Wednesday, September 28, 2010 at 3:30 PM
|
National Park Service ASALH Forum, Raleigh, NC
The National Park Service ASALH forum for 2010 will highlight extraordinary and less-often
told stories relating to Black economic empowerment spanning the period from enslaved
labor to the early 20th century African American women's club movement. These inspiring
stories will come directly from the historically significant themes related to the historic sites
of the National Park Service and invited co-host, the North Carolina Division of Historic Sites.
Panelists from the National Park Service and North Carolina Division of Historic Sites will talk
about the distinctiveness of--yet interconnection between--Federal and State historic and
cultural resources. The panelists will present rarely-discussed examples of the African
American story related to their national parks or state historic sites that have influenced
both the African American economy and the American economy as a whole--particularly in
North Carolina, Virginia and Washington, D.C.
The panelists will also address current issues related to the interpretation, educational
programming, ongoing maintenance, and cultural resource management of the national
parks and historic sites under their stewardship.
|
CHAIR:
|
|
|
Robert Parker
Park Manager
Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site
Carter G. Woodson Home National Historic Site
National Park Service
|
PANELISTS:
|
| |
Eola Dance
Supervisory Park Ranger
Maggie Lena Walker National Historic Site
National Park Service
|
| |
Frachele Scott
Site Manager
Charlotte Hawkins Brown Museum
North Carolina Division of Historic Sites
|
| |
Alton Mitchell
Site Manager
Historic Stagville
North Carolina Division of Historic Sites
|
|
|
Michelle Lanier
Curator of Cultural History
North Carolina Division of Historic Sites
|
Thursday, September 29, 2010 at 4:00 PM
|
Black Reparations in Obama’s Post-Racial America
The Plenary will address significant historical and contemporary views related to the various
issues surrounding Reparations. In particular presenters will examine the nature of the
Reparations debate within the context of America’s current political and social realities. Has
the election of Barak Obama changed how we view Reparations?
|
MODERATOR:
|
|
|
James Stewart, Professor of Labor Studies & Employment Relations
at Pennsylvania State University
Stewart received his PhD in Economics from the University of Notre
Dame. His research interests are African and African American Studies,
Labor Market Discrimination, and Urban Economic Development. He is
the current National President of the Association for the Study of
African American Life and History.
|
PRESENTERS:
|
|
|
Mary Frances Berry has been a Geraldine R. Segal Professor of
American Social Thought and Professor of History since 1987. She
received her Ph.D. in History from the University of Michigan and JD
from the University of Michigan Law School.
|
|
|
William A. Darity, Arts & Sciences Professor of Public Policy, Professor
of African and African American Studies and Economics, Duke University
Darity received his PhD in Economics from MIT. His research focuses
on the economics of reparations, inequality by race, class, and
ethnicity, stratification economics, skin shade and labor market
outcomes, the Atlantic Slave Trade and the Industrial Revolution,
doctrinal history and social psychological effects of unemployment
exposure.
|
| |
Kirsten Mullen
|
|
|
Alfred Brophy, Reef C. Ivey II Professor of Law at the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Brophy received his J.D. from Columbia University where he served as
editor of the Columbia Law Review. His research interests are race and
property law in colonial, antebellum and early Twentieth Century
America. Two of his books are Reconstructing the Dreamland: The
Tulsa Riot of 1921, Race, Reparations, Reconciliation and Reparations
Pro and Con.
|
Friday, October 1, 2010 at 4:00 PM
|
History of Black Business and Entrepreneurship
The Plenary will highlight the history of the business and entrepreneurial spirit of African
Americans. Rather than focusing on blacks as workers, the presentations will examine the
economic initiative of those who established businesses that played a major role in the
economic and social evolution of America. The History of North Carolina Mutual Life
Insurance Company is embedded in the History of African Americans and the American
South.
|
PRESENTERS:
|
|
|
Juliet E. K. Walker, Professor of History and Founding Director of the
Center of Black Business History, Entrepreneurship, and Technology,
University Of Texas at Austin
Walker received her PhD in History from the University of Chicago.
Her research interests are African American History, Black Business
History and Entrepreneurship, Black Self-Help Activities, and Black
Workers. Walker’s The History of Black Business in America: Capitalism,
Race, Entrepreneurship is still recognized as the definitive study on
Black Business History. She is currently completing a monograph
entitled Oprah Winfrey: An American Entrepreneur.
|
|
|
Robert Weems, Professor of History, University Missouri
Weems received his PhD in History from the University of
Wisconsin-Madison. His research interests are in the fields of African
American Business and Economic History. Some of his publications are
Black Business in the Black Metropolis: The Chicago Metropolitan
Assurance Company, 1925-1985, Desegregating the Dollar: African
American Consumerism in the Twentieth Century, and Business in Black
and White: American Presidents and Black Entrepreneurs in the
Twentieth Century.
|
|
|
James H. Speed, Jr., Chief Executive Officer, North Carolina Mutual
Life Insurance Company
Speed, a former Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and
Treasurer of Hardees Food Systems, became CEO of North Mutual Life
Insurance Company in 2003. He received his B.S. Degree from North
Carolina Central University and the MBA from Atlanta University. North
Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company is the nation’s oldest and
largest African-American insurance company with more than 350,000
policy holders.
