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SWEET? OR DOES IT EXPLODE? >> THAT WAS THE VOICE OF LAINGS, THE POET, WRITING ABOUT HARLEM. C-SPAN IS IN HARLEM TODAY AT THE CORNER OF 135TH AND LENNOX...
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THE CENTER OF BACK ACTIVITY NOT JUST FOR NEW YORK CITY, BUT FOR THE WORLD. EVERYONE WHO SPOKE OF THE BLACK EXPERIENCE IN THE WORLD SPOKE OF MARCH LEM...
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WAS ONE OF THE MAIN THOROUGHFARES OF HARLEM. THIS BUILDING WAS THE BUILDING THAT ACTUALLY STARTED THE TRANSFORMATION OF HARLEM FROM A PREDOMINANTLY WHITE...
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WE WILL TELL YOU HOW TO MAKE CALLS SHORTLY. AT THE TIME WAS IT KNOWN AS THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE? >> IT WAS MORE TALKED ABOUT AS THE NEW NEGRO MOVEMENT...
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PEOPLE'S AUTHENTIC VOICES AS WELL AS STEREOTYPING OF THEIR CULTURE AND BY THE 1920'S, THIS POLITICAL FERMENT AS WELL AS CULTURAL THAT WAS PART OF THE...
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AND MIXING ALL OF THOSE UNIQUE AFRICAN-DERIVED HERITAGES IN THIS
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ONE RELATIVELY SMALL GEOGRAPHICAL SPACE AND OUT OF IT WAS COMING A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF CREATIVITY AND POLITICAL ENERGY THAT REALLY BEGAN TO RESHAPE...
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OTHER BOROUGHS EXCEPT FOR STATEN ISLAND. THIS IS A CROSSROADS FOR NEW YORK CITY. WHAT IS UNFORTUNATE
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IS PEOPLE HAVE SEEN IT AS SOMETHING KIND OF SEPARATED FROM MANHATTAN AND IN DEED, MANY OF THE MAPS AND OTHER THINGS KIND OF IN MANHATTANMANEND MAN MANHATTAN...
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OUR MAIN THOROUGHFARE
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HERE. HE'S HALFWAY BETWEEN
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LENOX AND FIFTH AVENUE. SO HE'S ABOUT 10 AND A HALF BLOCKS FROM HERE. VERY SHORT WALKING
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DISTANCE. >> I WANT TO TELL YOU HOW YOU CAN GET INVOLVEED IN THIS PROGRAM. THAT'S WHAT MAKES THE AMERICAN WRITERS PROGRAM WORK IS YOUR PARTICIPATION WITH...
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| 00:06:03 |
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WE WILL LEAVE THE STREETS OF HARLEM AND WALK INTO THE OLDER BUILDING OF THE SCHOMBURG CENTER. TELL ME ABOUT THE SCHOMBURG CENTER. HOW DID IT GET STARTED...
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LIBRARY SERVICES FOR THAT WHITE POPULATION. BY THE MIDDLE OF THE 1920'S, THE POPULATION HAD COMPLETELY CHANGED, AS I SAID BEFORE, AND
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| 00:06:45 |
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THE COMMUNITY HERE IN THE MIDST OF THIS INTELLECTUAL AND CULTURAL FERVER WERE DEMANDING MORE BOOKS DEALING WITH THE BLACK EXPERIENCE. SO IN THIS BUILDING...
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ARE TALKING ABOUT THE LITERARY FIGURES, THE ONES DOING THE WRITING, IT'S
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A RELATIVELY SMALL GROUP OF PROBABLY NO MORE THAN 100. >> MOST FOLKS KNEW ONE ANOTHER BECAUSE THIS WAS A PRETTY SMALL GEOGRAPHIC AREA? >> YES. THIS PLACE...
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BY THE REST OF THE COMMUNITY. >>
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COMPETITORS OF SORTS FROM WHAT I HAVE READ? >> WELL, FRIENDLY COMPETITORS. ALL WRITERS ARE IN SOME RESPECTS COMPETITORS WITH EACH OTHER TRYING TO HAVE...
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| 00:08:40 |
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HUGHES AND ZORA NEALE HURSTON. I WANT TO TELL YOU ABOUT HOW THIS WILL PREAD.
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| 00:08:44 |
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TWO AND A HALF HOURS, BUT WE WILL FOCUS MOSTLY ON THE FIRST HALF ABOUT THE LIFE OF LANGSTON HUGHES AND MOSTLY IN THE SECOND HALF ON ZORA NEALE HURSTON....
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| 00:08:56 |
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HARLEM RENAISSANCE, BUT THAT'S HOW OUR PROCESS WILL WORK. I WILL ASK YOU TO GIVE US A QUICK BIOGRAPHY OF LANGSTON HUGHES. WHO WAS HE? WHY IS HE IMPORTANT...
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| 00:09:26 |
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OF HIS LIFE AND WAS RECOGNIZED DURING THE PERIOD OF THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE AS THE POET LAUREAT OF THE NEGRO RACE. SOMETHING GRANTED OR LAID ON HIM...
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| 00:10:48 |
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RAMIFICATIONS OF THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE TO BLACK FOLK BOTH IN NEW YORK AND NATIONWIDE? AND THE SECOND
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PART OF MY QUESTION, I WILL HANG UP, IS WE HEAR A LOT OF FOCUS BEING PLACED ON, YOU KNOW, CLASSIC GENIUSES LIKE LANGSTON HUGHES AND ZORA NEALE HURSTON....
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HIS BIGGEST COMPETITOR. IN THIS COMMUNITY
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| 00:11:49 |
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IN HARLEM, A NUMBER OF, IF YOU WILL, RIVALS BEGAN TO EMERGE. THE NUMBERS ARE MORE SIGNIFICANT THAN GARVEY WHO FOUND FOUNDED THE NEGRO IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION...
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| 00:13:11 |
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THAN JAMES. BUT BY THE 1920'S, THE MUSICIANS THAT
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| 00:13:16 |
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HE NAMED HAD ALL BECOME A PART OF THE HARLEM SCENE WORKING IN THE VARIOUS CLUBS HERE, MAKING MUSIC OF THAT PERIOD A PART OF WHAT WE CALL THE RENAISSANCE....
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TO COURT MCKAY?
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I KNOW HE WAS
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HE WASN'T A NATIVE
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BORN AMERICAN, BUT OF ALL OF THE
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PEOPLE FROM THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE PERIOD IN TERMS OF LIT ARE TOUR, HE'S THE ONE WHO HAS HAD THE MOST OR THE BIGGEST IMPACT FOR ME. >> THANK YOU. >> CLAUDE...
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EUROPE, BUT REMAINED A SIGNIFICANT FIGURE BECAUSE OF BOTH THE POLITICS OF HIS WRITING
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AND THE DEGREE TO WHICH HE WAS ABLE TO BRING HIS AUTHENTIC JAMACIAN VOICE AND THE VOICES OF THE CARRIBEAN, IF YOU WILL, THE WEST INDES TO THE MOVEMENT....
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| 00:15:16 |
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BOEZ BOAS. SHE
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| 00:15:19 |
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WAS FIRST AN ANTHROPOLOGIST. SHE WAS INTERESTED, LIKE LANGSTON HUGHES, IN BOTH CLARIFYING AND GIVING AUTHORITY TO THE AUTHENTIC VOICES OF AFRICAN AND...
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| 00:16:36 |
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SOUTH CAROLINA. >> Caller:
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| 00:16:38 |
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THANK YOU. MR. DODSON MENTIONED EARLIER THAT LANGSTON HUGHES WAS ABLE TO MAKE HIS LIVING EXCLUSIVELY FROM WRITING. MY QUESTION IS ABOUT, WHO WAS PUBLISHING...
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BUT ALSO THE PAINTERS, THE
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MUSICIANS, HOW MANY OF THEM WERE ABLE TO MAKE THEIR LIVING EXCLUSIVELY FROM THEIR ART? >> RELATIVELY FEW. WHEN I MENTIONED THAT LANGSTON HUGHES WAS...
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| 00:17:26 |
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AND READING HIS POETRY AND USUALLY IN BLACK CHURCHES, CLUBS AND THAT KIND OF THING, MAKING KNOWLEDGE OF HIS WORK EXTENDED TO THESE BROADER COMMUNITIES....
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| 00:18:57 |
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REMAINED THE POEM THAT HE IS BEST KNOWN BY WHENEVER HIS NAME IS MENTIONED AS A POET. AND IT'S A PIECE WRITTEN VERY, VERY QUICKLY, AS I UNDERSTAND
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| 00:19:09 |
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IT, AND ITS CONTENT, HE IS TALKING ABOUT HIS RELATIONSHIP TO THE PEOPLES OF AFRICAN DESCENT AROUND THE WORLD AND THE WAYS IN WHICH HE, AS A HUMAN BEING,...
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| 00:20:04 |
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THE MISSISSIPPI AS A YOUNG MAN AND HE WENT ON A RAFT IN NEW ORLEANS AND HE SAW HUMAN BEINGS BOUGHT AND SOLD ON
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| 00:20:12 |
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THE SLAVE MARKET THERE AND HE WAS SO HORRIFIED BY THIS THAT HE NEVER FORGOT IT AND MANY YEARS LATER, OF COURSE, WE KNOW THAT IT WAS LINCOLN WHO SIGNED...
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| 00:21:05 |
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I LOOKED UPON THE NILE AND RAISED THE PYRAMIDS ABOVE IT. I HEARD THE SINGING OF THE MISSISSIPPI WHEN ABE LINCOLN WENT DOWN TO NEW ORLEANS AND I'VE SEEN...
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| 00:21:50 |
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US, THE LANGSTON HUGHES AUDITORIUM. AND WE NAMED IT FOR LANGSTON HUGHES BECAUSE, AMONG THE WRITERS OF THE OF THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE, NO ONE HAS WRITTEN...
