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

Symposium Spotlights Interracial and Interfaith Coalitions

Posted by: Kate Stewart

On September 25th, the American Folklife Center and the Library of Congress’s Hispanic Division brought together eight scholars and activists for a day-long symposium titled Organizing Across the Boundaries: Strategies and Coalitions in the Struggle for Civil Rights and Social Justice. It was the last event for this fiscal year in our public programs series, …

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

Photographs of the Southern Freedom Movement in the Alan Lomax Collection

Posted by: Kate Stewart

Ever since the Civil Rights History Project Act was passed in 2009, archivists at the American Folklife Center have kept their eyes and ears open for items related to the Southern Freedom Movement as they process collections. Todd Harvey, curator of the Alan Lomax Collection (AFC 2004/004), recently noticed a folder of twenty-one photographs in …