Executive Council Meeting
Online via ZoomRegistration is required 24 hours prior to the meeting for all voting members.
Registration is required 24 hours prior to the meeting for all voting members.
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.
Finding Liv
The Most Absolute Abolition: Runaways, Vigilance Committees, and the Rise of Revolutionary Abolitionism, 1835–1861
Struggling to Learn: An Intimate History of School Desegregation in South Carolina
Belly of the Beast: When a courageous young woman and a radical lawyer discover a pattern of illegal sterilizations in California’s women’s prisons, they wage a near-impossible battle against the Department of Corrections.
Attend in the In-Person Author’s Book Signing at the 107th Annual Meeting and Conference on Thursday, September 29, 2022 from 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. CST
The Story of Mr. Thomas Carney: A Maryland Patriot of the American Revolutionary War
The 400-Year Holocaust
An Afro-Caribbean in the Nazi Era: From Papiamentu to German
The Most Absolute Abolition: Runaways, Vigilance Committees, and the Rise of Revolutionary Abolitionism, 1835–1861
Images of America: The Richmond 34 and the Civil Rights Movement
Bertha Maxwell-Roddey: A Modern-Day Race Woman and the Power of Black Leadership