this is wanda hendricks who is also a contributor. [applause] >> i am going to shamelessly promote something. at the time that the book came out, when it was sent to us, after reading all the stories, we all showed up, many of us appeared at the organization of american historians conference in march in new york, and it was the perfect time because at that point, we had raised enough money for the creation of the award for the best book in african-american women and gender and darlene clark-hine has contributed to the book, and it is the first award named in honor of an african-american woman in the oah and waive institutionalizing black women's history, so that means that any monographs that will come out by these younger scholars will receive recognition and in perpetuity so it can be taken away. so we have actually, in part because of debra's help, we were able to raise the money for that and also in part because of the association of black women historians and a number of the scholars who also, authors of the articles in the book,

this is wanda hendricks who is also a contributor.[applause] >> i am going to shamelessly promote something. at the time that the book came out, when it was sent to us, after reading all the stories, we all showed up, many of us appeared at the organization of american historians conference in march in new york, and it was the perfect time because at that point, we had raised enough money for the creation of the award for the best book in african-american women and gender and darlene clark-hine has contributed to the book, and it is the first award named in honor of an african-american woman in the oah and waive institutionalizing black women's history, so that means that any monographs that will come out by these younger scholars will receive recognition and in perpetuity so it can be taken away. so we have actually, in part because of debra's help, we were able to raise the money for that and also in part because of the association of black women historians and a number of the scholars who also, authors of the articles in the book,