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Renaissance Montgomery Hotel & Spa at the Convention Center 201 Tallapoosa Street, Montgomery, AL, United States
Social Justice Thursday: First Aid To Free US
Renaissance Montgomery Hotel & Spa at the Convention Center 201 Tallapoosa Street, Montgomery, AL, United States
ASALH Film Festival: Hidden in Full View
Renaissance Montgomery Hotel & Spa at the Convention Center 201 Tallapoosa Street, Montgomery, AL, United StatesHidden in Full View introduces the story of the lynching of Matthew Williams in Salisbury, Maryland. The story of townspeople who stole a life, terrorized Black residents, destroyed the Black business district, listened to the testimony from 124 witnesses to the brutal lynching, and yet held no one accountable. To this day.
Plenary Session: A Round Table Discussion of Justice Deferred: Race and the Supreme Court
Renaissance Montgomery Hotel & Spa at the Convention Center 201 Tallapoosa Street, Montgomery, AL, United StatesThis Plenary Session, sponsored by the Howard/Mellon Social Justice Consortium, features panelists Fred Gray, Orville Vernon Burton, Armand Derfner, Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Hilary N. Green, and Robert L. Harris, Jr.
Justice Deffered Roundtable: Race & the Supreme Court
Renaissance Montgomery Hotel & Spa at the Convention Center 201 Tallapoosa Street, Montgomery, AL, United States
Virtual Author’s Book Talk Event: Timetra White
VirtualFinding Liv
Virtual Author’s Book Talk Event: Jesse Olsavsky
VirtualThe Most Absolute Abolition: Runaways, Vigilance Committees, and the Rise of Revolutionary Abolitionism, 1835–1861
Virtual Author’s Book Talk Event: June Manning Thomas
VirtualStruggling to Learn: An Intimate History of School Desegregation in South Carolina
BELLY OF THE BEAST
Renaissance Montgomery Hotel & Spa at the Convention Center 201 Tallapoosa Street, Montgomery, AL, United StatesBelly of the Beast: When a courageous young woman and a radical lawyer discover a pattern of illegal sterilizations in California’s women’s prisons, they wage a near-impossible battle against the Department of Corrections.
In-Person Author’s Book Signing
Renaissance Montgomery Hotel & Spa at the Convention Center 201 Tallapoosa Street, Montgomery, AL, United StatesAttend in the In-Person Author’s Book Signing at the 107th Annual Meeting and Conference on Thursday, September 29, 2022 from 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. CST
Virtual Author’s Book Talk Event: Steven Xavier Lee
VirtualThe Story of Mr. Thomas Carney: A Maryland Patriot of the American Revolutionary War
Virtual Author’s Book Talk Event: Dante King
VirtualThe 400-Year Holocaust
Virtual Author’s Book Talk Event: Mary L. Romney-Schaab
VirtualAn Afro-Caribbean in the Nazi Era: From Papiamentu to German
Virtual Author’s Book Talk Event: Wendy Reed-Randall
VirtualThe Most Absolute Abolition: Runaways, Vigilance Committees, and the Rise of Revolutionary Abolitionism, 1835–1861
Virtual Author’s Book Talk Event: Kimberly A. Matthews
VirtualImages of America: The Richmond 34 and the Civil Rights Movement
Virtual Author’s Book Talk Event: Sonya Ramsey
VirtualBertha Maxwell-Roddey: A Modern-Day Race Woman and the Power of Black Leadership
BLACK FEMINIST
Renaissance Montgomery Hotel & Spa at the Convention Center 201 Tallapoosa Street, Montgomery, AL, United StatesBLACK FEMINIST is a lively and illuminating documentary that explores the double-edged sword of racial and gender oppression that Black Women face in America.
Virtual Author’s Book Talk Event: Greg Wiggan
VirtualThe Healing Power of Education: Afrocentric Pedagogy as a Tool for Restoration and Liberation
Virtual Author’s Book Talk Event: Kimberly D. Hill
VirtualA Higher Mission: The Careers of Alonzo and Althea Brown Edmiston in Central Africa
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Renaissance Montgomery Hotel & Spa at the Convention Center 201 Tallapoosa Street, Montgomery, AL, United States
FANNIE LOU HAMER’S AMERICA
Renaissance Montgomery Hotel & Spa at the Convention Center 201 Tallapoosa Street, Montgomery, AL, United StatesFANNIE LOU HAMER’S AMERICA, a documentary producer by her grand-niece Monica Land, is a portrait of a civil rights activist and the injustices in America that made her work essential.
