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AAAHRP 4th Annual Black History Conference Schedule
7:45 a.m. Throughout Day - Student Center Room 160 — Registration
8:15 a.m.- Doors Open (preregistered seated first)
8:30 a.m. - 9:15 a.m. - Student Center Room 160 — Plenary Session: “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
9:30 a.m.- 11:00 a.m. — Morning Breakout Sessions
A - Student Center Room 130 — Discovering History Through Literature
Chair: Dr. Laura Chrisman, Nancy K. Ketcham Professor of English University of Washington
Memory and Nostalgia in African-American Identity: The Legacy of “Africanness” in James Baldwin's Fiction (Dr. Maurice N. Amutabi, Assistant Professor of History, Central Washington University)
Victor Séjour’s The Count of Haag: Passing in the Paris of Napoleon III (Dr. Philip Barnard, Associate Professor, English, University of Kansas)
Women Operating on the Lower Frequencies in Rita Dove's On the Bus with Rosa Parks (Dr. Diana Cruz, Assistant Professor, Department of English, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts)
B - Student Center Room 160 — History Overlooked Or Deliberately Hidden?
Chair: Dr. Edward J. Blum, Department of History, San Diego State University
What to do with a Liberty Pole: Caroline Quarlis on the Wisconsin Underground Railroad (Dr. David Boers, Professor of Graduate Education, School of Education, Marian College, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin)
Lucy Hicks Anderson and the Hidden History of African American Transgenderism (Dr. Kevin Allen Leonard, Associate Professor, Department of History, Western Washington University)
A Revolution to Confine Across the Sea: British Fears of Reconstruction, 1865-1877 (Fr. Thomas Murphy, S.J., Associate Professor of History, Seattle University)
C - Student Center Room 210 — Up From Jim Crow: Histories Of African American Agency In South Carolina
Chair: Jake Sudderth, History Professor, Lower Columbia College
“We Can Save this Man’s Life”: The Pink Franklin Case and Black Legal Activism in Jim Crow South Carolina (Eric Bargeron, Ph.D. Candidate, University of South Carolina)
Making Something from Nothing: The Black Entrepreneurial Spirit in Early 20th Century Columbia, South Carolina (Nancy Brown, Ph.D. Candidate, University of South Carolina)
Making the Invisible Visible: Weaving African American Women into South Carolina’s Mill History (Kathryn Silva, Graduate Student, University of South Carolina)
D - Lemieux Library Stimpson Room — West Coast Sports And The Black Experience
Chair: Urla M. Hill, Doctoral Candidate, University of Maryland at College Park; Guest Curator, History San Jose
Paper: Integrating the Pacific Coast League: African Americans and Latinos on the Baseball Diamond (Amy Essington, Doctoral Candidate, Claremont Graduate University; History Department Adjunct, California State University, Long Beach)
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. Panelists: Ben Tucker, San Jose State graduate, member of two national championship cross country teams; Yoshihiro Uchida, San Jose State graduate, judo team coach since 1940)
E - Wyckoff Auditorium — Latin-Black Connections In The Americas
Chair: Dr. Julian Madison, Professor, Department of History, Southern Connecticut State University
“Discriminación Racial”: Connecting Mexican, Latino, and African American Civil Rights Struggles in the 1940s (Dr. Gigi Peterson, Assistant Professor of History, State University of New York at Cortland)
Silencing Race within the Puerto Rican Labor Movement of the Early-Twentieth Century (Dr. Ileana M. Rodriguez-Silva, Assistant Professor, Latin American and Caribbean History, University of Washington)
Both Mexican and Black: Looking at Racial and Ethnic Self-Identity in Three Generations of the Thornton Family (Alva Moore Stevenson, Series Coordinator and Program Representative, UCLA Center for Oral History Research)
11:15 a.m.- 12:00 noon
Student Center Room 160 — Plenary: Keynote Address — Dr. Violet Malone, Professor, Emeritus, Adult Higher Education in the Woodring College of Education at Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington
“The Diaspora of the Black Experience: Forgotten, Lost, Misplaced, Unknown!”
12:10 p.m. - 1:25 p.m.
