Association for the Study of
African American Life & History.
JUNETEENTH
FREEDOM DAY
Established on September 9, 1915, by Dr. Carter G. Woodson, ASALH, the Founders of Black History Month, carries forth the work of our renowned founding father.
Our mission is to promote, research, preserve, interpret and disseminate information about Black life, history and culture to the global community
NOTICE BOARD
Monthly meetings are held four times a year, 2nd Saturday at @10:00 AM.
At this time, meetings are held via Zoom.
Meetings are held in March, June, September, and December. Special meetings are called as needed.
“I am a strong believer if our History is to be told accurately, it must be told by us.”
— Audrey Perry Williams
Audrey Landell Perry Williams is the president of the Hampton Roads Branch, ASALH, and is a native of Newport News, VA. She attended local schools, graduating from George Washington Carver High School in 1963. She attended Norfolk State University and received a BA in History and Social Sciences in 1967 and an MA from Hampton University in History Education in 1971. She has written historical articles for local newspapers, and in 2019, she wrote a Litany to commemorate the arrival of the first enslaved Africans in English-Occupied Territory, entitled: “400 Years of Perseverance, 1619-2019: First Enslaved, Kidnapped Africans In English-Occupied Territory (Copyright Effective Registration Date: August 29, 2019).
Greetings from Audrey Perry Williams
Branch President
Audrey hopes that her legacy will be that she never stopped talking to anyone that would listen and that she listened when God gave her the mission to tell the correct facts about our people!
She has a passion for our history and believes that if our history is to be told correctly, it must be told by us. She spends much of her time traveling around the Tidewater area and has traveled to North Carolina and Maryland doing what she does best, and that is talking to anyone that will listen about who we are and our accomplishments!