Conference Schedule — Day 1, Saturday, March 21, 2009
7:45 am – Pre-registered table opens, conference badges available throughout day.
7:45 am – Onsite registration begins.
8:30 am – Plenary session - welcoming comments.
9:15 am – Plenary session - keynote address by Tim Pinnick.
10:00 am – Breakout sessions begin, continue throughout day.
2:00 pm – Onsite registration ends.
7:00 pm – Saturday conference sessions end.

Conference Schedule — Day 2, Sunday, March 22, 2009
10:45 am – Pre-registered table opens, conference badges available throughout day.
12:00 noon – Breakout sessions begin, continue throughout day.
5:00 pm – AAAHRP 2009 Biennial Black History Conference ends.
5:00 pm – Free buffet and music for conference attendees.

Notes:
1. Onsite registration on Saturday.
1. The conference registration fee covers both days of the conference.
2. Conference attendees are free to choose the sessions they wish to attend, and can leave the conference venue and return
as they please. The conference badge is your admittance.

Guide to Presenters’ Schedule (By Day)
Presenters are listed by the day they are scheduled to appear.

Saturday, March 21, 2009
Ms. Funké Aladejebi (York University, Toronto, Canada
‘A Deep Concern for the Future of Our Children’: S.S. #11 and the Volatile 1960
Dr. Maurice Amutabi (Central Washington University)
Open Conversation about Africa and the Diaspora
Ms. Laurie Arnold (Tacoma Civil Rights Project; Bates Technical College)
Tacoma’s Civil Rights Struggle: African Americans Leading the Ways
Dr. Thabiti Asukile (University of Cincinnati)
Joel Augustus Rogers: Internationalism Journalism Linked to Archival Research
Dr. Lisa Aubrey (Arizona State University)
Open Conversation about Africa and the Diaspora
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. 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
Mr. Solomon Comissiong (University of Maryland)
Workshop: Mainstream Media and the Suppression of Progressive Black Thought
Dr. Afua Cooper (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
Black Canadians as Historical Outsiders: A Photo Journey
Dra. Filiberta Gómez Cruz (Instituto de Investigaciones Histórico-Sociales de la Universidad Veracruzana)
Fishing Activities as Identity Vehicle of Afrodescendants
Dr. Sharon Cumberland (Seattle University)
“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
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
Ms. Esther E. Ervin (Al Doggett Studio; Seattle, Washington)
Workshop: Self Preservation of Documents and Photos
Mr. Cicero M. Fain, III (Marshall University)
The African American Experience in Antebellum Cabell County, Virginia/West Virginia, 1810-1860
Dr. Sheila H. Gillams (Medgar Evers College, CUNY)
From Crucifixion to Resurrection: The Activist Theology of Anna Arnold Hedgeman
Dr. Dexter B. Gordon (Tacoma Civil Rights Project; University of Puget Sound)
Tacoma’s Civil Rights Struggle: African Americans Leading the Way
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. Tom Hilyard (Tacoma Civil Rights Project: Pierce County Department of Community Services)
Tacoma’s Civil Rights Struggle: African Americans Leading the Way
Ms. Erica L. Hubbard (Drexel University)
Strained Liaisons: Archivists and Family Researchers
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
Ms. Donna Jordan-Taylor (University of Washington)
Acquiescence or Opportunity?: Southern Black Graduate Students At Northern Institutions During Jim Crow
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
Dr. Angela Kupenda (Mississippi College School of Law)
Open Conversation about Africa and the Diaspora
Mr. Sidney Lee (Tacoma Civil Rights Project; Rainier Media Center)
Tacoma’s Civil Rights Struggle: African Americans Leading the Way
Ms. Beverly Mendheim (Independent Scholar; Seattle, Washington)
Teaching Black History in Hawai’i
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
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? 
Mr. Tim Pinnick (Keynote Speaker): “African American History: The Rest of the Story” and
Workshop: “Researching in African American Newspapers”
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. Juan Manuel de la Serna (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)
Political Autonomy and Alternative Social Spaces of New Spain’s Slaves
Dr. Mary-Antoinette Smith (Seattle University)
“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
Dr. V. Elaine Thompson (Louisiana Tech University)
John Gair: Full Disclosure of the Assassination of a Black Republican Legislator in Louisiana, 1875
Dra. Maria Elisa Velázquez (National Institute of Anthropology and History, Mexico)
Women of African Origin in Mexico: Social Relationships and Cultural Reproduction

