110th Annual Conference
The Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St., NW, Atlanta, GA, United States110th Annual Conference September 24-28th, 2025 Use the form below to sign up for ASALH emails to stay updated about the conference.
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Workshop – Video Production for Historic Sites: Capturing the Legacy of the Civil Rights Movement
Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St. Northwest, Atlanta, GA, United StatesPresenter: Linda Lamar, Founder & Ceo of Dickerson Civic Center. Presenter: Ryan Heathcock, Once Upon A Time Ryan Intl Legal Video Services.
ASALH Executive Council Meeting
The Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St., NW, Atlanta, GA, United StatesExecutive Council Meeting Wednesday, September 24, 2025 In-person only 1:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. EST This meeting will be held in-person at the Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park. Please RSVP below. The meeting location will be emailed to all members who RSVP by September 23rd at 12 pm EST.
Hine-Horne Book Roundtable – If We Don’t Get It: A People’s History of Ferguson
Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St. Northwest, Atlanta, GA, United States
Opening Plenary Session NPC – ASALH 110th Annual Conference
Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St. Northwest, Atlanta, GA, United States
ASALH 110th Annual Conference Opening Reception
The Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St., NW, Atlanta, GA, United States
African American Heritage Bus Tour
The Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St., NW, Atlanta, GA, United States
Key Sessions – Remembering and Memorializing Black Labor: Public History as Preservation and Policy-Making
Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St. Northwest, Atlanta, GA, United StatesChair: Nishani Frazier, Miami University of Ohio. Presenter: John Goncalves, North Carolina State University. Presenter: Liam McCandless, North Carolina State University. Presenter: Katie Boatner, North Carolina State University, Public History.
Hine-Horne Book Roundtable – Midwest Unrest: 1960s Urban Rebellions and the Black Freedom Movement
Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St. Northwest, Atlanta, GA, United States
The Statue of Liberty is Black: Perspectives from a Volatile Research Project
Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St. Northwest, Atlanta, GA, United StatesChair: Erick Jackson, Northern Kentucky University. Panelist: Samuel Collins, Towson University. Panelist: Matthew Durington, Towson University. Panelist: Chayanne Marcano, Independent Researcher.
Exhibitors at the 110th Annual Conference
The Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St., NW, Atlanta, GA, United States
Film Festival: 10,000 Black Men Named George (2002)
The Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St., NW, Atlanta, GA, United StatesThis movie documents Labor Union activist A. Philip Randolph's efforts to organize the Black Pullman porters of the Chicago Pullman Railroad Company in 1920s America.
Key Sessions – Building Harlem’s Global World: Lessons from Hubert Harrison and the Women of Universal Negro Improvement Association
Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St. Northwest, Atlanta, GA, United StatesChair: Gerald Horne. Presenter: Brian Kwoba, University of Memphis. Presenter: Natanya P. Duncan, Queens College City University of New York. Presenter: Ula Yvette Taylor, University of California Berkeley. Presenter: Charisse Burden-Stelly.
Cynthia Spence Session – Scholars Transforming the Academy: Histories Created, Reimagined, and Retold
Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St. Northwest, Atlanta, GA, United StatesModerator: Cinthya Neal Spence, Spelman College. Presenter: Nafeesa H. Muhammad, Spelman College. Presenter: Vincent Willis, New College of Florida. Presenter: Mahaliah A. Little, Spelman College. Presenter: Maurice Hobson, Georgia State University. Presenter: Kenton Rambsy, Howard University. Presenter: Tanya N. Clark, Morehouse College.
Thursday Luncheon – ASALH 110th Annual Conference
Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St. Northwest, Atlanta, GA, United StatesThursday Luncheon Speaker is Dr. Edda Fields Black, Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History for her work Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War Edda L. Fields-Black is the author of Deep Roots: Rice Farmers in West Africa and the African Diaspora and was executive producer and librettist of Unburied, Unmourned, Unmarked: […]
Towards a Theory of Liberation: The State of Black Radicalism Today – Thursday Plenary Session
Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St. Northwest, Atlanta, GA, United StatesModerator: Ashley Howard, University of Iowa. Panelist: Charisse Burden-Stelly, Wayne State University. Panelist: Gerald Horne. Panelist: Akinyele Umoja, Georgia State University African American Studies. Panelist: Joy James, Williams College.
