Edelman, The Honorable Patsy Jo Hilliard, Mr. Martin Luther King III, The Honorable John Lewis, Dr. Joseph Lowery, Ms. Sonia Sanchez, Mr. Robert G. Stanton, Dr. C. T. Vivian and The Honorable Andrew Young.

Centennial Atlanta Honorary Committee

The Honorable Patsy Jo Hilliard, Dr. C. T. Vivian and The Honorable Andrew Young (Co-Chairs)

Mrs. Billye and Mr. Hank Aaron, Bishop John Hurst and Dr. Dolly Desselle Adams, GA Representative Kimberly Alexander, Mr. Peter Aman, Ms. Henrietta Antonin, Ms. Leona Barr-Davenport, GA Representative Roger Bruce, Ms. Xernona Clayton, Mr. Thomas Dortch, Dr. Paul Douglass, GA Representative Virgil Fludd, Mr. Martin Luther King III, The Honorable John Lewis, Dr. Joseph Lowery, Mr. Mitchell Martin, GA Representative Billy Mitchell, GA Representative Howard Mosby, The Honorable Kasim Reed, Ms. Donata Russell Ross and Mrs. Carolyn Young.

ASALH National Centennial Committee

Dr. Sheila Flemming-Hunter, Chair

Dr. Martha Biondi, Ms. Sylvia Cyrus, Dr. John Fleming, Dr. Bettye Gardner, Dr. Evelyn Higginbotham, Dr. Lionel Kimble, Ms. Kenya King, Dr. Daryl Michael Scott, Dr. Janet Sims-Wood, Dr. James Stewart, Dr. Gladys Gary Vaughn, and Dr. Sheila Walker.

Officers of ASALH Executive Council

Dr. Daryl Michael Scott, President (Howard University)

Dr. Janet Sims-Wood, Vice President for Membership (Prince George’s County Community College)

Ms. Zende Clark, Secretary (Fordham University)

Mr. Troy Thornton, Treasurer (Goldman Sachs & Co. New York, NY)

Ms. Sylvia Y. Cyrus, Executive Director

Local Area Committee

Thank You & Members

I am honored and pleased to welcome on behalf of the Local Arrangements Committee (LAC) of the Centennial Convention of the Association of African-American Life and History (ASALH). The LAC is composed of ASALH Life members, community activists, Greek letter organizations, K-12 teachers, public and academic librarians and archivists, and faculty and students from colleges and universities throughout the Metro Atlanta area. We thank the Association for making Atlanta the site of the Centennial Convention.

We pray the Creator and the Ancestors enable us to make this an historic occasion that would make Dr. Woodson and Mother Bethune proud and that you all enjoy yourselves and are inspired to carry on the work of the Ancestors. We are also committed to continue the work of the Association with our new branch in the Atlanta Area. We will continue the work of trailblazers like Clarence Bacote, Margaret Riley, and Asa Hilliard in promoting the study and celebration of the heritage of people of African descent

Ase

“Baba AK”

Akinyele Umoja, PhD Chair, African-American Studies

Georgia State University

Atlanta Local Arrangements Committee Members

Akinyele K Umoja, Chairman

Maurice Hobson, Secretary

Shelia Flemming-Hunter, Business Development Committee Chairperson

Kenya King, Public Relations Committee Chairperson

Stephanie Evans, Co-Chairperson - Volunteer Recruitment Committee

Andrea Jackson, Co-Chairperson - Volunteer Recruitment Committee

Lisa Bratton

Eric Bridge

Joan Cartwright

Ronald Coleman

Patrica Davis

Brenda Davenport

Velma Fann

Jelani Favors

Cathy Freeman

Anne Ford

Morris Gardner

Sean Jones

Berry Lee

Samuel Livingston

Moses Massenburg

Gloria Mims

Bonnyeclaire Smith-Stewart

Candy Tate

Terry Thomas

Jihad Uhuru

Seneca Vaught

Renee Wade

Renae Walker

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About ASALH

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.

OUR VISION

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 Carter G. Woodson legacy.

ASALH Former Presidents

1916-1917

1917-1920

1921-1930

1931-1936

1936-1951

1952-1964

1965-1966

1966-1967

1968-1970

1971-1973

1974-1976

1977-1980

1981-1982

1983-1984

George Cleveland Hall

Robert E. Park

John R. Hawkins

John Hope

Mary McLeod Bethune

Charles Harris Wesley

Lorenzo J. Greene

J. Reuben Sheeler

J. Rupert Picott

Andrew Brimmer

Edgar Toppin

Charles Walker Thomas

Earl E. Thorpe

Samuel L. Banks

1984-1985 Jeanette Cascone (acting)

1986-1988

1989-1990

1991-1993

William Harris

Andrew Brimmer

Robert Harris, Jr.

1993-1995 Janette Hoston Harris

1995-1997

1997-1999

1999-2001

2001-2003

2004-2006

Bettye J. Gardner

Edward Beasley

Samuel DuBois Cook, Sr.

Gloria Harper Dickinson

Sheila Y. Flemming-Hunter

2007-2009 John E. Fleming

2010-2012 James B. Stewart

Current Daryl Michael Scott

2015 National Office Staff & Volunteers and JAAH Staff & Editorial Board

ASALH Staff

Sylvia Y. Cyrus

Executive Director

Liesl Semper

Executuve Assistant

Alfreda Edwards

Development Manager

Karen May

Publication & Exhibits Coordinator

Byron Dunn

Information Technology

Management and Membership Clerk

Interns

Sarah Tyler

University of the District of Columbia

Taylor Mayo

Hampton University

Jenae Dunham

New York School of the Arts

Drew Oliver

Hampton University

Black History Bulletin

Lavonne Neal Co-Editor

Alicia Moore Co-Editor

Fire!!! The Multimedia Journal of Black Studies

Marilyn M. Thomas-Houston Co-Editor

Daryl Michael Scott Co-Editor Consultants

Tim Abercrombie, CPA Abercrombie and Associates

Louis Hicks Black History Month Luncheon

Journal of African American History

Formerly the Journal of Negro History

Founded by Carter G. Woodson, January 1, 1916

Editor: V.P. Franklin, University of New Orleans

Associate Editors:

Derrick P. Alridge, University of Virginia, Charlottesville

Joyce Owens Anderson, Chicago State University

Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua, University of Illinois Urbana

Editorial Board

Mary Frances Berry

University of Pennsylvania

Bettye Collier-Thomas

Temple University

Robert L. Harris

Cornell University

Darlene Clark Hine

Northwestern University

Gerald Horne

University of Houston

Robin D. G. Kelley

University of Southern California

Genna Rae McNeil

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Michael Omolewa

University of Ibadan, Nigeria

Joyce Collier Bookkeeper

Gaynelle Jackson Annual Conference Planner

Clifton Johnson Graphic Artist

Terry Spicer Epiphany Public Relations

Sean Jones Conference Volunteer Coordinator

Shawn Wright, Esquire Blank Rome

Quinta Martin Centennial Consultant

Petra Williams Centennial Consultant

Volunteers

Barbara Dunn

Carl M. Dunn

Vernon Jackson

Burnis Morris

Mary Nobles-Jackson

Fannie Thompson

James Thompson

Valerie Smith

Velma Williams

Managing Editor: Sylvia Y. Cyrus, ASALH

Editorial Assistants: Edward D. Collins, Sarah Wolk

Nell Irvin Painter

Princeton University

Daryl M. Scott

Howard University

Brenda E. Stevenson

University of California, Los Angeles

James B. Stewart

Pennsylvania State University

P. Sterling Stuckey

University of California, Riverside

Sheila S. Walker

Afrodiaspora

Margaret Washington

Cornell University

Lillian S. Williams

State University of New York, Buffalo

The Founders of ASALH

In late August of 1915, African Americans from across the country converged on Chicago’s Coliseum to participate in the state of Illinois’ national celebration of the Lincoln Jubilee and the Half-Century of Emancipation.

