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| John Fleming is the current President of ASALH. He is also the Vice President Emeritus of Museums for the Cincinnati Museum Center. |
EDUCATION:
Berea College – B.A., Berea, Kentucky
University of Kentucky – Graduate School, Lexington, Kentucky
University of Malawi – Blantyre, Malawi, Africa
Howard University – M.A., Ph.D., Washington, D.C.
University of California-Berkeley – Museum Management Institute
Elected National President of the Association for the Study of African American Life
and History 2007-2009
WORK EXPERIENCE:
Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal, Cincinnati, Ohio
Vice President of Museums (Cincinnati History Museum, Cincinnati Museum of Natural
History & Science, Cinergy Children’s Museum, Cincinnati Historical Society Library, and
Edge of Appalachia Nature Preserve), 4/01 to present
Department of History, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio. Adjunct Professor,
4/05 to present
National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
Director and COO, 10/98 to 12/00
National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center, Wilberforce, Ohio,
Director, 4/88 to 10/98
Ohio Historical Society, Columbus, Ohio,
Afro-American Museum Project Director, 5/80 to 3/88
Institute for the Study of Educational Policy, Howard University, Washington, D.C.,
Senior Fellow, 8/74 to 4/80
United States Civil Rights Commission, Washington, D.C.,
Federal Evaluation Division Program Analyst, 1/71 to 9/72
Youth Pride, Inc., Department of Training and Education, Washington, D.C.,
Supervisor of Skills Development Division, 2/70 to 1/71
Peace Corps, Malawi, Africa,
Extension Aids Specialist and Administrator (volunteer), 8/67 to 10/69
Kentucky Commission on Human Rights, Community Service Division, Frankfort, Kentucky,
Community Service and Educational Specialist, 2/66 to 7/67
Department of History, Howard University, Washington, D.C.,
Assistant Professor of History, 8/74 to 5/78
Research Assistant
to the editors of the Dictionary of American Negro Biography, Dr. Rayford W. Logan, Senior
Editor, Summer, 1973
PUBLICATIONS:
BOOKS
A Summer Remembered: A Memoir. Yellow Springs, Ohio. Silver Maple Publishers. June,
2005.
The Case for Affirmative Action for Blacks in Higher Education. Washington, D.C.: Howard
University Press, 1978. Co-authored with Gerald Gill and David Swinton.
Affirmative Action for Blacks in Higher Education, A Report. Washington, D.C.: Institute for
the Study of Educational Policy, 1978.
The Lengthening Shadow of Slavery: Historical Justification for Affirmative Action for Blacks
in Higher Education. Washington, D.C.: Howard University Press, 1976.
ARTICLES
“Cincinnati’s Rich African-American History: A Historical Perspective,” in Who’s Who in Black
Cincinnati. Who’s Who Publishing Company, 2005.
“Emancipation, Introductory Text,” in Unchained Memories, Readings from the Slave
Narrative. Boston: Bulfinch Press, 2003.
“The Impact on the Education of African Americans of the Civil Rights Movement,” in The
Encyclopedia of African American Education. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press,
1996.
“African American Education During Slavery,” in The Encyclopedia of African American
Education. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1996.
“Missouri ex rel Gaines v. Canada,” Edna Diggs, co-author, in The Encyclopedia of African
American Education. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1996.
“The Niagara Movement,” Edna Diggs, co-author, in The Encyclopedia of African American
Education. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1996.
“African American Museums, History, and the American Ideal,” in The Journal of American
History, Vol. 81, No. 3. December 1994, pp. 1020-1026.
“Foreword,” Toward Definition: An Examination of African American Craft Art, with Dr.
Barbara Glass in The International Review of African Art. Hampton, Virginia: Hampton
University Museum, Vol. 11, No. 2, 1994.
“Foreword,” Uncommon Beauty in Common Objects: The Legacy of Afro-American Craft Art.
Wilberforce, Ohio: National Afro-American museum and Cultural Center, 1993.
