Booker T. Washington * Celebrating the 150th Anniversary of his Birth * June 4-6, 2006 * Chicago, Illinois

Booker T. Washington Symposium

June 4-6, 2006 * Chicago -- > welcome | program | speakers | audio

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS

William Allen Professor of Political Science, Michigan State University

Peter Ascoli Grandson of Julius Rosenwald
Booker T. Washington benefactor

Joseph Bast President, The Heartland Institute

Mark Bauerlein Professor of English, Emory University

John Sibley Butler Gale Chair in Entrepreneurship and Small Business, University of Texas at Austin

Margaret Clifford Granddaughter, Booker T. Washington

Ralph Conner Governor Affairs Director, The Heartland Institute

Charles Horne President, Pacific Northwest Chapter, National Black Chamber of Commerce

Glenn Loury Merton P. Stoltz Professor of Social Sciences, Brown University

Gary MacDougal Author, Make a Difference

Steve Mariotti Founder and President, National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship

Robert Norrell Professor of History, University of Tennessee

Marcus Pohlmann Professor and Chair of Political Science, Rhodes College

Christopher Reed Professor of History, Roosevelt University

Peter Schramm Executive Director, John M. Ashbrook Center for Public Affairs

Daryl Scott Professor and Chair, History Departent, Howard University

Rev. Kenneth Smith Former president of the Chicago Theological Seminary
and former chairman of the Chicago Community Trust

Carol Swain Professor of Political Science and Professor of Law, Vanderbilt University

Hycel Taylor Former pastor, Pilgrim Baptist ChurchFormer president, Operation PUSH

Herbert Walberg Chairman of the Board of Directors, The Heartland Institute

Lee Walker President, The New Coalition for Economic and Social Change

Frank Harold Wilson Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee

Rev. Bill Winston Founder and Pastor of Living Word Christian Center

Anne Wortham Associate Professor of Sociology, Illinois State University

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS

William Allen	Professor of Political Science, Michigan State University

Peter Ascoli	Grandson of Julius Rosenwald Booker T. Washington benefactor

Joseph Bast	President, The Heartland Institute

Mark Bauerlein	Professor of English, Emory University

John Sibley Butler	Gale Chair in Entrepreneurship and Small Business, University of Texas at Austin

Margaret Clifford	Granddaughter, Booker T. Washington

Ralph Conner	Governor Affairs Director, The Heartland Institute

Charles Horne	President, Pacific Northwest Chapter, National Black Chamber of Commerce

Glenn Loury	Merton P. Stoltz Professor of Social Sciences, Brown University

Gary MacDougal	Author, Make a Difference

Steve Mariotti	Founder and President, National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship

Robert Norrell	Professor of History, University of Tennessee

Marcus Pohlmann	Professor and Chair of Political Science, Rhodes College

Christopher Reed	Professor of History, Roosevelt University

Peter Schramm	Executive Director, John M. Ashbrook Center for Public Affairs

Daryl Scott	Professor and Chair, History Departent, Howard University

Rev. Kenneth Smith	Former president of the Chicago Theological Seminary and former chairman of the Chicago Community Trust

Carol Swain	Professor of Political Science and Professor of Law, Vanderbilt University

Hycel Taylor	Former pastor, Pilgrim Baptist ChurchFormer president, Operation PUSH

Herbert Walberg	Chairman of the Board of Directors, The Heartland Institute

Lee Walker	President, The New Coalition for Economic and Social Change

Frank Harold Wilson	Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee

Rev. Bill Winston	Founder and Pastor of Living Word Christian Center

Anne Wortham	Associate Professor of Sociology, Illinois State University