Among those in attendance were two high school teachers from Washington, D.C., William B. Hartgrove and Dr. Carter G. Woodson. On September 9th, Woodson, a Harvard-trained historian, called a meeting with Hartgrove, George Cleveland Hall, A.L. Jackson, and James E. Stamps at the nearby Colored Y.M.C.A., where the Washingtonians had been staying.

The class orator for his graduating class at Harvard the previous year, Jackson had only recently been appointed director of the facility. A 1911 graduate of Fisk with a masters in economics from Yale, Stamps worked for Anthony Overton, a leader of the black business community. A physician at Provident Hospital and a leading ﬁgure in the Chicago Urban League, George Cleveland Hall was easily the most prominent and accomplished.

The small gathering had a high purpose: the creation of an organization to demonstrate to the world a truth that had been everywhere assaulted - that people of African descent had contributed signiﬁcantly to the making of civilization and the movement of human history.

They agreed on a constitution and established the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History. Four months later, Woodson, having brought the Association to life, published the ﬁrst issue of the Journal of Negro History and gave birth to a ﬁeld of study.

The son of slaves, a scholar with advanced degrees but no academic standing, dared to raise up the truth from where it had been crushed.

George C. Hall

A.L. Jackson

James E. Stamps

Carter G. Woodson

William B. Hartgrove

“Until Edwin Bancroft Henderson’s classic book, The Negro in Sports, little scholarly attention had been paid to the role of black athletes in the years prior to the integration of professional sports. As Henderson revealed and as historian Al-Tony Gilmore’s insightful introduction to the current reprinting of the book affirms, African Americans won national, even global, recognition as individuals, as team members of both historically black colleges and white colleges, and even as professional athletes in all-black leagues. Henderson recovers now unfamiliar names in boxing, football, baseball, tennis, basketball, track, swimming, cycling, golf and other sports. Particularly noteworthy is his thoughtful inclusion of African American women. Henderson’s book is a true forerunner of a race and gender perspective in American sports history.”

- Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Harvard University

“It is rare that a book is found that changes our interpretation of an historical figure to such a great extent that a complete rethinking of the figure is in order. Daryl Scott has found such a book. The Appeal offers a theoretical account of what Black Americans intend for their racial selves freed from the allure of white humanity....Simply put, Woodsonís appeal is a game-changer....”

Tommy J. Curry, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Affiliate Professor of Africana Studies; Ray A.Rothrock Fellow at Texas A&M University

ASALH PRESS

The Mis-Education of the Negro

By Carter G. Woodson

Special rate available for bulk orders.

Woodson’s Appeal

In 1921, five years before he established Negro History Week, Carter G. Woodson produced a manuscript on race relations that the world has never before seen. We want to share it with you and a select number of others who support our efforts to keep Woodson’s legacy of African American history alive. As a tax-exempt, not-for-profit organization, ASALH depends on public support to keep the Journal of African American History, the Black History Bulletin, and The Woodson Review before teachers, scholars, and the general public.

Message in the Music

Edited by Derrick P. Alridge, James B. Stewart, and V.P. Franklin Message in the Music brings together wide-ranging, critical, and detailed essays that examine Hip Hop as one of the most inﬂuential cultural phenomena of the past half-century.

The History of the Improved Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of the World: 1896-1954 The History of Chi Eta Phi Sorority,

on Carter G. Woodson with Drs. John Hope Franklin and Adelaide M. Cromwell

ASALH is proud to offer for sale a DVD of Professors John Hope Franklin and Adelaide M. Cromwell reflecting on the life and times of Carter G. Woodson. Filmed at ASALH's 91st annual conference, the nearly 2 hour recording provides not only insight on the life of Woodson, but also on their own lives in the 1930's and 1940's.

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Carter G. Woodson Woodson Scholars Medallion

The Association for the Study of African American Life and History, founded by Dr. Carter G. Woodson in 1915, inaugurated the Carter Godwin Woodson Scholars Medallion in 1993. The 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. The recipient’s career must have personified the Woodson legacy to ensure a firm foundation for the continuance of African-centered education through dedication and commitment to African American history. Dr. Woodson devoted his entire life and resources to chronicling African American history.

The Woodson Medallion symbolizes excellence in research, writing, scholarship and achievement in African American culture, life and history. The person selected must be a trained scholar and must have made a contribution to the Association for the Study of African American Life and History. In the Woodson tradition, the recipient must have published in the field of African American life and history, continuing to correct the deficiencies in American history where African American history is misinterpreted or distorted.

DR. DAVID LEVERING LEWIS

Pulitzer Prize winning historian was born on May 25, 1936, in Little Rock, Arkansas. Lewis’s father, Yale educated theologian John Henry Lewis, Sr., was the principal of Paul Laurence Dunbar High School and his mother was a high school math teacher. After attending parochial school in Little Rock, Lewis went to Wilberforce Preparatory School and Xenia High School, both in Ohio. Moving to Atlanta, Georgia, Lewis attended Booker T. Washington High School until he was admitted to Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, on a four year Ford Foundation Early Entrants scholarship. Graduating Phi Beta Kappa from Fisk University in 1956, Lewis then attended the University of Michigan Law School, but eventually earned his M.A. degree in history from Columbia University in 1959. Lewis earned his Ph.D. degree in modern European and French history from the London School of Economics and Political Science in 1962.

After serving in the United States Army, Lewis lectured on medieval history at the University of Ghana in 1963. Lewis taught at Howard University, Cornell University, the University of Notre Dame, Harvard University, and the University of California, San Diego, before joining Rutgers University in 1985 as the Martin Luther King, Jr., Professor of History. In 2003, Lewis was appointed Julius Silver University Professor and Professor of History at New York University.

Winner of two Pulitzer Prizes for his biographies of W.E.B. DuBois, Lewis also won the Bancroft Prize and the Francis Parkman Prize. Lewis has received fellowships from multiple organizations and foundations, is a former president of the Society of American Historians (2002-2003), and serves on the board of the NAACP’s The Crisis magazine.

