North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
The College of Arts and Sciences
The Department of History
April 1 - 2, 2015
The History Scholars
Sponsored By:
The History Scholars
Lyceum
NC A&T Middle College
The Department of History
The College of Arts & Sciences
Office of Student Affairs
Building on a Tradition of Excellence and “Aggie Pride”
Dr. Arwin D. Smallwood
Professor and Chair, Department of History
Welcome to the 2nd Annual Gibbs Conference and Lecture hosted by the History Scholars and the Department
of History. This lecture and conference forms the core of student professionalism and learning within the
history department at North Carolina A & T State University. Students, faculty and members of the Greensboro
community who participate in this annual event have demonstrated a commitment to a life of teaching and
learning of history through lectures, seminars and conferences such as this one. They are also committed to
involvement in innovative research, teaching and community service as well as collaborative research which
results in service learning.
The primary goals of this annual event are to foster student and community learning as well as to cultivate
intellectual curiosity among high school, community college and undergraduate students. We also seek to
prepare this generation of students to be scholars by developing their skills in written and oral communication,
as well as reasoning, critical thinking, intercultural and global awareness, and scholarly research. By helping
create an understanding of the past, we seek to inspire informed and engaged students and citizens.
Therefore we welcome you to the 2nd Annual Gibbs Conference and Lecture and hope you find it rewarding
and informative and leave with a commitment to a “Life of Learning.”
Sincerely,
Arwin D. Smallwood, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair
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The History Scholars
Department of History, NC A&T State University
Dr. Dwana Waugh, Assistant Professor of History, History Scholars Faculty Advisor
The purpose of the History Scholars is to provide a place for history majors and minors to engage
in discourse about the field, and to generate an idea and purpose of what it is to be a history
student. Further, the organization’s purpose is to reach and inform fellow history students, and to
provide guidance for successful study, completion of curricula, and entry into fields for which this
discipline serves as a foundation.
Monica Bumbrey, President
Majonica Haithcox, Vice President
Trevor Ventus, Co-Treasurers
Namede Bennet, Co-Treasurers
Kayla Forney, Host
Capri Barksdale, Secretary
Kachè Greene, Parliamentarian
Raeven Chatman, Publicity Chair
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Gibbs Keynote Dr. Hasan Kwame Jeffries • Wednesday April 1st
Wednesday April 1st • 7:00 p.m. • Harrison Auditorium
Hasan Kwame Jeffries is an Associate Professor of History at the Ohio
State University. His work explores political and class mobilization
among working class African Americans. In 2009, Dr. Jeffries published
Bloody Lowndes: Civil Rights and Black Power in Alabama’s Black Belt
(NYU Press), which tells the remarkable story of the ordinary people
and Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) organizers
who ushered in the Black Power era by transforming rural Lowndes
County, Alabama from a citadel of violent white supremacy into the
center of southern militancy. They achieved this extraordinary feat
by creating the Lowndes County Freedom Organization, the original
Black Panther Party. His current book project, entitled Stealing Home:
Ebbets Field and Black Working Class Life in Post-Civil Rights New
York, explores the struggle of working class African Americans to
secure and enjoy their freedom rights, from the height of the civil rights era through the present,
by examining the experiences of the residents of Ebbets Field Apartments, an expansive, 1,200 unit,
affordable housing complex built in 1962 on the site of old Ebbets Field, the former home of the
Brooklyn Dodgers.
Lecture Schedule
Opening
The Occasion
Greetings
Introduction of Speaker
Keynote Lecture
Questions
Closing Remarks
Dean’s Office, College of Arts & Sciences
NC A&T Ms. Monica Bumbrey, President of
History Scholars, NC A&T
Ms. Majonica Haithcox, Vice President of History
Scholars, NC A&T
Ms. Kayla Forney, Program Host of History
Scholars, NC A&T
Dr. Dwana Waugh, Assistant Professor of History,
NC A&T
Dr. Hasan K. Jeffries
Audience
Dr. Arwin D. Smallwood,
Professor and Chair of the Department of
History.
