The goal is to re-frame black power and demonstrate its sweeping reach, according to Robert Chase, public historian at the College of Charleston’s Avery Research Center for African-American History and Culture and conference co-organizer. For a direct line can be draw between Booker T. Washington, who advocated self-sufficiency, and President Barack Obama, who personifies the achievement of blacks in the U.S.

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