MTW Chronology

Sterling Stuckey, historian, Black Studies Through the Prism of Paul Robeson

Max Roach, percussionist and educator, The Sacred and Secular Traditions of Black Music

John Blassingame, historian, Black Historical Scholarship and the Black Historian

Vincent Harding, historian, The Role of Religion in the History of Haitians, Jamaicans and Afro-Americans

 Esther Rolle, actress, Not Without Laughter: Humor in the Past and Thought of Afro-Americans

 James Farmer, civil rights activist and educator, Marching to Different Drummers: A Civil Rights Movement Retrospective

Robert C. Weaver, economist, educator, and administrator, The New Black Urban Experience

Basil Davidson, historian, The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade

James A. Moss, Jr., clinical psychologist and educator (son of Marion Thompson Wright), Marion Thompson Wright and the Writing of New Jersey Afro-American History

Gerald Davis, anthropologist and folklorist, Folkways and Black History

Arnold Rampersad, literary scholar and biographer, The Use of History in Afro-American Literature

 John Bracey, historian, The Age of Christopher Columbus: Legacies for Africa and the Americas

Nell Irvin Painter, historian, Black Women in Afro-American History

 Joe William Trotter, Jr., historian, Travelin’ On My Mind: The Great Migration Reconsidered

Wilson Jeremiah Moses, historian, Booker T. Washington and Modern Black Leadership Reconsidered

 Derrick Bell, legal scholar and novelist, Separate But Equal: Plessy v. Ferguson in Historical Perspective

Robin D.G. Kelley, historian, Small Footprints on the Past: America’s Black Children in Historical Perspective

 Sterling Stuckey, historian, Climbing Jacob’s Ladder: The Life and Times of Paul Robeson

Eric Foner, historian, On the Meaning of Freedom

Ali Mazrui, historian and philosopher, Time…Africa and the Diaspora

Bettye Collier Thomas, historian and archivist, Every Wise Woman Buildeth Her House: Sisterhood in the Black Church

Spencer Crew, historian and museum director, Old Stories, New Venues: African American History in Public Spaces

David Levering Lewis, historian, W.E.B. DuBois in Africa

 Roger Wilkins, historian and journalist, Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas: A Retrospect

 James Oliver Horton, historian, Lessons from the Past: The 25th Anniversary of the Marion Thompson Wright Series

 Cheryl Wall, literary scholar, Black Creativity and Modern American Life

David Blight, historian, Time Longer Than Rope: Historical Memory and the Black Atlantic

Bernice Johnson Reagon, cultural scholar, Private Grief and Public Mourning in African American Life and History

Deborah Gray White, historian; Bob Herbert, columnist, Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory: Lincoln, the NAACP, and the World They Created

Annette Gordon-Reed, historian, Laboring in the Vineyard: Scholarship and Citizenship

Deborah Willis, historian and curator, Beauty and the Black Body: History, Aesthetics and Politics

Joycelyn Elders, Former United States Surgeon General, Taking Good Care: A History of Health and Wellness in the Black Community

Thavolia Glymph, Duke University; Steven Hahn, University of Pennsylvania; James Oakes, The City University of New York; Tera Hunter, Princeton University, Emancipation and the Work of Freedom

Bob Moses, civil rights movement veteran and president and founder of The Algebra Project; Diane Nash, civil rights movement veteran, Tending the Light: Community Organizing and the Modern Civil Rights Movement

Lonnie G. Bunch III, Founding Director of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Curating Black America

Ruth Wilson Gilmore, City University of New York; Heather Ann Thompson, The University of   Michigan; Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Long Time Here: Prisons and Policing in African-American History

Alicia Garza, author, principal at Black Futures Lab, and co-creator of #BlackLivesMatter.; Bill Fletcher Jr., author, labor activist, & scholar; Cara Page, Black Queer Feminist cultural/memory worker, curator, and organizer, One Begins Again: Organizing & the Historical Imagination