The AAAHRP 2009 Biennial Black History Conference Saturday, March 21 & Sunday March 22, 2009 Conference Theme: “Black History: Full Disclosure”   Dedicated to the memory of Dr. Violet Malone This conference is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Violet Malone (March 21, 1935 - February 2, 2008), who was a dear friend and ardent AAAHRP supporter. An Educator, Artist, and World Traveler, Dr. Malone was the AAAHRP Keynote Speaker at the 2007 conference, one year before her untimely death. We are fortunate to have witnessed a momentous period in American history. On January 20, 2009, an African American man took office as President of the United States of America. Since AAAHRP encourages wide discussions of historical questions, it is only fitting that this black history conference is being held only two months after the inauguration of Barack Obama. President Barack Obama’s name is now known throughout the world, and of course will be in all our history books. But how much do we know about other African Americans — the many forgotten men and women — who committed their lives to the struggle for equality and the betterment of America? How much do we know about those unsung people who helped create the “Road to the Presidency”? At the AAAHRP 2009 Biennial Black History Conference, you’ll have the opportunity to learn about some of those women and men, to discover history that won’t be found in mainstream books as experts from across the country and other nations come to Seattle to share their knowledge of black history with you. So get ready for the upcoming conference, scheduled to be held on Saturday, March 21, 2009 and Sunday, March 22, 2009 at Seattle University. Extremely popular with both presenters and attendees, AAAHRP conferences have become the benchmark for excellence. In fact, AAAHRP conferences have become so popular that we’ve had to expand to two (2) days from one (1), and the 2009 history conference, with the theme “Black History: Full Disclosure,” promises to be the best ever. Keynote Speaker The conference Keynote Speaker is Tim Pinnick, Board Member, Association of Professional Genealogists; Advisory Board Member, AAAHRP; noted researcher; and author of the books Conducting Coal Miner Research and Finding and Using African American Newspapers. He has spoken at conferences, seminars, and schools throughout the country. Mr. Pinnick has captivated audiences with his speeches and lectures, which have included “Living Through the Civil War: The African American Experience,” “In Their Own Words: Black Life in the South, 1865-1883,” and “Developing the Genealogy of an African American Community: A Case Study.” The Keynote Speech will be “African American History: The Rest of the Story.” You can learn more about Tim Pinnick at www.blackcoalminerheritage.net. Why You Should Attend Here are just a few reasons why you should attend the 2009 Biennial Black History Conference: We have gathered some of the most knowledgeable experts on black history for the conference; you’ll be exposed to historical facts that are normally extremely difficult to obtain; you’ll have the chance to interact with leading historians and scholars, and be exposed to their latest research; and you will have opportunities to exchange ideas with presenters, colleagues, friends, and members of the community. Register Today No other conference of this type can be found in the Pacific Northwest. Don’t be left out, mark your calendars, save the dates, and reserve your place at the conference. Registration information and the registration form are posted on the Registration page. Here is what our scheduled conference presenters will bring to you. (Presentation titles subject to change.) Welcome      Dr. Isiaah Crawford – Provost, Seattle University      Ed Diaz – President, AAAHRP      Leonard Garfield – Director, Museum of History and Industry (MOHAI)      Larry Gossett – Councilmember, Metropolitan King County Council      Moni T. Law, Esq. – Member, Washington State Bar Association      Barbara Earl Thomas – Acting Director, Northwest African American Museum (NAAM) Session Chairs      Dr. Saheed Adejumobi (Seattle University)      Dr. Maurice N. Amutabi (Central Washington University)      Dr. Amutabi is the author of The NGO Factor in Africa: The Case of Arrested Development in Kenya (Routledge, 2006)      Dr. Afua Cooper (Simon Fraser University, Canada)      