Dr. Levering Lewis’ works include Prisoners of Honor: The Dreyfus Affair (1975) King: A Critical Biography (rev. ed. 1978), When Harlem Was in Vogue (rev. ed. 1994), The Race to Fashoda: European Colonialism and African Resistance in the Scramble for Africa (rev. ed. 1994), W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919 (1993), W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963 (2000), and God’s Crucible: Islam and the Making of Europe, 570-1215 (2008).

Executive Council Awards for Special Recognition

The Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) established the Council Award for Special Recognition in 2008 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. Awardees demonstrate a history of support for activities and programs consistent with ASALH’s mission, which may include funding, support of annual events and support of special initiatives, and have made noteworthy accomplishments or contributions to the documentation, preservation and accurate dissemination of the Black experience through teaching, service, research, scholarship and publishing.

DR. DARYL MICHAEL SCOTT

ASALH National President, Dr. Daryl Michael Scott, is professor of History at Howard University, where he served as chair of the department from 2005-2009.

Born and raised on the south side of Chicago, Scott’s coming of age was during the Civil Rights movement and the Black Power era. After serving in the U.S. Army, he attended Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, earning a bachelor’s degree, followed by a doctorate in History from Stanford University. His teaching career includes appointments at Columbia University in New York City and as Director of African American Studies at the University of Florida at Gainesville. Scott is the recipient of four fellowships including the Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship for Minority Scholars and the Carter G. Woodson Institute Fellowship. His honors include ASALH’s Mary McLeod Bethune Service Award, the Ralph Metcalf Mini-Chair at Marquette University, and a Scholar-in-Residence at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

His published works include Contempt and Pity: Social Science and the Image of the Damaged Black Psyche, 1880-1996, which won the Organization of American Historians’ James Rawley Prize for best work on race relations. He is editor of The Mis-Education of the Negro, Carter G. Woodson’s Appeal, and a newly published edition of Edwin B. Henderson’s The Negro in Sports, all of which are published by the ASALH Press. He is currently working on a history of white nationalism in the American South from 1865-1965 entitled, The Lost World of White Nationalism

While Scott is a member of many associations, he is ﬁrst and foremost a member of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH). He has served on its Board since 2003. Scott’s contributions to ASALH include The Woodson Review: ASALH’s Annual Theme Magazine, establishment of The ASALH Press, transformation of the Black History Bulletin, and efforts to take ASALH’s scholarly publications into the digital age. Teaming with Marilyn-Thomas Houston, Scott co-founded and serves as co-editor of the peer-reviewed scholarly publication Fire!!!: The Multi-Media Journal of Black Studies.

Scott makes his home in Prince George’s County, Maryland.

As he leads ASALH through its Centennial year, his mantra is “A people without institutions is not long to remain a people and will become whatever others will have them be.”

Executive Council Awards for Special Recognition

DR. SHEILA FLEMMING-HUNTER

A Ph.D. in African and African American History, Sheila Flemming-Hunter has served in the professoriate at several universities including Bethune-Cookman University, University of Texas, University of Maryland and Clark Atlanta University. She spent most of her years in the academy as historian, dean and vice president. As professor her goal is to empower students to see the world as a continuum of humanity and to encourage them to ﬁnd their niche in it. She is author of Bethune-Cookman College 1904-1994: The Answered Prayer to a Dream and she has contributed articles on Nelson Mandela and Mary McLeod Bethune 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.

Flemming-Hunter is also an entrepreneur. In 2006, she and her husband, Robert, established Immeasurable Favor, LLC (“IF”). A limited liability company, “IF” was established in Memphis, TN and until November 2010 did business as “Right at Home in Home Care and Assistance” (RAH). Their company was among the top twenty of 300 RAH franchises in America that provided homemaker, companion and personal support services for mostly elderly and disabled people in their homes. The business grew to include more than eighty employees and nearly as many clients. The franchise was sold in 2010 at a 500% rate of return on the original investment.

An innovative and creative thinker, Flemming-Hunter has been a consultant and has many years of volunteer experience collaborating and working with local, national and international organizations on international education, race relations, women and children’s issues, strategic planning, and capacity building. She was a leader of the Daytona Beach, Florida Chapter of the United Nations Association and she was a consultant for the acclaimed PBS ﬁlm made in Senegal, West Africa, “Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Dr. John Hope Franklin: Race and Reconciliation in the 21st Century.” Sheila served on national boards of the United Methodist Church as staff and volunteer and she is a member of the Virtual Library Project Advisory Committee of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation. Past National President of ASALH, she is currently the Chair of its National Centennial Commission. In addition, she was the Circle Leader for the Memphis Cares Mentoring Movement, an afﬁliate of the National Cares Mentoring Movement founded by Susan Taylor. She is Vice Chair of the National Park Service Advisory Commission for the Mary McLeod Bethune National Council House Historic Site, Washington, D.C.

A resident of Atlanta, Georgia, Flemming-Hunter is a global citizen having traveled to every continent with the exception of Australia. She aspires to continue to work to improve the lives of others, thereby making the world a better place.

The John Hope Franklin Award

The year 2015 marks the centennial of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History and the centennial of the birthdate of the historian John Hope Franklin (1915-2009). In the second half of the twentieth century, Franklin, more than any other scholar, is noted for bringing African American history into the mainstream of American history. Indeed Franklin is unparalleled in carrying forward the legacy of ASALH’s founder Carter G. Woodson (1875-1950). A scholar-activist like Woodson, Franklin wrote history, as well as made history through his leadership in the academy and its professional organizations, through his service to the cause of racial equality, and through his mentorship of younger scholars. In his autobiography Mirror to America (2006), Franklin wrote: “All of us should reﬂect on the role African Americans have played in compelling this country to live up to its professed ideals.” In this regard, ASALH honors an individual whose writings, combined with actions of courage, sacrifice, and struggle, have served, according to Franklin, “to force a confrontation between the values the nation likes to profess and its stark failure to adhere to them.” ASALH bestows the John Hope Franklin Centennial Award upon civil rights champion and present congressman John Lewis, whose life truly exemplifies a “mirror to America.”

THE HONORABLE JOHN LEWIS

Often called “one of the most courageous persons the Civil Rights Movement ever produced,” Congressman John Lewis has dedicated his life to protecting human rights, securing civil liberties, and building what he calls “The Beloved Community” in America. His dedication to the highest ethical standards and moral principles has won him the admiration of many of his colleagues on both sides of the aisle in the United States Congress.

He was born the son of sharecroppers on February 21, 1940, outside of Troy, Alabama. He grew up on his family’s farm and attended segregated public schools in Pike County, Alabama. As a young boy, he was inspired by the activism surrounding the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the words of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., which he heard on radio broadcasts. In those pivotal moments, he made a decision to become a part of the Civil Rights Movement. Ever since then, he has remained at the vanguard of progressive social movements and the human rights struggle in the United States.

