Emory Tolbert - Selected Conference Papers and Public Lectures

Selected Conference Papers and Public Lectures

• "Garveyism in California," International Conference on Marcus Garvey, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica, 1973.
• "The Black Twenties," Annual Conference of the Organization of American Historians, Denver, Colorado, 1974.
• "The Political Renaissance in Harlem," Miami University of Ohio, 1976.
• "Recent Research on Black Nationalism in America," College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts, 1978.
• Critique of Stephen Fortune's "Black and Jewish History," Annual Convention of the Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History, New York City, 1979.
• "Black Los Angeles," Second Annual Conference on Issues in Ethnicity and Mental Health, San Diego California, 1979.
• "The Atlanta Renaissance and the Harlem Renaissance," Third Annual Conference on Issues in Ethnicity and Mental Health, San Diego, California, 1980.
• "The Garvey Movement," Center for Afro-American Studies Series, University of California, Los Angeles, 1982.
• "The Marcus Garvey Papers," National Black Studies Conference, Berkeley, California, April 1983.
• "Federal Surveillance of Black Radicals in the 1920s," University of Santa Clara, April 1983.
• "Los Angeles at Twelfth and Central," a lecture delivered for the Power of Place, an organization that restores ethnic landmarks in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, February 1984.
• "Federal Surveillance of Marcus Garvey and the UNIA," Paper read for colloquium series sponsored by the Center for Government Studies, California State University, Fullerton, April 1985.
• "Sociological Trends in American Culture," American Studies Association Annual Conference, Chairman of session and commentator, San Diego, October 1985.
• "The State Department and National Security: Investigations of Black Radicalism in World Wars I and II," Annual conference of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, Chairman of session and commentator, American University, Washington, D.C., June 1988.
• "Blacks in Orange County, California" San Juan Capistrano Public Library Lecture Series, sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities, 1989.
• "Garveyism in Urban and Rural Settings," International Garvey Conference, Glassboro State University, Glassboro, New Jersey, sponsored by the Marcus Garvey Foundation, November 1990.
• "Black Los Angeles Since the Watts Rebellion," University of California, Irvine, February 1991.
• "Historical Editing Projects on the African American," chairman of session and commentator, Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History, Washington, D.C., November 1991.
• "Pan Africanism: Yesterday and Today," Chairman of session, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., February 1992.
• "The Evolution of Thought in the Civil Rights Movement," a series of four lectures for the Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., September 1992.
• "The African Diaspora in North America," for the Global Change for Teachers Program sponsored by the University of Virginia, Falls Church, Va., November 1992.
• "The Harlem Renaissance," a series of four lectures for the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., February 1993.
• "Black, Blue and Gray: African Americans and the Civil War," a series of three lectures for the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., March–April 1995.
• "The Search for Marcus Garvey," University of Akron, Akron, Ohio, February 1998.
• Facilitator, Middle Passage Conference sponsored by National Endowment for the Humanities and Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History, Howard University, July 1998.
• "Marcus Garvey – Of Vision and Mass Mobilization," chair and commentator, Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland, April 1999
• "Du Bois and Garvey at the Capstone," Phi Alpha Theta Induction Ceremony, Howard University, April 2000.
• Chair and commentator, "New Perspectives in African American Economics," annual meeting of Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History, October 2000
• "The Relevance of Du Bois and Garvey" Presented at the Sandy Springs Slave Museum, Sandy Springs, Maryland, January 26, 2001
• "Who Owns History?" presented at Andrews University, Berrien Springs, Michigan, February 22, 2001
• "Sabbatarian Movements in Africa," Presented at Conference on the Sabbath in Africa, Capitol Hill SDA Church, Washington, D.C., February 2002
• "Notes on the History of the Sabbath in Ethiopia," Annual Ministers and Workers Conference, Oakwood University, Huntsville Alabama, December 2003
• "Ralph Bunche and United States Domestic Policy," Commemoration of Ralph Bunche Centennial, Howard University, October 2004
• "The African Diaspora," U.S. Department of Defense, Washington, D.C., February 2005
• "The Niagara Movement: One Hundred Years Later," U S Department of Agriculture, Crystal City, Virginia, February 2005
• "The Niagara Movement," Chair of session and Commentator, Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History, Buffalo, New York, October 2005
• "Walter Rodney: Prolific Historian," Walter Rodney Memorial Seminar, Howard University, October 2005
• "Facing the Last World Crisis: A Series of Three Lectures," Adventist Laypersons Services and Industries Third National Convention, Eldoret, Kenya, February 23–25, 2006
• Commentary on Mark Noll"s America’s God, History and Religion Forum, Columbia Union College, Takoma Park, Maryland, March 8, 2007
• Chair and Commentator "African Americans in Seventh-day Adventist History," Annual Meeting of the Association of Seventh-day Adventist Historians, Oakwood University, Huntsville, Alabama, April 2007
• "Finding The Future," Commencement Address, Loma Linda University, School of Science and Technology and School of Religion, Loma Linda, California, June 10, 2007
• "The Sabbath in Ethiopian History," Presented at Conference on the Sabbath in Africa, Berean Seventh-day Adventist Church, Atlanta, Georgia, September 2007
• "Graduate Research at Howard University History Department," Presented at Phi Alpha Theta induction ceremony, Columbia Union College, Takoma Park, Maryland, April 21, 2008
• "The Ethiopian Struggle: Changing the Prophetic Map," 3ABN Broadcast, Tampa, Florida, August 1, 2008.
• "Juneteenth," Keynote Speaker at Ceremony Honoring Ben Carson and James West, Johns Hopkins University, June 2009