|
Saturday, October 2, 2010 at 4:00 PM
|
The Nexus: Women, Race, Class, Sex, and Religion
This Plenary will examine the historical significance and place of historian Bettye Collier-
Thomas’s groundbreaking book - Jesus, Jobs, and Justice: African American Women and
Religion in African American, religious, and women’s history. Covering over two centuries of
African American and women’s history, this work details the political and social activism of
black women and their faith based organizations in the battle against racism in the larger
society, sexism in the black community, and racism in the women’s movement.
|
CHAIR:
|
|
|
Allison Dorsey, Associate Professor of History, and Chair of African
American Studies, Swartmore College.
Dorsey received her PhD from the University of California, Irvine. She
is the author of To Build Our Lives Together: Community Formation in
Black Atlanta, 1875-1906. She is currently working on a history of
black freedmen along the Georgia seacoast.
|
PRESENTERS:
|
|
|
Katie Geneva Cannon, AAnnie Scales Rogers Professor of Christian
Ethics, Union Theological Seminary and Presbyterian School of
Christian Education, Richmond, Virginia.
Cannon received her PhD from Union Theological Seminary in New
York City. The first black woman to be ordained in the Presbyterian
Church, she is the progenitor of Womanist Theology in the American
Academy of Religion. Known for her excellence as a scholar and her
pithy commentary, Cannon asserts “When people think of black
people, they think of men. And when they think of women, they think
of white women,” however “I name the dualisms…. I help make the
dichotomies real.” Her books include Katie’s Canon: Womanism and
the Soul of the Black Community and Teaching Preaching: Rufus Clark
and Black Sacred Rhetoric.
|
|
|
Cheryl Townsend Gilkes is the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur
Professor of Sociology and African-American Studies at Colby College.
She is also assistant pastor for special projects at the Union Baptist
Church, Cambridge Massachusetts.
Gilkes received her PhD from Northeastern University. Her research
interests are women and social change and the roles of black Christian
women in the twentieth century. Her publications include If It Wasn’t
for the Women: Black Women’s Experience and Womanist Culture in
Church and Community. Her current work is tentatively titled “I’m
Building Me A Home: The Black Church as a Cultural Production.”
|
|
|
John Bracey, Professor and Chair Afro-American Studies, University of
Massachusetts Amherst.
His long term research interests are in African American social history,
radical ideologies and movements, and the history of African American
women. More recently his interests have focused on the interactions
between Native Americans and African Americans, and Afro-Latinos in
the United States. Bracey’s publications include co-edited works such
as Black Nationalism in America; African American Women and the
Vote: 1837-1965; Strangers and Neighbors: Relations Between Blacks
and Jews in the United States; and African American Mosaic: A
Documentary History from the Slave Trade to the Present.
|
|
|
Sonia Sanchez, Professor Emerita, was the first Presidential Fellow at
Temple University, where she held the Laura Carnell Chair in English.
Sanchez is an award winning poet, activist, and international lecturer on
black culture and literature, women’s liberation, peace and racial
justice. She is the author of over 16 books, including: Homecoming:
We a BaddDDD People; Love Poems; I’ve Been a Woman: New and
Selected Poems; A Sound Investment and Other Stories; Homegirls
and Hangrenades; Under A Soprano Sky; Wounded in the House of a
Friend; Does Your House Have Lions?; Like the Singing Coming off the
Drums; and most recently Shake Loose Your Skin; Morning Haiku.
|
|
|
Sharon Harley, Associate Professor and Chair of African American
Studies Department, University of Maryland, College Park, received the
PhD from Howard University.
Harley’s publications include The Timetables of African American
History: A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in
African American History; edited and co-edited volumes such as Sister
Circle: Black Women and Work; Women’s Labor in the Global
Economy: Speaking in Multiple Volumes; Women in Africa and African
Diaspora (co-edited with Rosalyn Terborg Penn and Andrea Benton
Rushing); and The Afro American Woman: Struggles and Images (co-
edited with Rosalyn Terborg Penn). Her current work is titled “In the
Shadow of Race: Gender Formation, Women’s Labor and the Quest
for Citizenship in Post-Emancipation United States.”
|
RESPONDENT:
|
|
|
Bettye Collier-Thomas, a Professor in the Department of History at
Temple University, and the founder and first executive director of the
Mary McLeod Bethune Memorial Museum and the National Archives for
Black Women’s History in Washington, D.C., received her PhD from
George Washington University. Collier-Thomas’s books include Jesus,
Jobs, and Justice: African American Women and Religion; Daughters of
Thunder: Black Women Preachers and Their Sermons, 1850-1979; My
Soul Is A Witness: A Chronology of the Civil Rights Era (co-authored
with V.P. Franklin); and Sisters in the Struggle: African American in the
Civil Rights-Black Power Movement (co-edited with V.P. Franklin). Her
current work is titled “`We Are in Politics and in Politics to Stay’: The
History of African American Women and Politics.”
|
|
