AAAHRP 4th Annual Black History Conference - Seattle, WA. February 3, 2007

“The Black Experience: Presenting History’s Hidden Pages
Honorary Conference Chairperson Dr. Tunde Adeleke

AAAHRP is honored that Dr. Tunde Adeleke has accepted the position
of Honorary Conference Chairperson for its 2007 Black History
Conference. Tunde Adeleke is a native of Nigeria who is presently
Professor of History and Director of the African American Studies
Program at Iowa State University. He is also affiliated with Iowa
State’s Center for American Intercultural Studies where he is helping
to develop curricula in intercultural and multicultural education.
Prior to joining Iowa State, Dr. Adeleke taught at several institutions
including, Ohio State, Loyola (New Orleans), Tulane, North Carolina
State and Montana. He has researched and published extensively in such
critical areas as Black Nationalism, Pan-Africanism, Afrocentricity,
Black Biography, and African American identity. He is a scholar of
global reputation whose publications have provoked critical acclaim and
reviews. He has traveled and lectured extensively in Africa, Europe,
North America and Australia. He is listed in Who’s who in American
Higher Education and Who’s who in the Humanities. He is also a past
President of the Southern Conference on African American Studies.

Scheduled Keynote Speaker: Dr. Violet Malone

Violet Marie Malone is Professor, Emeritus, Adult Higher
Education in the Woodring College of Education at Western Washington
University, Bellingham, Washington.

Dr. Malone serves as WWU Faculty liaison for the Community
Leadership Advisory Council (CLAC) for the Woodring Council. Her major
role is to work with local citizens to connect the College to the
community. In this role she served a four year term on the Board of
Directors for the Northwest Jazz Alliance. She provided the leadership
for an African American Women in Jazz event which featured Marlena
Shaw. This was a partnership event with the University and community
people. She served as a lead member in the development of a community
wide program to provide a strategic plan for the cultural arts through
the Bellingham Mayor’s Arts Commission.

Violet Malone earned a PhD in Adult Education from Florida State
University and an Advanced Masters in Adult Education from the
University of Chicago. She served as the head of the Extension
Education Unit at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign from
1972-1991.

Dr. Malone has spent most of her career working with adults in
some phase of transition. She conducts short courses, workshops and
seminars on Learning in Adulthood, Changes and Transitions across the
Lifespan, Leadership in Community Based Organizations, Voluntary Work,
Teaching and Learning in Adulthood. She has conducted experiential
learning sessions with men and women in such countries as Sri Lanka,
Jordan, Kenya, Zambia, Belize, and several islands of the Caribbean.
Dr. Malone has also conducted educational sessions in Canada, the
Netherlands, and in every state in the United States.

She is the former President of the Adult Education Association
of the USA, and former Chairperson of the National Coalition for
Literacy. Her name is listed in Who’s Who in America and Who’s Who,
American Woman. She was inducted into the Academy of Creative Teaching,
Lucerne, Switzerland.

—In 1999 she was named to the International Hall of Fame for Adult and Continuing Education Society.
—In 2002, she was an invited member to the Oxford University, England Round Table.
— In 2004, she was made a Fellow of the Salzburg Seminars.
—She received a leadership award from the World Association of Case Research and Application at the Argentina conference.

Dr. Malone is active in her community. She was named the
Community Woman of the Year by the Puget Sound Chapter, American
Business Women Association, and she is a sought presenter on the
Western Washington University Speakers Bureau. She is an active member
of the Native American Lummi Indian CEDAR Project, Allied Arts, the
Whatcom Art Guild, and the Sandy Point Artists Group. She is a former
board member of the local YWCA and Past President of the Champaign, IL
YWCA. She has served as a board member of the local Volunteer Center
and the Pacific Northwest Jazz Alliance.

Violet Malone’s academic background includes four degrees:
Elementary Education, Guidance and Counseling, Adult Education and the
Ph.D. in Adult Education. She is a native of Chicago, Illinois and
resides in Ferndale WA.

