Thursday, October 3, 2019 at 6:00 p.m.
The Featured Authors Event will take place on Thursday, October 3, 2019, as part of the 104th Annual ASALH Conference, October 2-6, 2018, in Charleston, SC. The event is open to the public and will be held in the C1 and C2 in the Charleston Area Convention Center in North Charleston. Conference Registration is not a prerequisite to participate in the featured Authors Event.
Our annual meeting is an occasion to share the cultural and historical contributions by people of African descent. Attendees from across the nation and around the world will convene to explore the 2019 National Black History theme: Black Migrations.
With over 200 panels featuring prominent figures in Black cultural studies, as well as scholars and students from all disciplines, the ASALH Conference presents an optimal opportunity for you to present your research and current projects, as well as, learn about some of the other leading projects in the field of African American History.
Please plan to take advantage of this great opportunity.
Takeia Anthony
The Universal Ethiopian Students’ Association, 1927-1948: Mobilizing Diaspora
Martha Bireda
The Womb Rebellion
Nemata Blyden
African American and Africa
Charlie Bolton
Fugitivism: Escaping Slavery in the lower Mississippi Valley, 1820-1860
Alphonso Brown
A Gullah Guide to Charleston
Ronald Briscoe
My Daddy is Everything!
Arthur Burnett
Pieces Never Missing
Theresa Canada
Desegregation of the New York City Schools: A Story of The Silk Stocking Sisters
Glenn Chambers
From the Banana Zones to the Big Easy: West Indian and Central American Immigration to New Orleans, 1910-1940
Lee Chavous
Dreams of My Ancestors
James E. Cheek
Williams and Jenkins, Halifax County, North Carolina: A Legacy of Africans, Natives and European Immigrants in the United States
Elizabeth Cobbs
The Tubman Command, A Novel
Karen Cook-Bell
Claiming Freedom
Stephanie Deutsch
You Need a School House, Booker T. Washington, Julius Rosenwald, and the Building of Schools for the Segregated South
Lewis Diuguid
Our Fathers Making Black Men
Angela Dodson
Remember the Ladies
Cicero Milton Fain
Black Huntington: An Appalachian Story
Jelani Favors
Shelter in a Time of Storm: How Black Colleges Fostered Generations of Leadership and Activism
Jonathan B. Fenderson
Building the Black Arts Movement: Hoyt Fuller and the Cultural Politics of the 1960s
Stephen Ferguson and John McClendon
African American Philosophers and Philosophy: An Introduction to the History, Concepts, and Contemporary Issues
Minuette Floyd
A Place to Worship
Gary Ford
Constance Baker Motley One Woman Fight for Civil Rights and Equal Justice Under Law
Damon Fordham
True Stories of Black South Carolina
Dr. Al Fraser
To Be or not…to Bop – Memoirs Dizzy Gillespie
Pauline J. Furman
When God Shows Up on the Couch
LaBrenda Garrett-Nelson
A Guide to Researching African American Ancestors in Laurens County, South Carolina and Selected Finding Aids
Shennette Garrett-Scott
Banking on Freedom: Black Women in U.S. Finance before the New Deal
Carroll Green
Almost Heaven It Wasn’t Even Close A Legacy of Love
Angel Harriott
Journey to the Sea Islands: Gullah Geechee Good!
Katrina Hazzard
Jookin’: The Rise of Social Dance Formations in African American Culture
Tekla Ali Hopkins-Johnson
Free Radical: Ernest Chambers, Black Power, and the Politics of Race
Elista Istre
Creoles of South Louisiana: Three Centuries Strong
Eric Jackson
Let Freedom Ring for Everyone: The Diversity of Our Nation
Andre Johnson
The Struggle over Black Lives Matter and All Lives Matter
Marlen Jones
Secrets Untold
Melvina F. Jones
Roxboro Roots: North Carolina Families Leave Their Imprint on America’s Story
Jeffrey R.Kerr-Ritchie
Rebellious Passage: The Creole Revolt and America’s Coastal Slave Trade
Tiffany Lee
Voices of the Race Riots: Beyond the Red Summer
Josephine Bolling McCall
The Penalty for Success: My Father was Lynched in Lowndes County Alabama
John H. McClendon III
Black Christology and the Quest for Authenticity: A Philosophical appraisal
Al Miller
Tourists Can Say the Darndest Things: Exploring Historic Charleston, South Carolina
Ruth Miller
Slavery to Civil Rights: A Walking Tour of African-American Charleston
Traci Parker
Department Stores and the Black Freedom Movement: Workers, Consumers, and Civil Rights from the 1930s to the 1980s
Alicea Peyton
The Evolution of Land-Use Enforcement (The Storefront Church Movement)
Anita D. Russell
I Wanna See Laney’s House
Julie L. Seely
Skinny House- A Memoir of Family
Daniel Smith
African-Americans and Charleston Histories Intertwined
Joleene Maddox Snider
Claiming Sunday: The Story of a Texas Slave Community
Carl Suddler
Presumed Criminal: Black Youth and the Justice System in Postwar New York
Duann Thomas-Mathis
Maplehill
Elizabeth Todd-Breland
A Political Education: Black Politics and Education Reform in Chicago Since the 1960s
Kelenne Tuitt
Be Irie – A Caribbean Handbook to Develop Healthy Habits””
Rebecca Tuuri
Strategic Sisterhood: The National Council of Negro Women in the Black Freedom Struggle
Louis Venters
A History of the Baha’i Faith in South Carolina
Dekalb Walcott
Black Heroes of Fire
Derrick White
Blood, Sweat and Tears: Jake Gaither, Florida A&M, and the History of Black College Football
Greg Wiggan
Dreaming of a Place Called Home: Local and International Perspectives on Teacher Education and School Diversity
Junius Williams
Unfinished Agenda Urban Politics in the Era of Black Power
Sonja Williams
Word Warrior: Richard Durham, Radio, and Freedom