“Fight for Equal Educational Opportunities Has Not Yet Been Won.” Editorial for the
Springfield Sun News, January 30, 1994, p. 7A.
“Preserving a Legacy,” in History News, Vol. 48, No. I. January/February 1993, pp. 26-30.
“Haley’s Legacy is Priceless Collection,” in Dayton Daily News, October 1992, p. 3B.
“An Appalachian Afro-American Family,” in Appalachian Heritage, Vol. 19, No. 4. Fall 1991,
pp. 9-13.
“Education America: Black Colleges – Strengths & Crises,” in Black History Month Kit 1991,
Report #14. Washington, D.C.: Associated Publishers, 1991.
“A State/Federal Partnership Yields a New Museum,” in Organizing your Museum: The
Essential, Resource Report 5. Washington, D.C.: American Association of Museums, 1989.
“History and the Black Community,” in The State of American History: Present and Future,
Darlene Hines, ed. New Orleans: Louisiana State University Press, 1986.
“Taking Stock of Afro-American Material Culture,” in History Vol. 40. February 1985, pp. 15-
19.
“George Washington Ellis,” in Dictionary of American Negro Biography, Rayford W. Logan
and Michael Winston, eds. New York: W.W. Norton, 1982.
“Bishop Alexander Walters,” in Dictionary of American Negro Biography, Rayford W. Logan
and Michael Winston, eds. New York: W.W. Norton, 1982.
“Ernest Lyon,” in Dictionary of American Negro Biography, Rayford W. Logan and Michael
Winston, eds. New York: W.W. Norton, 1982.
“Octavia Victoria Rodgers Albert,” in Dictionary of American Negro Biography, Rayford W.
Logan and Michael Winston, eds. New York: W.W. Norton, 1982.
“Susie King Taylor,” in Dictionary of American Negro Biography, Rayford W. Logan and
Michael Winston, eds. New York: W.W. Norton, 1982.
“Blacks in Higher Education,” in Black Males by Lawrence Gary. Los Angeles: Sage
Publishers, 1981, pp. 215-227.
“Black Males in Higher Education to 1954: A Historical Overview,” in Black Students in Higher
Education in the 1970’s: Conditions and Experiences by Gail E. Thomas. Westport,
Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1981.
“Faculty Distribution in Higher Education,” in New Directions, The Howard University
Magazine, Vol. 7, No. 4. October 1980, pp. 22-25.
“The Stono River Rebellion and Its Impact on the South Carolina Slave Code,” in Negro
History Bulletin, Vol. 42, No. 3. July-August-September 1979, pp. 66-68.
“Neo-Conservatism: The Road To and From Bakke,” co-authored with Gerald Gill, in New
Directions, The Howard University Magazine, Vol. 5, No. 4. October 1978, pp. 18-22.
“Affirmative Action and the Reversal of Discrimination,” in ISEP Monitor, Vol. 1, Nos. 5 & 6.
December 1977, pp. 4-6.
“The Bakke Controversy, A Historical Perspective,” in New Directions, The Howard University
Magazine, Vol. 4., No. 4. October 1977, pp. 10-12.
“Painful Rise of the Black Ph.D., 1876-1969,” in ISEP Monitor, Vol. 1, No. 3. April 1977, pp. 6-
7.
“Slavery, Civil War and Reconstruction, A study of Black Women in Microcosm,” in Negro
History Bulletin, 38. September 1975, pp. 430-433.
“Burke County Had Many U.S. Post Offices,” in The Morganton [NC] News Herald. August 5,
1975.
“Needed: Affirmative Action for Blacks in Higher Education,” in Contact. Spring 1975, pp. 36-
39.
“Equal Employment Opportunity Commission,” in Federal Civil Rights Enforcement Effort: A
Reassessment. United States Civil Rights Commission, Washington, D.C., Government
Printing Office, 1973.