Lunch Break
Student Center Room 160 — Film: Negroes With Guns: Rob Williams And Black Power (courtesy of California Newsreel)
1:25 p.m. - 2:35 p.m. — Afternoon Breakout Sessions - Group 1
A - Student Center Room 130 — The Hip Hop Revolution: It Can’t Be Ignored!
Chair: Bonita Carter-Smith, James W. Washington & Janie Rogella Washington Foundation
Holla if You Hear Me: The Emergence of the Hip Hop Movement (1980-1984) (Regina N. Barnett, Graduate Student, Indiana University - Bloomington)
Bringing Historical Balance to U.S. Public Education: Hip Hop's Progressive Pedagogy (Solomon Comissiong, Assistant Director of Student Involvement & Public Relations, Nyumburu Black Cultural Center, University of Maryland/ Ricardo Quinteros, University of Maryland Student)
B - Student Center Room 160 — Two Organizations: Feared By The U.S. Government — And Others!
Chair: Gary Idleburg
The Madness of Marcus Garvey: Early Twentieth century Black Organizational Solidarity as a Reaction to the Garvey Movement (Leah M. Wright, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Princeton University)
Introducing the American Dream: The Community Programs of the Black Panther Party (Ashley Chaifetz, MA, History and Government Teacher, The Beekman School, New York, NY)
C - Student Center Room 210 — Some Unfamilar History Brought To Light
Chair: Glenda J. Pearson, Head, Microforms & Newspaper Collections, University of Washington Libraries
“Useful Knowledge of Every Kind”: Freedom’s Journal, the First African-American Newspaper (1827-1829) (Jacqueline Bacon, Independent Scholar, San Diego, California)
Rewriting American History: The Untold Story of the Contributions and Achievements of African American Citizens (Tricia Martineau Wagner, Historical Nonfiction Author, Charlotte, North Carolina)
D - Lemieux Library Stimpson Room — Black Health, Black Society/Black Society, Black Health
Chair: Dr. Leon F. "Skip" Rowland, President, Tabor 100, Seattle, Washington
A Silent History: Giving Voice to the African American Deaf Experience (Heather D. Clark, Graduate Student-Sociocultural Anthropology, University of Washington)
Health, Race, and the African Diaspora (Dr. Clarence Spigner, Associate Professor, Department of Health Services, School of Public Health & Community Medicine, University of Washington)
E - Wyckoff Auditorium — Blacks In The U.S.: Forever Fighting For Equality
Chair: Garry Schalliol, Director, Outreach Services Division, Washington State Historical Society
Affirmative action of U.S. Government and the Black Community (Deelip Mhaske, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India)
Delivering the Forty Acres and a Mule: Black Representation in the United States Congress, 1870-1901 (Laura Turner, Historical Writer/ Researcher, Office of History and Preservation, U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, DC)
2:50 p.m.- 4:20 p.m. — Afternoon Breakout Sessions - Group 2
A - Student Center Room 130 — Often Forgotten, Sometimes Discarded: Stage, Screen And African Americans
Chair: Dr. Julia Niebuhr Eulenberg, Visiting Scholar, University of Washington
Watching It Unfold: A Brief History of African American Cinema, Cultural Memory and the Possibilities for Healing (Michele Beverly, Doctoral Student, Department of Communication, Georgia State University)
When Handel Met Soul: Africentricity, Postmodernism, and A Soulful Celebration (Antonio Cuyler, Doctoral Candidate, College of Visual Arts, Theatre, and Dance, Florida State University)
Disappearing Acts: Exploring the Legacy of 1947 North Carolina Film Pitch A Boogie Woogie (Alexis Poe Davis, Doctoral Candidate, East Carolina University)
B - Student Center Room 160 — Extraordinary Women: Let Us Not Forget Them
Chair: Dr. Kalenda C. Eaton, Assistant Professor of English and Ethnic Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Madam C.J. Walker and Annie Malone - Hair Culturalists for Advancement or Assimilation? (Dr. Elizabeth Johnson, Assistant Professor of History, State University of New York Dutchess Community College)
Reaching Beyond the Household: Community Activism of Black Women in Texas in the Reconstruction Era (Dr. LaVonne Leslie, Department of Afro-American Studies, Howard University, Washington, DC)
A Woman Sublime: The Life and Work of Mrs. Grace Morris Jones, 1876-1928 (Angela D. Stewart, Archivist, Margaret Walker Alexander National Research Center, Jackson State University)