Welcome:
Dr. Tunde Adeleke, Honorary Conference Chairperson

Ed Diaz, President, AAAHRP

Leonard Garfield, Executive Director, Museum of History and Industry

Larry Gossett, Chair, Metropolitan King County Council

Moni T. Law, J.D., Attorney, Seattle, Washington

Dr. Quintard Taylor, Jr., Scott and Dorothy Bullitt Professor of American History, University of Washington

Session Chairs:
Dr. Maurice N. Amutabi, Assistant Professor of History, Department of History, Central Washington University

Dr. Edward J. Blum, Department of History, San Diego State University

Dr. Stephanie Camp, Associate Professor of History, University of Washington

Bonita Carter-Smith, James W. Washington & Janie Rogella Washington Foundation

Dr. Laura Chrisman, Nancy K. Ketcham Professor of English, English Department, University of Washington

Dr. Kalenda C. Eaton, Assistant Professor of English and Ethnic Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Dr. Julia Niebuhr Eulenberg, Visiting Scholar, University of Washington

Moni T. Law, J.D., Attorney, Seattle, Washington

Dr. Julian Madison, Professor, Department of History, Southern Connecticut State University

Dr. Nnamdi J. Oziri, Chairperson/Associate Professor, Department of Behavioral Studies, Edward Waters College

Glenda J. Pearson, Head, Microforms & Newspaper Collections, University of Washington Libraries

Dr. Leon F. “Skip” Rowland, President, Tabor 100, Seattle, Washington

Garry Schalliol, Director, Outreach Services Division, Washington State Historical Society

Dr. I.M. Spence-Lewis, Consultant Researcher, Marcus Garvey Library, London, England

Jake Sudderth, History Professor, Lower Columbia College

Dr. Michael Washington, Professor of History & Director Afro-American Studies, Northern Kentucky University

Papers:
Dr. Maurice N. Amutabi,
Assistant Professor of History, Department of History, Central
Washington University: “Memory and Nostalgia in African-American
Identity: The Legacy of ‘Africanness’ in James Baldwin’s Fiction”

Jacqueline Bacon, Independent Scholar, San Diego, California: “‘Useful Knowledge of Every Kind’: Freedom’s Journal, the First African-American Newspaper (1827-1829)”

Eric Bargeron, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of
History, University of South Carolina: “‘We Can Save this Man’s Life’:
The Pink Franklin Case and Black Legal Activism in Jim Crow South
Carolina”

Dr. Philip Barnard, Associate Professor, English, University of Kansas: “Victor Séjour’s The Count of Haag: Passing in the Paris of Napoleon III”

Regina N. Barnett, Graduate Student, Indiana University - Bloomington: “Holla if You Hear Me: The Emergence of the Hip Hop Movement (1980-1984)”

Michele Beverly, Doctoral Student, Department
of Communication, Georgia State University: “Watching it Unfold: A
Brief History of African American Cinema, Cultural Memory and the
Possibilities for Healing”

Dr. David Boers, Professor of Graduate
Education, School of Education, Marian College, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin:
“What to do with a Liberty Pole: Caroline Quarlis on the Wisconsin
Underground Railroad”

Dr. Adetokunbo K. Borishade, Latin American and
Caribbean Studies, University of South Florida, Tampa: “Dissimulation,
Transnationalism, and Global Dissemination of Yoruba Religion in Brazil:Yoruba Mythology and the Lagosian Cultural Renaissance”

Derrick R. Brooms, Ph.D. Candidate, Sociology,
Loyola University, Chicago: “Rewriting Slavery in American Memory:
Museums and the Cultural Landscape”

Nancy Brown, Ph.D Candidate, Department of
History, University of South Carolina: “Making Something From Nothing:
The Black Entrepreneurial Spirit In Early 20th Century Columbia, South
Carolina”

