Annual Members Meeting Monday, September 26, 2022 7:30 - 9:30 p.m. EST Registration is required 24 hours prior to the meeting for all voting members This meeting will be held online via Zoom. All members of ASALH are encouraged to attend. Zoom details will be emailed to all members in September. RSVP for The Annual […]
The ASALH Annual Conference is an occasion to explore the history and culture of people of African descent. Our conference brings together more than one thousand people, including educators, students, community builders, business professionals, and others who share an abiding interest in learning about the contribution of African Americans to this nation and the world.
Hidden 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.
This 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.
The Most Absolute Abolition: Runaways, Vigilance Committees, and the Rise of Revolutionary Abolitionism, 1835–1861
FANNIE 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.
This roundtable will discuss career pathways outside of academia including archival work, the National Park Service, and museum work.
This panel explores Jones-Branch's 2021 publication, Better Living by Their Own Bootstraps: Black Women’s Activism in Rural Arkansas, 1914-1965.
In 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.
This roundtable/workshop/discussion involves questions and responses from preeminent scholars who are mentors and academic leaders in their fields.
A 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.
Sign up to give a three minute presentation on your dissertation topic. Top three will get prizes.
This roundtable explores Julius Fleming's publication, Black Patience: Performance, Civil Rights, and The Unfinished Project of Emancipation.
The 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.
BARBARA 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.
This Presidential Session features panelists W. Marvin Dulaney, Chastity Bradford, DeWayne Ellis, and Tom Ellison
This Key Session features panelists Daina Ramey Berry, Tanisha Ford, Ashley Farmer, KT Ewing, and Anastasia Curwood.
This Key Session features panelists Maranda C. Ward, Vanessa Northington Gamble, Valin S. Jordan, and Dr. Yolanda Lewis-Ragland.
Two films on Africatown, Alabama
It is the story of the Monticello Plantation in Virginia, the estate where Thomas Jefferson wrote letters espousing the urgent need for liberty while enslaving more than four hundred people. It is the story of the Whitney Plantation, one of the only former plantations devoted to preserving the experience of the enslaved people whose lives […]
Program begins at 1pm Topic: Mental Health illnesses and Healthcare What are the Socioeconomic Disparities in Black Mental Healthcare? Saturday October 15, 2022 12:30pm
Join us @ The “Meeting Room” of Valley Forge NHP, or attend live (via Zoom): This presentation represents the culmination of a year’s work examining African American participation during the Valley Forge encampment of 1777 to 1778. Justin B. Clement has written a Historic Resource Study funded by the National Park Service and facilitated through […]
Executive Council Meeting Thursday, October 20, 2022 7:00 - 8:30 p.m. EST Registration is required 24 hours prior to the meeting for all voting members This meeting will be held online via Zoom. All members of ASALH are encouraged to attend. Zoom details will be emailed to all members in October.
The Life of Omar Ibn Said – The only known autobiography to have been penned in Arabic by an enslaved person in the United States has been rediscovered, and now his true message may finally be heard. Who was Omar Ibn Said, and why create an opera based on his life? Find out as Steve […]
