Saturday, January 10, 2004

2:30–4:30 a.m.

99. African Americans and the State in the United States and Canada
Marriott, Virginia Suite B

Chair: Earl Lewis, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
Papers:

Housing, the Freedmen’s Bureau, and the Struggle over Citizenship in Postemancipation Washington, D.C.
Kate Masur, University of Maryland at College Park

The Kind of Mob Violence “Such as We Have Read of On the Other Side”: Black Canadians, Lynching, and the Criminal Courts
Barrington Walker, Queen’s University

African American Women, Welfare, and Poverty in Post-World War II Philadelphia
Lisa Levenstein, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Comment: Dylan C. Penningroth, Northwestern University