Brent Campney, Ph.D. Candidate, Institute of
the Liberal Arts – American Studies, Emory University: “William Boland
Townsend and the Struggle Against Racial Violence In Kansas, 1888-1901”

Ashley Chaifetz, MA, History and Government
Teacher, The Beekman School, New York, NY: “Introducing the American
Dream: The Community Programs of the Black Panther Party”

Heather D. Clark, Graduate
Student-Sociocultural Anthropology, University of Washington: “A Silent
History: Giving Voice to the African American Deaf Experience”

Avery Clayton, Director and Chief Executive
Officer, Mayme A. Clayton Library, Altadena, California: “The Evolution
of the Mayme Clayton Library & Cultural Center”

Solomon Comissiong, Assistant Director of Student Involvement & Public Relations, Nyumburu Black Cultural Center, University of Maryland and Ricardo Quinteros, University of Maryland Student: “Bringing Historical Balance to U.S. Public Education: Hip Hop’s Progressive Pedagogy”

Dr. Diana Cruz, Assistant Professor, Department of English, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts
“Women Operating on the Lower Frequencies in Rita Dove’s On the Bus with Rosa Parks”

Antonio Cuyler, Doctoral Candidate,
College of Visual Arts, Theatre, and Dance, Florida State University:
“When Handel Met Soul: Africentricity, Postmodernism, and A Soulful
Celebration”

Alexis Poe Davis, Doctoral Candidate, East Carolina University and Jeanette W. Morris, Doctoral Candidate, East Carolina University: “Disappearing Acts: Exploring the Legacy of 1947 North Carolina Film Pitch A Boogie Woogie”

Karla Y. Davis, Curator, Givens
Collection of African American Literature, University of Minnesota: “A
Community/University Collaboration: Bringing the Givens Collection to
the University of Minnesota”

Amy Essington, Doctoral Candidate,
Claremont Graduate University; History Department Adjunct, California
State University, Long Beach: “Integrating the Pacific Coast League:
African Americans and Latinos on the Baseball Diamond”

Dr. Gilbert Gardner, Chair: Dept of
Sociology and Director of the Criminology Program, Regis University,
Denver, Colorado: “The Exploitation of African Americans in Prisons:
From Industrial to Post-Industrial Society”

Kristin Gustafson, Ph.D. Student,
Department of Communication, University of Washington: “Interacting
Systems of Movement Speech and Ethnic Media: Nellie Francis and
Minnesota’s Anti-Lynching Law”

Victoria L. Harrison, Lecturer,
Southern Illinois University; Doctoral Candidate, Saint Louis
University: “Over the Horizon: Conway Barbour and the Search for
Opportunity”

Dr. Elizabeth Johnson, Assistant
Professor of History, State University of New York Dutchess Community
College: “Madam C.J. Walker and Annie Malone - Hair Culturalists for
Advancement or Assimilation?”

Dr. Kevin Allen Leonard, Associate
Professor, Department of History, Western Washington University: “Lucy
Hicks Anderson and the Hidden History of African American
Transgenderism”

Dr. LaVonne Leslie, Department of
Afro-American Studies, Howard University, Washington, DC: “Reaching
Beyond the Household: Community Activism of Black Women in Texas in the
Reconstruction Era”

Alison Lightbown, Head of Learning and
Education, The Geffrye Museum, London, England: “The West Indian Front
Room: discussions about home and identity”

Deelip Mhaske, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India: “Affirmative action of U.S. Government and the Black Community”

Fr. Thomas Murphy, S.J., Associate
Professor of History, Seattle University: “A Revolution to Confine
Across the Sea: British Fears of Reconstruction, 1865-1877”

Adriana Parada, Educator, Foundation for the Support of Research of the Federal University of the State of Goiás, Brazil, with Carlos Parada, Interpreter: “A History of the Kalunga People”

Dr. Gigi Peterson, Assistant Professor
of History, State University of New York at Cortland: “‘Discriminación
Racial’: Connecting Mexican, Latino, and African American Civil Rights
Struggles in the 1940s”

