Lorenzo Dow Turner Papers
Object Details
- Biographical/Historical note
- Lorenzo Dow Turner was born in Elizabeth City, N.C. in 1895. He earned his B.A. in 1914 from Howard University; in 1917, he received an M.A. in English from Harvard University. He received his doctorate in English from the University of Chicago in 1926 while simultaneously serving as chairman and professor of the Department of English at Howard from 1917 to 1928. He held the same positions at Fisk University in Nashville from 1929 to 1946. In 1946 he accepted a professorship in the English department at Roosevelt University in Chicago, where he remained as professor of English and lecturer in African Cultures until his retirement in 1970. Turner was professor emeritus at Roosevelt until his death at age 77 in 1972. Turner's professional and academic interests encompassed both English and linguistics. A noted scholar of African languages and linguistics, he learned numerous West African languages, mastering five of them. He was a noted authority on Gullah, a Creole language spoken in the Sea Islands off the coast of South Carolina and Georgia.
- Date
- 1895 - 1972
- Extent
- 23.97 Linear feet (20 boxes)
- Citation
- Lorenzo Dow Turner papers,Anacostia Community Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution, gift of Lois Turner Williams.
- Type
- Collection descriptions
- Archival materials
- Audiovisual materials
- Field recordings
- Photographs
- Photographic prints
- Maps
- Correspondence
- Topic
- Sea Islands Creole dialect
- African languages -- Study and teaching -- United States
- Linguistics -- Research -- United States
- Identifier
- ACMA.06-017
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Sea-Island dialect of South Carolina
- The palm-wine drunkard (Review)
- Problems confronting the investigator of Gullah
- Walt Whitman and the Negro, Fall 1956
- An anthology of Krio folklore and literature with notes and Interlinear translation in English, 1963
- The Negro in Brazil
- Human relations in the U. S.–A mid-century appraisal
- Identifying Africanisms in the speech of Negroes in the United States, 15 November 1946 (Lecture)
- The odyssey of a Zulu warrior (Manuscript)
- African and new world music, 11 May 1963 (Lecture)
- Review of Eduardo's The Negro in Northern Brazil
- Bibliography
- The story of Roosevelt College
- An anthology of Krio folklore and literature with notes and Interlinear translation in English, 1963
- Title pages
- Problems involved in the collection and treatment of
- An anthology of Krio folklore and literature with notes and Interlinear translation in English, 1963
- The role of folklore in the life of the Yoruba of Southwestern Nigeria
- Democracy comes of age in the American college
- West African proverbs: Their functions and stylistic qualities, 5 March 1954 (Lecture)
- Krio texts with grammatical notes and translations in English, 1965
- The impact on western education on the African's way of life
- The Negro in American culture
- Some varieties of African music and their influence on the music of the new world
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