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AFRICAN AMERICAN CIVIL WAR CONFERENCE IN NEW BERN
SPRING 2010 Symposium on The United States Colored Troops, MAY 7-9, 2010
Presented by the Cultural Heritage Museum, Kinston, NC
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"Earning the Right to Citizenship - VI,"
A regional symposium about the role of the US Colored Troops in the Civil War will be held May 7-9, 2010 at the New Bern Convention Center in New Bern, NC. in conjunction with the New Bern's Civil War Days Re-enactment (the largest USCT re-enactment in NC) and Civil War Living History Weekend. The weekend will feature presentations and exhibits from national and regional historians, storytellers, civil war scholars, the Battle of New Bern Re-enactment, troop encampment, and living history cultural interpreters revolving around the participatory role of African Americans in the Civil War. The symposium is produced by the Cultural Heritage Museum (CHM), NC's primary resource on African American participation in the Civil War located in Kinston and co-sponsored by the New Bern 300th Committee, North Carolina Humanities Council, the African American Civil War Memorial and Museum, Tryon Palace, New Bern Riverfront Convention Center, Military Road Preservation Trust, NC Association of Black Storytellers, and USCTLHA, a national association of USCT Re-enactors, Historians, Researchers and Genealogists.
The conference begins on Friday with Civil War Living History demonstrations held for area schools in the morning, then from 11 am to 5:00 pm, workshops on inclusion of USCT will be held at the new Bern Convention Center. Beginning at 8:30 am on Saturday at the New Bern Convention Center , the conference will feature seminar tracks focusing on NC history, NC Battles, Black Spy Network, Genealogy, Black Sailors, Frederick Douglass, heritage tourism that will feature Hari Jones, Curator of the African American Civil War Memorial and Museum in Washington, DC; Dr. John Haley, historian, Chris Fonvielle, UNC-Wilmington, Dr. David A. Anderson aka Sankofa, storyteller and Chairman of the Rochester Freedom Trail Commission, Civil War Re-enactors from Maryland, D.C., Pennsylvania, Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky, South Carolina and Wilmington, NC; USCT descendants and others. A Friday evening welcoming reception and banquet will feature the Visionary Heritage Awards, honoring outstanding leaders in the field of African American Culture and History. On Sunday morning a wreath will be laid to commemorate the fallen members of the US Colored Troops that fought in those memorable Civil War battles December, 1864 - February,1865 in North Carolina.
USCT Symposium, and re-enactments are free. Award Banquet ticket fees are $20 in advance, $25 at door. Those interested in attending may register for the symposium by calling 866-324-5399 or go to www.uscoloredtroops.org and download the registration forms and seminar schedule. Exhibitors and sutlers may also call 866-324-5399 or send an email to beecheagle@gmail.com.
About the Cultural Heritage Museum: The CHM is an educational project of the Black Heritage Society, Inc. in Kinston, NC. The CHM will pay tribute to the more than 200,000 Black soldiers and their 7,000 white officers who fought with the Union in the American Civil War, with emphasis on the 9,000 US Colored Troops from North Carolina; it will also pay tribute to Black Military veterans from the area; Carl Long and the Negro League Baseball Players; Civil Rights Movement, local heroes, the African Diaspora and Black history in general.
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