Annual Meeting and Conference

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• 110th Annual Conference

  Sep 24

  September 24 @ 8:00 am - September 28 @ 5:00 pm EDT

  110th Annual Conference

• Workshop – Video Production for Historic Sites: Capturing the Legacy of the Civil Rights Movement

  Sep 24

  12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

  Workshop – Video Production for Historic Sites: Capturing the Legacy of the Civil Rights Movement

• ASALH Executive Council Meeting

  Sep 24

  1:30 pm - 3:30 pm

  ASALH Executive Council Meeting

• Hine-Horne Book Roundtable – If We Don’t Get It: A People’s History of Ferguson

  Sep 24

  2:15 pm - 3:45 pm

  Hine-Horne Book Roundtable – If We Don’t Get It: A People’s History of Ferguson

• Opening Plenary Session NPC – ASALH 110th Annual Conference

  Sep 24

  4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

  Opening Plenary Session NPC – ASALH 110th Annual Conference

• ASALH 110th Annual Conference Opening Reception

  Sep 24

  6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

  ASALH 110th Annual Conference Opening Reception

• African American Heritage Bus Tour

  Sep 25

  7:30 am - 12:00 pm

  African American Heritage Bus Tour

• Key Sessions – Remembering and Memorializing Black Labor: Public History as Preservation and Policy-Making

  Sep 25

  8:30 am - 9:30 am

  Key Sessions – Remembering and Memorializing Black Labor: Public History as Preservation and Policy-Making

• Hine-Horne Book Roundtable – Midwest Unrest: 1960s Urban Rebellions and the Black Freedom Movement

  Sep 25

  8:30 am - 9:50 am

  Hine-Horne Book Roundtable – Midwest Unrest: 1960s Urban Rebellions and the Black Freedom Movement

• The Statue of Liberty is Black: Perspectives from a Volatile Research Project

  Sep 25

  8:30 am - 9:50 am

  The Statue of Liberty is Black: Perspectives from a Volatile Research Project

• Exhibitors at the 110th Annual Conference

  Sep 25

  9:00 am - 6:00 pm

  Exhibitors at the 110th Annual Conference

• Film Festival: 10,000 Black Men Named George (2002)

  Sep 25

  9:30 am - 11:50 am

  Film Festival: 10,000 Black Men Named George (2002)

• Key Sessions – Building Harlem’s Global World: Lessons from Hubert Harrison and the Women of Universal Negro Improvement Association

  Sep 25

  10:15 am - 11:00 am

  Key Sessions – Building Harlem’s Global World: Lessons from Hubert Harrison and the Women of Universal Negro Improvement Association

• Cynthia Spence Session – Scholars Transforming the Academy: Histories Created, Reimagined, and Retold

  Sep 25

  10:15 am - 11:00 am

  Cynthia Spence Session – Scholars Transforming the Academy: Histories Created, Reimagined, and Retold

• Thursday Luncheon – ASALH 110th Annual Conference

  Sep 25

  12:00 pm - 1:45 pm

  Thursday Luncheon – ASALH 110th Annual Conference

• Towards a Theory of Liberation: The State of Black Radicalism Today – Thursday Plenary Session

  Sep 25

  2:15 pm - 3:45 pm

  Towards a Theory of Liberation: The State of Black Radicalism Today – Thursday Plenary Session

• Presidential Sessions – Fourth Convening and Live Radio Broadcast: “Today with Dr. Kaye”

  Sep 25

  3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

  Presidential Sessions – Fourth Convening and Live Radio Broadcast: “Today with Dr. Kaye”

• Film Festival: The Pruitt-Igoe Myth (2011)

  Sep 25

  3:50 pm - 5:00 pm

  Film Festival: The Pruitt-Igoe Myth (2011)

• Key Sessions – A’N’T I A Woman?: Reflections on Black Women’s Lives and Labors After Forty Years

  Sep 25

  4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

  Key Sessions – A’N’T I A Woman?: Reflections on Black Women’s Lives and Labors After Forty Years

• Community Forum: Black Public High Schools, 1870-1970 – ASALH 110th Annual Conference

  Sep 25

  4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

  Community Forum: Black Public High Schools, 1870-1970 – ASALH 110th Annual Conference

• Hine-Horne Book Roundtable – A Soldier’s Life: A Black Woman’s Rise from Army Brat to Six Triple Eight Champion

  Sep 25

  4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

  Hine-Horne Book Roundtable – A Soldier’s Life: A Black Woman’s Rise from Army Brat to Six Triple Eight Champion

• Film Festival: Booker’s Place: A Mississippi Story (2012)

  Sep 25

  6:15 pm - 8:15 pm

  Film Festival: Booker’s Place: A Mississippi Story (2012)

• Thursday Night Out & Journal Of African American History Reception – ASALH 110th Annual Conference

  Sep 25

  6:30 pm - 9:30 pm

  Thursday Night Out & Journal Of African American History Reception – ASALH 110th Annual Conference

• Film Festival: Killer of Sheep (1978)

  Sep 25

  8:30 pm - 10:30 pm

  Film Festival: Killer of Sheep (1978)

• Exhibitors at the 110th Annual Conference

  Sep 26

  8:00 am - 9:00 pm

  Exhibitors at the 110th Annual Conference

• Key Sessions – Black Women’s Work: Understanding Local Organizing Traditions Within the Civil Rights Movement

  Sep 26

  8:30 am - 9:30 am

  Key Sessions – Black Women’s Work: Understanding Local Organizing Traditions Within the Civil Rights Movement

• Key Sessions – A Discussion on the History of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee’s Freedom Schools with Charles Cobb, Jr.

