Friday, April 19:
6:00 p.m. registration and reception
7:00 Keynote speaker
Charles Payne, Northwestern University
"Oral History and Rethinking the Civil
Rights Movement"
Saturday, April 20:
8:30 a.m. registration
9:00-11:00 High school teachers roundtable
Black and white health care
Rose Cannon, Emory University
"Georgia's Twentieth Century Public
Health Nurses: A Social History of Racial
Relations"
Karen Cruse Thomas, UNC-Chapel Hill
"Sirens Across the Tracks: Black Health
Care in Wilson County,
North Carolina, 1940-1980"
Screening of "Family Name" film
Macky Alston, director "Family Name"
11:00-1:00 Lunch
1:00-3:00 Issues in Black Education:
Atlanta University Center Educators
Ora L. Cooks, Clark Atlanta University
Gwendolyn Garrison, Clark Atlanta University
Belinda Oliver, Clark Atlanta University
Phillip Hood, Clark Atlanta University
New Books in Atlanta History
Gary Pomerantz, author of Where Peachtree
Street Meets Sweet Auburn
Ronald Bayor, author of Race and Public
Policy in Twentieth Century Atlanta
Southern Oral History and the Internet
Chuck Thomas, UNC-Chapel Hill
3:15-5:15 Workshop: Doing Oral History
Cliff Kuhn, Georgia State University
Screening of "Family Name"
Macky Alston, director "Family Name"
5:30-7:30 dinner
7:30 Making Theater from Oral History
Tom DeTitta, Playwright, "The Reach of Song,"
Director, Center for the Advancement of
Community Based Theater
Sunday, April 21:
9:00-11:00 SOHO business meeting
REGISTRATION: $35, $5 for students. If registering in advance,
send check payable to SOHO to John Howard, National Faculty,
Healey Building, 57 Forsyth Street, Suite 600, Atlanta, GA 30303.
To get to the Carter Library, take Exit 96 off of I-75/85 and
follow signs to the Carter Center. Enter at Museum entrance.
Affiliated with the Oral History Association, SOHO was formed to
better coordinate and advance oral history efforts in the region.
For more information, contact Cliff Kuhn: hiscmk@gsusgi2.gsu.edu
of c/o History Department, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA
30303.