Top of page

Archive for December 2019 (10 Posts)

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

The Terrain of Freedom: Mapping Stories about People and Places in the African American Struggle for Justice, Rights, & Equality

Posted by: Guha Shankar

Posted in: 1965, African American History, African Americans, Civil Rights, Civil Rights History Project, Freedom Struggle, Freedom Summer 1964, Glen Pearcy Collection, Oral History, Selma to Montgomery Voting Rights March, SNCC, Story Map, Women's History

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

Marian Anderson’s Spirituals

Posted by: Stephanie Hall

Posted in: African Americans, Women's History

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

Frederick Douglass: “I Am A Man”

Posted by: Stephanie Hall

Posted in: African Americans, Hidden Folklorists

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

Edward Avery McIlhenny: Spicy Folklorist

Posted by: Stephen Winick

Posted in: Hidden Folklorists

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

Frederick Douglass: Free Folklorist

Posted by: Stephanie Hall

Posted in: African Americans, Hidden Folklorists

Two men seated, one playing guitar, the other playing fiddle.

“No One Can Ever Forget It”: Stavin’ Chain’s Performance of “Batson”

Posted by: Stephen Winick

Posted in: AFC History, African Americans, Alan Lomax, Blues, Folk Music, Folksong, Louisiana, Photographs

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

The Painful Birth of Blues and Jazz

Posted by: Stephanie Hall

Posted in: African Americans, Blues, Folk Music, Folksong, Jazz

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

“Trench Blues”: An African American Song of World War I

Posted by: Stephanie Hall

Posted in: African Americans, Alan Lomax, Folksong, World War I

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

Veteran Spotlight: Richard Overton

Posted by: Lisa Taylor

Posted in: African Americans, Narratives, Oral History, Storytelling, Veterans History Project, World War II