Presidential Sessions – Fourth Convening and Live Radio Broadcast: “Today with Dr. Kaye”
Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St. Northwest, Atlanta, GA, United StatesPresenter: Karsonya Wise Whitehead, Loyola University. Panelist: Daryl Michael Scott, Former ASALH National President More speakers to follow!
Film Festival: The Pruitt-Igoe Myth (2011)
The Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St., NW, Atlanta, GA, United StatesThe Pruitt-Igoe Myth explores the rise & fall of the titular housing complex in St. Louis, examining racism & gov. Policies through interviews with former residents & historical footage. Ft […]
Key Sessions – A’N’T I A Woman?: Reflections on Black Women’s Lives and Labors After Forty Years
Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St. Northwest, Atlanta, GA, United StatesChair: Cinnamon Williams, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Presenter: Candice Merritt, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Presenter: Beatrice J Adams. Presenter: Olivia Johnson, Emory University.
Community Forum: Black Public High Schools, 1870-1970 – ASALH 110th Annual Conference
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Hine-Horne Book Roundtable – A Soldier’s Life: A Black Woman’s Rise from Army Brat to Six Triple Eight Champion
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Film Festival: Booker’s Place: A Mississippi Story (2012)
The Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St., NW, Atlanta, GA, United StatesWhile filming a documentary in Mississippi in 1965, Frank De Felitta forever changed the life of an African-American waiter and his family. In 2011, Frank’s son returns to the Delta […]
Thursday Night Out & Journal Of African American History Reception – ASALH 110th Annual Conference
Clark Atlanta University, University Student Center 223 James P. Brawley Dr SW, Atlanta, United States
Film Festival: Killer of Sheep (1978)
The Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St., NW, Atlanta, GA, United StatesAn African-American man working at a slaughterhouse in the Watts area of Los Angeles leads a dissatisfied and listless existence.
Exhibitors at the 110th Annual Conference
The Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St., NW, Atlanta, GA, United States
Key Sessions – Black Women’s Work: Understanding Local Organizing Traditions Within the Civil Rights Movement
Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St. Northwest, Atlanta, GA, United StatesChair: Beatrice J Adams. Presenter: Allison Mashell Mitchell, University of Notre Dame. Presenter: Jessica A. Rucker, University of Maryland College Park. Presenter: JoCora Moore, Elizabeth City State University. Presenter: Christina J Thomas.
Key Sessions – A Discussion on the History of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee’s Freedom Schools with Charles Cobb, Jr.
Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St. Northwest, Atlanta, GA, United StatesChair: Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua. Presenter: Charles Cobb, SNCC Veteran. Presenter: Augustus Wood. Presenter: Leslie Etienne, Joseph T. Taylor Branch of ASALH. Presenter: Faith Golden, African American Museum of Dallas
Key Sessions – The Life & Legacy of Robert L. Allen
Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St. Northwest, Atlanta, GA, United StatesModerator: Stephanie Fortado, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Participant: Charisse Burden-Stelly. Participant: Ula Yvette Taylor, University of California Berkeley. Participant: Lia T Bascomb.
Film Festival: Sorry to Bother You (2018)
The Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St., NW, Atlanta, GA, United StatesIn an alternate present-day version of Oakland, black telemarketer Cassius Green discovers a magical key to professional success, which propels him into a macabre universe.
Key Sessions – Crusaders for Justice: Robert & Mabel Williams’ Memoirs and Their Value for the Twenty-First Century
Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St. Northwest, Atlanta, GA, United StatesChair: Edward Onaci, Ursinus College. Presenter: Akinyele Umoja, Georgia State University. Presenter: Claude Marks, Freedom Archives. Presenter: Gloria House, University of Michigan-Dearborn.
Poster Sessions – 110th Annual Conference
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Key Sessions – Labor History Meets Black History: A Conversation Between LAWCHA and ASALH
Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St. Northwest, Atlanta, GA, United States
Presidential Sessions – Framing the “Freedom Season”: A Meditation on 1963
Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St. Northwest, Atlanta, GA, United StatesChair: Karsonya Wise Whitehead, Loyola University. Discussant: Candace Cunningham, University of Arkansas. Presenter: Peniel E. Joseph, University of Texas at Austin. Presenter: Zebulon Vance Miletsky, Manhattan Branch of ASALH. Presenter: Kellie Carter Jackson, Wellesley College.
