“My mind ain’t sprightly like it used to be and heaps of things what went on when I was young, I forget and heaps of them what I want to forget, I can’t.”
Calline Brown
from the WPA ex-slave narratives, Coahoma County, MS in the collection of Archie Givens Sr. Collection of African American Literature and Life
Meet Davu Underwood Seru, Curator of the Archie Givens Sr. Collection of African American Literature and Life. at the University of Minnesota. The Collection includes novels, poetry, plays, short stories, essays, literary criticism, periodicals, and biographies that span nearly 250 years of American culture.
In this episode of Black Market Reads, we launch our 8th Season and Lissa talks with Davu Underwood Seru.
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Transcript of Calline Brown’s narrative: From the WPA ex-slave narratives, Coahoma County, MS in the collection of Archie Givens Sr. Collection of African American Literature and Life
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From a meeting of the original Patrons Council of Leaders at Andersen Library including:
Professor John S. Wright with Claudia Wallace Gardner, Stephen and Sharon Belton, Nathaniel and Victoria Davis, Fred and Earline Estes, Richard and April Estes, Fred and Tony Green, Beckwith and Gwendolyn Horton, Delbert and Marjorie Johnson, William and Faye Johnson, Ezell and Kim Jones, Cornell and Wendell Moore, William and Alice Stubblefield, the Givens family, Phoebe Mae Givens, Roxanne Givens, Archie Givens, Jr., Photo credit: Edie French, iDream.tv
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