CARTER G. WOODSON BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION, OPEN HOUSE & MEMBERSHIP DRIVE
Location: African American Museum – Saturday, December 13, 2025 at 1 p. m.
Join the W. M. Dulaney Branch of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) for an important community update.
Dr. Tiffany Clark, District 13 – Representative for the Texas Board of Education.
Information will be provided on potential changes to public school curriculum affecting millions of minority students in Texas.
This briefing is jointly sponsored by the African American Museum and the DFW Branch of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH).
FALL 2025 FREEDOM SCHOOLS REGISTRATION
Fall 2025 Freedom School is now open. You must register to attend. Click here to register.
FREEDOM SCHOOLS
📍 Where? African American Museum of Dallas
📅 When? Saturdays | Oct 18, 2025 – Jan 3, 2026
🕒 Time? 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM
🎓 For Whom? Adults (18+)
NOTE: October 18 session ONLY will be held at: Fourth Avenue Church of Christ, 3220 Park Row Ave, Dallas, TX 75210. All other classes at the African American Museum.
Classes are FREE – Must register at www.wmdasalh.com/freedom
Dr. W Marvin Dulaney and Robert Edison, MA will be your instructors.
Topics of Discussion
| OCTOBER 18 | Course Introduction, Pretest, and African American Historiography (at Fourth Avenue Church of Christ) |
| OCTOBER 25 | African Origins and the African Heritage of African Americans* |
| NOVEMBER 1 | African American Institutions |
| NOVEMBER 8 | The Struggle for Social and Political Justice |
| NOVEMBER 15 | African Americans in Dallas |
| NOVEMBER 22 | African Americans and the Arts |
| NOVEMBER 29 | NO CLASS |
| DECEMBER 6 | Two Southern Strategies |
| DECEMBER 13 | Racial Health Disparities |
| DECEMBER 20 | African American Economic Development |
| DECEMBER 27 | NO CLASS |
| JANUARY 3 | Closing session: Post Test, Group Presentations, and Evaluation (WMD) |
FREEDOM SCHOOL JULY 12 TOPIC
Life in the Diaspora Saturday’s Freedom School Topic – July 12, 2025
3-5 p.m. at the African American Museum of Dallas
FREEDOM SCHOOL REGISTRATION
Registration is open for FREEDOM SCHOOL classes. Click here to Register for Freedom School
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SUMMER 2025 FREEDOM SCHOOL
🖤📚 Join the 2025 FREEDOM SCHOOL! 📚🖤
Learn the history they don’t want you to know.
The W. M. Dulaney Branch of ASALH invites you to join our Freedom School, a powerful summer program taught by Dr. Dinkinesh Madiba (aka Lucy Houston) at the African American Museum in Dallas.
ASALH—the Association for the Study of African American Life and History—was founded by Dr. Carter G. Woodson to preserve and teach Black history year-round. Its mission: “Promote, research, preserve, interpret and disseminate information about Black life, history and culture to the global community.”
Freedom Schools have deep roots. After Emancipation and again during the 1960s Civil Rights Movement, they served as spaces for truth-telling, empowerment, and resistance—teaching Black history when the state refused to. We continue that legacy today.
✊🏾 What You’ll Learn:
Every Saturday, 3–5 PM | June 14 – August 23
📍 African American Museum, 3536 Grand Ave, Dallas, TX 75210
💻 Freedom School Registration
Weekly Topics:
- JUN 14: Africa: The Motherland of African Americans & Humanity
- JUN 21: The Decline of African Civilizations
- JUN 28: The Maafa: Transatlantic Slave Trade & Chattel Slavery
- ❌ JUL 5: No Class
- JUL 12: Life in the Diaspora
- JUL 19: African Americans & the Civil War
- JUL 26: Reconstruction, Jim Crow & the Great Migration
- AUG 2: Harlem Renaissance & World War II
- AUG 9: Civil Rights Movement: Courtrooms & Streets
- AUG 16: The Black Arts Movement
- AUG 23: Contemporary African American Issues
🌍 This is education for liberation. Join the movement.
