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Above and Beyond the Call of Duty

November 8, 2019, 10:00 AM - November 9, 2019, 1:00 PM

Order of Program
Lift Every Voice and Sing, Mr. Johnny L. Bates, MC – Retired, Marine Sergeant

Welcome Dr. Andrea Douglas, Director

10:00 – 10:30 Mr. Stanley Thomas, Navy Veteran, Port Chicago

10:30 – 11:00 Ms. Shirley Smith, Retired Army, Major Charity Adams Early: The Women Army Corps
11:00 – 11:30 Dr. Asa Gordon, Secretary General, Sons and Daughters of theUnited States Colored Troops, Sgt. William A. Scott, III and the Holocaust: The Encounter of African American Liberators and Jewish Survivors at Buchenwald

11:30 – 12:00 Film: The 370th Infantry
12:00 – 1:00 Lunch
1:00 – 1:30 Dr. Jeffrey Sammons, Professor of History, New York University, African American Soldiers in World War I and the Long Black Freedom Struggle: Harlem Rattlers as Case Study

6:00 – 7:00 Dr. Asa Gordon, A New Birth of Freedom: Redeeming the Declaration

Saturday, November 9, 2019

10:00 – 1:00 Exhibition Hall, Carver Recreation
Book Raffle Ms. Deloris Campbell, Retired Educator

  • Organizer Name: JSAAHC
  • Phone: (434) 260-8720
  • Email: director@jeffschoolheritagecenter.org/
  • Website: jeffschoolheritagecenter.org/
  • Type: Special Event
  • Time: November 8, 2019 - 10:00 AM November 9, 2019 - 1:00 PM
  • Venue:Various Venues
  • Duration:Various Times
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