Smithsonian Institution. Program in African American Culture Search this
Container:
Box 25, Folder 11
Type:
Archival materials
Date:
1998 February 6-7
Scope and Contents:
The Program in African American Culture in conjunction with the African
American Communities Project presented Free People of Color and the
Coming of the Civil War on February 6-7, 1998, in the Carmichael Auditorium, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, in honor of the seventeenth annual national observance of African American History Month. The program included lectures, performances, and a book signing.
Participants:
Adele Logan Alexander, Ph.D., assistant professor of history, George Washington University
Ira Berlin, Ph.D., professor of history, University of Maryland, College Park
Richard J.M. Blackett, Moores Distinguished Chair of History and African American Studies, University of Houston
David W. Blight, professor of history and black studies, Amherst College
W. Jeffrey Bolster, associate professor and director of the graduate program in history, University of New Hampshire
Laurence Glasco, Ph.D., associate professor of history and director of the Program for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in World Perspective, University of Pittsburgh
James Oliver Horton, Benjamin Banneker Professor of American Studies and History, George Washington University
Lois E. Horton, Ph.D., professor of sociology, George Mason University
Leon Litwack, Ph.D., Alexander F. and May T. Morrison Professor of American History and chair of the Committee on the Library, Academic Senate, University of California, Berkeley
Marie Tyler-McGraw, Ph.D., historian and education specialist, History Office of the National Park Service, Washington, DC
Joanne Pope Melish, Ph.D., visiting assistant professor, Department of History, Brown University
Fred Morsell, president of Fremarjo Enterprises, Incorporated; a nonprofit organization that produces cultural events and seminars on race relations
Carla L. Peterson, Ph.D., professor, Department of English and the comparative literature program
Joseph P. Reidy, Ph.D., professor of history, Howard University
Richard Allen Singers, Evelyn Simpson Curenton, Director
Rita Roberts, Ph.D., associate professor, Department of History and Black Studies, Scripps College, Claremont, California
James Brewer Stewart, James Wallace Professor of History, Macalester College
Rosalyn Terborg-Penn, professor of history and coordinator of graduate programs in history, Morgan State University
Program number AC408.104.
Collection Restrictions:
Collection is open for research. Access and use of audiovisual materials available in the Archives Center reading room or by requesting copies of audiovisual materials at RightsReproductions@si.edu
Collection Rights:
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Collection Citation:
Program in African American Culture Collection, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.