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| 00:22:04 |
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REFLECTED THE RANGE OF WORK THAT HE HAD WRITTEN. AS PART OF THE CONSTRUCTION PROJECT WE RECEIVED CITY MONEY AND A PORTION OF IT HAD TO GO TO A WORK OF...
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| 00:24:15 |
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NORTH, WEST AND EAST IS HARLEM NOW? >>
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| 00:24:17 |
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WELL, THE EAST-WEST IS EASY. IT'S RIVER TO RIVER. WHAT IS DEBATED IS THE NORTHERN BOUNDARY. THERE ARE THOSE WHO CONSIDERED HARLEM EXTENDING ALL THE WAY...
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STREET. THERE ARE THOSE WHO CONSIDER THAT A PART OF HARLEM. THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN HARLEM IN THAT AREA TODAY WHO HAVE SUBSEQUENTLY NAMED IT WASHINGTON...
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| 00:25:46 |
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REPUTATION FOR BEING A VERY SIGNIFICANT KIND OF HIDING COMMUNITY
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| 00:25:51 |
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IN THE SENSE OF ITS STRUGGLES AGAINST, I BELIEVE IT WAS IM PEARL IMPERIAL SPAIN AT THE TIME. THE NAME WAS BROUGHT HERE AND PLACED ON THIS COMMUNITY...
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| 00:26:29 |
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TRADITIONS REPRESENTED
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BY AFRICAN-AMERICAN DENOMINATIONS,
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| 00:26:32 |
Caller, -
PASTORS AND CONGREGATIONS. I WAS WONDERING IF YOU WOULD SPEAK TO THE ISSUE OF WHETHER OR NOT DURING THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE THERE WAS A RELATIONSHIP THAT...
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| 00:27:29 |
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AND OTHERS. MANY OF THE WRITERS ALSO FOUND IN THE CHURCHES FORUMS NOT ONLY FOR READING THEIR WORK, BUT ALSO IN THE CASE OF THOSE WHO WERE PLAYWRITES,...
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| 00:28:24 |
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SHOULD BE POINTED OUT THAT CULLIN'S FATHER WAS PASTOR OF SALEM EPISCOPAL CHURCH. THAT WAS ONE OF THE MOST COMMON AT THE TIME. THAT RELATIONSHIP WAS INTIMATE.
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| 00:28:43 |
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ABOUT LANGSTON'S ATTITUDE TO RELIGION, HIS RELATIONSHIP TO THE CHURCH, WELL, IT'S NOT, IT WAS NOT OF THE HAPPIEST. HE BELIEVED VERY STRONGLY IN BLACK...
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| 00:30:12 |
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TWO ROLES. THE TWO PHOTOGRAPHS THAT YOU
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| 00:30:14 |
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SAW OF LANGSTON HUGHES AND OF ZORA NEALE HURSTON EARLIER IN THE PROGRAM WERE ACTUALLY SHOT BY HIM. HE WAS AN INCREDIBLE PHOTOGRAPHER AS WELL AS A WRITER...
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| 00:30:30 |
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1960'S, I THINK THAT THERE WAS A KIND OF,
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| 00:30:32 |
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IF YOU WILL, REACTION TO HIM BECAUSE OF BOTH THE TITLE OF THE BOOK THAT HE PUBLISHED AND THE PERCEPTION THAT HE WAS, IN FACT, SOMEHOW OR ANOTHER, A...
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| 00:31:24 |
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THESE TWO MEN, ONE WHO IS RATHER OLDER AND MUCH MORE FAVORABLELY PLACED IN 1925 WHEN THEY
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| 00:31:32 |
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MET, BETWEEN HIM AND THE YOWNGS, ASPIRING POET, LANGSTON HUGHES, I THINK YOU COME TO A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF VAN VECTON'S CHARACTER, THE ROLE HE PLAYED,...
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| 00:32:20 |
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CONNECTICUT. >> >> Caller: MY NAME IS ERNIE PARKER CALLING FROM EAST HARTFORD. I AM CONCERNED ABOUT THE ASSOCIATION WITH LANGSTON HUGHES AND ZORA NEALE...
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| 00:32:34 |
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KNOW SRI LANGSTON HUGHES DID ATTEND COLLEGE IN PENNSYLVANIA. I AM WONDERING IF YOU
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THINK ANYTHING THAT HE ACQUIRED AT LINCOLN INFLUENCED HIS WRITING,
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Caller, -
AND ALSO, I KNOW ZORA NEALE HURSTON DID TEACH AT MORGAN STATE COLLEGE, WHICH IS NOW MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY IN BALTIMORE. AND FROM YOUR -- DO YOU THINK...
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| 00:33:23 |
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EDUCATED IN A MAJORITY AFRICAN AMERICAN SITUATION. HIS PROFESSORS WERE WHITE, BUT MOST FELLOW STUDENTS WERE AFRICAN-AMERICAN. THAT WAS VERY IMPORTANT...
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| 00:34:43 |
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EARLIEST LEVELS OF FORMAL EDUCATION. ZORA NEALE HURSTON, I WOULD THINK, THE BULK OF HER APPEAL IS TO COLLEGE-EDUCATED READERS. I THINK
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| 00:34:58 |
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SHE, THE "EYES OF WATCHING GOD" EVERYONE CALLS THAT, CORRECTLY, I THINK, HER MASTER PIECE. THAT IS TAUGHT IN SO MANY DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS. IT'S QUITE...
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| 00:35:49 |
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Caller, -
DR. RAMPERSAD, DO YOU WANT THAT ONE? >> I'LL DODGE THAT ONE. >> PASS IT ALONG TO ME, BECAUSE IN FACT, WHEN LANGSTON IN THE 1930'S WROTE ABOUT WHAT HE...
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| 00:36:11 |
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ABOUT THE MERITS, BUT I CAN ONLY REPORT TO YOU THAT HE REGARDED
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| 00:36:14 |
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BOTH MENACE HAVING,
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| 00:36:16 |
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PERHAPS, TO ANSWER CERTAIN QUESTIONS, AS NEEDING TO ANSWER CERTAIN QUESTIONS ABOUT THE AUTHENTICITY OF THEIR OWN RELIGIOUS BELIEFS AND WHAT THEY EXPECTED...
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| 00:36:54 |
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20'S PART OF IT HAD MORE TO DO WITH THE AUDIENCE THAT CAME TO HARLEM. ESPECIALLY BEFORE THE CLUB LIFE, THAN ANYTHING ELSE. AND THIS WAS A PLACE WHERE...
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| 00:37:14 |
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ALSO A PLACE WHERE YOU COULD COME AND HEAR THOSE WONDERFUL MUSICIANS LIKE DUKE ELINGTON AND OTHERS. WHAT WAS A PROBLEM WAS THAT THE CLUB LIFE HERE IN...
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| 00:38:18 |
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HER LAST NAME WAS BUNDLES AND WHAT HER
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EFFECT WAS ON THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE. >> WANT TO TAKE THAT ONE? >> WELL, I CAN SAY ABOUT A LITTLE BIT ABOUT ALIAY AND ARNOLD CAN HANDLE THE TWO WRITERS....
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| 00:38:44 |
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WALKER WAS INVOLVEED
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| 00:38:47 |
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WITH ORGANIZING AND MAKING MONEY, ALIAH SEEMINGLY PERFECTED THE FINE ART OF SPENDING IT AND ENJOYING IT. AMONG HER GIFTS WAS A PLACE THAT WAS ACTUALLY...
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| 00:40:09 |
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SET IN AFRICAN-AMERICAN
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| 00:40:12 |
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MIDDLE CLASS, PSYCH PSYCHOLOGICALLY ASTUTE. "PASSING" AND "QUICKSAND." THE OTHER WAS CONSIDERED PERHAPS THE BRAINIEST INDIVIDUAL. HE ALSO HAD INTERESTING...
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| 00:41:40 |
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NO. >> DID YOU -- I ONLY HEARD HALF
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| 00:41:42 |
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OF THE QUESTION. DR. RAMPERSAD, DID YOU HEAR THE PERSON HE TALKED ABOUT? >> NO. MENTION WAS MADE OF DUDLEY RANDALL, THE LATE DUDLEY WHO WAS A POET IN...
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| 00:41:59 |
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AMERICAN
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| 00:42:00 |
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HEARTBREAK"
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| 00:42:01 |
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I SEEM TO RECALL IS ONE OF LANGSTON HUGHES' POEMS. BUT I'M NOT
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| 00:42:06 |
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REALLY ABLE TO TALK ABOUT IT OFF THE CUFF. I'M TRYING TO LOOK THROUGH A VOLUME OF COLLECTED POEMS HERE AND HERE IT IS ON 385. I COULD TALK ABOUT IT...
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| 00:42:39 |
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THE NORTH IN PARTICULAR IN THE
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| 00:42:41 |
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19 -- STARTING, I DON'T KNOW, IN THE 1910'S, CERTAINLY AROUND 1919, YOU HAVE SO MANY AFRICAN-AMERICANS WHO HAVE EMIGRATED INTO NORTHERN CITIES
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| 00:42:53 |
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THAT THERE ARE CLASHES BETWEEN THEM AND SOLDIERS, WHITE SOLDIERS RETURNING
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| 00:42:58 |
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FROM EUROPE, AFRICAN-AMERICANS HAVING TAKEN THOSE JOBS. IT'S BEEN CALLED THE GREATEST MASS MIGRATION OF PEOPLES IN THE MODERN WORLD. I DON'T KNOW IF...
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| 00:44:07 |
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SOUTH WHO COME TO THE BIG CITIES OF THE NORTH LOOKING FOR BETTER JOBS,
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| 00:44:14 |
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BETTER SCHOOLS TO EDUCATE THEIR CHILDREN, BETTER PLACES TO LIVE. THIS POEM IS CALLED "ONE WAY TICKET." I PICK UP MY LIFE AND TAKE IT WITH ME AND I PUT...