As a student at Fisk University, Lewis organized sit-in demonstrations at segregated lunch counters in Nashville, Tennessee. In 1961, he volunteered to participate in the Freedom Rides, which challenged segregation at interstate bus terminals across the South. Lewis risked his life on those Rides many times by simply sitting in seats reserved for white patrons and was arrested by police for challenging the injustice of Jim Crow segregation in the South.

During the height of the Movement, from 1963 to 1966, Lewis was named Chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), which he helped form. At the age of 23, he was an architect of and a keynote speaker at the historic March on Washington in August 1963.

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The John Hope Franklin Award

In 1964, John Lewis coordinated SNCC efforts to organize voter registration drives and community action programs during the Mississippi Freedom Summer. The following year, Lewis helped spearhead one of the most seminal moments of the Civil Rights Movement. Hosea Williams, another notable Civil Rights leader, and John Lewis led over 600 peaceful, orderly protestors across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama on March 7, 1965 where they were attacked by Alabama state troopers in a brutal confrontation that became known as “Bloody Sunday.” News broadcasts and photographs revealing the senseless cruelty of the segregated South helped hasten the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Despite more than 40 arrests, physical attacks and serious injuries, Lewis remained a devoted advocate of the philosophy of nonviolence. After leaving SNCC in 1966, he continued his commitment to the Civil Rights Movement as Associate Director of the Field Foundation and his participation in the Southern Regional Council’s voter registration programs. In 1977, John Lewis was appointed by President Jimmy Carter to direct more than 250,000 volunteers of ACTION, the federal volunteer agency.

In 1981, he was elected to the Atlanta City Council. He was elected to Congress in November 1986 and has served as U.S. Representative of Georgia’s Fifth Congressional District since then. He is Senior Chief Deputy Whip for the Democratic Party in leadership in the House, a member of the House Ways & Means Committee, a member of its Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support, and Ranking Member of its Subcommittee on Oversight.

Lewis holds a B.A. in Religion and Philosophy from Fisk University, and he is a graduate of the American Baptist Theological Seminary, both in Nashville, Tennessee. He has been awarded over 50 honorary degrees from prestigious colleges and universities throughout the United States, and is the recipient of numerous awards from eminent national and international institutions, including the highest civilian honor granted by President Barack Obama, the Medal of Freedom.

Lewis is the co-author of The New York Times bestselling graphic novel memoir trilogy “MARCH.” His other works include Across That Bridge: Life Lessons and a Vision for Change. His biography with co-author Michael D’Orso is entitled Walking With The Wind: A Memoir of the Movement. He is also the subject of two other books, Freedom Riders: John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the Front Lines of the Civil Rights Movement by Ann Bausum and John Lewis in the Lead by Jim Haskins and Kathleen Benson.

We extend our sincere thanks and admiration to Charles Bibbs, our Artist-inResidence, who has contributed his talent and passion for art to ASALH for many years.

“Marching in the Spirit” ASALH Centennial Gicleé by Charles Bibbs

Charles Bibbs is an accomplished Fine Artist, entrepreneur and philanthropist that has always believed that we are the keepers of our culture, and as such, has spent much of his time working towards developing a cohesive, energized African American Community. Bibbs’ artwork manages to fuse African American and Native American cultural themes that make powerful cross cultural statements. His work is thought provoking and capable of arousing strong emotions that cross ethnic, gender and generational barriers. His artistic renderings convey a deep sense of spirituality, majesty, dignity, strength and grace – a distinctive style drawn from his ethnic heritage.

Comments are often made about the larger-than-life appearance of Bibbs’ work. The artist himself notes, “A lot of artists paint from different vantage points in reality. Some paint from the top looking down; others from straight on. I have a tendency to paint as if I’m looking up. That has always been my viewpoint on life -- from the bottom up.” This viewpoint has lead to the exaggerated hands, feet, and height of Bibbs’ characters – features which have become trademarks of his work.

Bibbs states, “My most important goal is to make profound aesthetic statements, that are ethnically rooted, and at the same time arouse spiritual emotions within us.”

Bibbs has also founded a number of organizations and businesses to help in the growth of African American artistic expression such as: Art 2000, Art on Tour, Images Magazine and the Inland Empire Music and Arts Foundation. His own corporation, B Graphics and Fine Arts, Inc., is recognized as one of the leading publishers and distributors of beautiful African American images.

If there is one thing that the Moreno Valley, CA artist wants to convey to viewers of his work, it is that each of his paintings is a reﬂection of themselves. “I want them to realize that each piece of art is about them. It’s about the deep inner feelings of one person being pictured in a way that touches you.”

Centennial Poet Laureate

SONIA SANCHEZ

Poet. Mother. Professor. National and International lecturer on Black Culture and Literature, Women’s Liberation, Peace and Racial Justice. Sponsor of Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom. Board Member of MADRE.

Sonia Sanchez is the author of over 20 books including Homecoming, We a BaddDDD People, Love Poems, I’ve Been a Woman, A Sound Investment and Other Stories, Homegirls and Handgrenades, Under a Soprano Sky, Wounded in the House of a Friend, Does Your House Have Lions? Like the Singing Coming off the Drums, Shake Loose My Skin, and, most recently, Morning Haiku (2010). In addition to being a contributing editor to Black Scholar and The Journal of African Studies, she has edited an anthology, We Be Word Sorcerers: 25 Stories by Black Americans. BMA: The Sonia Sanchez Literary Review is the ﬁrst African American Journal that discusses the work of Sonia Sanchez and the Black Arts Movement.

A recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts, the Lucretia Mott Award for 1984, the Outstanding Arts Award from the Pennsylvania Coalition of 100 Black Women, the Community Service Award from the National Black Caucus of State Legislators, she is a winner of the 1985 American Book Award for Homegirls and Handgrenades, the Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Humanities for 1988, the Peace and Freedom Award from Women International League for Peace and Freedom (W.I.L.P.F.) for 1989, a PEW Fellowship in the Arts for 1992-1993 and the recipient of Langston Hughes Poetry Award for 1999. Does Your House Have Lions? was a ﬁnalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.

She is the Poetry Society of America’s 2001 Robert Frost Medalist and a Ford Freedom Scholar from the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History. Her poetry also appeared in the movie Love Jones. Sonia Sanchez has lectured at over 500 universities and colleges in the United States and has traveled extensively, reading her poetry in multiple countries across the glob. She was the ﬁrst Presidential Fellow at Temple University and she held the Laura Carnell Chair in English at Temple University. She is the recipient of the Harper Lee Award, 2004 Alabama Distinguished Writer, and the National Visionary Leadership Award for 2006. She is the recipient of the 2005 Leeway Foundation Transformational Award and the 2009 Robert Creeley Award. Currently, Sonia Sanchez is one of 20 African American women featured in “Freedom Sisters,” an interactive traveling exhibition created by the Cincinnati Museum Center and the Smithsonian Institution. In December of 2011, Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter selected Sonia Sanchez as Philadelphia’s ﬁrst Poet Laureate, calling her “the longtime conscience of the city.”

