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National Multicultural Western Heritage Museumin association with University of Texas at Arlington

Presents a

Saturday, July 26, 2014 | 9am to 12pm

NatioNal multicultural WESTERN HERiTAgE MUSEUM

3400 mt. VerNoN aVeNue, Fort Worth, texaS 76103

Dr. W. Marvin Dulaney Chair, Dept. of History University of Texas at Arlington

Dr. Dulaney is Associate Professor and Chair of the History Department at the University of Texas, Arlington. He earned his doctorate in American and African-American history at the Ohio State University. His most recent publications are: “Women in the South Carolina Civil Rights Movement,” in Southern Black Women in the Modern Civil Rights Movement; “’We Still Love Lucy:’ Lucy Patterson, Dallas’s First African American Councilwoman,” in Legacies (Fall 2013); and “Documenting the Life and Legacy of Malcolm X,” in the Journal of African American History. His current research project is a social and political history of African Americans in Dallas, Texas. He is a past member of the board of the National Multicultural Western Heritage Museum.

Symposium Topics

Necessary Networks: W.E.B. Du Bois in Texas and the Western U.S.

presented by

Dr. Amilcar Shabazz

A History of Fort Worth in Black

and White presented by

Dr. Richard Selcer

Symposium Host and Facilitator

Dr. Amilcar Shabazz Associate Professor, Dept. of African American Studies University of Massachusetts at Amherst Dr. Shabazz earned his Ph. D. at the University of Houston and he is the author of Advancing Democracy: African Americans and the Struggle for Access and Equity in Higher Education in Texas, published by the University of North Carolina Press. His most recent publication is Women and Others: Perspectives on Gender, Race, and Empire. Co-edited with Celia R. Daileader and Rhoda Johnson.

Dr. richard selcer Adjunct Instructor Weatherford College | Dallas County Community College Dr. Selcer earned his Ph. D. at Texas Christian University and his most recent books are Written in Blood: The Stories Behind Fort Worth’s Fallen Lawmen, 1861-1909, Volume I and Written in Blood. . . 1910-1928, Vol. 2. Both books were published by University of North Texas Press. He is currently completing a manuscript of the history of African Americans in Fort Worth.

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