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Friday September 28, 2007, 12 Noon
Opening Keynote Address
Juan Williams, Keynote Speaker
Award-winning Journalist
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Friday September 28, 2007, 7:30 - 8:45 p.m.
Darryl Van Leer
Award Winning Actor/Performer
My Life in Bondage
In this presentation, Van Leer delivers a heart-warming, heart wrenching performance of the true story of Frederick Douglass. |
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Friday September 28, 2007,
7:30 - 8:45 p.m.
Thomas Fitzgerald Warfield
Performer
Assistant Professor, Department of Cultural and Creative Studies, National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID) at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)
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Saturday September 29th, 9:15 – 10:15 AM
Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon
Professor Emerita of History at American University
Curator Emerita at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History |
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Tony Burroughs
Professional Genealogist
Geneology
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Linda Cousins-Newton
Founder, Nana Tubman Honor in Ghana Project
Director, Ancestral Promotions
The Underground Railroad - An International Embrace |
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Anthony M. Cohen
Historian, Director,The Menare Foundation, Inc.
Patrick & Me: A Family Saga of The Underground Railroad |
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Claudine Dixon
Library Media Specialist,
Greece Central School District
Co-presenter: James Schroeder
Social Studies Teacher,
Greece Central School District 21st Century Classroom meets 19th Century History |
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Walter Gable, M Ed, M.S.
Seneca County Historian
The Underground Railroad, Abolitionism and Women's Rights Activism in Seneca County |
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Katherine Gagne, M Ed
Teacher, Penn Yan Central Schools
Recollections with Jean Rankin: My Work on the Underground Railroad |
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Genesee Community Charter School 2006-2007 5th Grade Class
Working for Freedom |
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Nancy A. Hewitt, PhD
Professor, Rutgers University
Co-presenter: Christopher Densmore
Curator, Friends Historical Library, Swarthmore College
Crossing Borders for Freedom: Free Blacks, Quakers, and the Underground Railroad |
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Rickerby Hinds, MFA, Playwright
University of California, Riverside
Frederick Douglass, Hip Hop Head |
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Dean V. June
Teacher,
Attica Central School
Then What Happened? |
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Lea Kemp, Kirstin Sheradin and Erin Roth
Building an Underground Railroad Exhibit |
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Pepsy M. Kettavong
Artist
“Let's Have Tea:” How a sculpture of Frederick Douglass and Susan B. Anthony expresses the values of a neighborhood, a city, and our democratic society |
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Kate Clifford Larson, PhD
Professor, Simmons College
Harriet Tubman's Personal Network to Freedom: The Importance of Family and Community along the UGRR
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Karen E. Livsey
Chautauqua County: A Slave Capture, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Eber Pettit and More
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Harry Bradshaw Matthews, M Ed
Associate Dean and Director, U.S. Pluralism Programs
Hartwick College
Role of the USCT in the Resistance and Liberation of Enslaved Americans |
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Timothy McDonnell, M Ed
Board Member/Newsletter Editor, New York Geographic Alliance
The Geography of the Underground Railroad in New York State |
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John R. McKivigan, PhD
Professor,
Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis
Frederick Douglass: Underground Railroad Passenger, Conductor, Advocate, and Passenger |
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Owen W. Muelder
Director, Galesburg Colony Underground Railroad Freedom Station at Knox College
The influence of upstate New York abolitionists on the western Illinois Underground Railroad and the 5th Lincoln-Douglas debate |
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Donald Earl Papson, M Ed
President, North Country Underground Railroad Historical Association
Waterways to Freedom |
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Marie Kent Parsons
Researcher, Writer & Editor, Creative Non-Fiction Writer
Co-presenters: Performers for Readers Theater Production
Voices of Light: The Words and Works of Farmington Friends
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Monique Patenaude Ph. D. Candidate
Graduate Student/A.B.D. University of Rochester
Forging
Steel: NYS Historical Markers and the UGRR
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Ruth Rosenberg-Naparsteck
Uncle Tom's Cabin as Parable: Harriet Beecher Stowe's
Sermon
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Rosemary Sadlier
President, Ontario Black History Society
A North Side View of Slavery |
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Virginia Sullivan
New Routes Coordinator, Adventure Cycling Association
Co-presenter: Dr. Stephen Thomas
Director, Center for Minority Health, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh
The Underground Railroad Bicycle Route - Exploring History by Bicycle |
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Judith Wellman, PhD
Director, Historical New York Research Associates
Sites of Conscience: From the Underground Railroad to Women's Rights in Upstate New York |
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Delores M. Walters, PhD
Educational Program Consultant
Learning from the Legacy of Women's Resistance to Slavery: Why Northern Slavery Cannot be Ignored |
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