Dr. Ileana M. Rodriguez-Silva,
Assistant Professor, Latin American and Caribbean History, Department
of History, University of Washington: “Silencing Race within the Puerto
Rican Labor Movement of the Early-Twentieth Century”

Dr. Sarah Schmalenberger, Assistant
Professor, Music History and Literature, Horn University of St. Thomas,
St. Paul, Minnesota: “Honoring Her Ancestors: Harriett Marshall’s
Kentucky Roots”

Kathryn Silva, Graduate Student,
University of South Carolina: “Making the Invisible Visible: Weaving
African American Women into South Carolina’s Mill History”

Alan Spears,
Legislative Representative, National Parks Conservation Association,
Washington, DC: “Hidden Treasures and Enduring Legacies: Discovering
African American History in our National Parks”

Dr. Clarence Spigner,
Associate Professor, Department of Health Services, School of Public
Health & Community Medicine, University of Washington: “Health,
Race, and the African Diaspora”

Dr. David M. Stark,
Assistant Professor of History, Department of History, Grand Valley
State University, Michigan: “Reconstructing the Black Experience in
Eighteenth-Century Arecibo, Puerto Rico through the Use of Parish
Registers”

Alva Moore Stevenson,
Series Coordinator and Program Representative, UCLA Center for Oral
History Research: “Both Mexican and Black: Looking at Racial and Ethnic
Self-Identity in Three Generations of the Thornton Family”

Angela D. Stewart,
Archivist, Margaret Walker Alexander National Research Center, Jackson
State University: “A Woman Sublime: The Life and Work of Mrs. Grace
Morris Jones, 1876-1928”

Dr. Jerome Teelucksingh, Lecturer, History Department, University of the West Indies, Trinidad: “The Evolution of CLR James’ Pan-Africanism”

Laura Turner,
Historical Writer/ Researcher, Office of History and Preservation, U.S.
House of Representatives, Washington, DC: “Delivering the Forty Acres
and a Mule: Black Representation in the United States Congress,
1870-1901”

Tricia Martineau Wagner,
Historical Nonfiction Author, Charlotte, North Carolina: “Rewriting
American History: The Untold Story of the Contributions and
Achievements of African American Citizens”

Dr. Michael Washington,
Professor of History & Director Afro-American Studies, History
& Geography Department, Northern Kentucky University: “Black Heroes
and Common Folk: The Creative Use of Public Memory Interviews”

Dr. George White, Jr.,
Assistant Professor of History and Africana Studies, University of
Tennessee, Knoxville: “We Held Out Our Eyes Delirious With Grace: The
Meanings and Significance of August 8th”

Leah M. Wright,
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Princeton University: “The
Madness of Marcus Garvey: Early Twentieth century Black Organizational
Solidarity as a Reaction to the Garvey Movement”

Workshops:
William Jones, Chair, Social Studies Department, Jefferson JHS, Washington, DC: “The History of Hip-Hop & Its use in the Classroom”

Leutisha L. Stills, Equal Opportunity Specialist, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia: “The Evolution of Black Progressive Politics”

Panel:
“Speed City – From Civil Rights to Black Power: The
Asian, Black, and Hispanic Sporting Experience at San Jose State
College, from 1940 to 1969” — Moderator: Urla M. Hill, Doctoral Candidate, University of Maryland at College Park; Guest Curator, History San Jose. Panelists: Ben Tucker, San Jose State graduate, member of two national championship cross country teams; Yoshihiro Uchida, San Jose State graduate, judo team coach since 1940

Film:
Negroes with Guns: Rob Williams and Black Power (Courtesy of California Newsreel)
The electrifying story of Rob Williams, who dared to advocate armed
self-defense against the racist terrorism of the Jim Crow South. He
founded an armed Black Guard, and with his wife Mabel stunned the Klan
and galvanized the Black community with their fearlessness. Largely erased from American history, he was the true forefather of the Black Power movement. —California Newsreel