Arianna we are very excited about the authors who will be speaking here. Started, please silence your cell phones. We are filming and recording today and we prefer not to have any interruptions. We sure to use a microphone at the end of the event to ask questions. If you have not purchased a book and would like to do so, they are available at the register. After the event is over, there will be a signing line to the right of this table here. If you have been here before, you know we ask everyone to fold up their chairs after the event. Here with us tonight is dr. Damaris hill. Dr. Hill is an accomplished explores the work digital humanities. She has written the fluid boundaries of suffrage and jim crow. Dr. Hill is an assistant professor of africanamerican studies at the university of kentucky but she is here to talk to us about her most recent work , a bound woman is a dangerous thing. Dr. Hill honors the lives and suffering of africanamerican women heroes throughout history while pro
Festival is a day to set aside to commemorate the descendents of the clotilda. There were festivals that started back in the 1980s from the original founders of the descendents association, and i guess it stopped for a while, so i decided to start it up again. And i was reading the book, the flagship clotilda and the makers of africatown. That is how i came up with the title. I was looking for a title, but you know, a lot of things were not ringing a bell. When i was reading her book, i was like, state of our ancestors just jumped at me. You greeted everyone and there was a point where you had descendents speak. How did you come up with your program . Well, growing up here in africatown and attending the Union Missionary baptist church, there was a bust of cudjoe lewis in front of our church all of my life. Back in 2002, that bust was destroyed by some kids acting up, and they decided to vandalize, and later, they put up a Historical Marker, and this Historical Marker had the founders
Parts of the spirits of our ancestors festival. We spoke with organizer Joycelynn Davis. The spirit of our ancestors festival is a day to set aside to commemorate the descendents of the clotilda. Various festivals that started back in the 1980s from the original founders of the descendents association, and i guess it stopped for a while, so i decided to start it up again. And i was reading the book, the flagship clotilda and the makers of africatown. That is how i came up with the title. I was looking for a title, but you know, a lot of things were not ringing a bell. When i was reading her book, i was like, spirit of our ancestors just jumped at me. You greeted everyone and there was a point where you had descendents speak. How did you come up with your program . Well, growing up here in africatown and attending the missionary baptist church, there was a bust of cudjoe lewis in front of our church all of my life, and back in 2002, that bust was destroyed by some kids acting up, and th
What period of time are you talking about here . Prof. Stewart its entertainment because it focuses interesting because it focuses on a project that came out of the 1930s and specifically out of the roosevelt administrations attempt to do something to create work for all different types of occupations. It created a number of Arts Projects to put unemployed writers and artists back to work. It happened in the 1930s that they created the federal writers project and decided to start collecting testimony. The 1930s with the last opportunity to collect oral histories of the last generation of africanamericans that experienced slavery firsthand before they passed away. They have created through that project, it only lasted a few ears, 19361939. It created the latest repository of this testimony that we have in the u. S. , winding up with over 2300 interviews that are largely Available Online at the library of congress website. Anyone interested can use those, and scholars have used them to d
Long past slavery, what period of time are you talking about here . Prof. Stewart its very interesting because it focuses on a project that came out of the 1930s and specifically out of the roosevelt administrations attempt to do something to create work for all different types of occupations. It created a number of Arts Projects to put unemployed writers and artists back to work. And so it happened in the 1930s that they created the federal writers project and decided to start collecting testimony. So, it was kind of the 1930s was the last opportunity to collect oral histories of the last generation of africanamericans that experienced slavery firsthand before they passed away. So, they have created through that project, it only lasted a ew years, 19361939. That project crated the largest repository of this testimony that we have in the u. S. , winding up with over 2300 interviews that are largely Available Online at the library of congress website. So, anyone whos interested can go a