“The Civil Service Commission,” in Federal Civil Rights Enforcement Effort. United States
Civil Rights Commission, Washington, D.C., Government Printing Office, 1971.
“Kentucky School Pairing Plans. A Report on Integration Plans with a Recommendation to
School Superintendents.” Kentucky Commission of Human Rights, Frankfort, Kentucky:
Kentucky State Government, 1967.
Articles for the Afro-American Bicentennial in support of historical black site nominations to
National Register of Historic Site, Nation Park Services, 1972-73:
“The Stono River Rebellion”
“Sojourner Truth: Black Apostle to American”
“Denmark Vesey: Black Rebel in White America”
“Marcus Garvey”
“William Monroe Trotter: A Sketch of a Black Dissenter”
APPOINTMENTS:
Appointed by President George W. Bush to the National Museum of African American History
and Culture Plan for Action Presidential Commission.
Appointed by Governor Ted Strickland to the Ohio Historic Site Preservation Advisory Board
Appointed by Governor Robert Taft to a second term on the Ohio Historical Records
Advisory Board.
Appointed by Governor George Voinovich as a member of the Executive Committee of the
Ohio Bicentennial Commission; elected by Commission to serve as Vice Chair.
Appointed by Secretary of the Interior to serve on the National Underground Railroad Study
Committee.
Appointed by Governor George Voinovich to Ohio Historical Records Advisory Board.
Appointed by Governor Richard Celeste to serve as an Ohio delegate to the White House
Conference on Travel and Tourism.
Appointed by Governor Richard Celeste to Bicentennial Commission of the Northwest
Ordinance and the Constitution.
AWARDS:
African American Museums Association: Lifetime Achievement Award
Berea College: Distinguished Alumni Award
National Peace Corps: The Franklin H. Williams Award for Outstanding Community Service
Ohio Museums Association: Outstanding Professional Achievement Award
Ohioana Library: Ohioana Outstanding Humanities Award for Distinguished Service to Ohio
in African American History
BOARDS and MEMBERSHIPS:
African American Museums Association (former Treasurer and past President)
Alpha Phi Alpha
American Association of Museums (Executive Committee, 1990-91 and Chair, Program
Committee, 1992; MAP Surveyor and Accreditation Team Visitor; 1993 Nominating
Committee; 1994-97 Honors Committee; Ethics Committee)
American Association of Museums – International Council of Museums (Nominating
Committee)
American Association for State and Local History (Nomination Committee, 1989; Program
Committee, 1988)
American Historical Association
Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History (Executive Council and VP, 1990-
92)
Association of Mid-West Museums (2000 Program Committee Chair)
Berea College Board of Trustees (elected to six-year term beginning 2007)
Bicentennial Commission of the Northwest Ordinance and the Constitution
Columbus Area Leadership Program (Board, 1985-89)
Columbus Foundation (Panelist)
Dr. Martin Luther King Memorial Committee (Dayton, OH)
Eastern Illinois Museum Studies Advisory Board
Gail Research Publishers Advisory Board for 6th Edition Afro-American Almanac
Greene County Historical Society
Getty Leadership Advisory Committee
Historical Records Advisory Board (OH)
Journal of Negro History (Executive Committee and Editorial Board)
Knight Foundation (Advisory Committee)
Montgomery County Historical Society Board
Museum Trustee Association (Advisory Council)
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
National Afro-American Museum Foundation (Secretary)
National Endowment for the Humanities (Panelist)
National Museum of African American History and Culture Plan for Action Presidential
Commission
National Trust for Historic Preservation (Advisory Panel)
North Carolina Historical and Literary Society
Ohio Arts Council (Panelist and Chair, Visual Arts)
Ohio Association of Historical Societies and Museums
Ohio Association for the Study of African-American Life & History, Inc. (former Board
Member)
Ohio Travel Industry Advisory Council
Ohio Museums Association (Past President)
Sigma Pi Phi (Sigma Boule)
Southern Historical Association
Yellow Springs Historical Society
Berea College – B.A., Berea, Kentucky
University of Kentucky – Graduate School, Lexington, Kentucky
University of Malawi – Blantyre, Malawi, Africa
Howard University – M.A., Ph.D., Washington, D.C.