Sunday, March 22, 2009
Dr. Maurice Amutabi (Central Washington University)
Africa and the Black Diaspora
Daniela Lima Arantes (Project O Povo Kalunga, Brazil)
The Kalunga People
Dr. Espelencia Baptiste (Kalamazoo College)
Africa and the Black Diaspora
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
Ms. Margaret J. Collins (Library Program Specialist, Illinois State Library)
Workshop: Patents: a clue to your relative’s inventiveness
Ms. Betty Cox (Big Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, Atlanta, Georgia)
The 1906 Atlanta Riots: A Lasting Legacy
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. Gillian Glaes (Carroll College)
Organizing Identities: Immigrant Associations and the Post-Colonial African Immigrant Community in France, 1960-1981
Ms. Loretta Green, Chair (Big Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, Atlanta, Georgia)
Economic Development in Spiritual Growth
Ms. Jackie Herring (Big Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, Atlanta, Georgia)
Spiritual Growth: From Union Church to Bethel Tabernacle
Dr. Kenneth Jolly (Saginaw Valley State University)
“By Our Own Strength”: Recovering William Sherrill and the Politics of Self-Determination in 1930s Detroit    
Dr. Eunice Kamaara (Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis)
Chair, Africa and the Black Diaspora
Rev. AnneMarie Mingo (Big Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, Atlanta, Georgia)
Big Bethel AME Church Sociopolitical Growth from 1930 to Present
Dr. Jay Mullen (Emeritus Professor, Southern Oregon University)
Making Sense of Amin: Policy Responses to Imperialism Legacy
Ms. Adriana Parada (Universidade Federal de Goiás, Brazil)
Kalunga: Oblivion and Resistance
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. Arwin D. Smallwood (The University of Memphis)
Workshop: Teaching African-American History With Maps
Dr. F. Gregory Stewart (University of Mary Washington)
Disclosing Too Much: The Origins of Slavery as Sacrificial Betrayal in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy
Dr. I.M. Spence-Lewis (Research Fellow, Community Directed Development Foundation, Ghana)
Kolonial Politik to Welt Politik: German Colonialism in a changing Africa 1910-1940
Ms. Aster Solomon Tecle, PhD(c) (University of Washington)
Africa and the Black Diaspora
Dr. Mary Nyangweso Wangila (East Carolina University)
Africa and the Black Diaspora
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”

Guide to Presenters’ Schedule (By Session)
Presenters are listed by session.

Saturday, March 21, 2009

Plenary — Welcome
Location: Student Center, Room 160 A/B (8:30 am)
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)

Plenary (Session 1) — Keynote Address
Location: Student Center, Room 160 A/B (9:15am)
Tim Pinnick, “African American History: The Rest of the Story”

Session 2
Location: Student Center, Room 160 A/B (10:00 am)
Dr. Sharon Cumberland (Seattle University)
“The Muse of History:” Transatlantic Perspectives on Slave Narratives and the Literature of Remorse
Dr. Mary-Antoinette Smith (Seattle University)
“The Muse of History:” Transatlantic Perspectives on Slave Narratives and the Literature of Remorse

Session 3
Location: Student Center, Room 210 A/B (10:00 am)
Dr. Mark Christian (Miami University, Ohio)
African American Musical Influence on the Beatles: With Specific Reference to Black Liverpool
Dr. Antonio Cuyler (Savannah College of Art and Design)
Answering the call for diversity: How Hip Hop got to the Smithsonian

Session 4
Location: Engineering Building, Wychoff Auditorium (10:00 am)
Dr. Nubia Kai (Howard University)
The Maroon Tradition in the United States
Dr. V. Elaine Thompson (Louisiana Tech University)
John Gair: Full Disclosure of the Assassination of a Black Republican Legislator in Louisiana, 1875
Chair: 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

Session 5
Location: Lemieux Library, Schaffer  Auditorium (10:00 am)
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. F. Gregory Stewart (University of Mary Washington)
Disclosing Too Much: The Origins of Slavery as Sacrificial Betrayal in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy

Session 6
Location: Student Center, Room 160 A/B (12:15 pm)
Chair: Dr. Maurice Amutabi (Central Washington University)
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
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?

