New Perspectives in African American History and Culture

All activities held in the Frank Porter Graham Student Union (corner of Raleigh Street and South Road) on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Friday April 11th

FPG Student Union Room 3206 A & B

12:45 p.m.  Welcoming Remarks

            Jerma A. Jackson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hil

1:00 p.m. The Long Freedom Struggle: Slave Resistance in the 18th and 19th                               Centuries   

• “Hiding, Running, Gone: The Different Types of Runaway Slaves in Eastern North Carolina”

            Marcus P. Nevius, North Carolina Central University

• “The African American Experience in South Carolina during the Anglo-Cherokee War, 1759-1762”

            Daniel J. Tortora, Duke University

Comments:  Reginald Hildebrand, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

2:00 p.m. We Shall Not Be Moved: A History of the Tillery Resettlement

A special showing and discussion of the film by Chris Potter and Charlie Thompson

3:00 p.m. The Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s and Beyond

• “Jobs and Freedom: The Black Revolt of 1963 and the Contested Meanings of the March on Washington”

            Thomas Jackson, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

• “Black Postal Union Women and Militant Labor Activism in the 1960s Post Office”

            Philip F. Rubio, North Carolina A&T State University

• “Abortion on Trial: The Politics of Race and Class in the Edelin Manslaughter Case, 1975”

            Jennifer Donnally, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill     

Moderator: Kenneth Janken, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Comments: Blair Kelley, North Carolina State University

5:00 p.m. Keynote Address

Introduction:  Lloyd Kramer, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

• “All Points of the Azimuth: New Directions in African American History”

               Gerald Horne, University of Houston

6:30 p.m. Reception and Discussion: Historians Respond to Barack Obama's A More Perfect Union
Center for the Study of the American South--Love House and Hutchins Forum. 410 E. Franklin St.

Saturday April 12th

FPG Student Union Room 3413

9:00 a.m. Challenging White Supremacy: From Mississippi to Manila

• “Thunder Along the Color Line, 1898-1899: African American Troops, Domestic White Supremacy, and Empire”

            James G.  Crawford, North Carolina A&T State University             

• “ 'We Knew We Wouldn't Win': African American Political Resistance to White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1916-1919"

            Kenneth Joel Zogry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

• “Land of the Free, Won by the Brave: Providence Farm and Interracial Space in the Jim Crow South”

            Robert H. Ferguson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill               

Comments: W. Fitzhugh Brundage, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

11:00 p.m. Women Behind the Lines

A rare showing of the film about the historic 1969 UNC food workers strike

Comments: Yonni Chapman, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

12:00 p.m. Luncheon Address

Introduction: Timothy B. Tyson, Duke University

•    “From Romanticizing and Remembering, to Researching and Reassessing:                                     Rethinking the Attica Uprising of 1971 and the Legacies of Black Power”

                        Heather Ann Thompson, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

1:30 p.m. - On the Court and in the Streets: the African American Freedom Struggle in North Carolina

• “Charlie Scott, the Integration of UNC Basketball, and the Black Athlete

Revolt of 1968”

            Gregory Kaliss, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

• “Recast in the Image of Me: Race, Memory, and the Long Process of  School Desegregation in Chapel Hill, North Carolina”

            Dwana Waugh, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

• “Preparing for a Long Fight: Organizing for Indigenous Civil Rights in

Charlotte, North Carolina 1940-1948”

            Will Griffin, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Moderator: Timothy J. McMillan, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill       

Comments: Katherine Mellen Charron, North Carolina State University

3:15 p.m. - "Transforming Communities through the Power of the Individual Voice"

            A special performance by local theater group Hidden Voices

4:15 p.m. Closing Remarks

            Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

This conference is sponsored by the Department of History, the Graduate and Professional Student Federation, the Center for the Study of the American South, and the Southern Oral History Program