Dr. Ralph L. Crowder (University of California, Riverside)      Dr. Kenneth Jolly (Saginaw Valley State University)      Moni T. Law, Esq. (Washington State Bar Association)      Ms. Glenda Pearson (University of Washington)      Dr. Tobin Miller Shearer (University of Montana)      Mr. Jake Sudderth (Educator; Seattle, Washington)      Ms. Juanita Washington (Educator; Seattle, Washington)      Dr. Michael Washington (Northern Kentucky University) Paper Presentations        Dr. Thabiti Asukile (University of Cincinnati): Joel Augustus Rogers: Internationalism Journalism Linked to Archival Research      Dr. Nina Banks (Bucknell University): Sadie Alexander and Black Political and Economic Empowerment      Dr. Emily Blanck (Rowan University): The Ignored Story of the Tyrannicide Affair      Dr. David Boers (Marian University of Fond du lac, Wisconsin): Releasing Joshua Glover: Wisconsin’s Response to Popular Sovereignty, States’ Rights, and the Fugitive Slave Law.      Dr. Boers is the author of History of American Education (Peter Lang, 2007)      Dr. David Brodnax, Sr. (Trinity Christian College): “In Defense of These Great Measures of Justice and Right”: The African American Community of Muscatine, Iowa, 1840-1891      Dr. Joy G. Carew (University of Louisville): Alexander Pushkin and Black Sojourners in Search of the Soviet Promise      Dr. Carew is the author of Blacks, Reds, and Russians: Sojourners in Search of the Soviet Promise (Rutgers University Press, 2008)      Dr. Mark Christian (Miami University, Ohio): African American Musical Influence on the Beatles: With Specific Reference to Black Liverpool      Dr. Tanya Clark (Rowan University): Journalism, Gender, and Power: The Real Story of Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins, Booker T. Washington, and the Colored American Magazine      Dr. Afua Cooper (Simon Fraser University, Canada): Black Canadians as Historical Outsiders: A Photo Journey      Dr. Sharon Cumberland (Seattle University): Panel: “The Muse of History:” Transatlantic Perspectives on Slave Narratives and the Literature of Remorse      Dr. Antonio Cuyler (Savannah College of Art and Design): Answering the call for diversity: How Hip Hop got to the Smithsonian      Dr. Cuyler is the author of Tales From the Glass Ceiling: The Careers of Opera Executives of Color in the United States (forthcoming, Edwin Mellen Press)      Dr. Ann Denkler (Shenandoah University): Landscapes of Confinement, Landscapes of Exposure: African Americans and Movement in the Reconstruction Era      Dr. Devin Fergus (Vanderbilt University): Financial Hustlers and Their Subprime Customers: The Story of Subprime America in Three Acts, 1980-2008      Dr. Leo J. Garofalo (Connecticut College): Spain’s Black Soldiers, Sailors, and Parishioners, 1500s and 1600s      Dr. Sheila H. Gillams (Medgar Evers College, CUNY): From Crucifixion to Resurrection: The Activist Theology of Anna Arnold Hedgeman      Dr. Gillams is the author of “Divine Sovereignty and Perseverance of the Saints,” Testamentum Imperium 2 (forthcoming)      Dr. Gillian Glaes (Carroll College): Organizing Identities: Immigrant Associations and the Post-Colonial African Immigrant Community in France, 1960-1981      Dr. Raymond A. Hall (Central Washington University): Let the Archives Speak: Ethnographic Revelations from Colonial Tamiahua, Vera Cruz, Mexico      Dr. Linda Heywood (Boston University): The King of Kongo and Queen Njinga in Angola and Brazil: Searching for Memory      Mr. Roland Jackson (Northern Arizona University): Strange and Peculiar Performance: Charles Mingus and his musical, lyrical movements examined under the lens of performative theory      Dr. Cliff Jernigan (Hofstra University): I Got the Story in My Pocket: A Cultural History Analysis of Jet, The Negro Review and Say Magazines      Dr. Kenneth Jolly (Saginaw Valley State University): “By Our Own Strength”: Recovering William Sherrill and the Politics of Self-Determination in 1930s Detroit      Dr. Nubia Kai (Howard University): The Maroon Tradition in the United States      Dr. Barclay Key (Western Illinois University): Faith and Race in 1968: Day of Reckoning in a Biracial Church      Ms. Beverly Mendheim (Independent Scholar; Seattle, Washington): Teaching Black History in Hawai’i      Dr. Jay Mullen (Emeritus Professor, Southern Oregon University): Making Sense of Amin: Policy Responses to Imperialism Legacy      Fr. Thomas Murphy, S.J. (Seattle University): How Reconstruction Looked from Vancouver Island: Victoria’s Black and White Communities Reflect on the Visits of William H. Seward, July and August, 1865      Ms. Dorethia Myers (Independent Scholar and Researcher, San Jose, California): Afro Colombians and other Afro Latinos in the 21st Century - Is there change for them also?        