Image courtesy of The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley

Learn about the experiences, successes, and struggles of African Americans before, during, and in the years following the World's Fair of 1915. Hear about controversial moments like the screening of Birth of a Nation; important individuals, like Virginia Stephens, who penned the fair The Jewel City; and many other groups and crucial moments in the first twenty years of the twentieth century. An expert group of panelists will discuss this time period and Dr. Douglas Daniels will moderate the discussion.

‍Lynn M. Hudson is an associate professor at the University of Illinois, Chicago. She received her B.A. from the University of California, Santa Cruz, earned her MA at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and her Ph. D. in History from Indiana University, Bloomington. Her book The Making of "Mammy Pleasant" was published by University of Illinois Press in 2003.

‍Professor Douglas Daniels is professor in the Department of Black Studies and in the Department of History at UC Santa Barbara. He received his B.A. in Political Science from the University of Chicago and an M.A. and Ph.D. in History from the University of California, Berkeley.

‍Rick Moss is a graduate of UCLA (B.A., 1977, M.A. History, 1980) and UC Riverside's Program for Historic Resources Management (M.A. 1987). Since July 2001 he has been the Director and Chief Curator of the African American Museum & Library at Oakland (AAMLO).During his twenty-two-year museum career, he has created many exhibitions and collaborated with many of the finest institutions and professionals across the nation.

In 2008 he launched Visions Towards Tomorrow: The African American Community in Oakland, 1890-1990, the permanent multi-media history exhibition for AAMLO.

‍Dr. Leon Litwack is an American historian and Professor of American History Emeritus at UC Berkeley, where he received the Golden Apple Award for Outstanding Teaching (2007). He has received the Pulitzer Prize in History for his book Been In the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery, is the winner of the 1980 Francis Parkman Prize and the 1981 National Book Award, and is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Humanities Film Grant. Professor Litwack retired to emeritus status at the end of the Spring 2007 semester and went on a lecture tour that resulted in his most recent work, How Free Is Free?: The Long Death of Jim Crow (February 2009).

‍In partnership with CALIFORNIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY and the AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM AND LIBRARY OF OAKLAND

Free for CHS and MoAD Members | $5 General Admission

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‍This program takes place at the California Historical Society, 678 Mission Street, SF (across the street from MoAD)