University of California-Berkeley – Museum Management Institute
Elected National President of the Association for the Study of African American Life
and History 2007-2009
WORK EXPERIENCE:
Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal, Cincinnati, Ohio
Vice President of Museums (Cincinnati History Museum, Cincinnati Museum of Natural
History & Science, Cinergy Children’s Museum, Cincinnati Historical Society Library, and
Edge of Appalachia Nature Preserve), 4/01 to present
Department of History, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio. Adjunct Professor,
4/05 to present
National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
Director and COO, 10/98 to 12/00
National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center, Wilberforce, Ohio,
Director, 4/88 to 10/98
Ohio Historical Society, Columbus, Ohio,
Afro-American Museum Project Director, 5/80 to 3/88
Institute for the Study of Educational Policy, Howard University, Washington, D.C.,
Senior Fellow, 8/74 to 4/80
United States Civil Rights Commission, Washington, D.C.,
Federal Evaluation Division Program Analyst, 1/71 to 9/72
Youth Pride, Inc., Department of Training and Education, Washington, D.C.,
Supervisor of Skills Development Division, 2/70 to 1/71
Peace Corps, Malawi, Africa,
Extension Aids Specialist and Administrator (volunteer), 8/67 to 10/69
Kentucky Commission on Human Rights, Community Service Division, Frankfort, Kentucky,
Community Service and Educational Specialist, 2/66 to 7/67
Department of History, Howard University, Washington, D.C.,
Assistant Professor of History, 8/74 to 5/78
Research Assistant
to the editors of the Dictionary of American Negro Biography, Dr. Rayford W. Logan, Senior
Editor, Summer, 1973
PUBLICATIONS:
BOOKS
A Summer Remembered: A Memoir. Yellow Springs, Ohio. Silver Maple Publishers. June,
2005.
The Case for Affirmative Action for Blacks in Higher Education. Washington, D.C.: Howard
University Press, 1978. Co-authored with Gerald Gill and David Swinton.
Affirmative Action for Blacks in Higher Education, A Report. Washington, D.C.: Institute for
the Study of Educational Policy, 1978.
The Lengthening Shadow of Slavery: Historical Justification for Affirmative Action for Blacks
in Higher Education. Washington, D.C.: Howard University Press, 1976.
ARTICLES
“Cincinnati’s Rich African-American History: A Historical Perspective,” in Who’s Who in Black
Cincinnati. Who’s Who Publishing Company, 2005.
“Emancipation, Introductory Text,” in Unchained Memories, Readings from the Slave
Narrative. Boston: Bulfinch Press, 2003.
“The Impact on the Education of African Americans of the Civil Rights Movement,” in The
Encyclopedia of African American Education. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press,
1996.
“African American Education During Slavery,” in The Encyclopedia of African American
Education. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1996.
“Missouri ex rel Gaines v. Canada,” Edna Diggs, co-author, in The Encyclopedia of African
American Education. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1996.
“The Niagara Movement,” Edna Diggs, co-author, in The Encyclopedia of African American
Education. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1996.
“African American Museums, History, and the American Ideal,” in The Journal of American
History, Vol. 81, No. 3. December 1994, pp. 1020-1026.
“Foreword,” Toward Definition: An Examination of African American Craft Art, with Dr.
Barbara Glass in The International Review of African Art. Hampton, Virginia: Hampton
University Museum, Vol. 11, No. 2, 1994.
“Foreword,” Uncommon Beauty in Common Objects: The Legacy of Afro-American Craft Art.
Wilberforce, Ohio: National Afro-American museum and Cultural Center, 1993.
“Fight for Equal Educational Opportunities Has Not Yet Been Won.” Editorial for the
Springfield Sun News, January 30, 1994, p. 7A.