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| 00:45:35 |
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MR. DODSON? >> I CAN START. HE WAS CERTAINLY THE PREMIER PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE PERIOD OF THE 1920'S AND HE HAD A
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| 00:45:44 |
Caller, -
STUDIO RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER HERE ON LENOX AVENUE. HE WAS PRINCIPALLY A PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHER AND HIS WORK, THOUGH, WAS MORE THAN JUST YOU
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| 00:45:56 |
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GOING TO GET YOUR PICTURE
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| 00:45:57 |
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TAKEN. HE WAS A PICTURE-TAKING MAN, YES. BUT WHEN HE SAT YOU BEFORE HIS CAMERA, HE WAS IN THE PROCESS OF CREATING A WORK OF ART. AND HIS LARGE BODY...
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| 00:46:55 |
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CALL AND ACTUALLY, WE ARE GOING
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| 00:46:57 |
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TO MOVE AGAIN. BUT BEFORE WE DO, PEOPLE ARE PROBABLY GOING TO BE HEARING A LOT MORE ABOUT LANGSTON HUGHES IN THE SOCIETY THIS YEAR BECAUSE IT'S HIS 100TH...
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| 00:47:08 |
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YEAR WAS THE OFFICIAL 100TH BIRTHDAY OF LANGSTON HUGHES, BUT THERE WILL BE CELEBRATIONS GOING ON AROUND THE COUNTRY THROUGHOUT THIS YEAR. OUR NEXT MAJOR...
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| 00:47:26 |
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THE AMERICAN PEN SOCIETY AND THE AMERICAN POETRY SOCIETY TO DO A TRIBUTE TO HIM THERE. >> ONE OF THE CELEBRATIONS KICKED OFF IN FEBRUARY AT THE UNIVERSITY...
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| 00:47:53 |
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LANGSTON HUGHES MEANS TO HIM. WE WILL MEET YOU DOWNSTAIRS IN A FEW MINUTES. >> I AM REALLY HUMBLED TO BE A PART OF THIS CELEBRATION. I MEAN, YOU DON'T...
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| 00:48:25 |
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THAT THOSE POEMS, SOME WAY, RESONATE IN MY HEAD AS A CHILD GROWING UP AND WE WOULD HEAR THEM, YOU WOULD HEAR "THE NEGRO SPEAKS OF RIVERS," YOU WOULD...
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| 00:52:05 |
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WELCOME. >> Caller: HELLO. MY NAME IS NELLE BAILEY. I AM CALLING FROM THE HARLEM TENANTS' COUNCIL, A TENANTS' ACTIVIST ORGANIZATION. I WONDERED IF THE...
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| 00:52:26 |
Caller, -
THIS COMMUNITY IN TRANSITION THAT IS LOSING ITS POPULATION, IT CONTINUES TO BE A WORKING-CLASS COMMUNITY WITH A NUMBER OF FAMILIES, PARTICULARLY POOR...
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| 00:53:31 |
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MAYOR DINKENS CAME INTO OFFICE IN 1990, OVER 60% OF THE HOUSING STOCK WAS
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| 00:53:38 |
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STANDING VACANT AND PEOPLE HAD ALREADY BEEN PUSHED OUT OF THIS COMMUNITY. WHAT HAS BEEN HAPPENING OVER THE LAST PERIOD OF TIME HAS, IN FACT, BEEN RECLAIMING...
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| 00:56:12 |
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RELATIVE. HE WAS SOMEWHAT STOUT BY THE END OF HIS LIFE. HE WOULD NOT BE ALLOWED TO SMOKE IN HERE AND PERHAPS BY THIS TIME HE WOULD HAVE BEEN SO EDUCATED...
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| 00:56:28 |
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LIBRARIES. I HAVE FORGOTTEN THE NAME OF THE LEADING WRITER WHO TOLD ME THAT ONE OF HER EARLIEST MEMORIES OF LANGSTON AT THE SCHOMBURG WAS SEEING HIM...
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| 00:57:58 |
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LANGSTON TOOK A TRIP TO AFRICA IN 1923 AT AGE 21 AND THERE HE'S LISTED AS JAMES HUGHES. OTHERWISE, HE WAS BAPTIZED
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| 00:58:07 |
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JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES AND WENT BY THE NAME LANGSTON HUGHES ALMOST HIS ENTIRE LIFE. >> WHERE IN THE FAMILY DID THE NAME LANGSTON COME FROM? >> WELL, HIS...
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| 00:58:34 |
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VIRGINIA PLANTER NAMED CAPTAIN
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| 00:58:37 |
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QUARRELS. WHEN HE DIED, HE LEFT HIS ESTATE TO HIS THREE CHILDREN BY THIS WOMAN, LUCY LANGSTON. SO THE NAME PASSED ON TO THEIR SONS, CHARLES LANGSTON,...
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| 00:59:31 |
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ANATOMY,
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| 00:59:33 |
Caller, -
CARPAL TUNNEL, REFLEX OL GEE. I'M LOOKING NOW TO TO THE INACTIVISTS, LOOKING FOR WAYS TO WORK WITH LOBBYISTS IN CONGRESS ON ANOTHER ISSUE. PRNTLY, I...
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| 01:00:34 |
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WELL, I WOULD SAY TWO THINGS. THERE'S GOOD NEWS AND BAD NEWS. THE GOOD NEWS
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| 01:00:38 |
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IS
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| 01:00:39 |
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THAT IN THE FIRST DECADE OF
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| 01:00:41 |
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THE 21ST
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| 01:00:42 |
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CENTURY CENTURY, MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN EXPERIENCE IS AVAILABLE TO CHILDREN FROM GRADE SCHOOL THROUGH COLLEGE THAN CERTAINLY WAS...
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| 01:00:55 |
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IN THE RACIALLY SEGREGATED SCHOOLS OF THE SOUTH DURING THE EARLY PART OF THE CENTURY THAN IN ANY PREVIOUS PERIOD OF TIME. THE GOOD NEWS IS THAT INFORMATION...
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| 01:02:05 |
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CLASS ON LANGSTON HUGHES AND PROBABLY WHEN I AM OLDER, I WOULD
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| 01:02:09 |
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LIKE TO BE A WRITER, TOO. >> WHAT
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| 01:02:12 |
Caller, -
DID YOU LEARN ABOUT LANGSTON HUGHES? OR THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO TELL OTHERS ABOUT? >> UM, THAT HE WAS A WONDERFUL WRITER. >> HE WAS A WONDERFUL WRITER....
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| 01:02:32 |
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SPEND A MINUTE AND LOOK AT WHAT YOU HAVE. >> WE HAVE BROUGHT ACTUALLY A SMALL SELECTION OF THE PUBLICATIONS BY LANGSTON HUGHES AND THEY ARE HERE ON THE...
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| 01:02:41 |
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THEM. BUT I WANTED TO CALL OUR ATTENTION, OUR
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| 01:02:44 |
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READERS, TO TWO OR THREE THINGS THAT I THINK ARE CERTAINLY OF GREAT SIGNIFICANCE. THE FIRST IS THIS, OUR FIRST EDITION OF LANGSTON HUGHES' FIRST PUBLISHED...
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| 01:02:56 |
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BLUES." IT WAS PUBLISHED IN 1926 AND -- >> WE HAD THAT QUESTION RECALLIER ABOUT WHO PUBLISHED. IT'S AN ALFRED KNOPF BOOK. >> YES. HE ACTUALLY SIGNED...
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| 01:03:20 |
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RIVERS" IS INCLUDED IN HERE AS IS LIKELY HIS SECOND MOST-READ POEM "MOTHER
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| 01:03:27 |
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TO SON." BOTH OF THEM WERE PUBLISHED IN THIS FIRST ANTHOLOGY OF POETRY, HIS FIRST PUBLISHED BOOK OF POETRY, THE "WEARY BLUES." >> LET'S TAKE A CALL FROM...
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| 01:04:01 |
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RENAISSANCE
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| 01:04:02 |
Unidentified Speaker, -
AND I DO PLAN TO ATTEND THE
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| 01:04:06 |
Caller, -
SCHOMBURG CENTER IN THE FALL AND I AM WANTING TO DO SOME GENEALOGY RESEARCH ABOUT NORTH CAROLINA. I HAVE BEEN ENJOYING THE PROGRAM AND THANK YOU VERY...
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WOODSON IN 1925 FOR A FEW MONTHS WHEN DR. WOODSON, WAS COMPILING
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| 01:04:45 |
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TREE MENDNDOUS LISTS OF NAMES OF FREE BLACKS IN THE UNITED STATES, I THINK. IT WAS A COMPREHENSIVE EFFORT ON DR. WOODSON'S PART AND LANGSTON HUGHESWAS...
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| 01:05:42 |
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LOTS OF TOURISTS
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| 01:05:43 |
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COMING TO THE HARLEM COMMUNITY AND I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW HOW DID LANGSTON HUGHES AND ZORA NEALE HURSTON AND OTHER FIGURES FROM THE 1920'S
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| 01:05:50 |
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PERIOD FEEL ABOUT SO
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| 01:05:51 |
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MANY TOURISTS COMING? WHEN YOU READ "THE BIG SEA" HE DIDN'T SEEM TO BE PARTICULARLY PARTIAL TO THE INFLUX OF TOURISTS COMING UP, ESPECIALLY WHEN IT...
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| 01:06:46 |
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IS COMEINGIN TO EXPLORE HARLEM'S HISTORY BECAUSE RIGHT NOW IT'S REALLY HOT. >>
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| 01:06:49 |
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THANKS. ANOTHER PERSON CONCERNED ABOUT THE FUTURE AND PRESERVATION OF HARLEM BUT ALSO THE FIRST PART OF THE QUESTION WAS ABOUT HOW THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE...
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| 01:07:09 |
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TODAY IN TERMS OF THE HISTORICAL SITES, THERE ARE SEVERAL INITIATIVES AFOOT TO TRY TO PREIF HEPRESERVE A NUMBER OF THESE SITES. THIS IS ALSO A CONTROVERSIAL...
