AAAHRP 2007 Black History Conference
“The Black Experience: Presenting History’s Hidden Pages
(Previously Avoided, Dismissed, Forgotten, Submerged, or Unknown)”
Saturday, February 3, 2007, Seattle University, Seattle, Washington, USA
Honorary Conference Chairperson:
Dr. Tunde Adeleke
AAAHRP is honored that Dr. Tunde Adeleke has accepted the position of Honorary Conference Chairperson for its 2007 Black History Conference. Tunde Adeleke is a native of Nigeria who is presently Professor of History and Director of the African American Studies Program at Iowa State University. He is also affiliated with Iowa State’s Center for American Intercultural Studies where he is helping to develop curricula in intercultural and multicultural education. Prior to joining Iowa State, Dr. Adeleke taught at several institutions including, Ohio State, Loyola (New Orleans), Tulane, North Carolina State and Montana. He has researched and published extensively in such critical areas as Black Nationalism, PanAfricanism, Afrocentricity, Black Biography, and African American identity. He is a scholar of global reputation whose publications have provoked critical acclaim and reviews. He has traveled and lectured extensively in Africa, Europe, North America and Australia. He is listed in Who’s who in American Higher Education and Who’s who in the Humanities. He is also a past President of the Southern Conference on African American Studies.
Keynote Speaker:
Dr. Violet Malone
Violet Marie Malone is Professor, Emeritus, Adult Higher Education in the Woodring College of Education at Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington.
Dr. Malone serves as WWU Faculty liaison for the Community Leadership Advisory Council (CLAC) for the Woodring Council. Her major role is to work with local citizens to connect the College to the community. In this role she served a four year term on the Board of Directors for the Northwest Jazz Alliance. She provided the leadership for an African American Women in Jazz event which featured Marlena Shaw. This was a partnership event with the University and community people. She served as a lead member in the development of a community wide program to provide a strategic plan for the cultural arts through the Bellingham Mayor’s Arts Commission.
Violet Malone earned a PhD in Adult Education from Florida State University and an Advanced Masters in Adult Education from the University of Chicago. She served as the head of the Extension Education Unit at the University of Illinois, UrbanaChampaign from 19721991.
Dr. Malone has spent most of her career working with adults in some phase of transition. She conducts short courses, workshops and seminars on Learning in Adulthood, Changes and Transitions across the Lifespan, Leadership in Community Based Organizations, Voluntary Work, Teaching and Learning in Adulthood. She has conducted experiential learning sessions with men and women in such countries as Sri Lanka, Jordan, Kenya, Zambia, Belize, and several islands of the Caribbean. Dr. Malone has also conducted educational sessions in Canada, the Netherlands, and in every state in the United States.
She is the former President of the Adult Education Association of the USA, and former Chairperson of the National Coalition for Literacy. Her name is listed in Who’s Who in America and Who’s Who, American Woman. She was inducted into the Academy of Creative Teaching, Lucerne, Switzerland.
—In 1999 she was named to the International Hall of Fame for Adult and Continuing Education Society.
—In 2002, she was an invited member to the Oxford University, England Round Table.
—In 2004, she was made a Fellow of the Salzburg Seminars.
—She received a leadership award from the World Association of Case Research and Application at the Argentina conference.
Dr. Malone is active in her community. She was named the Community Woman of the Year by the Puget Sound Chapter, American Business Women Association, and she is a sought presenter on the Western Washington University Speakers Bureau. She is an active member of the Native American Lummi Indian CEDAR Project, Allied Arts, the Whatcom Art Guild, and the Sandy Point Artists Group. She is a former board member of the local YWCA and Past President of the Champaign, IL YWCA. She has served as a board member of the local Volunteer Center and the Pacific Northwest Jazz Alliance.
Violet Malone’s academic background includes four degrees: Elementary Education, Guidance and Counseling, Adult Education and the Ph.D. in Adult Education. She is a native of Chicago, Illinois and resides in Ferndale WA.
