Executive Council Meeting

Online via Zoom

Registration is required 24 hours prior to the meeting for all voting members.

107th Annual Meeting and Conference

Renaissance Montgomery Hotel & Spa at the Convention Center 201 Tallapoosa Street, Montgomery, AL, United States

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.

ASALH Film Festival: Hidden in Full View

Renaissance Montgomery Hotel & Spa at the Convention Center 201 Tallapoosa Street, Montgomery, AL, United States

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.

Plenary Session: A Round Table Discussion of Justice Deferred: Race and the Supreme Court

Renaissance Montgomery Hotel & Spa at the Convention Center 201 Tallapoosa Street, Montgomery, AL, United States

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.

BELLY OF THE BEAST

Renaissance Montgomery Hotel & Spa at the Convention Center 201 Tallapoosa Street, Montgomery, AL, United States

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.

In-Person Author’s Book Signing

Renaissance Montgomery Hotel & Spa at the Convention Center 201 Tallapoosa Street, Montgomery, AL, United States

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