Asalh Will Hold Innovative Virtual Programming in The Month Of February Celebrating The 2023 Black History Theme: Black Resistance

During these uncertain times in which the very nature of what the Association does—the teaching of areas of Black History which has been legally banned in seven U.S. states as "history that makes people uncomfortable" ASALH presents it's annual month-long Black History Month Festival.

African Americans have resisted historic and ongoing oppression, in all forms, especially the racial terrorism of lynching, racial pogroms, and police killings since our arrival upon these shores. These efforts have been to advocate for a dignified self-determined life in a just democratic society in the United States and beyond the United States political jurisdiction.

Schedule of Events

February 1, 2023

6:30 pm - 8:30 pm: Opening Program and Exploring Aspects of Black Resistance Session
Online via ASALH TV

February 4, 2023

12:00 pm - 1:30 pm: Black Landowners and Farmers: Reclaiming Land and Civil Rights
Online via ASALH TV

2:00 pm - 4:00 pm: Mt. Pleasant Library Screening Barry Farm: Community, Land, and Justice
Location: Mt. Pleasant Neighborhood Library 3160 16th St NW, Washington, DC

February 5, 2023

5:30 pm - 7:30 pm: Warrior Queen Nzingha: Tell Them We Fought Back
Online via ASALH TV

February 6, 2023

6:30 pm - 6:45 pm: Virtual Author's Book Talk Event: Phyllis Biffle Elmore
Quilt of Souls: A Memoir

6:45 pm - 7:00 pm: Virtual Author's Book Talk Event: Desiree Cooper
Nothing Special

7:00 pm - 7:15 pm: Virtual Author's Book Talk Event: Kristin Waters
Maria W. Stewart and the Roots of Black Political Thought

7:15 pm - 7:30 pm: Virtual Author's Book Talk Event: Grace Jackson-Brown
Promoting African American Writers: Library Partnerships for Outreach, Programming, and Literacy

7:30 pm - 7:45 pm: Virtual Author's Book Talk Event: Holly A. Pinheiro Jr
The Families' Civil War: Black Soldiers and the Fight for Racial Justice

7:45 pm - 8:00 pm: Virtual Author's Book Talk Event: Christopher Nelson
The C.R. Patterson and Sons Company: Black Pioneers in the Vehicle Building Industry, 1865-1939

8:00 pm - 8:15 pm: Virtual Author's Book Talk Event: Dr. Wanda Alderman
The Last Black Teacher: Race, Education, and Students of Color

8:15 pm - 8:30 pm: Virtual Author's Book Talk Event: Cody McDevitt
Banished from Johnstown: Racist Backlash in Pennsylvania

February 7, 2023

6:30 pm - 8:00 pm: African American Music and the Struggle for Freedom
Online via ASALH TV

February 9, 2023

7:00 pm - 8:30 pm: Call & Response: Liberation Theology, Resistance and The Black Church
Online via ASALH TV
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February 15, 2023

12:00 pm - 1:30 pm: Poetry – Fighting with Words: Then & Now
Online via ASALH TV

February 16, 2023

6:30 pm - 8:15 pm: The Carter G. Woodson Home Grand Re-Opening Preview
Online via ASALH TV

February 18, 2023

6:30 pm - 6:45 pm: Virtual Author's Book Talk Event:Mary L Romney-Schaab
An Afro-Caribbean in the Nazi Era: From Papiamentu to German

6:45 pm - 7:00 pm: Virtual Author's Book Talk Event: Ruben Britt Jr.
Black and Powerful: A Career Guide for Tomorrow's Top Leaders

7:00 pm - 7:15 pm: Virtual Author's Book Talk Event: Rohulamin Quander
The Quanders: Since 1684, an Enduring African American Legacy

7:15 pm - 7:30 pm: Virtual Author's Book Talk Event: Dr. Timothy E. Nelson
Blackdom, New Mexico: The Significance of the Afro-Frontier (1900-1930)

7:30 pm - 7:45 pm: Virtual Author's Book Talk Event: Tony Warner
Black History Walks in London: Volume 1

7:45 pm - 8:00 pm: Virtual Author's Book Talk Event: Dr. Virginia Summey
The Life of Elreta Melton Alexander: Activism Within The Courts

8:00 pm - 8:15 pm: Virtual Author's Book Talk Event: Dr. Brian Jones
The Tuskegee Student Uprising: A History

8:15 pm - 8:30 pm: Virtual Author's Book Talk Event: Dr. Charles Chavis
The Silent Shore: The Lynching of Matthew Williams and the Politics of Racism in the Free State

February 19, 2023

5:00 pm - 6:15 pm: Preserving Black Resistance
Online via ASALH TV

February 21, 2023

6:30 pm - 7:30 pm: ASALH 2023 Book Prize
Online via ASALH TV

February 22, 2023

6:30 pm - 8:30 pm: Virtual Marquee Event: A Conversation with Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch III of the Smithsonian Institution
Online via ASALH TV

February 23, 2023

7:00 pm - 8:30 pm: Resistance and the Black Press
Online via ASALH TV

February 25, 2023

1:30 pm - 3:30 pm: Odell Ruffin's Campaign 72
Location: The ARC Theater 1901 Mississippi Ave., S.E., Washinton, DC

February 27, 2023

6:30 pm - 6:45 pm: Virtual Author's Book Talk Event: Keith Holmes
Black Inventors Crafting Over 200 Years of Success

6:45 pm - 7:00 pm: Virtual Author's Book Talk Event: Margaret Seidler
Ukweli - Searching for Healing Truth - South Carolina Writers and Poets Explore American Racism

7:00 pm - 7:15 pm: Virtual Author's Book Talk Event: Denys Davis
Unheard Melodies

7:15 pm - 7:30 pm: Virtual Author's Book Talk Event: Bernice Alexander Bennett
Black Homesteaders of the South

7:30 pm - 7:45 pm: Virtual Author's Book Talk Event: Dr. Dan Berger
Stayed on Freedom: The Long History of Black Power Through One Family's Journey

7:45 pm - 8:00 pm: Virtual Author's Book Talk Event: Charlene Hampton Holloway
Whitlock's Compositions

8:00 pm - 8:15 pm: Virtual Author's Book Talk Event: Frederick Williams
Bayard and Martin: A Historical Novel About a Friendship and the Civil Rights Movement

8:15 pm - 8:30 pm: Virtual Author's Book Talk Event: Michelle R. Scott
T.O.B.A. Time: Black Vaudeville and the Theater Owners' Booking Association in Jazz-Age America

February 28, 2023

6:30 pm - 7:30 pm: Festival Closing Program
Online via ASALH TV

Date: February 1-28, 2023

Location: Online

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