The following was sent to me by the National Genealogical Society:
On Tuesday, 12 May 2009, the North Carolina Museum of History, 5 East Edenton Street, Raleigh, North Carolina, will offer an African-American Genealogy Forum. The program is free, but space is limited to 200 so you need to register for this all-day event.
If you have already registered for the NGS Family History Conference and you want to attend this outstanding pre-conference event, go to http://www.ngsgenealogy.org/cs/free_events and register today.
The program features the following presentations:
8:00–9:00 am: Dr. John Quinly Williams, agricultural scientist and author of the forthcoming publication, God, Guts, and Game—Survival of Three African American Families: 1747-2000
9:30–10:30 am: Dorothy Spruill Redford, retired curator, Somerset Place, and author of the 1986 publication, Somerset Homecoming
11:00 am–12:00 noon: Dr. Barnetta McGhee White, author of Somebody Knows My Name
12:00–1:30 pm: Lunch on your own
1:30–3:00 pm: Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and the Director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University, who wrote and produced the PBS documentary African American Lives, the first documentary series to employ genealogy and genetic science to provide an understanding of African American history.
3:30–4:45 pm: Panel Discussion with the above presenters plus special guest, Bill Haley, son of Alexander Haley of Roots fame