Dr. Gigi Peterson (State University of New York, Cortland): Empire, Nation, and Rights: U.S. Blacks and the Spanish-American-Cuban-Filipino War      Mr. Gerald J. Rizzo (Afriterra Library, Boston, Massachusetts): A Cartographic Beacon: The Case of a Great-Lake in West Africa      Dr. Edward J. Robinson (Abilene Christian University): Annie C. Tuggle: A Forgotten “Pillar” in African American Churches of Christ      Dr. Paula Marie Seniors (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University): Radical African American Female Activism: Mae Mallory and the Monroe Defense Committee      Dr. Mary-Antoinette Smith (Seattle University): Panel: “The Muse of History:” Transatlantic Perspectives on Slave Narratives and the Literature of Remorse      Dr. F. Gregory Stewart (University of Mary Washington): Disclosing Too Much: The Origins of Slavery as Sacrificial Betrayal in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy      Mr. Christopher Teal (Foreign Service Officer, U.S. Department of State): Breaking the Diplomatic Color Barrier      Mr. Teal collaborated with journalist Juan Williams on the award-winning biographyThurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary      Dr. V. Elaine Thompson (Louisiana Tech University): John Gair: Full Disclosure of the Assassination of a Black Republican Legislator in Louisiana, 1875      Dr. Michael Washington (Northern Kentucky University): The Ambiguous Status of “White” Indentured Servants in 17th Century Jamestown, Virginia and the Historical Construction of Race: A Reinterpretation of U.S. Colonial History      Dr. Althea Webb (Berea College): “Not True Friends To Their Own Race”: White YWCA Women’s Take On African American Women’s Approach to Social Reform      Dr. George White, Jr. (York College, CUNY): “The Lord Has Called Us to a Hard Task:” Chaplain Robert Boston Dokes, Black Soldiers, and the Practice of Transgressive Citizenship in World War II      Dr. Jan Whitt (University of Colorado): Mississippi Editor Hazel Brannon Smith: The Evolution of an “Unreconstructed States Rights Dixicrat”      Dr. Whitt is the author of Women in American Journalism: A New History (University of Illinois Press, 2008)      Presentations — Graduate Students      Ms. Funké Aladejebi (York University, Toronto, Canada) ‘A Deep Concern for the Future of Our Children’: S.S. #11 and the Volatile 1960s      Ms. Francesca D’Amico (York University, Toronto, Canada): “Roll Over Beethoven”: The Politics of Race and Popular Culture Gatekeeping, 1954-1960      Ms. Le’Trice Danyell Donaldson (University of Memphis): The Lone Warrior: Henry Ossian Flipper’s Fight To Restore His Honor      Mr. Cicero M. Fain, III (Marshall University): The African American Experience in Antebellum Cabell County, Virginia/West Virginia, 1810-1860      Ms. Erica L. Hubbard (Drexel University): Strained Liaisons: Archivists and Family Researchers      Ms. Donna Jordan-Taylor (University of Washington): Acquiescence or Opportunity?: Southern Black Graduate Students At Northern Institutions During Jim Crow      Ms. Elizabeth Milnarik (University of Virginia); Designing for Race: Approaches to Public Housing Design in Cleveland, 1933-1937      Ms. Courtney A. Moore (University of Florida): Mind How Much Cotton You Pick: Navigating the world of Work in the Antebellum South, 1800-1861 Presenter from Ghana      Dr. I.M. Spence-Lewis: Kolonial Politik to Welt Politik: German Colonialism in a changing Africa 1910-1940 Panels      Africa and the Black Diaspora      Dr. Maurice Amutabi (Central Washington University)      Dr. Espelencia Baptiste (Kalamazoo College)      Dr. Eunice Kamaara, Chair (Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis)      Ms. Aster Solomon Tecle, PhD(c) (University of Washington)      Dr. Mary Nyangweso Wangila (East Carolina University)           Africans and African Descendants (Mexico)      Africanos y afrodescendientes en el México virreinal y en el siglo XIX: redes sociales y reproducción cultural (Africans and African descendants in viceregal and the XIX Century México: social networks and cultural reproduction)      Dra. Filiberta Gómez Cruz (Instituto de Investigaciones Histórico-Sociales de la Universidad Veracruzana): Fishing Activities as Identity Vehicle of Afrodescendants      Dr. Juan Manuel de la Serna (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México): Espacios alternativos y autonomía política de los esclavos en la Nueva España (Political Autonomy and Alternative Social Spaces of New Spain’s Slaves)      Dra. Maria Elisa Velázquez (National Institute of Anthropology and History, Mexico) Women of African Origin in Mexico: Social Relationships and Cultural Reproduction           Black Religion, Black History, and Black Politics: The Sociospiritual Relationship of Big Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church (Atlanta, Georgia)      Ms. Betty Cox: The 1906 Atlanta Riots: A Lasting Legacy      Ms. Loretta Green, Chair: Economic Development in Spiritual Growth      Ms. Jackie Herring: Spiritual Growth: From Union Church to Bethel Tabernacle      Rev. AnneMarie Mingo: Big Bethel AME Church Sociopolitical Growth from 1930 to Present      The Kalunga People (Brazil)      Daniela Lima Arantes (Project O Povo Kalunga)      Ms. Adriana Parada (Coordinator: Project O Povo Kalunga; Universidade Federal de Goiás): Kalunga: Oblivion and Resistance      Roundtable Discussion      Open Conversation about Africa and the Diaspora      Dr. Maurice Amutabi (Central Washington University)      Dr. Lisa Aubrey (Arizona State University)      Dr. Angela Kupenda (Mississippi College School of Law) Workshops      Ms. Margaret J. Collins (Library Program Specialist, Illinois State Library): Patents: a clue to your relative’s inventiveness      Mr. Solomon Comissiong (University of Maryland): Mainstream Media and the Suppression of Progressive Black Thought      Mr. Comissiong is the author of Thoughts, Reflections and Solutions to African Issues in America: A Collection of Essays from a Concerned Black Man (Xlibris, 2008)      Ms. Esther E. Ervin (Al Doggett Studio; Seattle, Washington): Self Preservation of Documents and Photos      Mr. Tim Pinnick (Independent Scholar and Author): Researching in African American Newspapers      Dr. Arwin D. Smallwood (The University of Memphis): Teaching African-American History With Maps.      Dr. Smallwood is the author of The Atlas of African-American History: From the Slave Trade to Modern Times (McGraw-Hill, 1997) Documentary Films      Tacoma’s Civil Rights Struggle: African Americans Leading the Way      Ms. Laurie Arnold (Tacoma Civil Rights Project; Bates Technical College)      Dr. Dexter B. Gordon (Tacoma Civil Rights Project; University of Puget Sound)      Mr. Tom Hilyard (Tacoma Civil Rights Project: Pierce County Department of Community Services)      Mr. Sidney Lee (Tacoma Civil Rights Project; Rainier Media Center)      Time and Tide, A Fine Art Documentary        Chantal Oakes (Preston, Lancashire, United Kingdom) Venue: Once again we will be using the excellent conference facilities at Seattle University’s Student Center. Seattle University is located at 901 12th Avenue, Seattle, Washington, USA. (All conference questions should be directed to AAAHRP2009Conference@comcast.net, not Seattle University.) Seattle University street map: Click here Seattle University campus map: Click here (Zoom in if map appears small.) Hotel: The Silver Cloud Hotel (Broadway) is recommended for AAAHRP’s out-of-town guests because of its proximity to the Seattle University campus. It sits across the street from the northwest corner of the campus border, and the conference venue is a short ten to fifteen (10-15) minute walk from the hotel. A block of rooms has been set aside for AAAHRP conference participants. Take a virtual tour of the hotel here.      Silver Cloud Hotel      1100 Broadway (East Madison and Broadway)      Seattle, WA 98122      Toll free number: 1-800-590-1801      Seattle local number: 206-325-1400      www.silvercloud.com      Silver Cloud Hotel (Broadway) street map: Click here. Attractions: There are numerous attractions that you can visit while in Seattle for the conference, including the newly opened Northwest African American Museum (NAAM) located at 2300 South Massachusetts Street. For information about the museum, click here.   Click Here for Conference Schedule.