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"Changing America: The Emancipation Proclamation, 1863 and the March on Washington, 1963 will help public audiences understand and discuss the relationship between two great peoples’ movements that resulted in the Emancipation Proclamation, and the March on Washington in 1963. One hundred years separate the Emancipation Proclamation and the March on Washington, yet these two events are profoundly linked together in a larger story of liberty and the American experience. Both events werethe results of people demanding justice. Both grew out of decades of bold actions, resistance, organization, and vision. In both we take inspiration from those who marched toward freedom.

Changing America is presented by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture and the National Museum of American History in collaboration with the American Library Association Public Programs Office. The tour of the exhibition is made possible by the National Endowment for the Humanities: Exploring the Human Endeavor."  Retrieved from: http://www.ala.org/programming/changingamerica

Dr. Nishani Frazier is Professor of History at Miami University and is a specialist in African American history, a Sixties historian, and former librarian.  She writes on civil rights and black power and has authored Freedom on My Mind and is writing a second book.  She has also published book chapters and articles in Journal of African American History and Journal of American Ethnic History,  She received her doctorate in History from Columbia University.

Ms. Jacqueline Johnson is University Archivist at Miami University and editor of  Finding Freedom.  She has published and presented on digitizing archival collections such as the Mississippi Freedom Summer Collection and Western College. She has been awarded various grants and participated in the selective Association of Research Libraries Leadership & Career Development Program.  She received her masters in Library and Information Science from the University of South Carolina. 

Dr. Tammy L. Kernodle is Professor of Musicology at Miami University, a specialist in African American music and gender studies in music.  As a  trained pianist, her work extends to performance practices in gospel, blues, and jazz..  She has authored 1 book, Soul on Soul and edited 2 notable music reference works:  Encyclopedia of African American Music and New Grove Dictionary of American Music.  She has published in various anthologies and journals including Journal of the Society for American Music, Black Music Research Journal, American Studies Journal, U.S. Catholic Historian, and Musical Quarterly.  She has worked as a consultant with National Public Radio, The Kennedy Center for the Arts, Jazz@Lincoln Center, and most recently for the inaugural music exhibits at the National Museum of African American History in Washington, DC, to open in 2015.  In addition, she has served as Minister of Music at churches throughout the country.  She earned her doctorate in Musicology at The Ohio State University.  

Dr. Martin P. Johnson, Associate Professor of History at Miami University Hamilton, received a Ph.D. in History from Brown University in 1993. He has published two books on nineteenth-century French history, but his main research interest for the past decade has focused on the American Civil War. His most recent book, Writing the Gettysburg Address (University Press of Kansas, 2013) was a co-winner of the 2014 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize.  The book resolves longstanding mysteries about how Lincoln wrote his most admired speech and proposes a new interpretation of its place in Lincoln's political development.  In addition he is Book Review Editor, H-CivWar, the Civil War scholarly digital communication site.  Also, he is the Administrative Director of "Hometown American History" Teaching American History Grant, U.S. Department of Education.  He lives in Hamilton, Ohio, with his wife and daughter. 

Dr. Caryn E. Neumann is on Miami University's Integrative Studies' faculty. She has authored 4 books, including Term Paper Resource Guide to African American History.  She served as a former managing editor of the Journal of Women's History. She earned a doctorate in U.S. Women's History from The Ohio State University.