“Preserving a Legacy,” in History News, Vol. 48, No. I. January/February 1993, pp. 26-30.
“Haley’s Legacy is Priceless Collection,” in Dayton Daily News, October 1992, p. 3B.
“An Appalachian Afro-American Family,” in Appalachian Heritage, Vol. 19, No. 4. Fall 1991,
pp. 9-13.
“Education America: Black Colleges – Strengths & Crises,” in Black History Month Kit 1991,
Report #14. Washington, D.C.: Associated Publishers, 1991.
“A State/Federal Partnership Yields a New Museum,” in Organizing your Museum: The
Essential, Resource Report 5. Washington, D.C.: American Association of Museums, 1989.
“History and the Black Community,” in The State of American History: Present and Future,
Darlene Hines, ed. New Orleans: Louisiana State University Press, 1986.
“Taking Stock of Afro-American Material Culture,” in History Vol. 40. February 1985, pp. 15-
19.
“George Washington Ellis,” in Dictionary of American Negro Biography, Rayford W. Logan
and Michael Winston, eds. New York: W.W. Norton, 1982.
“Bishop Alexander Walters,” in Dictionary of American Negro Biography, Rayford W. Logan
and Michael Winston, eds. New York: W.W. Norton, 1982.
“Ernest Lyon,” in Dictionary of American Negro Biography, Rayford W. Logan and Michael
Winston, eds. New York: W.W. Norton, 1982.
“Octavia Victoria Rodgers Albert,” in Dictionary of American Negro Biography, Rayford W.
Logan and Michael Winston, eds. New York: W.W. Norton, 1982.
“Susie King Taylor,” in Dictionary of American Negro Biography, Rayford W. Logan and
Michael Winston, eds. New York: W.W. Norton, 1982.
“Blacks in Higher Education,” in Black Males by Lawrence Gary. Los Angeles: Sage
Publishers, 1981, pp. 215-227.
“Black Males in Higher Education to 1954: A Historical Overview,” in Black Students in Higher
Education in the 1970’s: Conditions and Experiences by Gail E. Thomas. Westport,
Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1981.
“Faculty Distribution in Higher Education,” in New Directions, The Howard University
Magazine, Vol. 7, No. 4. October 1980, pp. 22-25.
“The Stono River Rebellion and Its Impact on the South Carolina Slave Code,” in Negro
History Bulletin, Vol. 42, No. 3. July-August-September 1979, pp. 66-68.
“Neo-Conservatism: The Road To and From Bakke,” co-authored with Gerald Gill, in New
Directions, The Howard University Magazine, Vol. 5, No. 4. October 1978, pp. 18-22.
“Affirmative Action and the Reversal of Discrimination,” in ISEP Monitor, Vol. 1, Nos. 5 & 6.
December 1977, pp. 4-6.
“The Bakke Controversy, A Historical Perspective,” in New Directions, The Howard University
Magazine, Vol. 4., No. 4. October 1977, pp. 10-12.
“Painful Rise of the Black Ph.D., 1876-1969,” in ISEP Monitor, Vol. 1, No. 3. April 1977, pp. 6-
7.
“Slavery, Civil War and Reconstruction, A study of Black Women in Microcosm,” in Negro
History Bulletin, 38. September 1975, pp. 430-433.
“Burke County Had Many U.S. Post Offices,” in The Morganton [NC] News Herald. August 5,
1975.
“Needed: Affirmative Action for Blacks in Higher Education,” in Contact. Spring 1975, pp. 36-
39.
“Equal Employment Opportunity Commission,” in Federal Civil Rights Enforcement Effort: A
Reassessment. United States Civil Rights Commission, Washington, D.C., Government
Printing Office, 1973.
“The Civil Service Commission,” in Federal Civil Rights Enforcement Effort. United States
Civil Rights Commission, Washington, D.C., Government Printing Office, 1971.
