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Connecting the Worlds of the African Diaspora: The Living Legacy of Lorenzo Dow Turner symposium records

Object Details

Scope and Contents note
Connecting the Worlds of the African Diaspora: The Living Legacy of Lorenzo Dow Turner was a symposium held at the Anacostia Community Museum November 12-13, 2010. The keynote speaker was Emory Shaw Campbell, and other participants included Alcione M. Amos, Herb Frazier, Thomas B. Klein, Livio Sansone, and Kevin A. Yalvington. The symposium was held in association with the Word, Shout, Song exhibition, which documented the historical journey made by people from Africa, their language, and their music, to the Americas. Through words, music, and story, Lorenzo Dow Turner discovered in the 1930s that the Gullah people of Georgia and South Carolina still possessed parts of the culture and language of their enslaved ancestors, which had long been believed lost. The exhibit was on view at the Anacostia Community Museum from August 9, 2010 to July 24, 2011, during which time the Lorenzo Dow Turner Symposium was held at the museum. This collection contains video and audio recordings documenting the exhibit-related symposium.
Date
November 12-13, 2010
Extent
0.15 Linear feet (1 box; 9 miniDV video recordings; 1 CD-R sound recordings)
Citation
Connecting the Worlds of the African Diaspora: The Living Legacy of Lorenzo Dow Turner symposium audiovisual records, Anacostia Community Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Type
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Sound recordings
Video recordings
Topic
Museum exhibits
African languages -- Study and teaching -- United States
Sea Islands Creole dialect
Linguistics -- Research -- United States
African Americans
Place
Georgia -- Languages
South Carolina -- Languages
Identifier
ACMA.09-013
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