Subject: Black History Conference, April 2005
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28th Annual Conference on Black History in Pennsylvania
April 20-23, 2005
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
"A Historic Black Capital of America"
The Conference on Black History in Pennsylvania is an annual event sponsored
by the Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission, the African American
Museum in Philadelphia, Atwater Kent Museum, Greater Philadelphia Tourism
Marketing Corp., and Pennsylvania Council for the Arts, PHEAA, the
Philadelphia Tribune and other local and state organizations.
The keynote speaker for this conference will be Donna Brazile, a senior
fellow at the Academy of Leadership, University of Maryland, and was
recently appointed as national chair of the Voting Rights Institute, the
Democratic Party's major initiative to promote and protect the right to
vote. Brazile is also an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University.
Other featured speakers are Deborah Willis, Ph. D., Tisch School of the Arts
and Africana Studies, New York University. Most recently she was a Visiting
Professor Princeton University and the Lehman Brady Chair in Documentary and
American Studies at Duke University and the University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill. Manning Marable, Ph. D., Professor of History and Political
Science and Founding Director of the Institute for Research in African
American Studies, Columbia University. In 2001, he initiated the Malcolm X
Project at Columbia University, and Richard Dozier an architect and
architectural historian, is professor of Architecture at Florida A&M
University. Before coming to FAMU, he was chair of the Architecture Program
at Tuskegee University and a professor at Yale University School of
Architecture. He holds the Bachelor of Architecture from Yale University
and the Doctor of Architecture from University of Michigan. He was one of
two architects selected by the U. S. Department of Interior to assess
threatened structures at 12 Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
The Conference focuses on different aspects of Pennsylvania's African
American heritage.
One special event will be a bus tour of black Philadelphia lead by Charles
Blockson to visit and learn about many of this nation's most significant
historic sites and national treasures.
Walking tours thought the historic Sixth Street Corridor, the Liberty Bell,
the site of the first White House and burial ground of the enslaved by
George Washington, tours of the first African American churches, the African
American Museum, Atwater Kent Museum and the Historical Society of
Pennsylvania. Sessions will be held at many historic sites, including
Mother Bethel AME Church and the Legendary Blue Horizon.
Cultural events will include a concert with jazz great, Dianne Reeves and
Little Jimmy Scott, at the Kimmel Center, Friday Night Jazz at the Art
Museum of Philadelphia, and many more events to highlight the cultural life
of Black Philadelphia.
Seating is limited for some tours, to reserve your places, please email or
call, Karen James-717-783-9871 or kajames(a)state.pa.us
Special thanks to the 2005 Philadelphia Local Arrangements Committee
Members and related Institutions who are ensuring that this will be a
memorable conference.