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Dr. John Fleming
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Dr. John Fleming
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Affiliation: Ohio Museums Association, The Association of African American Museums
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Phone Number: 513.477.7065
Email: [email protected]
Session Name: African American Music (Louis Hicks)
Bio:
Dr. John Fleming earned a college degree from Berea College in Berea, Kentucky. He joined the Peace Corps and was assigned to the Ministry of Agriculture in Blantyre, Malawi. Upon returning to the states, John worked with Pride Inc. founded by Marion Barry, who became Mayor of Washington, DC. He was a program analyst for the United States Civil Rights Commission before attending Howard University, Washington, DC where he earned his Master’s and Doctorate in American History.
Dr. John Fleming published The Lengthening Shadow of Slavery and The Case for Affirmative Action for Blacks in Higher Education while a Senior Fellow at the Institute for
the Study of Educational Policy at Howard University. Throughout his career, he has published three books and fifty articles. He joined the Ohio Historical Society in 1980 and
became founding director of the National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center at Wilberforce, Ohio—his first museum. He was later named the director and chief operating officer for the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati, Ohio. In total, Dr. Fleming has developed six museums, which includes the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum and the National Museum of African American Music. He is Director Emeritus of the Cincinnati Museum Center. While in Cincinnati, he was an adjunct professor in the department of history, University of Cincinnati.
Dr. Fleming has served as president of the Ohio Museums Association, the Association for the Study of African American Life and History and the Association of African American Museums. He served on the Ohio Bicentennial Commission for the Constitution and the Northwest Ordinance. He was appointed by President Bush to serve on the Commission for the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. Dr. Fleming is the immediate past director of the National Museum of African American Music that opened in Nashville in 2021. He is president of JE Fleming Associates and is the immediate past chair of the board of the American Association for State and Local History. He was recently appointed by Governor Mike DeWine to serve on Ohio’s Semiquincentenntial Commission. Dr. Fleming recently published a book of his memoir as a Malawi Peace Corps Volunteer.
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