“Earning the Right To Citizenship –II”

Friday, March 24
10 a.m. – 3 p.m. Living History Demonstrations at New Bern Public Schools
6:30 p.m. – 9 p.m. Reception and Tour Tryon Palace’s Academy Museum & Commission House with state Rep. Willia.m. Wainwright

Saturday, March 25
8:30 a.m. Welcome Remarks – New Bern Officials
9 a.m. Underground Railroad
10 a.m. N.C. Battles: New Bern & Wilmington/Ft. Fisher N.C.
Civil War Tourism
11 a.m. Black Spies
Genealogy
12:15 p.m. Luncheon Storyteller: Mitch Capel
2 p.m. Black Confederates
Memorialization, James City
3 p.m. Buffalo Soldiers
Re-enactments & Living History
4 p.m. Panel Summation Discussion

Sunday, March 26
10 a.m. Wreath-Laying Ceremony – National Cemetery
11 a.m. Church Services at St. Peter A.M.E Zion

Proposed Seminar Topics

History:

A-1 Underground Railroad, - Dr. David Anderson, historian; Joyce Grear, storyteller

A-2 USCT: Role of Genealogy – Charles Willis, Fred Johnson, Battery “B” Lt. Artillery USC

A-3 N.C. Battles: Wyse Fork, Fort Fisher/Wilmington, - Marvin Nicholson, Bernard George, historian

A-4 Black Spies in Civil War – Hari Jones, African American Civil War Museum

A-5 Black Confederates? – Earl Ijames, N.C. Archives, M. Nicholson, Battery “B” Lt. Artillery USC, Ben Hawley, 54th Mass.

A-6 Panel Discussion – D Anderson,

Lunch: Mitch Capel – “Paul Lawrence Dunbar”

Heritage

B-2 Memorialization: AACWM, James City, etc. – Shirl Spicer, N.C. Museum of History, OB Johnson, James City Historical Society

Tourism: B-3 Civil War Attractions & Tours, Tourism Jobs & Business Opportunities – Teresa Watts, N.C. Director of Tourism

B-4 Living History & Re-enactment Event Participation – M. Nicholson, Ben Hawley, Mel Reid, E.J. Stewart, Charles Willis, Fred Johnson

B-5 Buffalo Soldiers – Lindsay Black, Zachary Branch, 9th and 10th “Horse” Calvary Association of the Buffalo Soldiers