Between Slavery and Freedom: Free People of Color and the Coming of the Civil War
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content: Maltsby, Portia
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content: Smithsonian Institution. Program in African American Culture
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content: Program in African American Culture Collection / Series 1: Program Files
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content: 1998 February 6-7
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content: Box 25, Folder 11
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content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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content: The Program in African American Culture in conjunction with the African
American Communities Project presented Free People of Color and the
Coming of the Civil War on February 6-7, 1998, in the Carmichael Auditorium, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, in honor of the seventeenth annual national observance of African American History Month. The program included lectures, performances, and a book signing. 

Participants:

Adele Logan Alexander, Ph.D., assistant professor of history, George Washington University

Ira Berlin, Ph.D., professor of history, University of Maryland, College Park

Richard J.M. Blackett, Moores Distinguished Chair of History and African American Studies, University of Houston

David W. Blight, professor of history and black studies, Amherst College

W. Jeffrey Bolster, associate professor and director of the graduate program in history, University of New Hampshire

Laurence Glasco, Ph.D., associate professor of history and director of the Program for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in World Perspective, University of Pittsburgh

James Oliver Horton, Benjamin Banneker Professor of American Studies and History, George Washington University

Lois E. Horton, Ph.D., professor of sociology, George Mason University

Leon Litwack, Ph.D., Alexander F. and May T. Morrison Professor of American History and chair of the Committee on the Library, Academic Senate, University of California, Berkeley

Marie Tyler-McGraw, Ph.D., historian and education specialist, History Office of the National Park Service, Washington, DC

Joanne Pope Melish, Ph.D., visiting assistant professor, Department of History, Brown University

Fred Morsell, president of Fremarjo Enterprises, Incorporated; a nonprofit organization that produces cultural events and seminars on race relations

Carla L. Peterson, Ph.D., professor, Department of English and the comparative literature program 

Joseph P. Reidy, Ph.D., professor of history, Howard University

Richard Allen Singers, Evelyn Simpson Curenton, Director

Rita Roberts, Ph.D., associate professor, Department of History and Black Studies, Scripps College, Claremont, California

James Brewer Stewart, James Wallace Professor of History, Macalester College

Rosalyn Terborg-Penn, professor of history and coordinator of graduate programs in history, Morgan State University 

Program number AC408.104.