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ABWH Awards

The Winners of the 2009 Letitia Woods Brown Book Awards are:
 
Best Book
Justice Older Than The Law: The Life of Dovey Johnson Roundtree, University of Mississippi  by Katie McCabe and Dovey Johnson Roundtree
 
Sojourner Truths America, University of Illinois by Margaret Washington
 
Beyond Lift Every Voice and Sing: The Culture of Uplift, Identity, and Politics in Black Musical Theater, Ohio State University Press by Paula Marie Seniors
 
Edited Work
Go, Tell Michelle African American Women Write the New First Lady, edited by Peggy Brooks-Bertram and Barbara Seals-Nevergold
 
Best Research
The Secret Trust of Aspasia Cruvellier Mirault: the Life and Trials of a Free Women of Color in Antebellum Georgia, University of Arkansas by Janice Sumler-Edmond
 
 Best Article
Amrita Chakrabarti Myers, "The Bettingall-Tunno Family and the Free Black Women of Antebellum Charleston: A Freedom Both Contingent and Constrained", in Marjorie Julian Spruill et al., eds., South Carolina Women: Their Lives and Times, Volume 1 (Athens: University of Georgia, 2009): 143-167.
 

The 2009 Drusilla Dunjee Houston Award winner is:
Rashauna R. Johnson, New York University Ph.D. candidate in History as the winner of the award. Ms. Johnson is a 2004 summa cum laude graduate in Political Science and African American Studies of Howard University. Her areas of specialization are African Diaspora, U.S. South and Caribbean, African American History.

Please click here to read Rashauna's Abstract.
   
The 2009 Lorraine A. Williams Leadership Award winner is:
Dr. Elizabeth Clark-Lewis, director of the public history program at Howard University.


Lorraine Anderson Williams Leadership Award honors an African American woman in education or an area providing related services such as archives, libraries, historical societies and museums. She should have demonstrated outstanding scholarship and service in administration and teaching and, together with her leadership skills, should have made an impact upon African American women. The nominee need not be a member of ABWH. Deadline for nomination: August 31st.


Lillie M. Newton Hornsby Memorial Award is a $250 prize given for historical research by a black female undergraduate, either at the end of her junior year or during her senior year. It cannot be awarded to those who have graduated. Deadline for nomination: September 1st.

For more information about the ASALH convention, go to www.asalh.org.