2015 - A Century of Black Life, History and Culture
2014 - Civil Rights in America
2013 - At the Crossroads of Freedom and Equality: The Emancipation Proclamation and the March on Washington
2012 - Black Women in American Culture and History
2011 - African Americans and the Civil War
2010 - 100 Years of Economic Empowerment: The National Urban League
2009 - The Quest for Black Citizenship in the Americas (ODU library theme: School Desegregation in Norfolk, Virgnia)
2008 - Carter G. Woodson and the Origins of Multiculturalism
2007 - From Slavery to Freedom: Africans in the Americas
2006 - Celebrating Community: A Tribute to Black Fraternal, Social and Civic Institutions
2005 - The Niagara Movement: Black Protest Reborn, 1905-2005 (ODU library theme: The African Diaspora)
2004 - Before Brown, Beyond Boundaries: Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education