Past Award Recipients

Carter G. Woodson Scholars Medallion

Living Legacy Award Recipients

2012

Denise Rolark Barnes

Brigadier General Barbaranette T. Bolden

Beverly Bond

Roslyn Brock

Lavern Chatman Brown

Peggy Cooper Cafritz

Ambassador 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

E. Strickland

Mary Frances Berry Edna Chappell McKenzie

Bettye Collier-Thomas

Darlene Clark Hine

Jr.

Paula Whetsel-Ribeau

Tracey Webb

Lynn Whitfield

Mary Frances Berry, PhD

Camille Billops

Roslyn M. Brock

Pauletta Brown Bracy, PhD

Minnijean Brown Trickey

Queen Quet Marquetta L. Goodwine

Eloise Greenfield

Antoinette Harrell

Olivia Hooker, PhD

Lyn Hughes, EdD

Dorothy Jones

Cheryl L. Knox

Latoya Lucas

Naomi Long Madgett

Margaret Moore, PhD

Mary Moultrie

Newatha Myers

Consolee Nishimwe

Florence Tate

Najmah Thomas, PhD

Camilla P. Thompson

2014

Dr. Charlene M. Dukes

The Honorable Patsy Jo Hilliard

Bell Hooks

Freeman A. Hrabowski, III

Velma Lois Jones

Wyman O. Jones, Sr

Joyce Ladner

Dr. LaSalle D. Leffall, Jr

Reginald L. Weaver

Raymond A. Winbush

2015

Dr. Arnold L. Mitchem

Mr. Reginald Van Lee

Mr. Myron A. Gray

Rev. Dr. Jonathan L. Weaver

Mr. Robert G. Stanton

The Honorable James E. Clyburn

The W.K. Kellogg Foundation (WKKF)

The Honorable James E. Clyburn

Mary McLeod Bethune Service Award

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

2002

Madlyn Calbert

Rev. William E. Calbert

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

2012

Janet Sims-Wood

2014

Barbara Spencer Dunn

ASALH Celebrates Its Founding

September 9, 1915 - September 9, 2015

ASALH Centennial President Daryl Michael Scott, Darlene Clark Hine, Northwestern University, and Timuel Black, Chicago Historian.

ASALH Chicago Branch President Lionel Kimble and Centennial President Daryl Michael Scott outside the ASALH birthplace, the Chicago Wabash Avenue YMCA.

The plaque that was unveiled at ASALH’s birthplace, The Wasbash YMCA in Chicago, on the occasion of the 100th Anniversary of ASALH.

Branch Awards 2015

BRANCHES THAT HAVE MADE A $600 CONTRIBUTION OR MORE

Manasota Branch, Sarasota, FL – $1,500

Bethel Dukes Branch, Washington, DC - $615

Carter G. Woodson Branch, Washington, DC - $600

Edna McKenzie Branch, Pittsburgh, PA - $600

Martha’s Vineyard Branch, Martha’s Vineyard, MA - $600

Phila-Montco Branch, Philadelphia, PA - $600

Prince George’s County Truth Branch, Prince George’s County, MD – $600

Tampa Bay Branch, Tampa Bay. FL - $600

The James Weldon Johnson Branch, Jacksonville, FL - $600

BRANCH WITH LARGEST NUMBER OF LIFE MEMBERS

Chicago Branch (25)

THE LARGEST NUMBER OF SUSTAINING LIFE MEMBERS

Roland McConnell Branch (2) Bronx Branch (1)

Paul Laurence Dunbar Branch (2) Samuel L. Banks Branch (1)

LARGEST NUMBER OF ACTIVE MEMBERS (percent

based)

Manasota Branch (141)

OUTSTANDING BRANCH PROGRAM AWARD

Carter G. Woodson

Charleston Chicago Detroit

Edna McKenzie

Hampton Roads

James Weldon Johnson

Kansas City Organizing

Manasota

Martha’s Vineyard

Paul Laurence Dunbar

Phila-Montco

Philadelphia Heritage

Tampa Bay

OUTSTANDING YOUTH PROGRAMMING AWARD

Carter G. Woodson Branch

Edna McKenzie Branch

Hampton Roads

James Weldon Johnson

Manasota

Paul Laurence Dunbar Branch

Philadelphia Heritage Branch

Tampa Bay Branch

OUTSTANDING COLLABORATIVE PROGRAMMING AWARD

Phila-Montco Branch and Philadelphia Heritage Branch, Philadelphia, PA

Roland McConnell, Julian and Samuel L. Banks Branches, Baltimore City, MD

2015 Branch Presidents

Leontyne Middleton

ASALH of Tampa Bay St. Petersburg, FL

Janet Sims-Wood

Bethel Dukes Branch of ASALH Washington, D.C.

Dena Robins

Bronx Branch of ASALH Bronx, NY

Elnora E. Lewis

Carter G Woodson Branch of ASALH Washington, D.C.

Jamon Jordan

Detroit Branch of ASALH Detroit, MI

Audrey Williams

Hampton Roads Branch of ASALH Hampton, VA

Natalie Howard C. Delores Tucker Legacy Branch Washington, DC

Lionel Kimble Chicago Branch Chicago, IL

June Dowdy Dr. Edna McKenzie Branch of ASALH Pittsburgh, PA

Clarence Christian

Interest Group of Memphis Memphis, TN

2015 Branch Presidents

Anita C. Shepherd

Jacksonville (James Weldon Johnson) Branch of ASALH Jacksonville, FL

LaVerne Johnson

Julian Branch of ASALH Baltimore County, MD

Irene Johnson-Loftin

Louisa Branch of ASALH Spotsylvania, VA

Dennis Robinson

Organizing Kansas City Branch Kansas City, MO

Mark Jackson

Manasota Branch of ASALH Manasota, FL

Moses Massenburg

Organizing Atlanta Branch Atlanta, GA

Dorothy Green

Martha’s Vineyard Branch of ASALH

Martha’s Vineyard, MA

Regina Williams

Organizing Charleston

Area Friends of ASALH Charleston, SC

2015 Branch Presidents

Jacqueline Hubbard

Organizing St. Petersburg Branch of ASALH St. Petersburg, FL

Ernestine J. Gordon

Our Authors Study Club Branch of ASALH Los Angeles, CA

Greer Stanford-Randle

Paul Laurence Dunbar Branch at Dayton Ohio Dayton, OH

Dorothy Bailey

PG County Truth Branch of ASALH Prince Georges County, MD

Regina R. Vaughn

Philadelphia Heritage Branch Philadelphia, PA

Andre Lee

Roland McConnell Branch of ASALH Baltimore, MD

Patrica Whitmire

Philamontco Branch of ASALH Philadelphia Metro, PA

Bernice Musgrave

Sullivan County Branch of ASALH Sullivan County, NY

Merrill Smith

Van McCoy Branch of ASALH Prince Georges County, MD

Journal of African American History

Congratulations on your 10th anniversary as editors! Congratulations to Our Editors

Congratulations on 13 years and the recent publication of the Centennial Volume!

