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EVENTS
September 2009
September 15, 2009 - March 25, 2010
John Brown: The Abolitionist And His
Legacy
Planned by the Gilder Lehrman Institute in
collaboration with N-YHS
Presented at the New-York Historical Society
October 16, 2009 marks the 150th anniversary
of John Brown's doomed raid on the federal
arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia in 1859.  
Brown, an ardent abolitionist who believed in
racial equality, embraced violence as a means to
end slavery. Executed in 1859, he has been
both vilified as a murderer and celebrated as a
martyr. This exhibition of rare materials from the
Gilder Lehrman Collection and N-YHS explores
Brown's beliefs and activities at a critical juncture
in American history and invites us to ponder the
struggle for civil rights down to the present.
Click here for more details.
March 2010
March 17-20, 2010
National Council for Black Studies
34th Annual Conference
Our 34th annual conference will be hosted in
New Orleans, LA, March 17-20, 2010, five years
after the hurricane Katrina disaster.  We invite
you to join us as a participant or presenter.  If
you are interested in presenting we are now
accepting abstracts/proposals.
NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR BLACK STUDIES
P.O. Box 4109
Atlanta, GA 30302
Phone: 404-413-5131
Fax: 404-413-5140
Email:
info@ncbsonline.org
Website: www.ncbsonline.org
April 2010
Application Deadline has passed.
Award Announced: April 7-10, 2010
2010 OAH HUGGINS-QUARLES AWARD
Click here for full details.
http://oah.
org/activities/awards/hugginsquarles/index.html
Deadline for online submission of papers is April
15, 2010
Call for Papers: ASALH 95th Annual
Conference: "The History of Black
Economic Empowerment"
http://convention2.allacademic.com/one/asalh/a
salh10/
June 2010
June 5-6, 2010
Executive Council Meeting
TBD
July 2010
July 14-16, 2010
The 2010 National Diversity in Libraries
Conference, “NDLC2010: From
Groundwork to Action”
Princeton, NJ
Submission Deadline: October 2, 2009
Click here for full details.
September 2010
September 29, 2010
Executive Council Meeting
Raleigh, NC
NEWS
“UNDER THE COVER OF DARKNESS”
The history that Hobson Village had to show
their children is being destroyed by the City of
Suffolk VA.
Download the press release.
Observance of National Freedom Day
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PRESIDENT OBAMA LAUNCHES
CITIZENS MEDAL PUBLIC NOMINATION
PROCESS
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Governor Appoints Tyrone K. Yates to
Hamilton County Municipal Court
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84th Annual Black History Month
Luncheon: "The History of Black
Economic Empowerment"
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ASALH Meets the Princess
ASALH Executive Director Sylvia Cyrus Meets
Princess Tiana from Disney's
The Princess
and the Frog
ASALH morns the loss of Percy Sutton,
business pioneer and media innovator who
passed on December 26, 2009.
ASALH Member Robert C. Hayden is
2009 Winner of Asa Hilliard Award for
Lifelong Learning
Arline Custer Memorial Award Winner
The Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference
is proud to annouce the late Donna Marcia
Wells as the Arline Custer Memorial Award
Winner.
National History Day Contest Winner
Congratulation to South Carolina's Joshua
Campbell.
View the photos.
Black History Program produce by
ASALH Dr. Marianna White Davis of
Benedict College.
Please contact Cheryl L.a Nunnley @ (803)
737-3548 or email @
cnunnley@scetv.org.
Pleace contat Bobbi Kennedy @ (803)
737-3451 or
kennedy@scetv.org for further
infomation.
2010 Award Information Now Available!
For books, articles, dissertations, research, and
teaching in American history.
See www.oah.org/activities/awards
Questions?
Call 812-855-7311
Mail: Organization of American Historians
111 North Bryan Avenue, PO Box 5457
Bloomington, IN 47407-5457
Northeast Office Welcomes 1772 Fellow
The Northeast Regional Office is pleased to
announce that Ervin James of Cincinnati  has
been selected for the prestigious 1772
Fellowship beginning May 26, 2009.  Both will
work in the Northeast Office in Boston to
develop a regional database and survey of
African American preservation organizations
and historic sites, from Maine to Delaware.  
This effort is to first identify those working to
preserve African American historic places, to
assess the health of these organizations, and
to build relationships with each site to advise
them on various resources available at NTHP.  
This valuable work, particularly the survey, will
influence and guide future programming that
the Northeast Office is developing to support
these organizations.
Ervin James is currently completing his
doctorate in history at Texas A & M University
and previously attended Texas Southern
University and Tuskegee University.  His
experience working in historic preservation and
in public history includes such respected
organizations as the Texas Historical
Commission, National Center for Preservation
Training and Technology, and Boston African
American National Historic Site, and includes
presentations at the National African American
Alliance Conference and the Association for the
Study of African American Life and History.  
Ervin will also work as the NTHP's African
American Historic Places Coordinator beginning
September 2009 in Washington, D.C.
A Tribute to Nina Simone, the High
Priestess of Soul
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Smithsonian Picks Designer for Black
History Museum
A Smithsonian Institution jury selected the
team Freelon Adjaye Bond, in association with
SmithGroup, from six finalists in a design
competition to build the National Museum of
African American History and Culture, which
could be the last major building added to the
expanse between the U.S. Capitol and
Washington Monument.
U.S. Congress, First Lady Michelle Obama
Honour Abolitionist Sojourner Truth with
Bust Unveiling at U.S. Capitol
Bust is by Distinguished Sculptor Artis Lane,
Relative of Abolitionists Abraham Doras Shadd
and Mary Ann Shadd Cary of Canada
Click here for full story.
Click here for associated press article.
Information on our annual symposium
coming soon!
Click here for more details.
Congratulations to Sundiata Cha-Jua and
Clarence Lang
Cowinners of the EBSCO Host: America
Life and History Award
for "The 'Long Movement' as Vampire:
Temporal Studies and Spatial Fallacies in
Recent Black Freedom Studies"
Click here for more details.
The Division of Rare and Manuscript
Collections, Cornell University Library,
is pleased to announce the online version of
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity:
A Centennial Celebration. A special introduction
to the exhibit is written by
Robert L. Harris,
Jr.
, Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. National
Historian.
Founders of Black History Month