(more
than 150 public lectures since 1976. Listed below are
the presentations since 2001).
"Living
Jim Crow: The View from the West,” Presentation at Lewis
Walker Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnic Relations, Western
Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, October, 2004
“African
American History in Washington
State,”
Interview for “Kids Care,” A public affairs radio
program for children, Radio Disney, Seattle, July 2004
“African
American Seattle,” Presentation
on African American History at the Mercer
Island Rotary Club, July, 2004
"Predominately
Black Colleges and Universities at the Crossroads,”
Interview with Marilyn Morgan for independent documentary
on African American Colleges, Seattle, June, 2004
“Black
Women Confront the West,” Presentation for the Pacific Northwest
Historian’s Guild, National Archives
Building, Seattle, May 2004
“Texas: The South or the
West?“ Spring Distinguished
Lecture at the Dallas African
American Museum,
Dallas,
Texas, May, 2004
“Facing
West: African Americans Pursue the Racial Frontier,” Lecture
Given in honor of the late Nudie Williams, Phi Alpha Theta
Annual Banquet, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas,
April, 2004
“The
Black West: Meaning, Memory and History,” Second Presentation
for the Cooperating School Districts and the University of
Missouri-St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, March, 2004
“Freedom’s
Frontier: African Americans and the Trans-Missouri West,”
Presentation for the Cooperating School Districts and the
University of Missouri-St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, March,
2004
“The
West Begins Here: African American Frontiers in Kansas,” Presentation
as Scholar-in-Residence at the Johnson County Community College,
Overland Park, Kansas, February, 2004.
“Native
Americans and African Americans: Intersections Across Time
and Space in the West,” Address for Ford Foundation-Sponsored
Symposium on teaching African Americans and Native American
Studies titled “The Shifting Borders of Race and Identity,”
co-sponsored by Haskell Indian Nations University and the
University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, February, 2004
“The
Civil Rights Movement in the West, 1941-1970,” Keynote Address
for “Pursuing Equal Justice in the West Conference,” University
of Nevada Law
School,. Las Vegas, Nevada,
February, 2004
“African
American Seattle,” Presentation
on African American History at the Rainier
Valley
Rotary Club, February, 2004
“The
West Begins Here: The Meaning of African American History
in the Trans-Mississippi West,” Martin Luther King Cultural
Center, University
of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky,
November, 2003.
"Slavery
and Freedom in the Antebellum Pacific Northwest, 1843-1861,"
Presentation to the Civil War Roundtable, Seattle,
April 2003
"Seattle: A Geography of Housing Segregation and Integration,"
Seattle University Law
School, Seattle, March 2003
"In
Search of the Racial Frontier: The African American Quest
for Freedom in the West," Seattle
Pacific University,
February, 2003.
In
Search of the Racial Frontier: The African American Quest
for Freedom in the West." Lecture, Booth
Museum for Western
Art, Cartersville,
Georgia,
February, 2003
"Borderlands:
African American History in the American Southwest,"
for the Cullum 2003 Lecture Series, "Frontiers in Motion Series:
U.S. Latin
American/Caribbean Borderlands," Augusta
State University,
Augusta,
Georgia, February 2003
“The
Civil Rights Movement in Seattle, 1960-1970," All-Student
Assembly for the Martin Luther King Holiday Observance, Lakeside
School, Seattle, Washington, January, 2003
"The
Irony of Southern Racial Segregation: The Post Civil War South,"
Lecture in the Essence of Success Program, UW Office of Student
Recruitment and UW Office of Minority Affairs, University
of Washington, Seattle, November, 2002
"The
History and Future of Seattle's
Central District," Community Potpourri with Barbara Landers,
KRIZ Public Affairs Radio Program, November 2002
"Opening
Remarks for Discussion: How Central is the Central District?"
in the Which Way Seattle Series, Central District Forum for
Arts and Ideas, October, 2002
"Racial
Oppression in Seattle: A History," Presentation at Social
& Behavioral Sciences MPH (Masters in Public Health) Seminar,
Department of Health Services, University of Washington, October,
2002
"In
Search of the Racial Frontier: The African American Quest
for Freedom in the West," Center for African American
Studies Lecture Series, Boston University,
September 2002
"Pacific
Northwest African American History in the High School Classroom,"
Presentation for University
College Program, University of Washington,
August, 2002
Workshop
on Antebellum African American political activity in the Pacific
Northwest, Regional Managers, Underground Railroad Project,
National Park Service, Seattle, July 2002
"African
American Western Migration, 1800-1970," African American
Migration Experience Project, Schomburg
Center for Research and Black Culture (New York Public Library)
Summer Teachers' Institute, New York, New York, July 2002
"A
Geography of Seattle Residential
Housing, 1860-1990: From Integration to Segregation to Integration,"
UW Department of Geography Faculty-Graduate Student Colloquium,
Seattle,
Washington, May
2002
"Race
and Residence in Seattle Housing in the Post Civil Rights
Era: The Paradox of Success," Presentation given at the
Fannie Mae\Washington State Housing Leadership Roundtable,
Seattle,
Washington, May
2002
"In
Search of African American History in the Pacific Northwest:
A Professional and Personal Odyssey," Keynote speech
given at the third annual Ku'Onesha Awards Ceremony honoring Garfield High School African
American students for Academic Achievement, April 2002
"The
African American West: Reconceptualizing
Race, Ethnicity and Region in Eastern Washington," Department
of Energy\Hanford Contractors Black History Month Commemoration,
Richland,
Washington, February
2002
"From
the Mountains to the Plains: The African American Historical
Experience in Montana” Seventh Annual Presidential Lecture, University
of Montana, Missoula, February,
2002
"When
Blacks Were Latinos: Explorations into Political Coalition
Building, Past and Present," Keynote Address at Plenary
Session, Strangers Among Us, Competition or Coalition Building,
The Fifty-Ninth Annual Professional Agricultural Workers Conference,
Tuskegee University, Tuskegee, Alabama, December 2001
"When
Lions Learn to Write: African American History and Historians,
A Personal Odyssey," Speech given at the first African
American Faculty Forum, University of Washington and the Breakfast
Group, co-sponsors, Garfield High School, Seattle,
October, 2001
"Black
California and the African American West," Speech presented
at Claremont Graduate
University, Claremont, California,
September 2001
"Ambiguous
Legacy: Buffalo Soldiers in the American West, 1866-1917," Presentation
for the Fort Concho Historical Museum, San Angelo Convention
Center, San Angelo, Texas, July 2001
"Texas, The South Meets the West:
The View Through African American History," Phi Alpha
Theta Banquet, Texas Tech
University, Lubbock,
Texas, April,
2001
"The
African American Western Experience: Black Seattle
in the Twentieth Century," Highline
Community College,
March, 2001
"African
Americans in California History,
California in African American History," Keynote Address
for the Symposium: Seeking El Dorado:
African Americans in California,
The Autry Museum, Los
Angeles, California,
February, 2001
"The
Meaning of African American History and Black History Month:
Seattle's History in the National
Context," Black History Month Presentation for Seattle City
Light Black Employees Association, Seattle,
February, 2001
"Through
the Prism of Race: The Meaning of African American History
in the American West," Keynote Address for the Symposium:
A Quest for Freedom: The Black Experience in the American
West, Twentieth Annual National Observance of African American
History Month, Smithsonian Institution National Museum of
American History, Washington, D.C., February, 2001