📢 Freedom School Registration
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FREEDOM SCHOOLS – SPRING 2025
WM Dulaney ASALH Branch in partnership with the African American Museum of Dallas is holding Freedom Schools at the museum in Dallas. The schools will offer participants an opportunity to learn about African American history as part of a national effort to counter state legislatures’ attempts to prevent the teaching of accurate African American history in public schools.
Registration fee for the 2025 Spring Freedom School is $50. Register at aamdallas.org
Dr. J. Anthony Guillory, UTA Doctoral Candidate in History will be the instructor.
Saturdays, 3 – 5 PM
March 15 – Pan-Negroism in the United States
March 22 – Respectability Politics
March 29 – Issues in “Environmental Justice”
April 5 – African American Families
April 12 – African American Families
April 19 – African American Public Memory
April 26 – Criticisms of Black Studies
NOVEMBER 2024 Branch Meeting, Events and Announcements
Freedom School – Spring 2025
AUGUST 2024 Branch Meeting, Activities, and Events
The newsletter highlights important information for branch members for the month of August.
- Branch Meeting – Saturday, August 10, 2024 at 1 p.m. at the African American Museum
- 60th anniversary of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act.
- WHEN: AUG 7, 2024
- TIME: 10 a.m. to 11 a.m.
- WHERE: The EEOC Kennedy Conference Room and via TEAMS
- FREEDOM Schools
- The dates of classes for 2024 are:
- JULY 27 to SEPT. 21, 2024 &
- OCTOBER 26 to DECEMBER 28, 2024
- Both are scheduled from 3 – 5 p.m. The classes are FREE to teachers and students. Others can donate to the museum.
FREEDOM Schools at the African American Museum
Saturdays JULY 27 – SEPT. 21, 2024 from 3-5 p.m.
Freedom Schools will offer participants an opportunity to learn about African American history as part of a national effort to counter state legislatures’ attempts to prevent the teaching of accurate African American history in public schools.
At a time when schools are limiting the teaching of African American history and libraries are pulling books off shelves, the African American Museum is launching a Freedom Schools series on Saturdays running from July 27 to Sept., 21 and October 26 to December 28, 2024.
The curriculum will focus on the following topics: African history; African American historiography; the African American experience in slavery, colonial and antebellum America; the experience of African Americans in the Civil War and Reconstruction; Harlem Renaissance; Civil Rights Movement; African Americans and the arts; Black politics; local history; and the Nadir of American Race Relations.
Juneteenth Symposium
Co-sponsored by the African American Museum and the DFW Branch of the Study for the African American Life and History (ASALH)
June 19, 2024 at 12 Noon
2024 Juneteenth Celebration
Wednesday, June 19, 2024 – 11:30am at the African American Museum of Dallas
FREE EVENT
The WM Dulaney ASALH Branch, is hosting an upcoming Juneteenth celebration, which will be broadcast nationally by the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH).
This event will feature a symposium on the history and the celebration of Juneteenth. Additionally, we will have the talented violinist Clover, who will perform music highlighting the cultural traditions of Juneteenth.
Before the main activities commence at 11:30 AM, Mrs. Opal will be hosting a special walk at the fairgrounds. Please register at https://opalswalkdallastx.raceroster.com/.
Below you will find a detailed flyer outlining the schedule of activities and other relevant information.
2024 SECOND ANNUAL HERITAGE BOWL EVENT & WINNERS
High School Winner – RICHARDSON HIGH SCHOOL, Richardson Texas Middle School Winner – KATHERINE JOHNSON TECHNICAL MAGNET ACADEMY – Desoto, Texas
WM Dulaney Branch Meeting every 2nd Saturday of the month.
AUGUST EVENTS
JULY EVENTS
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