Presentations

1: Madeline Morgan and the Black Women Intellectual Activists of World War II Chicago

Ashley Dennis, Northwestern U

2: ‘America Needs a Voice like Hers’: Gwendolyn Brooks in Bronzeville

Liesl Olson, Newberry Library

3: The Defender: How the Black Press Connected Communities and Gained Influence over National Politics

Ethan Michaeli, U of Chicago

4: A Communal Exchange: The Special Negro Collection at the Hall Branch Library and the Writing and Preserving of the ‘Negro in Illinois’ Manuscript

Melanie Chambliss, Columbia C, IL

Presider

John McCluskey, Indiana U, Bloomington