*Book signing and Reception to follow in the Dudley Multipurpose Room Immediately Following the
Lecture
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Bloody Lowndes
By Dr. Hasan Kwame Jeffries
Winner of the 2010 Clinton Jackson Coley
Award for the best book on local history from
the Alabama Historical Association
Early in 1966, African Americans in rural Lowndes County,
Alabama, aided by activists from the Student Non-Violent
Coordinating Committee (SNCC), established an all-black,
independent political party called the Lowndes County
Freedom Organization (LCFO). The group, whose ballot
symbol was a snarling black panther, was formed in part to
protest the barriers to black enfranchisement that had for
decades kept every single African American of voting age
off the county’s registration books. Even after the passage
of the Voting Rights Act, most African Americans in this
overwhelmingly black county remained too scared even to
try to register. Their fear stemmed from the county’s long,
bloody history of whites retaliating against blacks who strove
to exert the freedom granted to them after the Civil War.
Amid this environment of intimidation and disempowerment, African Americans in Lowndes
County viewed the LCFO as the best vehicle for concrete change. Their radical experiment in
democratic politics inspired black people throughout the country, from SNCC organizer Stokely
Carmichael who used the Lowndes County program as the blueprint for Black Power, to Californiabased activists Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton, who adopted the LCFO panther as the namesake
for their new, grassroots organization: the Black Panther Party for Self Defense. This party and its
adopted symbol went on to become the national organization of black militancy in the 1960s and
1970s, yet long-obscured is the crucial role that Lowndes County “historically a bastion of white
supremacy” played in spurring black activists nationwide to fight for civil and human rights in new
and more radical ways.
Drawing on an impressive array of sources ranging from government documents to personal
interviews with Lowndes County residents and SNCC activists, Hasan Kwame Jeffries tells, for the
first time, the remarkable full story of the Lowndes County freedom struggle and its contribution
to the larger civil rights movement. Bridging the gaping hole in the literature between civil rights
organizing and Black Power politics, Bloody Lowndes offers a new paradigm for understanding the
civil rights movement.
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2nd Annual Gibbs Conference • Thursday April 2nd
Schedule • Hodgin Hall • 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
10:00 - 10:15 a.m.
10:15 - 11:15 a.m.
Welcome
Civil War to Civil Rights: The Long Journey to Equality
North Carlina A&T Middle College Panelists:
• Thaddaeus Crawford, NC A&T Middle College
• Dylan Jasper, NC &T Middle College
• Deandre’ Lesane, NC A&T Middle College
• Abdoul Mohamed, NC A&T Middle College
• Trevonte Richmond, NC A&T Middle College
• Hakeem Shabazz-Norris, NC A&T Middle College
• Donald Vanderhall, NC A&T Middle College
11:30 - 12:30 p.m.
12:30 - 1:00 p.m.
1:00 - 1:45 p.m.
2:00 - 3:15 p.m.
Mr. Corey Torain, Moderator
Competing Ideologies of the 20th Centry
• Brenton Murphy, “Children of a Lesser God: The Secular Faiths of Hitler and
Stalin,” NC A&T
• Namede Bennett, “For the Love of Big Brother,” NC A&T
• Cortni Quarles, “A Plague on Both their Houses: The Totalitarian Ideology as a
Tool for Mobilization,” NC A&T
Dr. Thomas Porter, Moderator
Lunch Break
NC A&T SU Honda Allstar Team 2014-15
Caleb L. Prince (Captain), Dunamis Bacchus, Shakayla J. Grate, Akeeba Wright,
(Bryon D. Turman)
The Meaning of Community in East Greensboro, Past and Present
• Dr. Goldie Wells, former city councilwoman of Greensboro
• Jamal Fox, current city councilman of Greensboro
Dr. Michael Roberto, Moderator
3:30 - 4:45 p.m.
20th Century World Panel
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4:45 - 5:00 p.m.
Monica Bumbrey, “The Struggle for Equality: Women’s Rights in India,” NCA&T
Raeven Chatman, “The Homefront on the Soviet Union in WWII,” NCA&T
Jonathan Jackson, “Nasser’s Dilemma: Government Repression and the
Radicalization of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, 1928-Present,” NCA&T
Francisco Martinez, “The Devil’s Door: The Salvadoran Civil War’s Effects on
Children and Families, 1979-1992,” NCA&T
Dr. James Wood, Moderator
Sponsored by the Upsilon Zeta chapter of Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society
Closing Remarks
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Meet NC A&T’s Honda Allstar Quiz Bowl Team
Thursday April 2nd • Hodgin Hall • 1:00 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.
Honda Campus All-Star Challenge is a quiz bowl tournament administered by College Bowl for
Historically Black colleges and universities. The sponsor of the program is Honda Motor Company.
