CBBH CONFERENCE PROGRAM

THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AND BLACK BUSINESS

7:45-8:45 Registration, Breakfast, Coffee

8:45- 9:00 Introduction to the Conference

Juliet E. K. Walker, Professor, History Department, Founding Director
Center for Black Business History, Entrepreneurship, Technology (CBBH)

Morning Sessions:

9:00--10:30 Panel

SCHOLARS VIEW THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AND BLACK BUSINESS

Moderator: Professor Tiffany Gill, Department of History, University of Texas at Austin

Robert Weems Professor, Department of History, University of Missouri at Columbia

"Richard Nixon and Black Capitalism"

Gregory Price, Professor, Economics Department, North Carolina A&T

"Does Trust in Federal Government matter for the Black Entrepreneurial
Environment?: Evidence from the General Social Survey"

John Sibley Butler, Professor Sociology, and Management, McCombs Business School, University of Texas at Austin

“Doing Business in the 21st Century: Why Blacks Should Get out of the Minority
Category”

Audience Assessments and Commentaries

10:30-12:00 Panel

FEDERAL GOVERNMENT MINORITY BUSINESS AGENCIES: HISTORIC PERSPECTIVES, CONTEMPORARY ASSESSMENTS

Moderator: Milton Thibodeaux, Project Director, Houston Minority Business Development Center

Milton Wilson, Houston District Director, U.S. Small Business Administration

"From My Vantage Point: The SBA,Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow”

John F. Iglehart, Dallas Regional Director, U.S. Department of Commerce Minority
Business Development Agency (MBDA)

"The MBDA: Its Role in Promoting Minority and Black Business: Successes and Failures"

Jonathan Bean Professor, Department of History, Southern Illinois University at
Carbondale

"How We Got Here: Affirmative Action, Black Business and the Small Business Administration."

Audience Assessments and Commentaries

Lunch - 12:00-1:15

Afternoon Sessions:

1:15-1:30 Archivist LBJ Presidential Library

1:30- 3:00 Panel

Scholars View Supreme Court Decisions' Impact on Black Business

Moderator: Attorney Gary Bledsoe, President of Texas NAACP

Thomas D. Boston, Professor of Economics, Georgia Institute of Technology

"Strict Scrutiny is Strict in Theory and Fatal in Fact"

Samuel L. Myers Economist and Roy Wilkins, Professor of Human Relations and
Social Justice, University of Minnesota

"Second Generation Disparity Studies and Crafting Race-Neutral Remedies to
Discrimination in Public Procurement and Contracting"

Jon Wainwright, Economist, National Economic Research Associates, Inc. (NERA)

“Rays of Hope: Recent Federal Courtroom Victories for Contracting Affirmative Action“

Audience Assessments and Commentaries

3:15 -5:00 Panel

Private Sector Assessments/Responses to Federal Government
Black Business Initiatives

Moderator: Hopeton Hay, CBBH Advisory Committee, Texas Black Business Demographics,

Lewis Randolph, Professor Political Science, Ohio University

"Relationship Between the Federal Government and Black Business”

Sam Carradine, Contractor Development Consultant at The Surety Association of America

"Bonding Minority Contractors: Challenges and Opportunities"

Richard Huebner, Executive Director, Houston Minority Business Council

"Corporate America, The Federal Government, and Black Business Success: How the
Government Partnered with the Private Sector to Create Minority Purchasing Councils"

Sherra Aguirre, Founder, CEO, Aztec Facility Services

"How Minority Purchasing Councils Stimulated Black Business Growth”

Audience Assessments and Commentaries

5:00- 6:00 Cocktail Hour

Evening Events:

6:00-8:30 The CBBH Texas Black Business Hall of Fame Dinner
By Invitation

Dinner Speaker: Attorney Anthony W. Robinson, President of the Minority Business Enterprise Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc. (MBELDEF)

“The MBELDEF in Defense of Black Business”

Awards

CBBH TEXAS BLACK BUSINESS
HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES

SHERRA AGUIRRE

Founder/President, Aztec Facility Services, one of nation’s largest Black American female business owners. Houston-based, with 1000 employees, Aguirre provides facility management services to corporate, industrial and government clients in four states.

COMER COTTREL

Entrepreneur, Leader in Black Hair Care Products Industry, Founder of Dallas-based Pro-Line (sold to Albero-Culver for “$75 million”), 1989-98, part owner of Texas Rangers, heads Cottrell Investment Group and Chair, African Heritage Network

GEORGE FOREMAN

America’s Salesman “the heavyweight of high tech grilling,” Entrepreneur Rancher, Author, George Foreman's Guide to Life: How to Get Up Off the Canvas When Life Knocks You Down

KASE LAWAL

Founder/CEO, Houston-based CAMAC, Holdings, Inc.,America’s largest Black Business (oil and gas), the only one with receipts in excess of $1 billion, with offices in Washington, DC, Grand Cayman, Johannesburg, Lagos and London

CBBH Recognition for Contribution to
African American Business

ANTHONY ROBINSON
HOPETON HAY

CBBH Recognition for Contribution to
Black Business Scholarship

PROFESSOR TIMOTHY BATES, 2003
PROFESSOR JOHN SIBLEY BUTLER, 2002