Welcome:
Dr. Tunde Adeleke, Honorary Conference Chairperson
Ed Diaz, President, AAAHRP
John Eshelman, Provost, Seattle University
Leonard Garfield, Executive Director, Museum of History and Industry
Larry Gossett, Chair, Metropolitan King County Council
Christine Gregoire, Governor, State of Washington - Video Greeting
Moni T. Law, J.D., Attorney, Seattle, Washington
Dr. Quintard Taylor, Jr., Scott and Dorothy Bullitt Professor of American History, University of Washington
Session Chairs:
Dr. Maurice N. Amutabi, Assistant Professor of History, Department of History, Central Washington University
Dr. Edward J. Blum, Department of History, San Diego State University
Dr. Stephanie Camp, Associate Professor of History, University of Washington
Bonita Carter-Smith, James W. Washington & Janie Rogella Washington Foundation
Dr. Laura Chrisman, Nancy K. Ketcham Professor of English, English Department, University of Washington
Dr. Kalenda C. Eaton, Assistant Professor of English and Ethnic Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Dr. Julia Niebuhr Eulenberg, Visiting Scholar, University of Washington
Moni T. Law, J.D., Attorney, Seattle, Washington
Dr. Julian Madison, Professor, Department of History, Southern Connecticut State University
Glenda J. Pearson, Head, Microforms & Newspaper Collections, University of Washington Libraries
Dr. Leon F. "Skip" Rowland, President, Tabor 100, Seattle, Washington
Garry Schalliol, Director, Outreach Services Division, Washington State Historical Society
Dr. I.M. Spence-Lewis, Consultant Researcher, Marcus Garvey Library, London, England
Jake Sudderth, History Professor, Lower Columbia College
Dr. Michael Washington, Professor of History & Director AfroAmerican Studies, Northern Kentucky University
Papers:
Dr. Maurice N. Amutabi, Assistant Professor of History, Department of History, Central Washington University: “Memory and Nostalgia in AfricanAmerican Identity: The Legacy of 'Africanness' in James Baldwin's Fiction”
Jacqueline Bacon, Independent Scholar, San Diego, California: “‘Useful Knowledge of Every Kind’: Freedom’s Journal, the First African American Newspaper (1827-1829)”
Eric Bargeron, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of South Carolina: “‘We Can Save this Man’s Life’: The Pink Franklin Case and Black Legal Activism in Jim Crow South Carolina”
Dr. Philip Barnard, Associate Professor, English, University of Kansas: “Victor Séjour’s The Count of Haag: Passing in the Paris of Napoleon III”
Regina N. Barnett, Graduate Student, Indiana University Bloomington: “Holla if You Hear Me: The Emergence of the Hip Hop Movement (1980-1984)”
Michele Beverly, Doctoral Student, Department of Communication, Georgia State University: “Watching it Unfold: A Brief History of African American Cinema, Cultural Memory and the Possibilities for Healing”
Dr. David Boers, Professor of Graduate Education, School of Education, Marian College, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin: “What to do with a Liberty Pole: Caroline Quarlis on the Wisconsin Underground Railroad”
Derrick R. Brooms, Ph.D. Candidate, Sociology, Loyola University, Chicago: “Rewriting Slavery in American Memory: Museums and the Cultural Landscape”
Nancy Brown, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of South Carolina: “Making Something From Nothing: The Black Entrepreneurial Spirit In Early 20th Century Columbia, South Carolina”
Brent Campney, Ph.D. Candidate, Institute of the Liberal Arts – American Studies, Emory University: “William Boland Townsend and the Struggle Against Racial Violence In Kansas, 1888-1901”
Ashley Chaifetz, MA, History and Government Teacher, The Beekman School, New York, NY: “Introducing the American Dream: The Community Programs of the Black Panther Party”
Heather D. Clark, Graduate Student, Sociocultural Anthropology, University of Washington: “A Silent History: Giving Voice to the African American Deaf Experience”
Solomon Comissiong, Assistant Director of Student Involvement & Public Relations, Nyumburu Black Cultural Center, University of Maryland and Ricardo Quinteros, University of Maryland Student: “Bringing Historical Balance to U.S. Public Education: Hip Hop's Progressive Pedagogy”
Dr. Diana Cruz, Assistant Professor, Department of English, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts “Women Operating on the Lower Frequencies in Rita Dove's On the Bus with Rosa Parks”
Antonio Cuyler, Doctoral Candidate, College of Visual Arts, Theatre, and Dance, Florida State University: “When Handel Met Soul: Africentricity, Postmodernism, and A Soulful Celebration”
Alexis Poe Davis, Doctoral Candidate, East Carolina University: “Disappearing Acts: Exploring the Legacy of 1947 North Carolina Film Pitch A Boogie Woogie”
Karla Y. Davis, Curator, Givens Collection of African American Literature, University of Minnesota: “A Community/University Collaboration: Bringing the Givens Collection to the University of Minnesota”
Amy Essington, Doctoral Candidate, Claremont Graduate University; History Department Adjunct, California State University, Long Beach: “Integrating the Pacific Coast League: African Americans and Latinos on the Baseball Diamond”
Kristin Gustafson, Ph.D. Student, Department of Communication, University of Washington: “Interacting Systems of Movement Speech and Ethnic Media: Nellie Francis and Minnesota’s Anti-Lynching Law”
Victoria L. Harrison, Lecturer, Southern Illinois University; Doctoral Candidate, Saint Louis University: “Over the Horizon: Conway Barbour and the Search for Opportunity”
Dr. Elizabeth Johnson, Assistant Professor of History, State University of New York Dutchess Community College: “Madam C.J. Walker and Annie Malone: Hair Culturalists for Advancement or Assimilation?”