Session 7
Location: Student Center, Room 210 A/B (12:15pm)
Dr. Afua Cooper (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
Black Canadians as Historical Outsiders: A Photo Journey
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

Session 8
Location: Engineering Building, Wychoff Auditorium (12:15 pm)
Dr. Thabiti Asukile (University of Cincinnati)
Joel Augustus Rogers: Internationalism Journalism Linked to Archival Research
Mr. Roland Jackson (Northern Arizona University)
Strange and Peculiar Performance: Charles Mingus and his musical, lyrical movements examined under the lens of
performative theory
Mr. Christopher Teal (Foreign Service Officer, U.S. Department of State)
Breaking the Diplomatic Color Barrier

Session 9
Location: Lemieux Library, Schaffer  Auditorium (12:15 pm)
Chair: Dr. Tobin Miller Shearer (University of Montana)
Dr. Sheila H. Gillams (Medgar Evers College, CUNY)
From Crucifixion to Resurrection: The Activist Theology of Anna Arnold Hedgeman
Dr. Barclay Key (Western Illinois University)
Faith and Race in 1968: Day of Reckoning in a Biracial Church
Dr. Edward J. Robinson (Abilene Christian University)
Annie C. Tuggle: A Forgotten “Pillar” in African American Churches of Christ

Session 10
Location: Student Center, Room 160 A/B (2:35 pm)
Dr. Maurice Amutabi (Central Washington University)
Open Conversation about Africa and the Diaspora
Dr. Lisa Aubrey (Arizona State University)
Open Conversation about Africa and the Diaspora
Dr. Angela Kupenda (Mississippi College School of Law)
Open Conversation about Africa and the Diaspora: Blacker America: Lawfully Creating Tension for Change

Session 11
Location: Student Center, Room 210 A/B (2:35 pm)
Chair: Mr. Jake Sudderth (Educator; Seattle, Washington)
Ms. Francesca D’Amico (York University, Toronto, Canada
“Roll Over Beethoven”: The Politics of Race and Popular Culture Gatekeeping, 1954-1960
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

Session 12
Location: Engineering Building, Wychoff Auditorium (2:35 pm)
Chair: Ms. Glenda Pearson (University of Washington)
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

Session 13
Location: Lemieux Library, Schaffer  Auditorium (2:35 pm)
Ms. Laurie Arnold (Tacoma Civil Rights Project; Bates Technical College)
Tacoma’s Civil Rights Struggle: African Americans Leading the Ways
Dr. Dexter B. Gordon (Tacoma Civil Rights Project; University of Puget Sound)
Tacoma’s Civil Rights Struggle: African Americans Leading the Way
Mr. Tom Hilyard (Tacoma Civil Rights Project: Pierce County Department of Community Services)
Tacoma’s Civil Rights Struggle: African Americans Leading the Way
Mr. Sidney Lee (Tacoma Civil Rights Project; Rainier Media Center)
Tacoma’s Civil Rights Struggle: African Americans Leading the Way

Session 14
Location: Student Center, Room 160 A/B (4:50 pm)
Chair: Dr. Afua Cooper (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
Dr. Nina Banks (Bucknell University)
Sadie Alexander and Black Political and Economic Empowerment
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. Paula Marie Seniors (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University)
Radical African American Female Activism: Mae Mallory and the Monroe Defense Committee

Session 15
Location: Student Center, Room 210 A/B (4:50 pm)
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)
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

Session 16
Location: Engineering Building, Wychoff Auditorium (4:50 pm)
Chair: Ms. Juanita Washington (Educator; Seattle, Washington)
Ms. Funké Aladejebi (York University, Toronto, Canada
‘A Deep Concern for the Future of Our Children’: S.S. #11 and the Volatile 1960
Ms. Donna Jordan-Taylor (University of Washington)
Acquiescence or Opportunity?: Southern Black Graduate Students At Northern Institutions During Jim Crow
Ms. Beverly Mendheim (Independent Scholar; Seattle, Washington)
Teaching Black History in Hawai’i

Session 17
Location: Lemieux Library, Schaffer  Auditorium (4:50 pm)
Chair: Dr. Kenneth Jolly (Saginaw Valley State University)
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. Gigi Peterson (State University of New York, Cortland)
Empire, Nation, and Rights: U.S. Blacks and the Spanish-American-Cuban-Filipino War

Workshop 1
Location: Student Center, Room 130 A/B (12:15 pm)
Ms. Esther E. Ervin (Al Doggett Studio; Seattle, Washington)
Self Preservation of Documents and Photos

Workshop 2
Location: Student Center, Room 130 A/B (2:35 pm)
Mr. Tim Pinnick (Independent Scholar and Historian)
Researching in African American Newspapers

Workshop 3
Location: Student Center, Room 130 A/B 4:50 pm)
Mr. Solomon Comissiong (University of Maryland)
Mainstream Media and the Suppression of Progressive Black Thought

