Anacostia Community Museum Archives

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

Summary

Collection ID:
ACMA.09-013
Creators:
Anacostia Community Museum
Dates:
November 12-13, 2010
Languages:
English
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Physical Description:
0.15 Linear feet
1 box; 9 miniDV video recordings; 1 CD-R sound recordings
Repository:

Scope and Contents note

Scope and Contents note
Connecting the Worlds of the African Diaspora: The Living Legacy of Lorenzo Dow Turner was a symposium held at the Anacostia Community Museum November 12-13, 2010. The keynote speaker was Emory Shaw Campbell, and other participants included Alcione M. Amos, Herb Frazier, Thomas B. Klein, Livio Sansone, and Kevin A. Yalvington. The symposium was held in association with the Word, Shout, Song exhibition, which documented the historical journey made by people from Africa, their language, and their music, to the Americas. Through words, music, and story, Lorenzo Dow Turner discovered in the 1930s that the Gullah people of Georgia and South Carolina still possessed parts of the culture and language of their enslaved ancestors, which had long been believed lost. The exhibit was on view at the Anacostia Community Museum from August 9, 2010 to July 24, 2011, during which time the Lorenzo Dow Turner Symposium was held at the museum. This collection contains video and audio recordings documenting the exhibit-related symposium.

Administration

Author
ACMA staff

Using the Collection

Conditions Governing Access note
Use of the materials requires an appointment. Some items are not accessible due to obsolete format and playback machinery restrictions. Please contact the archivist at acmarchives@si.edu.
Preferred Citation note
Connecting the Worlds of the African Diaspora: The Living Legacy of Lorenzo Dow Turner
symposium audiovisual records, Anacostia Community Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Related Archival Materials note
Anacostia Community Museum. Word, Shout, Song: Lorenzo Dow Turner, Connecting Communities Through Language.

Keywords

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Keyword Terms Keyword Types
Museum exhibits Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
African languages -- Study and teaching -- United States Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Sea Islands Creole dialect Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Linguistics -- Research -- United States Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Sound recordings Genre Form Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
African Americans Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Georgia -- Languages Geographic Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
South Carolina -- Languages Geographic Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Video recordings Genre Form Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Turner, Lorenzo Dow, 1890-1972 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Anacostia Community Museum Corporate Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
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