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| 01:07:24 |
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DEVELOPMENT. A PLACE LIKE SMALL'S PARADISE, BY WAY OF EXAMPLE, A BLOCK AWAY FROM HERE, IS SLATED TO BECOME A SCHOOL FOR YOUNG PEOPLE HERE IN THE CITY....
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| 01:09:05 |
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ALONG WITH AN ENTIRE EVENING OF PROGRAMMING DEVOTED TO THE WRITERS. LOOK FOR THIS COMING FRIDAY, THIS TOUR, AND SOME OF THE OTHER SEMINARS AND SYMPOSIA,...
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| 01:10:07 |
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LETTERS, I THINK IT WAS. ANYANY GUESTS FAMILIAR WITH THAT? >> THANK YOU. ARNOLD RAMPERSAD, DO YOU KNOW ABOUT THAT COLLECTION? >> I KNOW ABOUT CARTER WHO...
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| 01:10:35 |
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HUGHES' PAPERS? >> MOST OF THE PAPERS, A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF MATERIAL, IS IN THE
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| 01:10:42 |
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JAMES WELLDONE JOHNSON MEMORIAL COLLECTION FOUNDED BY CARL VAN VECTON, THE J.W.J. IN THE
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| 01:10:54 |
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RATHER MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY AT YALE UNIVERSITY. >> IT WAS THAT SOMETHING
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| 01:10:58 |
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THAT LANGSTON HUGHES SUPPORTED? OR DID HE HAVE TO BE TALKED INTO IT. >> OH, NO,g1cc=cg1&co/s/cc/cGacs>c EFFORTS, UNSUCCESSFULLY, TO PUT UP SOME SORT...
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| 01:11:18 |
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FINALLY, VAN VEVCTON WAS START THIS COLLECTION OF PAPERS BY AFRICAN-AMERICAN WRITERS AT YALE YOOUN. AROUND 1943, HE ASKED LANGSTON, HIS GOOD FRIEND,...
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| 01:11:33 |
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CONTRIBUTE HIS PAPERS AND HUGHES ALMOST IMMEDIATELY SAID YES AND FROM 1953, RIGHT RIGHT TO HIS DEATH IN 1967 AND BEYOND, HIS PAPERS SIMPLY FLOWED TO YALE,...
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| 01:12:19 |
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NONETHELESS BEGAN TO PUT TOGETHER A COLLECTION
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| 01:12:22 |
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OF MATERIALS FOR THE SCHOMBURG CENTER. AND WE HAVE A FAIRLY GOOD COLLECTION OF LANGSTON HUGHES MATERIALS THAT WERE SPECIFICALLY DESIGNATED USUALLY COPPIES...
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| 01:13:28 |
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| 01:13:29 |
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CULLEN. I HAVE BEEN TRYING TO GET ON THE PHONE
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| 01:13:31 |
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SINCE THAT TIME. A COUPLE
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| 01:13:33 |
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OF DAYS BEFORE
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| 01:13:34 |
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HE PASSED AWAY, WAS SITTING ON THE STEPS AT THE PACIFIC UNIVERSITY LIBRARY AND I WAS SITTING THERE WITH HIM WITH A FRIEND AND WE WERE JUST TALKING AND...
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| 01:15:20 |
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APPETITE TO LEARN MORE, IT IS WIDELY8G
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| 01:15:27 |
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COMPLETE COLLECTED WORK SER RUSE OF LANGSTON HUGHES AND THEY ARE REFLECTED IN THESE VOLUMES HERE. THERE IS, IN FACT, BOTH POETRY AND SHORT STORIES AND...
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| 01:16:07 |
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IT TURNED INTO SOMETHING THAT EVENTUALLY ENDED UP BEING TRANSFORMED INTO BOOKS AND THE BOOKS HAVE BEEN TRANSLATEED
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| 01:16:13 |
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INTO MANY LANGUAGES. THIS IS THE
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| 01:16:16 |
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BEST OF "SIMPLE" ONE OF THOSE BOOKS THAT IS A COLLECTION OF THOSE COLUMNS
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| 01:16:21 |
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OF THOSE ARTICLES. AND SEMPLE IS A KIND OF STREET- STREET-WISE PHILOSOPHER WHO LANGSTON HUGHES USED TO BOTH COMMENT ON POLITICAL AND ERIE VENTS, TO REFLECT...
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| 01:17:33 |
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WWW.SCHOMBURGCENTER.ORG. WE ARE RIGHT AT THE CORNER OF 135TH AND MALCOLM X BOULEVARD. CHECK US OUT. >>
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| 01:17:43 |
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LANGSTON HUGHES AND ZORA NEALE HURSTON COLLABORATED ONCE OFFICIALLY IN A PLAY CALLED "MULE BONE." AS WE MOVE INTO THE NEXT PART OF OUR
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| 01:17:51 |
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PROGRAM, WE WILL FOCUS MORE ON THE LIFE OF ZORA NEALE HURSTON AND TO DO THAT, WE ARE GOING TO LET YOU LISTEN INTO A SEMINAR THAT WAS HELD IN WASHINGTON...
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| 01:18:05 |
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INTO MY LIFE AND SHE NEVER LET GO. >> YOU ARE LOOK AT THE MANHATTAN SKYLINE FROM HARLEM AS AMERICAN WRITERS II LOOKS AT THE WRITERS OF THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE....
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| 01:23:14 |
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HIMSELF, NICE TO BE WITH YOU IN PERSON. WE HAVE A NEW GUEST, CHERYL WALL, WHO IS AN AUTHOR ABOUT HARLEM. SHE'S WRITTEN A BOOK CALLED "WOMEN OF THE HARLEM...
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| 01:23:57 |
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TRADITIONS AS A FOUNDATION FOR FICTION AND DRAMA AND FOR -- IT WAS AS THOUGH WE HAD FOUND THE PRECURSOR THAT WE DIDN'T KNOW EXISTED. >> WE ARE LOOKING...
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| 01:24:30 |
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CONTINUE TO READ, HAVE YOU MANY VOICES TROUGH THE TEXT. VOICES OF PREACHERS. PREACHERS WITHOUT PULPITS. THEE GAVE THE PREACHERS' VOICE TO THE
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| 01:24:42 |
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PROTAGANOIST GRANDMOTHER. YOU HAVE THE VOICE OF BLUES SINGERS. THE VOICE OF STORY TELLERS WHO SIT ON THE STORE PORCH IN THE TOWN OF EATONVILLE. AS...
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| 01:25:24 |
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COMING TO OUR SCHOOL, P.S. 113 EVERY FRIDAY DURING THE ASSEMBLY. LANGSTON HUGHES, COUNTEE
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| 01:25:33 |
Caller, -
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| 01:25:34 |
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CULLEN. MISS
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| 01:25:38 |
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HURSTON READ HER POEMS TO US. THAT'S WE WERE EXPOSED TO THEIR WRIGHTS. THAT'S ALL I HAVE TO SAY. >> WHAT HAPPENED WITH ALL OF YOUR EXPOSURE TO THIS?...
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| 01:26:11 |
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WELL SHE MENTIONED THAT ZORA NEALE HURSTON WAS ONE OF THOSE WHO CAME TO HER SCHOOL. LET ME
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| 01:26:15 |
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GO BACK TO HER ROOTS IN EATONVILLE. TODAY THERKS HAD AN ANNUAL CELEBRATION TO ZORA NEALE HURSTON AND HER CONTRIBUTIONS. HOW IMPORTANT WAS THE TOWN TO...
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| 01:26:30 |
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PARTICULAR SUBJECT. BUT IT'S EVERYTHING TO ZORA. UNLIKE LANGSTON WHO WAS BROUGHT UP IN LAWRENCE, KANSAS, AND WHO, IN A SENSE, HAD TO FIND HIS WAY INTO...
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| 01:26:48 |
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IN AFRICAN-AMERICAN FOLKLORE, ZORA NEALE HURSTON WAS BORN WITH IT. SHE WAS BORN WITH STORY TELLING ON THE FRONT PORCH. SHE WAS COMMITTED DEEPLY DEVOTED...
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| 01:27:32 |
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OUT. MAYBE IT'S SOME WAY OFF IN THE OCEAN WHERE THE BLACK MAN IS IN POW ARE BUT WE DON'T KNOW NOTHING BUT WHAT WE SEE. SO THE WHITE MAN THROW DOWN...
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| 01:27:46 |
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BUT HE DON'T TOTE IT. HE HAND
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| 01:27:48 |
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IT TO HIS WOMENFOLKS. THE NIGGER WOMAN IS THE MULE OF THE WORLD SO FAR AS I CAN SEE. I HAVE BEEN PRAYING FOR IT TO BE DIFFERENT WITH YOU. LORD, LORD,...
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| 01:28:20 |
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SHAMELESSLY SAID IS THAT FOLKLORE IS WHAT PEOPLE HAVE BEFORE THEY KNOW THERE IS SUCH A THING AS ART. SHE WAS ABSOLUTELY
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| 01:28:26 |
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DEVOTED TO RECLAIMING THE POETRY OF THE BLACK SOUTHERNERS. NOW, THERE WERE OTHER PEOPLE WHO FELT THAT, OF COURSE, THE SIGN OF PROGRESS WAS ASSIMILATION...
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| 01:29:07 |
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UNIVERSITY
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| 01:29:08 |
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LAST MONTH AT THE LIBRARY WHICH HAD SOMETHING TO DO WITH THE CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION OF SRI LANGSTON HUGHES AND I DID FIND OUT THAT LANGSTON HUGHES AND...
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| 01:29:54 |
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PLAY IN A LITTLE TOWN CALLED WESTFIELD, NEW JERSEY. THE PLAY WAS BASED ON A FOLK TALE THAT HURSTON HAD CORRECTED AND HAD BEGUN TO WRITE ABOUT. AT SOME...
