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🖤📚 Join the 2025 FREEDOM SCHOOL! 📚🖤

Learn the history they don’t want you to know.

The W. M. Dulaney Branch of ASALH invites you to join our Freedom School, a powerful summer program taught by Dr. Dinkinesh Madiba (aka Lucy Houston) at the African American Museum in Dallas.

ASALH—the Association for the Study of African American Life and History—was founded by Dr. Carter G. Woodson to preserve and teach Black history year-round. Its mission: “Promote, research, preserve, interpret and disseminate information about Black life, history and culture to the global community.”

Freedom Schools have deep roots. After Emancipation and again during the 1960s Civil Rights Movement, they served as spaces for truth-telling, empowerment, and resistance—teaching Black history when the state refused to. We continue that legacy today.

✊🏾 What You’ll Learn:

Every Saturday, 3–5 PM | June 14 – August 23
📍 African American Museum, 3536 Grand Ave, Dallas, TX 75210
💻 Register now: aamdallas.org | 💵 Fee: $50

Weekly Topics:

• JUN 14: Africa: The Motherland of African Americans & Humanity
• JUN 21: The Decline of African Civilizations
• JUN 28: The Maafa: Transatlantic Slave Trade & Chattel Slavery
• ❌ JUL 5: No Class
• JUL 12: Life in the Diaspora
• JUL 19: African Americans & the Civil War
• JUL 26: Reconstruction, Jim Crow & the Great Migration
• AUG 2: Harlem Renaissance & World War II
• AUG 9: Civil Rights Movement: Courtrooms & Streets
• AUG 16: The Black Arts Movement
• AUG 23: Contemporary African American Issues

🌍 This is education for liberation. Join the movement.
📢 Register Today: aamdallas.org
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Join Professor Clarence E. Glover, Jr. and the opening of “BIG D COTTON: Without Us” exhibition.

SATURDAY, April 19, 2025, at 11AM in the ATT Auditorium at the African American Museum of Dallas 3536 Grand Avenue, Dallas 75210.

Exhibition Dates: April 4 – June 19, 2025

WM Dulaney ASALH Branch in partnership with the African American Museum of Dallas is holding Freedom Schools at the museum in Dallas. The schools will offer participants an opportunity to learn about African American history as part of a national effort to counter state legislatures’ attempts to prevent the teaching of accurate African American history in public schools.

Registration fee for the 2025 Spring Freedom School is $50. Register at aamdallas.org

Dr. J. Anthony Guillory, UTA Doctoral Candidate in History will be the instructor.

Saturdays, 3 – 5 PM

March 15 – Pan-Negroism in the United States

March 22 – Respectability Politics

March 29 – Issues in “Environmental Justice”

April 5 – African American Families

April 12 – African American Families

April 19 – African American Public Memory

April 26 – Criticisms of Black Studies

1. Branch Meeting: Join us on Saturday, March 8, 2025, at 1 PM at the African American Museum.

2. Freedom School: Also beginning on March 8, 2025, at the African American Museum. Check out the flyer below for more details.

3. Memphis Trip: Mark your calendars for March 11-13, 2025.

4. Thelma Daniels Distinguished Lecture: On March 22, 2025, at 2 PM, come hear Dr. Delaina Price from the University of Texas at Arlington share her insights on humanities and women issues. Admission is free. More information is available in the flyer below.