“Kentucky School Pairing Plans. A Report on Integration Plans with a Recommendation to
School Superintendents.” Kentucky Commission of Human Rights, Frankfort, Kentucky:
Kentucky State Government, 1967.
Articles for the Afro-American Bicentennial in support of historical black site nominations to
National Register of Historic Site, Nation Park Services, 1972-73:
“The Stono River Rebellion”
“Sojourner Truth: Black Apostle to American”
“Denmark Vesey: Black Rebel in White America”
“Marcus Garvey”
“William Monroe Trotter: A Sketch of a Black Dissenter”
APPOINTMENTS:
Appointed by President George W. Bush to the National Museum of African American History
and Culture Plan for Action Presidential Commission.
Appointed by Governor Ted Strickland to the Ohio Historic Site Preservation Advisory Board
Appointed by Governor Robert Taft to a second term on the Ohio Historical Records
Advisory Board.
Appointed by Governor George Voinovich as a member of the Executive Committee of the
Ohio Bicentennial Commission; elected by Commission to serve as Vice Chair.
Appointed by Secretary of the Interior to serve on the National Underground Railroad Study
Committee.
Appointed by Governor George Voinovich to Ohio Historical Records Advisory Board.
Appointed by Governor Richard Celeste to serve as an Ohio delegate to the White House
Conference on Travel and Tourism.
Appointed by Governor Richard Celeste to Bicentennial Commission of the Northwest
Ordinance and the Constitution.
AWARDS:
African American Museums Association: Lifetime Achievement Award
Berea College: Distinguished Alumni Award
National Peace Corps: The Franklin H. Williams Award for Outstanding Community Service
Ohio Museums Association: Outstanding Professional Achievement Award
Ohioana Library: Ohioana Outstanding Humanities Award for Distinguished Service to Ohio
in African American History
BOARDS and MEMBERSHIPS:
African American Museums Association (former Treasurer and past President)
Alpha Phi Alpha
American Association of Museums (Executive Committee, 1990-91 and Chair, Program
Committee, 1992; MAP Surveyor and Accreditation Team Visitor; 1993 Nominating
Committee; 1994-97 Honors Committee; Ethics Committee)
American Association of Museums – International Council of Museums (Nominating
Committee)
American Association for State and Local History (Nomination Committee, 1989; Program
Committee, 1988)
American Historical Association
Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History (Executive Council and VP, 1990-
92)
Association of Mid-West Museums (2000 Program Committee Chair)
Berea College Board of Trustees (elected to six-year term beginning 2007)
Bicentennial Commission of the Northwest Ordinance and the Constitution
Columbus Area Leadership Program (Board, 1985-89)
Columbus Foundation (Panelist)
Dr. Martin Luther King Memorial Committee (Dayton, OH)
Eastern Illinois Museum Studies Advisory Board
Gail Research Publishers Advisory Board for 6th Edition Afro-American Almanac
Greene County Historical Society
Getty Leadership Advisory Committee
Historical Records Advisory Board (OH)
Journal of Negro History (Executive Committee and Editorial Board)
Knight Foundation (Advisory Committee)
Montgomery County Historical Society Board
Museum Trustee Association (Advisory Council)
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
National Afro-American Museum Foundation (Secretary)
National Endowment for the Humanities (Panelist)
National Museum of African American History and Culture Plan for Action Presidential
Commission
National Trust for Historic Preservation (Advisory Panel)
North Carolina Historical and Literary Society
Ohio Arts Council (Panelist and Chair, Visual Arts)
Ohio Association of Historical Societies and Museums
Ohio Association for the Study of African-American Life & History, Inc. (former Board
Member)
Ohio Travel Industry Advisory Council
Ohio Museums Association (Past President)
Sigma Pi Phi (Sigma Boule)
Southern Historical Association
Yellow Springs Historical Society
NAME: John Emory Fleming
BORN: Morganton, North Carolina
FAMILY: Married, two daughters
BORN: Morganton, North Carolina
FAMILY: Married, two daughters