C - Student Center Room 210 — This, Too, Is Black History: Three Different Accounts
Chair: Moni T. Law, J.D., Attorney, Seattle, Washington
William Boland Townsend and the Struggle Against Racial Violence In Kansas, 1888-1901 (Brent Campney, Ph.D. Candidate, Institute of the Liberal Arts — American Studies, Emory University)
The Exploitation of African Americans in Prisons: From Industrial to Post-Industrial Society (Dr. Gilbert Gardner, Chair: Dept of Sociology and Director of the Criminology Program, Regis University, Denver, Colorado)
We Held Out Our Eyes Delirious With Grace: The Meanings and Significance of August 8th (Dr. George White, Jr., Assistant Professor of History and Africana Studies, University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
D - Lemieux Library Stimpson Room — Learning From Museums: Their Exciting Revelations
Chair: Dr. I.M. Spence-Lewis, Consultant Researcher, Marcus Garvey Library, London, England
Rewriting Slavery in American Memory: Museums and the Cultural Landscape (Derrick R. Brooms, Ph.D. Candidate, Sociology, Loyola University, Chicago)
The Evolution of the Mayme Clayton Library & Cultural Center (Avery Clayton, Director and Chief Executive Officer, Mayme A. Clayton Library, Altadena, California)
E - Wyckoff Auditorium — Fighting For Equality In Different Ways
Chair: Dr. Stephanie Camp, Associate Professor of History, University of Washington
Interacting Systems of Movement Speech and Ethnic Media: Nellie Francis and Minnesota’s Anti-Lynching Law (Kristin Gustafson, Ph.D. Student, Department of Communication, University of Washington)
Over the Horizon: Conway Barbour and the Search for Opportunity (Victoria L. Harrison, Lecturer, Southern Illinois University; Doctoral Candidate, Saint Louis University)
Honoring Her Ancestors: Harriett Marshall’s Kentucky Roots (Dr. Sarah Schmalenberger, Assistant Professor, Music History and Literature, Horn University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota)
4:35 p.m.- 5:55 p.m. — Evening Breakout Sessions
A - Student Center Room 130 — The Caribbean and South America: Learning More About The People
Chair: Dr. Maurice N. Amutabi, Assistant Professor of History, Department of History, Central Washington University
The West Indian Front Room: discussions about home and identity (Alison Lightbown, Head of Learning and Education, The Geffrye Museum, London, England)
A History of the Kalunga People (Adriana Parada, Educator, Foundation for the Support of Research of the Federal University of the State of Goiás, Brazil; Carlos Parada, Interpreter)
Reconstructing the Black Experience in Eighteenth-Century Arecibo, Puerto Rico through the Use of Parish Registers (Dr. David M. Stark, Assistant Professor of History, Department of History, Grand Valley State University, Michigan)
B - Student Center Room 210 — The History Of Hip-Hop & Its Use In The Classroom (Workshop)
William Jones, Chair, Social Studies Department, Jefferson JHS, Washington, DC:
C - Lemieux Library Stimpson Room — The Evolution Of Black Progressive Politics (Workshop)
Leutisha L. Stills, Equal Opportunity Specialist, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia
D - Wyckoff Auditorium — Discovering More Black History: Looking Beyond Text Books
Chair: Dr. Michael Washington, Professor of History & Director Afro-American Studies, Northern Kentucky University
A Community/University Collaboration: Bringing the Givens Collection to the University of Minnesota (Karla Y. Davis, Curator, Givens Collection of African American Literature, University of Minnesota)
Hidden Treasures and Enduring Legacies: Discovering African American History in our National Parks (Alan Spears, Legislative Representative, National Parks Conservation Association, Washington, DC)
Black Heroes and Common Folk: The Creative Use of Public Memory Interviews (Dr. Michael Washington, Professor of History & Director Afro-American Studies, Northern Kentucky University)
6:10 p.m. - 6:25 p.m. — Student Center Room 160
Plenary: Ed Diaz Speaker, Presentations
6:30 p.m. - 7:45 p.m. — Student Center Room 160
Social Hour and Buffet
Music by Cheetah & Company — Jeffrey “Cheetah” Mayo (drums); Herbert Owens (guitar); Mike Gartrell (Keyboard)
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