Presented by The Washington Revels Jubilee Voices -- an ensemble committed to the preservation of African-American history and traditions–presenting songs and stories of struggle and perseverance, trials and triumphs, as expressed through a cappella music, drama and dance.
A moderated conversation with Dr. Allyson Hobbs. Hobbs is an assistant professor of American history at Stanford University. She is the author of A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life.
Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, Dream Lab, 901 G Street, NW.
Dr. Julianne Malveaux, President Emerita of Bennett College, moderates a conversation with Drs. Thavolia Glymph and Hannah Rosen. Glymph is an associate professor of history at Duke University and author of Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household. Rosen is an assistant professor of history and American studies at the College of William and Mary and author of Terror in the Heart of Freedom: Citizenship, Sexual Violence, and the Meaning of Race in the Post-emancipation South.
Led by historian Sarah Shoenfeld. A walking tour of the adjacent LeDroit Park/Bloomingdale neighborhoods that will focus on the rise of DC’s black middle class and elite, including the intellectual, professional, and artistic community that gravitated to the Howard University area. The tour will include a discussion of the life and work of Charles Hamilton Houston, the former Howard University Law School dean and NAACP attorney who led efforts to fight racially restrictive housing in DC and nationwide.
Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post columnist Colbert I. King moderates a conversation with Drs. G. Derek Musgrove and Chris Myers Asch. Musgrove is an associate professor of history at University of Maryland Baltimore County and Asch teaches history at Colby College. Musgrove and Asch are co-authors of Chocolate City: Race and Democracy in the Nation’s Capital.
Mr. Smith heads the non-profit organization, Pearl Coalition. The purpose of the organization is to educate the public about the “peculiar institution” and how slaves and free people of color took matters into their own hands in terms of challenging human bondage. One major DC historic event involved the Pearl Incident in 1848, when 77 slaves attempted a daring escape from the nation’s capital by sea on the “Pearl” schooner.
Join us for a Lecture by Bowie State University Assistant Professor Hoke Glover at the William O. Lockridge/Bellevue Library.
Dr. Elizabeth Clark-Lewis will present a brief sketch of the DC Emancipation Day Story during services.
Dr. Ida Jones, Archivist at Morgan State University, author and historian, will discuss the history of the church and its role in the emancipation of enslaved person in the District. Author C.R. Gibbs will briefly discuss “Black Georgetown Remembered" and more.
