#DismantlePreservation Virtual Unconference will be a one-day free event that will delve into topics such as implicit bias in preservation, preserving the full story, and how to expand who is investing in old buildings. Let’s dismantle historic preservation and rebuild it for the benefit of our communities today and tomorrow. Registration is free. To register click […]
PBS Books will host a virtual engagement event that will feature an Author Interview with Scholar Martha Jones, Ph.D., to discuss her soon-to-be-released book: "Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All" and a Panel Discussion with New York Times best-selling Novelist Tayari Jones and Pulitzer Prize […]
A Conversation with Ida Jones, University Archivist, Morgan State University
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How should the community of African American museums and other history organizations engage with the upcoming commemoration of the United States 250th anniversary? We want to hear from you! The event is free; Register here. As U.S. history organizations advance plans for “America 250,” AASLH is partnering with the Association of African American Museums (AAAM) and the Association for the […]
The wave of anti-racist protests sweeping across the U.S. since the killing of George Floyd on May 25th has propelled issues of discrimination, police violence, and social justice into the national spotlight with an urgency that echoes the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Against this backdrop, preparations for marking the 250th anniversary of the […]
The Greater Kansas City Black History Study Group, The Second Baptist Church of Liberty, MO (GKCBHSG) and community partners present “Where Do We Go From Here?: A Virtual Social Justice Forum,” Friday, August 21, 2020 at 7:00p.m.
ASALH will hold innovative programming in the month of September in lieu of an in-person conference in Montgomery, Alabama. Check back for schedules, times, and other updates.
In the standard story, the suffrage crusade began in Seneca Falls in 1848 and ended with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920. But this overwhelmingly white women’s movement did not win the vote for most black women. Securing their rights required a movement of their own.
John Hervey Wheeler (1908–1978) was one of the civil rights movement’s most influential leaders. In articulating a bold vision of regional prosperity grounded in full citizenship and economic power for African Americans, this banker, lawyer, and visionary would play a key role in the fight for racial and economic equality throughout North Carolina.
This plenary focuses on the critical role women have and can play in government elections.
This is the inside story of how a movement founded by a preacher’s daughter from Birmingham who worked in the Obama White House assembled a team and strategy to send a Democrat to the Senate from Alabama for the first time in 25 years—and then helped to restore voting rights to 1.4 million ex-felons, the most significant expansion of voting rights since the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
As one of the sites in America’s Civil Rights Crossroads, Alabama helped draw international media attention to the need for change in America. This panel presents the insights of some of Alabama’s greatest gifts to the world, social justice activists and human rights champions.