The Program started competition in 1989 when Honda proposed a program to the College Bowl
Company for Black colleges (HBCUs). To that end, College Bowl created a program in which all
4-year degree granting HBCUs are eligible to enroll teams, and all participating HBCUs receive grants.
From 1990 to 1995, the competition format consisted of sectional matches that led up to televised
National Championship games on BET (all of them hosted by Clint Holmes). The current basic
format was adopted in 1996, which abandoned the sectional games and the televising of games in
favor of an all-encompassing 64-team National Championship Tournament (NCT) held each year
in March or April. Since the 2010 season, only 48 teams have qualified each year. Beginning with the
2011-12 season, the format was changed to reflect that of the Zain Africa Challenge, another quiz
bowl competition run by Richard Reid Productions.
For their efforts, the representative schools are awarded grants
• The NCT Champion school is awarded $50,000
• Runner-Up earns $25,000
• Semi-Finalists earn $15,000
• Quarter-Finalists earn $9,500
• Playoff Qualifiers earn $6,000
• NCT qualifiers earn $3,000
• An additional $1,000 grant is awarded to the schools of All-Star players, so designated as
being the top individual scorers in each of the 8 divisions.
• The recipient of the Sports person Award earns their school
an additional $1,000 grant
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2014 - 2015 History Scholars and
Faculty Advisor
2014 - 2015 Officers:
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Monica Bumbrey, President
Majonica Haithcox, Vice President
Capri Barksdale, Secretary
Kachè Greene, Parliamentarian
Trevor Ventus, Co-Treasurer
Namede Bennet, Co-Treasurer
Raeven Chatman, Publicity Chair
Kayla Forney, Program Host
Nana Opoku, Program Host
Faculty Advisor:
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Dr. Dwana Waugh, Assistant Professor of History
We would like to thank all the administrators, donors, alumnae, faculty,
staff, and students who have given so generously of their money, time,
and talents to ensure the success of the 2nd Annual Gibbs Lecture and
Conference.
Special thanks to:
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North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
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Office of the Chancellor, Dr. Harold Martin, Sr.
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Office of the Provost, Dr. Joe Whitehead
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Office of Student Affairs, Vice Chancellor, Dr. Melody C. Pierce
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The College of Arts and Sciences, Dean, Dr. Goldie Byrd
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Lyceum
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The History Scholars
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North Carolina Agricultural and Technical Middle College
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NC A&T SU T.V. Studio, Kenneth P. DeVanney
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The Department of Journalism and Mass Communication
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Mr. Jimmie Tate, through his generous gift establishing the
Frank Bell Endowment in History
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Mr. Royall Mack, through his generous gift establishing the
Royall Mack Endowment in History.
Call for Papers
Organized by History Scholars
3rd Annual Conference & Annual Gibbs Lecture
1st Week of April 2016
Organized by History Scholars,
Supported by NCAT Lyceum, Department of
History and the NCAT Middle College
Theme: “Globalization”
The History Scholars and the Department of History at
North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University
welcomes the submission of session and paper proposals for
the 3rd annual conference to be held in Greensboro, North
Carolina during the 1st week of April 2016. We are requesting
proposals for the presentation of papers or panel discussions
around the theme of “Globalization.” Globalization is often
viewed as a contemporary phenomenon, but has spanned
several centuries. An examination of the historical process
of globalization, its origins, growth and implications can
provide a clearer understanding surrounding global issues in
the modern age. We will invite local high school students
and college students to submit proposals that explore how
globalization has impacted the field of history, economics,
technology, geography, political science, and religion, as well
as the far-reaching ramifications of globalization on social
justice, race and ethnic relations, and gender dynamics.
See you next year!
Sponsors and Donors:
At this time we would also like to make an appeal for your
generosity. If you wish to help with the future finances of this lecture
and conference, we gladly welcome and greatly appreciate any
contribution! Please make a donation to the NC A&T Department
of History. If making a contribution by check, please indicate that
you want your gift to go to the Department of History. Again thank
you very much and we hope to see you next year!
Building on a Tradition of Excellence and “Aggie Pride”
North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University
The College of Arts & Sciences
The Department of History
324 Gibbs Hall
1601 E. Market St
Greensboro, NC 27406
336.285.2324
http://www.ncat.edu/history
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