Friday Blassingame Luncheon – ASALH 110th Annual Conference
Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St. Northwest, Atlanta, GA, United StatesThe John Blassingame Luncheon is named after one of ASALH’s stalwart members. Born on March 23, 1940, in Covington, Georgia, the future historian graduated from Fort Valley State College, received a master’s from Howard University, and a doctorate from Yale University. He began his teaching career at Howard and spent the majority of his career […]
The Legacy and Scholarship of Joe William Trotter, Jr. – Friday Plenary Session
The Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St., NW, Atlanta, GA, United StatesParticipant: Augustus Wood Participant: Sundiata Kieta Cha-Jua Participant: Blair LM Kelley (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill) Participant: Leslie M. Harris (Northwestern University) Commentator: Joe W. Trotter (Carnegie Mellon University Dept. […]
Key Sessions – Howard Mellon Workshop: Social Justice and Labor
Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St. Northwest, Atlanta, GA, United StatesLeader: Lisa Brock, Mellon Foundation.
Hine-Horne Book Roundtable – Freedom Season: How 1963 Transformed America’s Civil Rights Revolution
Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St. Northwest, Atlanta, GA, United States
Teaching Black History as Resistance
Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St. Northwest, Atlanta, GA, United States
Film Festival: Clara’s Fruit (2025)
The Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St., NW, Atlanta, GA, United StatesA principal lovingly reflects on the 90-year legacy of Mohammed Schools of Atlanta, the first Muslim private school system in the country.
Film Festival: Hollywood Shuffle (1987)
The Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St., NW, Atlanta, GA, United StatesAspiring actor and hot-dog stand employee Bobby Taylor catches the ire of his grandmother for auditioning for a role in the regrettably titled exploitation film “Jivetime Jimmy’s Revenge.” When Tinseltown […]
Authors’ Book Signing – 110th Annual Conference
The Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St., NW, Atlanta, GA, United States
Film Festival: Union (2024) (With Guest Chris Smalls)
The Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St., NW, Atlanta, GA, United StatesUp against one of the most powerful companies on the planet, a group of Amazon workers embark on an unprecedented campaign to unionize their warehouse in Staten Island, New York.
Boots on the Ground Friday Night In Reception
The Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St., NW, Atlanta, GA, United States
Exhibitors at the 110th Annual Conference
The Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St., NW, Atlanta, GA, United States
Hine-Horne Book Roundtable – Class Warfare in Black Atlanta: Grassroots Struggles, Power and Repression Under Gentrification
Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St. Northwest, Atlanta, GA, United States
Ava Greenwell Festival
The Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St., NW, Atlanta, GA, United StatesHearing Silences: 50 Years of Black Women Faculty at Northwestern University (2025), Ava Thompson Greenwell (37 min) Mandela in Chicago. Ava Thompson Greenwell (55 min): Details the period during which Nelson Mandela toured Chicago.
Key Sessions – 1776 and the Revolt Against British Rule
Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St. Northwest, Atlanta, GA, United StatesChair and Commentator: Gerald Horne. Presenter: Sean Gallagher, University of South Carolina. Presenter: Maria Esther Hammack. Presenter: Andrew Lawler, Author and Journalist.
Key Sessions – Our Black Shining Prince: Malcolm X at 100
Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St. Northwest, Atlanta, GA, United StatesChair: Darius J Young, Florida A&M University. Presenter: JoAnna LeFlore-Ejike. Presenter: Ibram X Kendi. Presenter: Peniel E. Joseph, University of Texas-Austin. Presenter: Ashley Farmer, University of Texas-Austin.
Key Sessions – Black Public Workers and the Dignity of Labor
Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St. Northwest, Atlanta, GA, United StatesChair: Errin Haines, The 19th News. Presenter: William Jones, University of Minnesota. Presenter: Jane Berger, Moravian College. Presenter: Marc Bayard, Institute for Policy Studies. Presenter: Elizabeth Todd-Breland, The University of Illinois at Chicago.
Key Sessions – A Pipeline of Black History Connecting Alaska and Oklahoma
Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St. Northwest, Atlanta, GA, United StatesModerator: Ian Hartman, University of Alaska Anchorage. Panelist: Hannibal B. Johnson, 400 Years of African American History Commission. Panelist: Jewel Jones, 400 Years of African American History Commission. Panelist: Eleanor Andrews, 400 Years of African History Commission.