  Sep 26

  8:30 am - 9:30 am

  Key Sessions – A Discussion on the History of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee’s Freedom Schools with Charles Cobb, Jr.

• Key Sessions – The Life & Legacy of Robert L. Allen

  Sep 26

  8:30 am - 9:30 pm

  Key Sessions – The Life & Legacy of Robert L. Allen

• Film Festival: Sorry to Bother You (2018)

  Sep 26

  9:00 am - 11:00 am

  Film Festival: Sorry to Bother You (2018)

• Key Sessions – Crusaders for Justice: Robert & Mabel Williams’ Memoirs and Their Value for the Twenty-First Century

  Sep 26

  10:15 am - 11:00 am

  Key Sessions – Crusaders for Justice: Robert & Mabel Williams’ Memoirs and Their Value for the Twenty-First Century

• Poster Sessions – 110th Annual Conference

  Sep 26

  10:15 am - 11:45 am

  Poster Sessions – 110th Annual Conference

• Key Sessions – Labor History Meets Black History: A Conversation Between LAWCHA and ASALH

  Sep 26

  10:15 am - 11:45 am

  Key Sessions – Labor History Meets Black History: A Conversation Between LAWCHA and ASALH

• Presidential Sessions – Framing the “Freedom Season”: A Meditation on 1963

  Sep 26

  12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

  Presidential Sessions – Framing the “Freedom Season”: A Meditation on 1963

• Friday Blassingame Luncheon – ASALH 110th Annual Conference

  Sep 26

  12:00 pm - 1:45 pm

  Friday Blassingame Luncheon – ASALH 110th Annual Conference

• The Legacy and Scholarship of Joe William Trotter, Jr. – Friday Plenary Session

  Sep 26

  2:15 pm - 3:45 pm

  The Legacy and Scholarship of Joe William Trotter, Jr. – Friday Plenary Session

• Key Sessions – Howard Mellon Workshop: Social Justice and Labor

  Sep 26

  4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

  Key Sessions – Howard Mellon Workshop: Social Justice and Labor

• Hine-Horne Book Roundtable – Freedom Season: How 1963 Transformed America’s Civil Rights Revolution

  Sep 26

  4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

  Hine-Horne Book Roundtable – Freedom Season: How 1963 Transformed America’s Civil Rights Revolution

• Teaching Black History as Resistance

  Sep 26

  4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

  Teaching Black History as Resistance

• Film Festival: Clara’s Fruit (2025)

  Sep 26

  4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

  Film Festival: Clara’s Fruit (2025)

• Film Festival: Hollywood Shuffle (1987)

  Sep 26

  4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

  Film Festival: Hollywood Shuffle (1987)

• Authors’ Book Signing – 110th Annual Conference

  Sep 26

  7:00 pm - 10:00 pm

  Authors’ Book Signing – 110th Annual Conference

• Film Festival: Union (2024) (With Guest Chris Smalls)

  Sep 26

  7:30 pm - 10:00 pm

  Film Festival: Union (2024) (With Guest Chris Smalls)

• Boots on the Ground Friday Night In Reception

  Sep 26

  8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

  Boots on the Ground Friday Night In Reception

• Exhibitors at the 110th Annual Conference

  Sep 27

  8:00 am - 5:00 pm

  Exhibitors at the 110th Annual Conference

• Hine-Horne Book Roundtable – Class Warfare in Black Atlanta: Grassroots Struggles, Power and Repression Under Gentrification

  Sep 27

  8:30 am - 9:50 am

  Hine-Horne Book Roundtable – Class Warfare in Black Atlanta: Grassroots Struggles, Power and Repression Under Gentrification

• Annual Branch Members’ In-Person Meeting

  Sep 27

  9:00 am - 10:30 am

  Annual Branch Members’ In-Person Meeting

• Ava Greenwell Festival

  Sep 27

  9:00 am - 10:45 am

  Ava Greenwell Festival

• Key Sessions – 1776 and the Revolt Against British Rule

  Sep 27

  10:15 am - 11:00 am

  Key Sessions – 1776 and the Revolt Against British Rule

• Key Sessions – Our Black Shining Prince: Malcolm X at 100

  Sep 27

  10:15 am - 11:00 am

  Key Sessions – Our Black Shining Prince: Malcolm X at 100

• Key Sessions – Black Public Workers and the Dignity of Labor

  Sep 27

  10:15 am - 11:00 am

  Key Sessions – Black Public Workers and the Dignity of Labor