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| 01:30:54 |
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ONE OF THE REASONS IT DIDN'T CATCH
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| 01:30:56 |
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ON. >> SAN DIEGO, YOU ARE NEXT IN OUR HARLEM RENAISSANCE CONVERSATION. >> YES, GOOD AFTERNOON. I HAVE BEEN INTRIGUED BY ALL OF THIS HAD A'S BEEN HAPPENING....
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| 01:31:20 |
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THE LIT ARE TOUR, THE HUMANITIES AND THE HISTORY OF PEOPLE
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| 01:31:24 |
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OF AFRICAN DESCENT. AFTER DESEGREGATION, THE KIND OF RICHNESS THAT THE SISTER FROM HARLEM WITNESSED AS A PART OF HER SCHOOL LIFE STOPPED EXISTING IN...
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| 01:33:02 |
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EYES WERE WATCHING GOD." THEY TEACH LANGSTON HUGHES' POEMS AND I'M NOT SURE THAT I WOULD
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| 01:33:11 |
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AGREE, FROM MY PARTICULAR GEOGRAPHICAL REGION, THOUGH I IMAGINE IT'S DIFFERENT IN DIFFERENT PLACES. >> WE WANT TO LET YOU LISTEN TO ZORA NEALE HURSTON...
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| 01:33:37 |
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SORT OF PUT YOU OUT? DIDN'T SHE LIKE THE TYPE WRITER OR WHAT? >> NO. I DIDN'T HAVE A TYPE WRITER THEN. I WANTED TO, BUT I DIDN'T HAVE ONE. YOU SEE,...
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| 01:33:54 |
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SHORT STORY, "THE GILDED SIXPENCE."
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| 01:34:00 |
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I DECIDED TO SIT DOWN AND WRITE A NOVEL. SO I HAD THIS HOUSE AND I BOUGHT ME SOME FURNITURE, I BOUGHT A CARD TABLE AND A LAMP, THERE WAS NO ELECTRICITY...
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| 01:35:44 |
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SHE'S TALKING ABOUT THE WRITING OF HER FIRST NOVEL. SHE WAS SO BROKE, SHE WROTE A FRIEND HAD THAT SHE DIDN'T HAVE TOOTH PASTE AND SHE WAS WATCHING
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| 01:35:55 |
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HER FACE WITH LAUNDRY SOAP. PART OF WHAT'S INSPIRING TO ME ABOUT HURSTON IS THE INCREDIBLE COMMITMENT THAT IT TOOK FOR HER TO CONTINUE TO BECOME AN ARTIST....
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| 01:37:02 |
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SECONDLY, TO EVOKE THE NAME OF ALICE WALKER AND TO THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR RESURRECTING ZORA NEALE HURSTON. AND THREE, TO SPEAK
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| 01:37:14 |
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TO, I AM ACTUALLY CALLING ON THE HARLEM LINE FROM CONNECTICUT, BUT IN TRIBUTE TO PARENTS AND GRANDPARENTS WHO GREW UP THERE, AND TO SAY THAT LANGSTON...
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| 01:38:13 |
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AT ONE POINT, HE DECIDED TO DO
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| 01:38:15 |
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SOMETHING WITH THE LITTLE PLOTS OF LAND IN FRONT OF THE BROWNSTONES. ESPECIALLY THE ONES IN FRONT OF HIS BROWNSTONE. THERE, YOU GO. AND SO, ALONG WITH...
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| 01:39:19 |
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THE DIFFICULTY OF FINDING ZORA. SHE DID NOT ALWAYS TELL THE TRUTH ABOUT
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| 01:39:23 |
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HER LIFE AND I THINK IT'S SIGNIFICANT THAT SHE ENTITLED HER OUGHT BUY OG AUTOBIOGRAPHY DUST ON THE ROAD. SHE WAS CRUCIAL TO THE REDISCOVERY. SHE EVEN...
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| 01:40:15 |
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PRIMARILY WHAT THEY CALL SPECIAL ED STUDENTS AND I HAVE BEEN OPENING THEM UP TO BLACK LITERATURE AND I FOUND THAT THE CHILDREN LACK A
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| 01:40:27 |
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KNOWLEDGE IN GENERAL OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY, BUT THE WHOLE STATE, ESPECIALLY IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS HERE, IN ALBUQUERQUE AND SOME OF THE SMALLER...
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| 01:41:26 |
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NG. I AM WONDERING WHY CONTEMPORARY RESEARCHERS ARE USING AFRICAN-AMERICAN IN PLACE OF THAT TERM. >> WELL, HUGHES USED THE WORD NEGRO BUT HE ALSO USED...
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| 01:41:56 |
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BLUES" HIS POEM FROM 1924, ROCKING BACK AND FORTH LIKE A MELLOW CREW AND I HEARD A NEGRO PLAY. I THINK THAT HE THAT HE USED ALL THE VARIOUS TERMS AND...
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| 01:43:19 |
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MAJORITY OF BLACK WOMEN THAN WAS TRUE OF MANY OF HER CONTEMPORARIES. HURSTON WAS ONE OF THE FEW PARTICIPANTS IN THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE WHO WAS, IN FACT,...
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| 01:43:36 |
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AS IT WERE, BY STAGES, FIRST MOVING TO TENNESSEE AND THEN BALTIMORE THEN TO WASHINGTON AND ULTIMATELY TO NEW YORK WHERE SHE ARRIVEED IN JANUARY OF 1925....
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| 01:44:24 |
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STATE UNIVERSITY IN BALTIMORE. SHE THEN WENT TO HOWARD AS A
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| 01:44:27 |
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PART-TIME STUDENT, WORKED AS A MANICURIST, AS A WAITRESS TO SUPPORT HERSELF AND THEN FINALLY IN 1925, BEGAN TO STUDY AT BARNARD. >> EDGEWATER MARYLAND?...
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| 01:45:00 |
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| 01:45:01 |
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SCOLAR IN PITTSBURGH. I HAVE NOTICED ON YOUR SHOW THAT YOU HAVE NOT MENTIONED STERLING BROWN WHO HAS WRITTEN MOST OF HIS WORKS IN THE SOUTHERN VERNACULAR....
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| 01:45:37 |
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TEACHER
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| 01:45:39 |
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AND INFLUENCE OVER FUTURE
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| 01:45:41 |
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POETS.
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| 01:45:43 |
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BUT PERHAPS SHE WOULD KNOW MORE ABOUT PROFESSOR BROWN. >> I JUST WANTED TO SAY PROFESSOR. >> MR. BROWN: WAS MY TEACHER. I WAS A STUDENT IN THE LATE 1960'S...
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| 01:46:12 |
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DAYS WHEN NOT THAT MANY PEOPLE WERE INTERESTED. >>
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| 01:46:14 |
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WHEN DID THE LAST OF THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE ARTISTS, WRITERS, PASS ON? >> WELL, IT'S HARD TO SAY. DOROTHY WEST, THINK, WOULD BE THE LAST. NOT VERY LONG...
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| 01:46:35 |
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AND HERMINE JOHNSON JUST PASSED IN THE MID 1990'S. >> THIS IS
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| 01:46:41 |
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IS A GENERALIZATION, SO IT'S DIFFICULT TO ANSWER, BUT WITH REGARD TO THE STUDY OF THEM, WE HAVE HAD SO MANY CALLS ON THIS, HAS THE POPULARITY IN GENERAL...
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| 01:46:57 |
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TO STUDY, WHICH I WOULD SAY WOULD DATE FROM 1970 IN THE
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| 01:47:02 |
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PUBLICATION OF A BOOK BY NATO NATHAN HUGGINS CALLED "HARLEM RENAISSANCE," THE INTEREST IN THE LITERATURE AND THE HISTORY OF THE PERIOD HAS CONTINUED TO...
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| 01:47:15 |
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MICHIGAN. HELLO? >> Caller: MY NAME IS MARGARET PERRY. I AM A WRITER. I'VE DONE SOME WORK ON THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE. AND I WOULD LIKE FOR BOTH OF THEM...
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| 01:47:33 |
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AND LANGSTON TO MRS. OSGOOD MASON. I AM ENJOYING YOUR PROGRAM. IT IS WONDERFUL. >> THANK YOU. MRS.
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| 01:47:42 |
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MASON? >> WELL, MARCH GET PERRY, BY THE WAY, IS A SIGNIFICANT SCHOLAR. SHE'S BEING VERY MODEST. MRS. MASON, THINK SHE EMBODI CERTIFICATION THE WHOLE QUESTION...
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| 01:48:01 |
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WOMAN, RELATIVELY
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| 01:48:03 |
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ELDERLY, QUITE WEALTHY, LIVED ON PARK AVENUE, TOOK UP AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE, WRITERS, AROUND 19 1927, 1926 OR SO, ONE INFLUENCE ON ZORA NEALE HURSTON...
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| 01:49:27 |
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MONTH THAT HURSTON WAS ABLE TO LEAVE NEW YORK IN 1928 TO GO SOUTH AND SPEND THE NEXT SEVERAL YEARS
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| 01:49:35 |
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CRISS-CROSSING ALABAMA, FLORIDA AND LOUISIANA COLLECTING FOLKLOR. SHE WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN ABLE TO DO THAT WITHOUT THAT SUPPORT. ON THE OTHER HAND, MRS....
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| 01:50:13 |
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GRADUATED IN 1920. THE OTHER THING IS I HAD
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| 01:50:18 |
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WORKED ON A MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION HAVING TO DO WITH SOME OF LANGSTON'S WORK THAT'S IN THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN ARCHIVES AT THE WESTERN RESERVE HISTORICAL...
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| 01:51:12 |
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LITERARY COMMUNITY THERE. HE, WHEN HE GRADUATED THAT LAST YEAR, HIS SENIOR YEAR, HE WAS EDITOR OF THE ANNUAL. HE WAS CLASS POET, HE PUBLISHED A LOT...
