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Black Scholarship And Black Culture

Hosted and Published by: Lamont Jack Pearley Many Black Academic Scholars are also active practitioners in our respective cultures and traditions. That doesn't negate their ability to teach, mentor, or share skills and tricks of the trade with the folk. It actually makes…

The African American Folklorist Ep 2 – Elijah Cox

On this episode of The African American Folklorist, I share the story of the born free, African American Traditional Music Practitioner Elijah Cox, who was a fiddler, Buffalo soldier, and recorded in 1935 at the age of 93 for the Library of Congress…

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Zora Neale Hurston – Episode 3 African American Folklorists, Writers and the Blues

Published By Lamont Jack Pearley Talking Bout The Blues Video series African American Folklorist, Writers and the Blues. This series highlights African American writers, folklorists, ethnologist, composers and playwriters, that documented, described and flat out canvased the Black experience through their works, connecting the dots…

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The Slave Narrative – Uncle Cinto Lewis

Published By: Lamont Jack Pearley On this episode of Jack Dappa Blues Heritage Radio i will be reading from and discussing the Slave Narrative of Ex- Slave Uncle Cinto Lewis. Uncle Cinto Lewis, ex-slave, claims to "be 111 years old. He lived in a brick cabin…

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The Slave Narrative “Aunt Adeline” – Jack Dappa Blues Heritage Radio

Published By: Lamont Jack Pearley 30380 Interviewer Mrs* Zillah Cross Peel Person interviewed Aunt Adeline — Age 89 Home 101 Hock Street* Fayetteville. Arkansas *I was born a slave about 1848, in Hickmon County, Tennessee,* said Aunt Adeline who lives as care taker in a house at 101 Rock Street, Faystteville,…

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The Black South in Chicago – Federal Writers Project

Published By: Lamont Jack Pearley I came across this piece in the "American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936 to 1940" after discussing Margaret Walker and her being hired by the Federal Writers Project in 1936 on today's show! This is one…

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The Slave Narrative – Laura Abromsom R.F.D. Holly Grove Arkansas

Published By: Lamont Jack Pearley This Episode we will be going over the Laura Abromsom R.F.D. Holly Grove Arkansas Slave Narrative. •30395 #6B5 8 Interviewer Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed Laura Abromsom Holly Grove* Arkansas Receives mail at Clarendon* Arkansas Age 74 *My mama was named Eloise Rogers* She was born…

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Slave Narrative – Lucius Abernathey Interview

Published By: Lamont Jack Pearley Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves. These narratives were collected in the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers' Project…

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Black Scholarship And Black Culture

The African American Folklorist Ep 2 – Elijah Cox

Zora Neale Hurston – Episode 3 African American Folklorists, Writers and the Blues

The Slave Narrative – Uncle Cinto Lewis

The Slave Narrative “Aunt Adeline” – Jack Dappa Blues Heritage Radio

The Black South in Chicago – Federal Writers Project

The Slave Narrative – Laura Abromsom R.F.D. Holly Grove Arkansas

Slave Narrative – Lucius Abernathey Interview

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