she is the henry rogers professor of african american studies and greed of writing at rutgers university new york and a contributing critic at large for the new york times. and like some of you, i have received a very special gift come the expense of being her student. she said dear mentor and beloved friend now nearly for two decades. i am beyond proud and grateful to say a few words to mark this special occasion. i first met salamishah winners just out of college and she was in the process of finishing her dissertation. it is fitting we spent much of our early time getting to know each other in a library on the second floor. at the time i didn t yet know how libraries and books have helped shape her journey. i found that out later, that when she was just out of college and at the same life juncture i was that when we met, she worked at the free library of philadelphia with her sister and with her now partner, , solomon. so this event tonight at the free library of philade
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 african-american 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 african-american women heroes throughout hi
what period of time are you talking about here? prof. stewart: it s entertainment because it focuses interesting because it focuses on a project that came out of the 1930 s and specifically out of the roosevelt administration s 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 1930 s that they created the federal writers project and decided to start collecting testimony. the 1930 s with the last opportunity to collect oral histories of the last generation of african-americans that experienced slavery firsthand before they passed away. they have created through that project, it only lasted a few ears, 1936-1939. 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 ha
long past slavery, what period of time are you talking about here? prof. stewart: it s very interesting because it focuses on a project that came out of the 1930 s and specifically out of the roosevelt administration s 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 1930 s that they created the federal writers project and decided to start collecting testimony. so, it was kind of the 1930 s was the last opportunity to collect oral histories of the last generation of african-americans that experienced slavery firsthand before they passed away. so, they have created through that project, it only lasted a ew years, 1936-1939. 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 who s i
on a project that came out of the 1930 s and specifically out of the roosevelt administration s attempt to do something to create work for all different types of occupations. they created a number of arts projects to put unemployed writers and artists back to work. it happened in the 1930 s that they created the federal writers project and decided to start collecting testimony. the 1930 s with the last opportunity to collect oral histories of the last generation of african-americans that experienced slavery firsthand before they passed away. they have created through that project, it only lasted a few years, 1936-1939. it 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. anyone interested can use those, and scholars have used them to dramatically transform the way they write about the history of slavery and emancipation and reconsider that. my boo