2020: The Year of the Black Woman Through a Historical Lens
March 25, 2020
Location: The Meek-Eaton Black Archives
THE INAUGURAL WOMEN’S HISTORY SYMPOSIUM AT FLORIDA A&M UNIVERSITY
10-11 am Lecture: Tiffany Packer, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of History
Sista Stewards: Black Women, Historic Preservation and the
Memorialization of Black Bodies from Lynching to Police Brutality
11:15am-12:15pm Lecture: Nashid Madyun, Ph.D., Director of the Black Archives
Ye Shall Know them by their Fruits: Black Female Philanthropy and
Entrepreneurship in the Rural 19th Century South
3-4pm Graduate Student Presentation: Ms. Kristen Gary, MASS Program
They That Wait: Staying Politics in Coahoma County, Mississippi
4:15-5:15pm Lecture: Ameenah Skakir, Ph.D., Director of the
Candidate Empowerment Center
Birthing Liberation: Race, Rights & Reproduction
5:30 – 6:30pm Book Talk & Signing:
Kimberly Pellum Ph.D., Assistant Professor of History
Black Beauties: African American Pageant Queens
in the Segregated South