Congratulations on providing a new and exciting form of scholarship!

Daryl Scott

Alicia Moore

Marilyn Thomas Houston

LaVonne Neal

V.P. Franklin

Centennial Leadership

Daryl Scott, President, ASALH

Sylvia Cyrus, Executive Director, ASALH

Sheila Flemming-Hunter, Chair, ASALH National Centennial Committee

Cornelius Bynum Co-Chair, ASALH Centennial Academic Program

Lionel Kimble Co-Chair, ASALH Centennial Academic Program

Akinyele Umoja Chair, ASALH Local Arrangements Committee

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1. Buffalo Soldiers Army 10th Calvary Regiment

2. Frederick Douglass

3. Children of Arkansas Sharecroppers

4. Mary McLeod Bethune

5. Booker T. Washington

6. Langston Hughes

7. Zora Neale Hurston

8. W. E. B. DuBois

9. John Hope Franklin

10. Jesse Owens

11. Josephine Baker

12. Joe Lewis

13. Ida B. Wells

14. Tuskegee Airmen

15. Sharecropper families in Arkansas

16. Countee Cullen

17. Claude McKay

18. Alice Dunbar Nelson

19. Paul Laurence Dunbar

20. Arkansas Sharecropper Family

21. Sharecropper

22. Carter G. Woodson

23. African Tribe

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1. Althea Gibson

2. Negro Baseball League

3. Serena and Venus Williams

4. Jackie Joyner Kersee

5. Wyomia Tyus

6. Tommie Smith & John Carlos @ 1968 Olympics in Mexico

7. Mary Todd Bridges

8. Barbara Jordan

9. Fannie Lou Hamer

10. Henry Louis Gates

11. Shirley Chisholm

12. John Lewis

13. Michael Jackson

14. Isley Brothers

15. Gil Scott-Heron

16. Phyllis Hyman

17. Lionel Hampton

18. Nancy Wilson

19. Gwendolyn Brooks

20. Jean-Michel Basquiat

21. Stevie Wonder

22. Janet Jackson

23. James Brown

24. President & Mrs. Barack Obama & Family

25. Florence Griffith Joyner

26. Willie Mays

27. Wilma Rudolph

28. Tiger Woods

29. Medgar Evers

Standing in the Need

Culture, Comfort, and Coming Home after Katrina

by katherine e. browne

This eloquent, in-depth account of an extended African American family’s grueling eight-year recovery from Katrina demonstrates how greater cultural understanding would enable disaster recovery.

Is This America?

Katrina as Cultural Trauma by ron

eyerman

Using cultural trauma theory, this book explores how a wide range of media and popular culture producers have challenged the meaning of Katrina, in which the massive failure of government officials to uphold the American social contract exposed the foundational racial cleavage in our society.

Left to Chance

Hurricane Katrina and the Story of Two New Orleans Neighborhoods by steve kroll-smith, vern baxter, and pam jenkins

With vivid, firsthand accounts that illuminate the immediate, mid-range, and long-term effects of an unmitigated disaster, this book describes how the residents of two African American neighborhoods have experienced Katrina and the long road to recovery.

Children of Katrina

by alice fothergill and lori peek

Following the lives of seven representative children and teens over several years, this engrossing book offers one of the only long-term studies of how children experience disasters and the personal and structural factors that aid or hinder their recovery.

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We Could Not Fail

The First African Americans in the Space Program by richard paul and steven moss

Profiling ten pioneer African American space workers, including technicians, mathematicians, engineers, and an astronaut candidate, this book tells an inspiring, largely unknown story of how the space program served as a launching pad for a more integrated America.

$30.00 hardcover

Race on the QT

Blackness and the Films of Quentin Tarantino by

adilifu nama

Asserting that race has been the cornerstone of most of Quentin Tarantino’s films, this book uncovers the racial politics, progressive and regressive, hidden on the “QT” in the director’s work from Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction to Inglourious Basterds and Django Unchained. $22.95 paperback

The Color of Love

Racial Features, Stigma, Socialization in Black Brazilian Families by elizabeth

hordge-freeman

Drawing on more than one hundred interviews and observations within ten core families, this study of intimate relationships as sites of racial socialization reveals a new facet of race-based differential treatment and its origins—and the mechanisms that perpetuate these strata across generations. $29.95 paperback

The Jemima Code

Two Centuries of African American Cookbooks by toni tipton-martin

forewords by john egerton and barbara haber

Showcasing one of the world’s largest private collections of African American cookbooks, ranging from rare nineteenth-century texts to modern classics by Edna Lewis and Vertamae Grosvenor, this lavishly illustrated collection speaks volumes about America’s food culture.

Cuban Underground Hip Hop

Black Thoughts, Black Revolution, Black Modernity by tanya l. saunders

Drawing on over a decade of interviews and research, this fascinating book examines a group of self-described antiracist, revolutionary Cuban youth who used hip hop to launch a social movement that spurred international debate and cleared the path for social change and decolonization.

$29.95 paperback

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American Pop Culture and Black Superheroes by adilifu nama

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Lynched

The Victims of Southern Mob Violence

Amy Kate Bailey and Stewart E. Tolnay

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Suffering and Sunset

World War I in the Art and Life of Horace Pippin

Celeste-Marie Bernier

A majestic biography of the pioneering African American artist

NOVEMBER 2015

The Audacity of Hoop

Basketball and the Age of Obama

Alexander Wolff

The influence Barack Obama has had on basketball and vice versa, in essays and photographs

NOVEMBER 2015

A Guilted Age

Apologies for the Past

Ashraf H. A. Rushdy

The study and meaning of public apologies that have become frequent in the contemporary world

NOVEMBER 2015

Un-American

W.E.B. Du Bois and the Century of World Revolution

Bill V. Mullen

A political biography that presents W.E.B. Du Bois as a life-long global revolutionary, not simply an African American reformer

OCTOBER 2015

The Parker Sisters

A Border Kidnapping

Lucy Maddox

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Upon the Ruins of Liberty

Slavery, the President’s House at Independence

National Historical Park, and Public Memory

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Melanie E. L. Bush and Roderick D. Bush

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Tasting Freedom

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Black Americans and the End of Slavery

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The AfricAn A mericAn episcopAl hisToricAl collecTion

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Preserving the legacy of black Episcopalians in personal papers, parish histories, organizational records, photographs, videos, and publications

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Travel reimbursement grants are available to individuals who would like to use the AAEHC for research. Faculty, graduate students, undergraduates, independent researchers, and Episcopal clergy and laypersons are encouraged to apply. Funds may be used for transportation, meals, lodging, photocopying, and other research costs.

A brief sampling of the collection’s strengths:

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• The history of the Bishop Payne Divinity School that educated African Americans for the priesthood during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

• The editing of the Lift Every Voice and Sing hymnal

• The work of artist Allan Rohan Crite

• The Episcopal Society for Cultural and Racial Unity

• The contributions of various individuals to the Episcopal Church, such as The Rt. Rev. John Thomas Walker, The Rt. Rev. Walter Decoster Dennis, Ms. Verna Dozier, The Rev. Canon Harold T. Lewis, The Rev. Canon Thomas W. S. Logan, Sr., and Canon Diane Porter.