Dr. Kevin Allen Leonard, Associate Professor, Department of History, Western Washington University: “Lucy Hicks Anderson and the Hidden History of African American Transgenderism”
Dr. LaVonne Leslie, Department of Afro-American Studies, Howard University, Washington, DC: “Reaching Beyond the Household: Community Activism of Black Women in Texas in the Reconstruction Era”
Alison Lightbown, Head of Learning and Education, The Geffrye Museum, London, England: “The West Indian Front Room: discussions about home and identity”
Fr. Thomas Murphy, S.J., Associate Professor of History, Seattle University: “A Revolution to Confine Across the Sea: British Fears of Reconstruction, 1865-1877”
Adriana Parada, Educator, Foundation for the Support of Research of the Federal University of the State of Goiás, Brazil, with Carlos Parada, Interpreter: “A History of the Kalunga People”
Dr. Gigi Peterson, Assistant Professor of History, State University of New York at Cortland: “‘Discriminación Racial’: Connecting Mexican, Latino, and African American Civil Rights Struggles in the 1940s”
Dr. Ileana M. Rodriguez Silva, Assistant Professor, Latin American and Caribbean History, Department of History, University of Washington: “Silencing Race within the Puerto Rican Labor Movement of the Early Twentieth Century”
Dr. Sarah Schmalenberger, Assistant Professor, Music History and Literature, Horn, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota: “Honoring Her Ancestors: Harriett Marshall’s Kentucky Roots”
Kathryn Silva, Graduate Student, University of South Carolina: “Making the Invisible Visible: Weaving African American Women into South Carolina’s Mill History”
Alan Spears, Legislative Representative, National Parks Conservation Association, Washington, DC: “Hidden Treasures and Enduring Legacies: Discovering African American History in our National Parks”
Dr. Clarence Spigner, Associate Professor, Department of Health Services, School of Public Health & Community Medicine, University of Washington: “Health, Race, and the African Diaspora”
Dr. David M. Stark, Assistant Professor of History, Department of History, Grand Valley State University, Michigan: “Reconstructing the Black Experience in Eighteenth Century Arecibo, Puerto Rico through the Use of Parish Registers”
Alva Moore Stevenson, Series Coordinator and Program Representative, UCLA Center for Oral History Research: “Both Mexican and Black: Looking at Racial and Ethnic Self-Identity in Three Generations of the Thornton Family”
Laura Turner, Historical Writer/ Researcher, Office of History and Preservation, U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, DC: “Delivering the Forty Acres and a Mule: Black Representation in the United States Congress, 1870-1901”
Tricia Martineau Wagner, Historical Nonfiction Author, Charlotte, North Carolina: “Rewriting American History: The Untold Story of the Contributions and Achievements of African American Citizens”
Dr. Michael Washington, Professor of History & Director Afro-American Studies, History & Geography Department, Northern Kentucky University: “Black Heroes and Common Folk: The Creative Use of Public Memory Interviews”
Dr. George White, Jr., Assistant Professor of History and Africana Studies, University of Tennessee, Knoxville: “We Held Out Our Eyes Delirious With Grace: The Meanings and Significance of August 8th”
Leah M. Wright, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Princeton University: “The Madness of Marcus Garvey: Early Twentieth Century Black Organizational Solidarity as a Reaction to the Garvey Movement”
Workshops:
William Jones, Chair, Social Studies Department, Jefferson JHS, Washington, DC: “The History of Hip Hop & Its use in the Classroom”
Leutisha L. Stills, Equal Opportunity Specialist, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia: “The Evolution of Black Progressive Politics”
Panel:
“Speed City – From Civil Rights to Black Power: The Asian, Black, and Hispanic Sporting Experience at San Jose State College, from 1940 to 1969” — Moderator: Urla M. Hill, Doctoral Candidate, University of Maryland at College Park; Guest Curator, History San Jose. Special Guest Panelist: Yoshihiro Uchida, San Jose State graduate, judo team coach since 1940
Film:
Negroes with Guns: Rob Williams and Black Power (Courtesy of California Newsreel)
The electrifying story of Rob Williams, who dared to advocate armed self-defense against the racist terrorism of the Jim Crow South. He founded an armed Black Guard, and with his wife Mabel stunned the Klan and galvanized the Black community with their fearlessness. Largely erased from American history, he was the true forefather of the Black Power movement. —California Newsreel