The Black Women’s Agenda, Inc. Save-the-Date
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Hine-Horne Book Roundtable: Better Living by Their Own Bootstraps: Black Women’s Activism in Rural Arkansas, 1914-1965 by Cherisse Jones Branch
Renaissance Montgomery Hotel & Spa at the Convention Center 201 Tallapoosa Street, Montgomery, AL, United StatesThis panel explores Jones-Branch's 2021 publication, Better Living by Their Own Bootstraps: Black Women’s Activism in Rural Arkansas, 1914-1965.
Felix Armfield Series: Career Pathways Outside of Academia
Renaissance Montgomery Hotel & Spa at the Convention Center 201 Tallapoosa Street, Montgomery, AL, United StatesThis roundtable will discuss career pathways outside of academia including archival work, the National Park Service, and museum work.
ASALH Film Festival: The SixTripleEight
Renaissance Montgomery Hotel & Spa at the Convention Center 201 Tallapoosa Street, Montgomery, AL, United StatesIn February 1945, the U.S. Army sent 855 black women from the Women’s Army Corps (WACs) to England and France to clear the backlog of mail in the European Theater of Operations. The 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, known as the SixTripleEight, was the only all-black female battalion to serve in Europe during WWII. Confronted with racism and sexism from their own leadership and troops, they served with honor and distinction completing their mission in six months.
Felix Armfield Series: Learning Lunch: “And who are you? What do you do?”
Renaissance Montgomery Hotel & Spa at the Convention Center 201 Tallapoosa Street, Montgomery, AL, United StatesThis roundtable/workshop/discussion involves questions and responses from preeminent scholars who are mentors and academic leaders in their fields.
Friday Woodson Luncheon
Renaissance Montgomery Hotel & Spa at the Convention Center 201 Tallapoosa Street, Montgomery, AL, United States
ASALH Film Festival: A Crime on the Bayou
Renaissance Montgomery Hotel & Spa at the Convention Center 201 Tallapoosa Street, Montgomery, AL, United StatesA CRIME ON THE BAYOU chronicles the legal fight as it goes all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, and in the process enshrines the Constitutional right to a jury trial at the state level.
Key Session: A Conversation on the Role, Legacy, and Future of HBCUs in Higher Education
Renaissance Montgomery Hotel & Spa at the Convention Center 201 Tallapoosa Street, Montgomery, AL, United StatesThis Plenary Session features panelists Bertis D. English, Eddie R. Cole, Crystal R. Sanders, Adam Harris, and Jelani M. Favors.
Hine-Horne Book Roundtable: America, Goddam: Violence, Women, and The Struggle for Justice by Treva Lindsey
Renaissance Montgomery Hotel & Spa at the Convention Center 201 Tallapoosa Street, Montgomery, AL, United StatesThis Roundtable explores Treva Lindsey's publication, America, Goddam: Violence, Women, and The Struggle for Justice.
Key Session: Remembering the Roots of Funk: An Oral History with Fred Wesley & Dr. Scot Brown
Renaissance Montgomery Hotel & Spa at the Convention Center 201 Tallapoosa Street, Montgomery, AL, United States
Felix Armfield Series: Dissertation Pitch Lightening Round
Renaissance Montgomery Hotel & Spa at the Convention Center 201 Tallapoosa Street, Montgomery, AL, United StatesSign up to give a three minute presentation on your dissertation topic. Top three will get prizes.
Key Session: I Fear For My Life
Renaissance Montgomery Hotel & Spa at the Convention Center 201 Tallapoosa Street, Montgomery, AL, United StatesThis Plenary Session features panelists Cheryl T. Grills, Veronica T. Watson, Lewis H. Rogers Jr., and Joseph L. Green.
STORMING CAESARS PALACE
Renaissance Montgomery Hotel & Spa at the Convention Center 201 Tallapoosa Street, Montgomery, AL, United StatesStorming Caesars Palace challenges the pernicious lie of the “Welfare Queen,” and highlights the visionary leadership of low-income grassroots organizers whose courage, tenacity and dreams could not be quashed, against all odds.