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| 01:51:58 |
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YOU. >> I AM GOING TO ASK YOU, I WAS STRUCK BAY DESCRIPTION THAT YOU WROTE ABOUT YOUR AUNT IN AN INT ODUCTION WHERE YOU SAID "AUNT
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| 01:52:05 |
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ZORA WAS A FEAST."
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| 01:52:07 |
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WHAT DID YOU MEAN BY THAT? >> WELL, IT WAS JUST FILLING A VOID. IT WAS SOMETHING THAT WAS MISSING. I JUST DIDN'T KNOW WHAT IT WAS. WHEN I FOUND THE...
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| 01:52:18 |
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BOXES, IF YOU WILL,
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| 01:52:19 |
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IN MY ATTIC, IT WAS LIKE JUST SITTING DOWN TO A FEAST. IT WAS SOMETHING THAT WAS JUST QUENCHING. >> CAN YOU DESCRIBE, WE HAVEN'T HAD ANYONE DO THIS YET,...
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| 01:52:31 |
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AND HERE HER VOICE, BUT WHAT IS YOUR SENSE OF WHAT SHE WOULD HAVE BEEN LIKE WALKING INTO A ROOM? HOW TALL WAS SHE? HOW DID SHE DRESS? >> SHE WOULD HAVE...
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| 01:52:46 |
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DEMEANOR AND HER PHYSIQUE CHANGED AS SHE TRAVELED AND AGED, BUT REGARDLESS, SHE WOULD HAVE BEEN THE CENTER OF ATTRACTION. >> SHE SEEMED TO LIKE HATS....
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| 01:52:59 |
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DEFINITELY. ALWAYS KNOWN FOR HER HATS. >> CHERYL WALL, HER PERSONALITY, IF I CAN PARAPHRASE IT, SEEMS LIKE A VERY BIG ONE. A VERY LARGE ONE. WAS SHE ALWAYS...
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| 01:53:15 |
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MEAN I THINK THE WORD BODACIOUS TO DESCRIBE
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| 01:53:18 |
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HURSTON, THINK THERE WAS THIS
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| 01:53:22 |
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LARGER-THAN-LIFE QUALITY. SHE ALSO BROUGHT THE SONGS AND THE GAMES AND THE STORIES, SOME OF WHICH WERE FAIRLY BLOODY, INTO SOME FAIRLY QUIET SPACES....
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| 01:53:34 |
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TALKING WITH JEAN BLACKWELL HUDSON, WHO WAS THE CURATOR HERE AT THE SCHOMBURG, AND SHE LED ME TO BELIEVE THAT ZORA NEALE HURSTON WAS VERY TALENTED, BUT...
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| 01:54:16 |
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SEMPLE STORIES IN IT. THINK THE PERSON FROM THE SCHOMBURG MIEWS MUSEUM MENTION THAT HAD
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| 01:54:21 |
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BOOK. BUT MY QUESTION TO YOU ALL
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| 01:54:23 |
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IS
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| 01:54:24 |
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THE PROTECTION AND THE FINANCIAL RIGHTS TO OUR CREATIVE GENIUSES. WHO, IN EFFECT, OWNS THE PUBLISHING RIGHTS TO THESE BOOKS BY LANGSTON HUGHES AND ZORA...
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| 01:55:06 |
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THE BENEFICIARIES OF
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| 01:55:08 |
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THE WILL WILL. IT'S A LITTLE COMPLICATED, THE QUESTION OF WHO OWNS THE COPPY RIGHTSRIGHTS, BUT BY AND LARGE, HIS WISHES ARE BEING CARRIED OUT. I MEAN,
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| 01:55:21 |
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IT'S A WELL-ORGANIZED ESTATE AND I THINK, AS I HAVE SAID, IT'S IN GOOD SHAPE. I HAPPEN TO BE ONE OF THE TWO ADMINISTRATORS OF THE ESTATE, AD MINUTES...
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| 01:55:58 |
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IT WERE, TO JOIN
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| 01:56:00 |
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HER AND I GUESS BRING MY EXPERTISE AND HUGHES' SCHOLARSHIP TO BEAR ON THE MATTERS OF COPPYRIGHT AND SO ON. >> HOW VAST IS THE COLLECTION? >> WELL HUGHES...
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| 01:56:32 |
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TONS OF LYRICS. AND THESE PROPERTIES,
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| 01:56:35 |
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THEY GENERATE INCOME STEADILY AND IT, IF HUGHES WERE ALIVE TODAY, THINK HE WOULD BE COMFORTABLE. >> LUCY HURSTON, HAVE YOU EVER MET YOUR AUNT? DID YOUR...
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| 01:57:07 |
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TODAY? >> NONE. MY FATHER WAS THE LAST TO PASS AND THAT WAS IN 1987. >> WHEN DID YOU REALLY FIRST BECOME AWARE, YOU MENTIONED
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| 01:57:15 |
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OPENING UP TRUNGSS IN TRUNKS IN THE ATTIC. BUT TALK TO US ABOUT WHEN YOU FIRST REALIZED SHE WAS
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| 01:57:23 |
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SOMEONE SPECIAL IN THE FAMILY. >> I MET HER, AS I SAID, THROUGH
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| 01:57:26 |
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THE STORIES AND THE
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| 01:57:27 |
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DOCUMENTATION
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| 01:57:28 |
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AND THE PAPERWORK AND THE OLD BOOKS THAT I FOUND IN THE ATTIC OF THE HOUSE WHEN WE LIVED IN BROOKLYN, NEW YORK. AND I THOUGHT
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| 01:57:33 |
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THEY WERE FASCINATING STORIES AND THE CONNECTION DIDN'T HIT UNTIL I WAS IN MY TEENS THAT THIS WAS NOT ONLY JUST SOMEONE THAT I ENJOYED AND SOMEONE THAT...
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| 01:57:45 |
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ALSO SOMEBODY VERY FAMOUS AND SPECIAL TO PEOPLE OUTSIDE OF MY HOUSEHOLD. AND, YOU KNOW, BROADER THAN THE FAMILY. >> DO YOU HAVE A FAVORITE AMONG HER...
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| 01:58:12 |
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HER AND SHE NAVIGATES WHAT PARALLELS
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| 01:58:16 |
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A LOT OF ZORA'S LIFE AND ENDS UP THIS ACTIVE PERSON THAT
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| 01:58:21 |
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HAS GRABBED CONTROL OF HER LIFE. >>
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| 01:58:23 |
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WE HAVE ABOUT A HALF HOUR LEFT. WE ARE TALKING ABOUT WRITERS OF THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE. WE ARE AT THE SCHOMBURG CENTER AT 135TH AND LE COMRKSNOX AVENUES...
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| 01:58:45 |
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CALIFORNIA. >> Caller: HELLO. MY NAME IS ALICE HAMMOND. IN 1938, I WAS DOING PRACTICE TEACHING AT MANUAL ARTS HIGH SCHOOL IN LOS ANGELES AND WE HAVE...
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| 01:59:06 |
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MESMERIZED. THE NOON BELL FOR DISMISSAL CAME AND THEY ALL SAT THERE FOR 20 MORE MINUTES AND HE KEPT ON READING TO THEM. I WILL NEVER FORGET WHAT A WONDERFUL...
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| 01:59:37 |
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CONSTANTLY. SO, AMONG, THEY WERE SURPRISED TO FIND HIM IN 1938 IN LOS ANGELES SPEAK AT
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| 01:59:47 |
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MANUAL ARTS HIGH SCHOOL. PROBABLY TAKEN THERE BY HIS FRIEND, LAWRENCE MILLER, WHO WAS A PROMINENT PRIN AMERICAN ATTORNEY. >> WE HAVE HEARD THAT THIS IS...
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| 02:00:19 |
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DO HERE IS TO GET YOU INTO LIBRARIES AND GET YOU READING AGAIN AND, IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO OWN SOME OF THESE BOOKS, IN ORDER TO MAKE IT EASY FOR YOU, WE...
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| 02:00:38 |
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RENAISSANCE WRITERS, IT WILL LINK YOU TO A FULL COLLECTION OF ALL THE BOOKS WE ARE TALKING ABOUT TODAY AND MANY OTHER BOOKS WRITTEN BY AND ABOUT OUR...
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| 02:01:19 |
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ARE EXPERIENCING
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| 02:01:21 |
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AN EVEN BROADER RENAISSANCE OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN LIT ARE TOUR AND CULTURE IN THE 1990'S AND, MORE THAN WE DID IN THE 1920'S WITH MANY MORE WRITERS AND...
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| 02:01:36 |
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AUDIENCE FOR THE WORK. I
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| 02:01:38 |
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THINK THAT HARLEM RENAISSANCE WRITERS WOULD BE VERY PROUD OF WHAT'S GOING ON NOW. >> I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE YOU TALK FOR A MIGHT BE MINUTE FROM A HISTORICAL...
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| 02:02:04 |
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HISTORY OF AMERICA, AS WELL? >> WELL IN THE 1920'S, CERTAINLY AN IMPORTANT PERIOD FOR AFRICAN-AMERICANS LIVING ACROSS THE COUNTRY. YOU DID HAVE RENAISSANCES,...
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| 02:02:27 |
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BEEN A GOOD YEAR, RIOTS IN CHICAGO AND ELSEWHERE. BUT BY THE MIDDLE OF THE 1920'S, HAVE YOU A SPIRIT OF IDEALISM, THINK. A BELIEF THAT SOMETHING WAS...
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| 02:03:38 |
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SHE SET OUT TO PRESERVE THE ARTS OF THE PEOPLE BEFORE THEY KNEW THERE WAS SUCH A THING AS ART. SHE DID IT AS A PARTICIPANT OBSERVER AND THERE SHE IS...
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| 02:04:01 |
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A MISSION WITH JANE BARROW, ANOTHER PIONEERING AMERICAN WOMAN ANTHROPOLOGIST. HURSTON'S VISION AND SENSE OF WHAT WAS IMPORTANT REALLY DOES ALSO SET HER...