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The Lapidus Center is now accepting applications for its 2016-2017 fellowship programs.

Long-term fellowships are open to post-doctoral scholars studying the slave trade, slavery, and anti-slavery in the Atlantic World. Recipients will spend six months in residence at the Schomburg Center with a stipend of $30,000. Fellows must devote full time to their research projects and participate in the intellectual life of the Program.

S hort-term fellowships support visiting scholars from outside the New York metropolitan area. The Program is open to doctoral students, post-doctoral scholars, and independent researchers studying the slave trade, slavery, abolition, and anti-slavery in the Atlantic World. Fellowships are awarded for continuous periods of three months with a stipend of $6,000.

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AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN CHEMISTS

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Jeannette Brown, an African American woman chemist herself, presents a wide-ranging historical introduction to the relatively new presence of African American women in the field of chemistry. Her book details their struggles to obtain an education and their efforts to succeed in a field in which there were few African American men, much less African American women.

Brown is a former Faculty Associate at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. She is the 2004 Societe de Chimie lndustrielle (American Section) Fellow of the Chemical Heritage Foundation, and consistently lectures on African American women in chemistry.

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Whither the Black Press? is a well written, interpretive historical account of African American newspapers and their struggle for survival against the backdrop of hegemonic political, social and economic forces. It brings perspective and understanding of how a venerable African American institution journeyed through a glorious past into an uncertain future.

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Dr. Shalei Simms (our 1,000th minority business professor), Dr. Belinda Shipps (Dr. Triple), Dr. Alisa Mosley (our first PhD Project professor) and Dr. Alisha Malloy (Dr. Double). Together, we’ve succeeded in more than quadrupling the number of minority business professors in the US from 294 in 1994 to over 1,290 today.

The PhD Project Celebrating 20+ Years of Success. Congratulations to ASALH on your Centennial!

The PhD Project is dedicated to increasing minority representation in the business world by supporting African-Americans, Hispanic-Americans and Native Americans in becoming business professors who will mentor and motivate tomorrow’s business leaders. When we started in 1994, there were only 294 minority business professors in the United States. Today, we are proud to report that number has more than quadrupled to more than 1,290 and is increasing every day principally through our efforts.

Each year we bring together the brightest minds in business and academe. Our Annual conference serves as a forum for support and transformation by convening doctoral candidates, business schools, professors, and funders—all in one place. And, our Summer conferences bring together minority doctoral students, faculty members and leading academics to provide resources and support for our students to keep them on the path to their Ph.D.

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The lives of African Americans have been profoundly shaped by the era of slavery, the era of racial terror that continued from the end of Reconstruction until World War II, the era of Jim Crow and racial apartheid that produced the civil rights movement, and now the era of mass incarceration. Too often we have appropriately celebrated black achievement and triumph in the face of these obstacles without exploring the very difficult reality of racial inequality and subordination.

EJI believes a deeper understanding of this history is necessary for us to achieve the truth and reconciliation that overcoming historic injustice requires.

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Black Music Research Journal

Gayle Murchison

Official Journal of the Center for Black Music Research

Begun in 1980, Black Music Research Journal is published in the spring and fall of each year and includes articles about the philosophy, aesthetics, history, and criticism of black music. BMRJ is an official journal of the Center for Black Music Research and is available by subscription and as a benefit of membership in CBMR.

Ethnomusicology

Ellen Koskoff

Official Journal of the Society for Ethnomusicology

Ethnomusicology is the premier publication in the field. Its scholarly articles represent current theoretical perspectives and research in ethnomusicology and related fields, while playing a central role in expanding the discipline in the United States and abroad. As the official journal of the Society for Ethnomusicology, Ethnomusicology is aimed at a diverse audience of musicologists, anthropologists, folklorists, cultural studies scholars, musicians, and others, this inclusive journal also features book, recording, film, video, and multimedia reviews. Peer-reviewed by the Society’s international membership, Ethnomusicology has been published three times a year since the 1950s.

Journal of American Ethnic History

John J. Bukowczyk

The Official Journal of the Immigration & Ethnic History Society

The Journal of American Ethnic History addresses various aspects of North American immigration history and American ethnic history, including background of emigration, ethnic and racial groups, Native Americans, race and ethnic relations, immigration policies, and the processes of incorporation, integration, and acculturation. Each issue contains articles, review essays, and single book reviews. The Journal also features occasional scholarly forums, “Research Comments” (short essays that furnish important information for the field, a guide to further research, or other significant historical items that will stimulate discussion and inquiry), and “Teaching and Outreach” essays which focus on innovative teaching methods or outreach efforts. The Journal also publishes special issues grouping articles and essays on particular or specific topics or themes

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Journal of American Folklore

Ann K. Ferrell (editor-in-chief), Erika Brady (co-editor)

Quarterly Journal of the American Folklore Society

Journal of American Folklore, the quarterly journal of the American Folklore Society since the Society’s founding in 1888, publishes scholarly articles, essays, notes, and commentaries directed to a wide audience, as well as separate sections devoted to reviews of books, exhibitions and events, sound recordings, film and videotapes, and to obituaries. The contents of the Journal reflect a wide range of professional concerns and theoretical orientations. Articles present significant research findings and theoretical analyses from folklore and related fields. Essays are interpretive, speculative, or polemic. Notes are narrower in scope and focus on a single, often provocative, issue of definition, interpretation, or amplication.

Journal of Civil and Human Rights

Michael Ezra

The Journal of Civil and Human Rights is a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary, academic journal dedicated to studying modern U.S.-based social justice movements and freedom struggles, including transnational ones, and their antecedents, influence, and legacies. The Journal features research-based articles, interviews, editorials, and reviews of books, films, museum exhibits, and websites.

JCHR is published with the support of Sonoma State University.

Women Gender and Families of Color

Jennifer Hamer

Women, Gender, and Families of Color is a multidisciplinary journal that centers on the study of Black, Latina, Indigenous, and Asian American women, gender, and families. Within this framework, the Journal encourages theoretical and empirical research from history, the social and behavioral sciences, and humanities including comparative and transnational research, and analyses of domestic social, political, economic, and cultural policies and practices within the United States.

Women, Gender, and Families of Color is published in partnership with the Department of American Studies at the University of Kansas.