Plenary Session: The Alabama Black Belt National Heritage Area: Healing Through History & Culture
Renaissance Montgomery Hotel & Spa at the Convention Center 201 Tallapoosa Street, Montgomery, AL, United StatesThis Plenary Session features panelists Eboni Preston Goddard, Tina Naremore Jones, Josephine Bolling McCall, Phillip Howard, Joshua Jenkins, and Meg Ford.
Virtual Author’s Book Talk Event: Elizabeth A. Burns
VirtualPicturing Freedom: African Americans & Their Cars, A Photographic History
Virtual Author’s Book Talk Event: Joan Oxendine
VirtualGrowing Up in the United States of America
On-site Exhibitor Booths and Marketplace
Renaissance Montgomery Hotel & Spa at the Convention Center 201 Tallapoosa Street, Montgomery, AL, United States
Hine-Horne Book Roundtable: Black Patience: Performance, Civil Rights, and The Unfinished Project of Emancipation by Julius Fleming
Renaissance Montgomery Hotel & Spa at the Convention Center 201 Tallapoosa Street, Montgomery, AL, United StatesThis roundtable explores Julius Fleming's publication, Black Patience: Performance, Civil Rights, and The Unfinished Project of Emancipation.
Social Justice @ ASALH: How to Lead Social Justice
Renaissance Montgomery Hotel & Spa at the Convention Center 201 Tallapoosa Street, Montgomery, AL, United States
STATELESS: A RACE AGAINST TIME. A TIME AGAINST RACE.
Renaissance Montgomery Hotel & Spa at the Convention Center 201 Tallapoosa Street, Montgomery, AL, United StatesThe ruling that rendered more than 200,000 people stateless, without nationality, identity or a homeland, a young attorney named Rosa Iris mounts a grassroots campaign, challenging electoral corruption and advocating for social justice.
John Blassingame Luncheon
Renaissance Montgomery Hotel & Spa at the Convention Center 201 Tallapoosa Street, Montgomery, AL, United States
BARBARA LEE: SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER
Renaissance Montgomery Hotel & Spa at the Convention Center 201 Tallapoosa Street, Montgomery, AL, United StatesBARBARA LEE: SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER is an intimate and inspiring portrait of Representative Barbara Lee, a champion of civil rights and a steadfast voice for human rights, peace, and economic and racial justice in the U.S. Congress.
Presidential Session: Exploring Various Aspects of Black Health and Wellness
Renaissance Montgomery Hotel & Spa at the Convention Center 201 Tallapoosa Street, Montgomery, AL, United StatesThis Presidential Session features panelists W. Marvin Dulaney, Chastity Bradford, DeWayne Ellis, and Tom Ellison
Key Session: The Craft of Writing Black Women’s Biography
Renaissance Montgomery Hotel & Spa at the Convention Center 201 Tallapoosa Street, Montgomery, AL, United StatesThis Key Session features panelists Daina Ramey Berry, Tanisha Ford, Ashley Farmer, KT Ewing, and Anastasia Curwood.
Key Session: How Black Practitioners Rewrite, Re-Narrate and Reimagine Health Equity
Renaissance Montgomery Hotel & Spa at the Convention Center 201 Tallapoosa Street, Montgomery, AL, United StatesThis Key Session features panelists Maranda C. Ward, Vanessa Northington Gamble, Valin S. Jordan, and Dr. Yolanda Lewis-Ragland.
ASALH Film Festival: Sweet Home Alabama & Afrikan By Way Of American
Renaissance Montgomery Hotel & Spa at the Convention Center 201 Tallapoosa Street, Montgomery, AL, United StatesTwo films on Africatown, Alabama
Plenary Session: The History of Black Women and Health
Renaissance Montgomery Hotel & Spa at the Convention Center 201 Tallapoosa Street, Montgomery, AL, United StatesThis Plenary Session features panelists Ameenah Shakir, Michelle Browder, Stephanie Y. Evans, Kimberly Jeffries Leonard, and Deirdre Cooper Owens.
AMERICA’S WAR ON ABORTION
Renaissance Montgomery Hotel & Spa at the Convention Center 201 Tallapoosa Street, Montgomery, AL, United StatesIn this BAFTA award-winning film, America's War on Abortion, two-time Emmy and Peabody award-winning filmmaker Deeyah Khan examines the erosion of reproductive rights in the United States, foregrounding the stories of those often forgotten in this ‘war’ who nonetheless find themselves on its frontline: impoverished women and women of color.