“‘Lifting as We Climb’”: The Leadership and Intellectual Thought of Black Clubwomen at the Turn-of-the-Twentieth-Century

CFP for the African American Literature and Culture Society (AALCS):

CALL FOR PAPERS 

for the

35th Annual ALA Conference

May 23–26, 2024 

The Palmer House Hilton

17 East Monroe Street

Chicago, IL 60603

This CFP invites abstracts) for papers on Black intellectuals and clubwomen during the late nineteenth- and early twentieth- century. Inspired by the conference’s location in Chicago, we are interested in papers that reflect the long history of Black women’s organizing and activismin the region.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

• Black women’s participation in and resistance to the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair

• The legacies and work of the National Association of Club Women (NACW), Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Anna Julia Cooper, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Mary Ann Shadd Cary, Mary Church Terrell, and other Black clubwomen

• Archival engagements with Black women intellectuals and clubwomen during this period

Please send a 250- 300 word abstract or proposal for a 15 minute presentation and a 150 word bio to Sabrina Evans (sabrina.evans@howard.edu) and Yolanda Mackey (yam5028@psu.edu) no later than January 12, 2024. Include your name and email with the abstract.