Dr. Evelyn McDowell

President/Founder,
Sons and Daughters of the United States Middle Passage

Description:

Discuss the importance of African American lineage societies and the importance of European centric lineage societies becoming more inclusive in outreach and programing, particularly in promoting the presence and contributions of Americans of African descent during the colonial period through the American Revolution. Discuss the importance of collaboration between lineage/genealogical societies in correcting a 400 year old narrative.

Biography:

Evelyn McDowell, Ph.D., CPA (inactive), CGMA, is the President, founder, and Charter Member of Sons and Daughters of the United States Middle Passage (SDUSMP), a lineage society for descendants of the millions of individuals enslaved in the United States of America.  Dr. McDowell has researched her family for over 30 years and has identified over 35 enslaved ancestors.   She frequently speaks on genealogy and slavery and researches and writes about slavery in New Jersey.  She is a member of the Princeton Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution.

Dr. McDowell is an Associate Professor and Chair of Accounting at Rider University in Lawrenceville, New Jersey, and co-chair of Rider University’s History of Slavery Taskforce. She also testified before California’s Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans.  Dr. McDowell also wrote a chapter about genealogy in the recently published “The Black Reparations Project: A Handbook for Racial Justice”, edited by William Darity et al.