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| 02:04:54 |
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INTRIGUING WHAT SHE WAS DOING, THAT SHE KNEW THE UNIQUENESS OF CAPTURING
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| 02:05:00 |
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IT IN THE TRUE LANGUAGE OF THE PEOPLE SO THAT IT DIDN'T GET DISTORTED BY INTERPRETATION OF BRINGING IT OUT OF THAT COMMUNITY INTO ANOTHER LANGUAGE....
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| 02:05:36 |
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SWITCHING CHANNELS AND SAW THAT THIS WAS ON.
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| 02:05:39 |
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BUT, REAL QUICKLY, MY HUSBAND HAS GRADUATED FROM THE UNIVERSITY IN 1959 AND I UNDERSTAND THAT A LOT OF LANGSTON HUGHES' WORKS ARE AT LINCOLN. AND I WOULD...
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| 02:06:24 |
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COLLEGES. LANGSTON HUGHES GRADUATED FROM THERE IN 1929 AND LEFT A GOODLY PORTION OF HIS OWN LIBRARY TO
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LINCOLN AND IF YOU GO THERE, YOU
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| 02:06:33 |
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COULD SEE SOME WONDERFUL PIECES OF WORK BY
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| 02:06:36 |
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LANGSTON HUGHES. >> THE MAJORITY OF ZORA NEALE HURSTON'S WORK IS WHERE, CHERYL WALL? >> THINGS ARE SCATTERED. ONE OF THE THINGS HAD A HAPPENED WITH HURSTON...
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| 02:06:58 |
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ARE PRIVILEGED TO HAVE AT THE SCHOMBURG, THAT HANDWRITTEN
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| 02:07:03 |
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MANUSCRIPT OF THE FIRST NOVEL THAT SHE PUBLISHED. AND THERE ARE MANUSCRIPTS AT YALE IN THEIR COLLECTION, AS WELL. >> AND LUCY HURSTON, WHAT ABOUT THOSE...
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| 02:07:34 |
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THAT IS DOUBLEDAY. >> NEXT TELEPHONE CALL IS FROM INDIANAPOLIS. >> >> Caller: GOOD AFTERNOON
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| 02:07:40 |
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TO ALL OF YOU. A QUICK COME MEBT COMMENT
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| 02:07:43 |
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AND THEN A QUESTION. I HEARD ON THE PUBLIC RADIO, STHAG ZORA NEALE
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| 02:07:47 |
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HURSTON WAS DOING IN GOING AROUND TO ALL THE SOUTHERN COUNTRIES AND I SUPPOSE I MAY HAVE SEEN A LITTLE SOMETHING IN THE
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| 02:07:53 |
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CLIP THAT YOU JUST
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| 02:07:54 |
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SHOWED. THE QUESTION IS THERE WAS
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| 02:07:56 |
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SOMETHING I
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| 02:07:57 |
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SAW ON A BULLETIN BOARD IN COLLEGE ONCE THAT SAID
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| 02:08:00 |
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THE LAST SENTENCE WAS, AND I MAY BE PARAPHRASING, THE WORLD IS MY OYSTER. SOMETHING LIKE THAT. AND IT JUST STUCK WITH ME. IN OTHER WORDS, HOW DID SHE...
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| 02:08:52 |
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OYSTER KNIFE. HURSTON REFUSED TO ACCEPT THE VIEW OF AS TRAGIC. SHE SAW IT INSTEAD AS A GREAT TRIUMPH OF THE HUMAN SPIRIT IN THAT NOT ONLY HAD BLACK PEOPLE...
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| 02:09:37 |
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EARNED A GREAT DEAL OF CENSURE IN 1964 WHEN SHE WROTE A
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| 02:09:46 |
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LETTER TO THE "ORLANDO CENTINAL." IN RESPONSE TO THE BROWN DECISION BECAUSE SHE TOOK IT TO IMPLY THAT BLACK CHILDREN COULD ONLY LEARN WHEN THEY WERE...
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| 02:10:27 |
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TWO OTHERS WHO WERE CONSIDERED, LARSON AND JESSE FAWCETT AND SOME OTHER POETS. >> NEXT TOLL PHONE CALL, CALIFORNIA. >> Caller: GOOD AFTERNOON, LADIES,...
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| 02:10:48 |
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BEYOND BELIEF AND I CAN TELL YOU THAT I WAS IN HIGH SCHOOL, I AM A GRADUATE OF LOS ANGELES HIGH SCHOOL, AND IN THOSE DAYS, WE ARE TALKING THE 1960'S...
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| 02:11:01 |
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1970'S, WHERE PEOPLE,
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| 02:11:03 |
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WE USED TO SAY BLACK POWER AND CAR MICHAEL CHARMICHAEL GAVE THAT TO US. I HEARD PEOPLE SAY HE WAS HIRED BY THE C.I.A. AND THIS WAS PROVEN BY LANGSTON...
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| 02:12:14 |
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TOWARD THE BLACK POWER MOVEMENT WAS A LITTLE BIT
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| 02:12:17 |
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MIXED. I MEAN HE WAS IN FAVOR OF BLACK
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| 02:12:19 |
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LIBERATION, OBVIOUSLY, I MEAN, HIS WORK HAD BEEN A MAJOR INFLUENCE ON SO MANY OF THE PROGRESSIVE THINKERS IN THE
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| 02:12:27 |
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BLACK COMMUNITY. BUT I THINK THAT HE WAS, BY THIS TIME, IN HIS MID 60'S OR CLOSING IN ON IT AND I THINK HE HAD BECOME SOMEWHAT MORE SEDATE AND HE BELIEVED...
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| 02:13:28 |
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LIFE, IT BECAME MORE DIFFICULT FOR HER TO BE SUPPORTED AND IT BECAME DIFFICULT FOR HER TO MAKE A LIVING. HER, AT THE TIME
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| 02:13:35 |
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SHE HAD PASSED, MOST OF HER WORK WAS OUT OF PRINT AND BECAUSE OF HER TUMULTUOUS COURT CASE WITHIN THE LAST FIVE TO 10 YEARS OF HER LIFE, SHE FOUND IT...
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| 02:14:13 |
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THE INSTITUTION, IF YOU WILL, WAS NOT GOING TO LET LET
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| 02:14:17 |
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HER DIE, THAT THEY WOULD TAKE CARE OF HER AND THAT THIS IS WHAT SHE WANTED DONE. THIS WAS THE WAY THEY COULD DO SOMETHING FOR HER AFTER SHE WAS GONE....
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| 02:14:48 |
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ODDS, BECAUSE IT WAS IMPORTANT, BECAUSE SHE KNEW IT WAS GOING TO BE READ, BECAUSE SHE KNEW IT WAS GOING TO BE DISCOVERED, EVEN IF IT WAS, YOU KNOW, THIS...
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| 02:14:58 |
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YEAR THE FIRST NEW HURSTON WORK TO COME OUT IN 50 YEARS. SHE KNEW THE IMPORTANCE OF THAT TYPE OF DATA COLLECTION BACK IN THE LATE 1920'S. SO, TO RECOGNIZE...
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| 02:15:40 |
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IS FRED
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| 02:15:42 |
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AND I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW
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| 02:15:45 |
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THE PICTURES IN THE BOOK
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| 02:15:48 |
Caller, -
AND ON THE WALL, WERE THEY TAKEN BY JAMES
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| 02:15:51 |
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VANDERVEEN? >> SPEAKING OF THE PICTURES, ESPECIALLY THE PORTRAITS OVER LUCY HURSTON'S
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| 02:15:58 |
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SHOULDER OF LANGSTON HUGHES AND ZORA NEALE HURSTON. >> I AM NOT SURE. I SAW ONE PORTRAIT THAT I RECOGNIZED HAVING BEEN TAKEN BY CARL VAN VECTAN OF ZORA....
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| 02:16:14 |
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WE STILL HAVE OUR CAMERA THERE, MAYBE WE CAN LOOK AT THOSE AND IF THERE'S A PHOTO CREDIT, WE WILL NAIL THAT DOWN FOR YOU. ST.
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| 02:16:21 |
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LOUIS IS NEXT. >> Caller: YES. I WOULD LIKE TO TALK, I WOULD LIKE FOR CHERYL WALL AND LUCY HURSTON TO COMMENT, IF THEY COULD, ON HOW ALICE WALKER WAS...
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| 02:16:34 |
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NEALE HURSTON. I WAS VERY MOVED BY HER STORY, COLLECTION IN THE MID 1970'S AND SEARCH OF HER MOTHER'S GARDEN AND WAS WONDERING IF
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| 02:16:42 |
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BOTH OF YOU COULD COMMENT ABOUT THAT. >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH. WE SAW SOME VIDEO OF ZORA NEALE HURSTON'S GRAVE. IT WAS ALICE WALKER RESPONSIBLE FOR THE...
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| 02:17:04 |
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FOOTNOTE. SHE WAS WRITING A SHORT STORY THAT HAD A REFERENCE TO WHO
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| 02:17:12 |
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VOODOO, A SPIRITUAL PRACTICE POPULAR AMONG SOME AFRICAN-AMERICANS DURING THE 1920'S AND 1930'S AND BEFORE. IN THIS FOOTNOTE, SHE FOUND THE NAME ZORA...
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| 02:17:55 |
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AND I THINK HE PICKED UP SOME DEGREE OF RADICAL SOCIALISM FROM THEM. I THINK HE KEPT THAT TO THE END OF HIS LIFE. BUT IN THE 1930'S IN PARTICULAR,
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| 02:18:03 |
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THE EARLY 1930'S, HE BECAME AN EXTRORD NAR EXTRORD NARLY RADICAL POET. THERE'S ONE "PUT ONE MORE S IN THE U.S.A.." BUT HE WITHDREW FROM THAT POSITION...
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| 02:19:09 |
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EITHER OF THESE WRITERS.