Sunday, March 22, 2009

Session 18
Location: Student Center, Room 160 A/B (12 noon)
Daniela Lima Arantes (Project O Povo Kalunga, Brazil)
The Kalunga People
Ms. Adriana Parada (Universidade Federal de Goiás, Brazil)
Kalunga: Oblivion and Resistance

Session 19
Location: Student Center, Room 210 A/B (12 noon)
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. Jan Whitt (University of Colorado)
Mississippi Editor Hazel Brannon Smith: The Evolution of an “Unreconstructed States Rights Dixicrat”

Session 20
Location: Engineering Building, Wychoff Auditorium (12 noon)
Dr. Leo J. Garofalo (Connecticut College)
Spain’s Black Soldiers, Sailors, and Parishioners, 1500s and 1600s
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

Session 21
Location: Lemieux Library, Schaffer  Auditorium (12 noon)
Chair: Moni T. Law, Esq.
Dr. Joy G. Carew (University of Louisville)
Alexander Pushkin and Black Sojourners in Search of the Soviet Promise
Dr. Ann Denkler (Shenandoah University)
Landscapes of Confinement, Landscapes of Exposure: African Americans and Movement in the Reconstruction Era
Dr. Gillian Glaes (Carroll College)
Organizing Identities: Immigrant Associations and the Post-Colonial African Immigrant Community in France, 1960-1981

Session 22
Location: Student Center, Room 160 A/B (2:25 pm)
Chair: Dr. Saheed Adejumobi (Seattle University)
Dr. Jay Mullen (Emeritus Professor, Southern Oregon University)
Making Sense of Amin: Policy Responses to Imperialism Legacy
Dr. I.M. Spence-Lewis (Research Fellow, Community Directed Development Foundation, Ghana)
Kolonial Politik to Welt Politik: German Colonialism in a changing Africa 1910-1940

Session 23
Location: Student Center, Room 210 A/B (2:25 pm)
Chair: Dr. Ralph L. Crowder (University of California, Riverside)
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. Devin Fergus (Vanderbilt University)
Financial Hustlers and Their Subprime Customers: The Story of Subprime America in Three Acts, 1980-2008
Dr. Kenneth Jolly (Saginaw Valley State University)
“By Our Own Strength”: Recovering William Sherrill and the Politics of Self-Determination in 1930s Detroit

Session 24
Location: Engineering Building, Wychoff Auditorium 2:25 pm)
Dr. Maurice Amutabi (Central Washington University)
Intellectual Dialogue and the Black Diaspora: Interrogating the roots and influences of Kiswahili Hip Hop in Kenya
Dr. Espelencia Baptiste (Kalamazoo College)
Africa and the Black Diaspora
Chair: Dr. Eunice Kamaara (Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis)
Africa and the Black Diaspora
Ms. Aster Solomon Tecle, PhD(c) (University of Washington)
Africa and the Black Diaspora
Dr. Mary Nyangweso Wangila (East Carolina University)
Africa and the Black Diaspora

Session 25
Location: Lemieux Library, Schaffer  Auditorium (2:25 pm)
Ms. Betty Cox (Big Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, Atlanta, Georgia)
The 1906 Atlanta Riots: A Lasting Legacy
Ms. Loretta Green, Chair (Big Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, Atlanta, Georgia)
Economic Development in Spiritual Growth
Ms. Jackie Herring (Big Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, Atlanta, Georgia)
Spiritual Growth: From Union Church to Bethel Tabernacle
Rev. AnneMarie Mingo (Big Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, Atlanta, Georgia)
Big Bethel AME Church Sociopolitical Growth from 1930 to Present

Workshop 4
Location: Student Center, Room 130 A/B (12 noon)
Mr. Gerald J. Rizzo (Afriterra Library, Boston, Massachusetts)
Paper: A Cartographic Beacon: The Case of a Great-Lake in West Africa
Dr. Arwin D. Smallwood (The University of Memphis)
Workshop: Teaching African-American History With Maps

Workshop 5
Location: Student Center, Room 130 A/B (2:25 pm)
Ms. Margaret J. Collins (Library Program Specialist, Illinois State Library)
Patents: a clue to your relative’s inventiveness

Art Film Presentation
Location: Student Center, Room 160 A/B (1:45 pm)
Chantal Oakes (Preston, Lancashire, United Kingdom)
Time and Tide, A Fine Art Documentary

Free Buffet
Location: Student Center, Room 160 A/B (5: pm)
Enjoy the free buffet, and music by Cheetah & Company
Jeffrey “Cheetah” Mayo, Percussion
Mike Gartrell, Keyboard
Herbert Owens, Guitar