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Word Warrior

Richard Durham, Radio, and Freedom

Sonja D. Williams

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Funk the Erotic Transaesthetics and Black Sexual Cultures

L. H. Stallings

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Humane Insight

Looking at Images of African American Suffering and Death

Courtney R. Baker

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Spatializing Blackness

Architectures of Confinement and Black Masculinity in Chicago

Rashad Shabazz

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Grounds of Engagement

Apartheid-Era African American and South African Writing

Stéphane Robolin

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Painting the Gospel

Black Public Art and Religion in Chicago

Kymberly N. Pinder

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Daisy Turner’s Kin

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Jane C. Beck

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Bill V. Mullen

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African Americans in U.S. Foreign Policy

Hoedowns, Reels, and Frolics

Roots and Branches of Southern Appalachian Dance

Phil Jamison

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The Mormon Church and Blacks

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Jermaine Singleton

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Isar P. Godreau

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Global Studies of the United States

This Is Not Dixie

Racist Violence in Kansas, 1861–1927

Brent M. S. Campney

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Contemporary Plays by African American Women

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Robert M. Marovich

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Jean E. Snyder

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Brazil and the Dialectic of Colonization

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Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History

Fighting for Total Person Unionism

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Promises of Feminism

Carolyn Martin Shaw

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Alfredo Bosi

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CONGRATULATIONS TO ASALH ON ITS 100th ANNIVERSARY

On behalf of my colleagues in the W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies I wish the Association both a Happy Anniversary and the best of luck during the next one hundred years.

I have been a part of the activities of the Association in various ways since my days at Lucretia Mott Elementary School and Benjamin Banneker Jr. High School whether subscribing to the Negro History Bulletin or participating in events during Negro History Week. I read my first paper at the annual meeting held at Morgan State College in 1969 and have been an active member ever since. I am proud that Bryan and J.P. Bracey, my two sons, have presented papers at the annual meetings. Bryan also has published reviews in the Journal and a chapter in the volume on hip-hop edited by Derrick Aldridge.

The Association is the home of some of the most brilliant, dedicated, generous and supportive human beings that I have encountered during my years in academe. Though Carter G. Woodson passed on in 1950 his spirit still lives and moves through ASALH.

I would be remiss if I did not mention my mother Helen Harris Bracey who put books in the hands of my sister and me at an early age and told us, "You are never too poor to buy a book". When I was old enough to ask, she told me stories of her encounters with Carter G. Woodson and of his interactions with the faculty at Howard University where she taught. She said of Woodson that if all by yourself you can get a whole week to celebrate Negroes, you had to be pretty smart. I would add that to keep ASALH going for 100 years a lot of people had to be pretty smart.

May the next hundred years be as fruitful as the first hundred.

John H. Bracey, Professor and Chair

W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies University of Massachusetts, Amherst

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“The Genealogy, the Genius, and the Vision of James E. Shepard: 1909-1947” by Henry Lewis Suggs

This essay, which is available at www.hlsuggs.com for $25, is an important contribution to the history and historiography of James E. Shepard and N.C. Central University. The essay represents Henry Suggs’ most scholarly and comprehensive essay ever on NCCU’s history. It is designed to uplift the spirit, image and to highlight the Eagle Nation, Eagle Pride and campus spirit as well.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR / HENRY LEWIS SUGGS

Henry Lewis Suggs is a distinguished and published scholar of American history. His academic concentrations are the American South, African American history, and African American journalism.

He earned his Ph.D. in American history from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia in 1976. His first teaching assignment was at Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, North Carolina. He was WCU's first African American faculty member. He taught at Howard University, Washington, D.C., for a number of years, and later at Clemson University in South Carolina, where he became the second African American faculty member to be promoted to the rank of full professor.

In February 1994, he was selected as the first Dupont Endowed Visiting Chair at Lynchburg College in Virginia. In 1997 he was selected as a W.E.B. Du Bois Scholar at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Dr. Suggs retired as Professor Emeritus of American History from Clemson University in 2003, after which he became scholar-in-residence at North Carolina Central University in Durham.

Dr. Suggs has edited and authored numerous books on African American journalism, and his articles have appeared in many scholarly journals.

Other Works by Henry Lewis Suggs include P.B. Young Newspaperman: Race, Politics, and Journalism In The New South:1910-1962; History of the Black Press of Missouri; The Right Man: James Edward Shepard and The History of NCCU:1875-1947; Cecil Newman and The Minneapolis Spokesman:1919-1985; and The Washingtonian Legacy: A History of Black Republicanism: 1915-1945.

For more information, contact Henry Lewis Suggs at Suggs314@aol.com.

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North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University

The College of Arts & Sciences Department of History

As North Carolina A&T State University celebrates 125 years of "Excellence" and "Aggie Pride" we are proud to congratulate The Association for the Study of African-American Life and History on documenting A Century of Black Life, History, and Culture.

Adrena Ifill Blagburn, CEO and Chief Strategist Cultural Heritage & Communications Strategy

Association for the Study of African American Life and History

90th Annual Black History Luncheon and Featured Authors’ Event

2016 NationalBlackHistoryTheme: Hallowed Grounds: Sites of African American Memory

Saturday, February 20, 2016

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* Contributions of $25 or more will be acknowledged in our program if received by January the 21st print deadline. Purchase tickets, donate and view luncheon updates online at www.asalh.org! NO TICKETS WILL BE MAILED. GUESTS MAY PICK UP TABLE ASSIGNMENTS AT THE REGISTRATION DESK. ATTENTION: Please complete attendee names on the reverse of this document. Be sure to provide complete information.

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Race, Religion, and the Pulpit

Rev. Robert L. Bradby and the Making of Urban Detroit

Julia Marie Robinson

ISBN: 9780814332917

April 2015

$39.99 hardback, 6x9 10 illustrations, 216 pages ebook available!

Details Reverend Bradby’s work during the Great Migration and the interwar period, when his Second Baptist Church became an important hub for Detroit’s African American community

“Robert L. Bradby has long been regarded as a revered religious leader, a strategic political thinker, and a stubbornly enigmatic figure. In this biographical study, Julia Marie Robinson conveys a set of fresh insights on Bradby’s life and times, particularly in her exploration of his Canadian origins and interracial identity as well as the flows of black peoples across the fluid U.S.–Canadian border. Robinson’s volume makes a distinctive contribution to the ongoing debates about Bradby, to the history of Second Baptist, and to our understanding of the intellectual and political histories of religion in black urban life in places like Detroit.”

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Great Lakes Books Series

101st Annual ASALH Conference

October 4-9, 2016

Richmond Marriott Hotel• Richmond, VA

ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF AFRICAN AMERICAN LIFE AND HISTORY

More than 1,500 individuals, community builders, historians, educators, business professionals, and students from across the nation will explore the 2016 National Theme: “Hallowed Grounds: Sites of African American Memory.” A number of events such as a teachers’ workshop, an authors’ book signing, youth day, Black history bus tours, and banquets will bring together a diverse group of people. With more than 200 panels featuring prominent figures in Black cultural studies and scholars from all disciplines and ages, the ASALH convention presents an exciting opportunity for your company or organization to gain visibility and promote your products or projects. Include your social media handles so that we can promote your business at ASALH. For easy and convenient registration, please place your order online. All prices are subject to change.

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Thank teachers in your life

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Teachers submit a proposal

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Proposal voting and submission periods

While you can thank teachers all year long on ThankAmericasTeachers.com, there are di erent proposal submission and voting periods throughout the year.