Black Midwest History Matters: African American History at the 2021 MHA Conference
- May 28, 2021
Four outstanding panels on African American Midwest history were held at the 2021 Midwestern History Association Conference, featuring leading scholars including documentary consulting producers Terrion Williamson and Erik McDuffie. Check back for links to the panel videos.
Panels and Panelists included:
Black Midwest History Matters: African American Life in the U.S. Heartland and the Struggle for Freedom
Erik McDuffie, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne
Courtney Pierre Joseph,Lake Forest University
Gerald Horne, University of Houston
Nikki M. Taylor, Howard University
Terrion L. Williamson, University of Minnesota
African Americans in the 19th Century Midwest
The 200-Pound Servant in the Room: Creating a First White Man Founder and Erasing a Black Man in Bondage in Early Wisconsin
Jennifer Stinson, Saginaw Valley State University
The Strange Case of Peter Betters: The 1887 Black Intraracial Lynching of Jamestown, Ohio
Matthew Peek, State Archives of North Carolina
‘Holy Cause‘ or ‘Odious Doctrine‘? Wisconsin, Democracy, and Black Suffrage, 1846-1866
Frank Kalisik, UW-Milwaukee
How to Read a Cookbook: Deciphering the Life of Malinda Russell
Dani Willcutt, Michigan State University
African Americans in the Twentieth Century Midwest
Moderator: Karis Blaker, University of Michigan
Scottsboro North: Black Women and the Struggle for Racial Justice in Depression-Era Cleveland
Melissa Ford, Slippery Rock University
Claiming Sojourner Truth: The Construction and Reconstruction of a Buried Hero in Battle Creek, Michigan
Karis Blaker, University of Michigan
Treatment of Blacks in Baseball in Iowa (1901 to 1903)
Paul Spyhalski, Independent Scholar
Before Juneteenth: Kalamazoo, Michigan in Emancipatory Tradition
Michelle Johnson, Independent Scholar
Anti-Slavery and President Politics in Antebellum Illinois
Moderator: David Gellman, DePauw University
Western Citizen: At the Confluence of Liberty and Bondage in Antebellum Illinois
Jeanne Gillespie McDonald, Waubonsee Community College
Elijah Lovejoy, Antislavery, and Nationalism
Graham Peck, University of Illinois at Springfield
“The False and Arrogant Claim of the Van Buren Party:” The Presidential Election of 1836 in Illinois
Jason Duncan, Aquinas College