Plese note the concurrent session schedule is preliminary and subject to change.
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THURSDAY, JULY 24TH, 2025 |
9:00 AM – 10:15 AM |
| People and History, Land and Rivers: Interpreting & Preserving Stories of St. Louis and East St. Louis Through NMAAHC’s Community Curation |
| The Heroism of Black Men in The Willow Hill Community of Bulloch County, Georgia ,During the 1946 Gubernatorial Primary: A Story of Voter Suppression and Racial Intimidation |
| Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr.: “The Lion in the Lobby” and Architect of the 1965 Voting Rights Act |
| Navigating Change: Shared Purpose, Collective Action |
| OurStoryBridge: Collecting the Voices of Democracy Through Online Brief Oral Histories |
| Cheat Code: A Museum Origin Story |
| Sleeping in the Shadows of History: Interpreting Resistance, Executive Order 11246, and the Ongoing Struggle for Inclusive Public Memory |
| Juanita Jewel Craft: An Unsung Voting and Civil Rights Activist |
10:30 AM – 11:45 AM |
| Sixty Years of the Voting Rights Act: Democracy at a Crossroads |
| From Selma to Detroit: The Preservation Journey of the Jackson Home |
| You Want to Talk with Kids About What??” A Community-Engaged Model for Developing School Programs About Slavery |
| Building Legacy Together: A Playbook for Preserving Our Stories |
| Space Is the Place: A Case Study in Resilience for Nomadic Archives |
| How Are You Coping? The Big Listen |
| FAITH THAT THE DARK PAST HAS TAUGHT US | A Peek into a Modern Museum’s Storytelling Strategy |
12:00 PM – 1:30 PMKEYNOTE AND AWARD LUNCHEON |
1:45 PM – 3:00 PM |
| Fueling the Future: Building Fundraising Resilience for African American Museums |
| Black to the Future: exploring hopeful possibilities for Black museums |
| Special, Sensitive, and Sacred – What Is In Your Collection? |
| Documenting a Liberatory Legacy |
| Creating Community in Local History Exhibits |
| Beyond 60: Navigating Today’s Funding Environment to Raise More Revenue |
| Selma: The Next 60 – Honoring Legacy, Inspiring Action |
3:15 PM – 4:30 PM |
| HBCU’s At the Vanguard: A Model for Black Digital Humanities |
| Amplifying Legacies: Evers, Murray, and the Power of Community Advocacy |
| Audible Resistance: The Power of HBCU Radio Preservation |
| Balancing Marketing and Interpretation: Sharing 500 Years of St. Johns County Black History |
| Should Sites ‘Shaped By Slavery’ Be Considered Black Historic Sites? |
| Lawnside: A Living Legacy of Black Self-Governance and Democracy |
| Black Votes Matter – African Americans and Securing the Right to Vote |
FRIDAY, JULY 25TH, 2025 |
9:00 AM – 10:15 AM |
| Whose Story Gets Told? Ethical Storytelling in Virginia’s Civil Rights Interpretive Narrative |
| AAAM Trailblazers – Remembering Icabod Flewellen and John Kinard |
| Picturing Freedom: Harriet Tubman and the Combahee River Raid |
| Social Justice Conversations: An Intergenerational Oral History Project |
| The Corporate Equity Center: Leveraging the Power of Place and History to Combat Racial Bias and Drive Change |
| Remembering a Praisehouse: CAUAM Collecting During and After the Civil Rights Movement |
| Public Memory & The Polylectics of Commemoration: Civil Rights Narratives as Visual, Oral, & Auditory Expression |
10:30 AM – 11:45 AM |
| Black Cultural Institutions as Keepers of Civil Rights and Community Memory |
| Navigating the Tides: Courageous Leadership in Uncertain Times |
| WHO, to America, IS EMMETT TILL: Two Cultural Institutions, the Till Narrative, and Truthful Storytelling and Historic Preservation in Times Like These |
| Building on the Underground: A Legacy of Social Justice |
| Immersive Storytelling in Traveling Exhibitions: A Final Report |
| NMAAHC Turns 10: Redesigning the Inaugural Exhibition 1968 & Beyond |
| Preserving the Unspoken | Memory & the Legacy of Civil Rights |
12:00 PM – 2:00 PMCLOSING PLENARY |
2:15 PM – 4:45 PMMOVIE SCREENING |