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| 02:19:10 |
Caller, -
AND THEN SOME OF YOUR COMMENTS, I GATHER THAT NEITHER WRITER HAD A VERY MAJOR EFFECT ON THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT. SHOULD WE COME AWAY FROM THIS WITH...
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| 02:19:42 |
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CAMPUS? >> YES. AND VISITING WITH JESSE FAWCETT, AND THAT FAMOUS STATUE ON THE
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| 02:19:50 |
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TUSKEEGEE CAMPUS, I BELIEVE THAT'S THE PLACE, WHERE I THINK A VEIL IS BEING SYMBOLICALLY LIFTED FROM THE FACE
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| 02:19:57 |
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OF A SLAVE.
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| 02:20:00 |
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LANGSTON ADMIRED BOOKER T. WASHINGTON.
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| 02:20:03 |
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HE WROTE A POEM ABOUT HIM THAT I THINK IT WAS WELL-RECEIVED AT THE SCHOOL. DUBOIS SAID AS THE SOULS OF BLACK FOLK HAD AN EFFECT ON HIM FROM CHILDHOOD....
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| 02:20:50 |
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AND BESS. BUT I AM NOT AWARE
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| 02:20:53 |
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THAT THESE AUTHORS OR ANY AUTHORS IN THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE USED DRUGS
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| 02:20:57 |
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AND I KNOW THAT LANGSTON HUGHES CERTAINLY LIVING IN HARLEM IN THE LATE 1940'S AND 1950'S AND 1960'S, I MEAN HE SAW WHAT DRUGS WERE DOING TO THE COMMUNITY...
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| 02:21:29 |
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CALLER'S LAST QUESTION WAS SHOULD WE TAKE AWAY FROM THIS DISCUSSION THAT NEITHER HAD A GREAT
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| 02:21:34 |
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INFLUENCE ON THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT? >> I THINK IT'S FAIR TO SAY THAT HURSTON DOES NOT, THOUGH, IN AN INTERESTING WAY, I THINK THAT THE CIVIL RIGHTS...
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| 02:21:46 |
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THAT HAVE ALLOWED
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| 02:21:47 |
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US TO RECLAIM ZORA NEALE
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| 02:21:49 |
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HURSTON AS A WRITER OF THE AMERICAN SOUTH. >> I THINK HE WAS A MAJOR IMPACT ON THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT. HE WORKED HARD
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| 02:21:57 |
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TO PUT BEFORE THE PUBLIC AND BEFORE AFRICAN-AMERICANS THE NEED FOR BLACKS TO ACQUIRE MORE CIVIL RIGHTS, THEIR FULL SET OF RIGHTS UNDER THE AMERICAN CONSTITUTION....
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| 02:22:15 |
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IN PART OUT OF HIS OWN WORK ON THE DREAM. HUGHES PUBLISHED A VOLUME CALLED "THE DREAMKEEPER." THE DREAM IS A PROMINENT MOTIF IN HIS WORK. WOULD I SAY...
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| 02:22:56 |
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ROLLICK AND I AM A NEW YORKER BORN AND RAISED AND
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| 02:23:00 |
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I WENT TO A SCHOOL BY THE NAME OF P.S. 89 WHICH IS RIGHT ACROSS FROM THE STROM STROM
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| 02:23:11 |
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| 02:23:13 |
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SCHOMBURG. THAT AREA IS A VERY, VERY HISTORIC AREA. HOWEVER, I WOULD LIKE TO SAY THAT LANGSTON HUGHES GAVE A GOOD IMPRESSION ON MY LIFE BECAUSE WE READ...
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| 02:24:58 |
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AND WHO SHOULD WHACK UP BUT, IT WAS HIS SECOND DAY IN NEW YORK CITY, RALPH ELLISON. HE REMAINED NOT A HARLEM RESIDENT EXACTLY, BUT CERTAINLY
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| 02:25:07 |
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HE LIVED CLOSE BY FOR THE REST OF HIS LIFE. >> WE ARE GOING TO LISTEN TO ZORA NEALE HURSTON ONCE AGAIN AND THIS IS HER TALKING ABOUT HERSELF. >> SOMETIMES...
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| 02:25:30 |
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BEEN ABLE TO MAKE ME AS UNHAPPY AS I HAVE BEEN ABLE TO MAKE MYSELF. >> ARE THEY SAYING HARSH THINGS
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| 02:25:38 |
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ABOUT YOU. >> YES. WHEN YOU GET ALL BY YOURSELF AND THE QUIET OF THE NIGHT WHEN YOU REALLY THINK YOURSELF TO PIECES, YOU CAN BE QUITE UNHAPPY SOMETIMES....
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| 02:25:57 |
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THEY ARE TRUE, THEN IT HURTS. WHEN I SAY
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| 02:25:59 |
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IT TO MYSELF THAT IT'S INESCAPABLE. WHEN I KNOW THERE'S NOBODY TO BLAME BUT ME, THEN IT HURTS WORSE THAN ANYTHING ELSE WHEN I KNOW THAT. >> OF COURSE...
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| 02:26:07 |
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DOES. >> THEN IT HURTS TERRIBLY. >>
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| 02:26:12 |
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ZORA NEALE HURSTON TALKING ABOUT HERSELF IN A RADIO INTERVIEW IN 1943. SHE DIED WHEN? >> 1960. JANUARY, 1960. >> AT WHAT AGE? >> WELL,
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| 02:26:27 |
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THAT'S AN INTERESTING THING. SHE WAS
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| 02:26:29 |
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ACTUALLY BORN IN 1891, THOUGH SHE HAD CONVINCED MOST PEOPLE THAT SHE WAS AT LEAST 10 YEARS YOUNGER THAN THAT. >> AND LANGSTON HUGHES DIED IN
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| 02:26:39 |
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1967? >> 1967. >> AT WHAT AGE? >>65. >> AND WROTE FOR HOW MANY
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| 02:26:44 |
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YEARS? >> FROM 1921 ON,
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| 02:26:46 |
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WOULD I
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| 02:26:47 |
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SAY. SO 46 YEARS OR SO OF WRITING, YES. >> WE HAVE TIME FOR TWO FINAL CALLS. THE NEXT ONE IS FROM VISTA, CALIFORNIA. >> Caller: HI. I WOULD
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| 02:26:58 |
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LIKE TO ASK A
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| 02:26:59 |
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QUESTION
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| 02:27:00 |
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ON WHY ZORA NEALE HURSTON'S GENIUS WASN'T MORE RECOGNIZED WITHIN THE BLACK COMMUNITY
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| 02:27:04 |
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IN THE TIME. WAS IT BECAUSE SHE PORTRAYED
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| 02:27:07 |
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SOME WHITES POSITIVELY? OR WAS IT BECAUSE SHE QUESTIONED
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| 02:27:11 |
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THE BLACK PATERNAL ORDER OF SOCIETY? >> WELL, I THINK THAT PART OF IT HAS TO DO WITH HER
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| 02:27:17 |
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TIMING. ONE WAS PUBLISHED IN 1927 WHICH CH WAS DURING THE DEPTHS OF THE DEPRESSION. SHE WAS A VERY PROLIFIC WRITER. SHE HAD PUBLISHED SIX BOOKS, BUT...
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| 02:27:36 |
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DURING THE TIME WHEN LITERATURE AND ART WERE NOT AT THE TOP OF THE BLACK COMMUNITY'S AGENDA. >> AND THE LAST CALL FROM STONE MOUNTAIN, GEORGIA. >> Caller:...
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| 02:28:03 |
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STRUGGLE AS OPPOSED TO
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| 02:28:05 |
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THE RURAL BACKGROUND. AND I WAS WONDERING IF MR. RAMPERSAD, IF HE COULD DISCUSS SRI LANGSTON HUGHES RELATIONSHIP WITH SUCCEEDING WRITERS. WAS IT CON...
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| 02:28:42 |
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HE CERTAINLY TRIED TO HELP AND HELPED PEOPLE LIKE RALPH ELLISON
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| 02:28:48 |
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ELLISON. HE WAS HELPFUL TO RICHARD WRIGHT. JAMES BALDWIN, WELL, HE DID NOT HAVE SUCH A GOOD RELATIONSHIP WITH JAMES BALDWIN. IN FACT, BALDWIN GAVE HIM...
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| 02:29:53 |
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DODSON AND INCLUDING ROBBER AT THAT YANCEY,
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| 02:29:57 |
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JAMES MURRAY AND THE OTHERS HERE WHO HELPED US. THANKS TO VICTORIA SANDERS, THE APOLLO THEATER, IT JUST REOPENED AROUND THE CORNER AND TO THE FOLKS...
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| 02:30:47 |
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STUDY TODAY ITS PLACE IN AMERICAN HISTORY AS WHAT? >> WELL, IT PRODUCED A NUMBER OF WRITERS AND OTHER ARTISTS AND MUSICIANS WHO I BELIEVE LAID THE FOUNDATION...
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| 02:31:06 |
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COMPLEXITY. A COMMENTARY,
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| 02:31:12 |
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THE CORE OF THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN LURE LORE CONTRIBUTION HAS ITS FOUNDATION IN THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE. >> CHERYL WALL IS BASED AT RUTGERS, SHE RUNS THE...
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| 02:31:41 |
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BEING HERE. ARNOLD RAMPERSAD IS OUT WEST AT STANFORD UNIVERSITY. WE THANK HIM FOR MAKING THE TRIP TO THE EAST COAST TO TELL US MORE ABOUT HIS STUDY...
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| 02:32:14 |
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TWO FEET AND
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| 02:32:15 |
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OWN THE LAND. I TIRE SO OF HEARING PEOPLE SAY LET THINGS TAKE THEIR COURSE. TOMORROW
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| 02:32:25 |
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IS ANOTHER DAY. I DO NOT NEED MY FREEDOM WHEN I AM DEAD. I CANNOT LIVE ON TOMORROW'S BREAD. FREEDOM IS A STRONG SEED PLANTED IN A GREAT NEED. I LIVE...
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