D/FW ASALH

Saturday’s Freedom School Topic – June 28, 2025

3-5 p.m. at the African American Museum

The Maafa: The Transatlantic Slave Trade & The Establishment of Chattel Slavery

“Maafa”, which is a Swahili word used to describe the transatlantic slave trade and its devastating impact on African peoples. The term literally translates to “great disaster” or “great tragedy”.

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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