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Category: African American History Month

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“A Central Thread of Our History”: African American Heritage Lasts Longer than a Month

Posted by: Guha Shankar

“In the case of American Negroes, their labor founded the nation and was prime cause of the industrial revolution and the capitalist system of the modern world:  their slavery, revolt, escape, protest and emancipation is a central thread of our history: and without their music and laughter American art and literature would never have attained …

Posted in: African American History, African American History Month, African Americans, Black History Month, Cultural Heritage, Folk Music, Homegrown Concert Series, Spiritual music, Zydeco

A man playing a guitar and singing to a close crowd of a dozen or so men and women

“People Who Stood Up”: Mississippi Women in the Civil Rights Movement

Posted by: Guha Shankar

This guest blog post comes to us courtesy of Catherine Turner, a high school senior working at the American Folklife Center this Spring on her service project for Park School in Baltimore, MD. Catherine is entering Brown University in Fall 2017, and has spent the last six weeks diving into the collections at the Library …

Posted in: African American Heritage Month, African American History, African American History Month, African Americans, Civil Rights, Civil Rights History Project, Freedom Summer 1964, Oral History, Women's History