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    Chang Yu-Chen Chinese opera video collection Catalog Record Only Chang Yu-Chen's collection includes 757 videorecordings of Peking opera, kunqu theater, some regional and provincial opera, and related performances of competitions, commemorative performances, children's Peking opera, and motion pictures and television shows featuring Peking opera. Included are copies of footage of performances by Mei Lanfang (1894-1961), his son Mei Baojiu, and many other professional artists. In addition to the videocassettes from China, Taiwan, and...
    • Contributor: Chang, Yu-Chen
    • Date: 1975
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    Fay Vincent Oral History Project collection Catalog Record Only Collection of 66 video recordings of 36 oral histories conducted by Fay Vincent and others with retired professional baseball players, and other people associated with the game, including interviews with former players in the Negro League. Interviewees include: Eldon Auker, Yogi Berra, Joe Black, Ralph Branca, Lou Burdette, Dom DiMaggio, Larry Doby, Carl Erskine, Bob Feller, Whitey Ford; Harold Gould, Mahlon Duckett, Bill Cash...
    • Contributor: National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum - Fay Vincent Oral History Project - Vincent, Fay
    • Date: 2000
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    Pete and Toshi Seeger interview
    Pete Seeger interview | Toshi Seeger interview Catalog Record Only
    Interview with Pete Seeger and his wife, Toshi Seeger, regarding the films that they made for instruction and during their travels in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and North America from 1955 to 1965. Their film collection, consisting of more than 400 reels, is in the Archive of Folk Culture, Library of Congress. The Seegers were interviewed about their collection by Peggy A. Bulger, director...
    • Contributor: Bulger, Peggy A. - Harvey, Todd - Seeger, Pete - Seeger, Toshi - Library of Congress. Recording Laboratory - American Folklife Center
    • Date: 2006
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    Danny Bakan concert collection Catalog Record Only Danny Bakan is a Canadian singer-songwriter who performed original and a few traditional songs for a lunchtime "brown bag" meeting for the American Folklife Center on August 16, 2005. Collection includes promotional flyers and postcard about Danny Bakan.
    • Contributor: Bakan, Danny - American Folklife Center - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 2005
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    Rik Palieri collection Catalog Record Only Interviews, field recordings, studio recordings and broadcasts made by Rik Palieri for The Songwriter's Notebook (1999-2003?) and other productions featurning folksingers, blues musicians, singer songwriters, and other performers; musical instrument makers; and documentation of folk festivals in the United States. A few performers are Scots and Germans.
    • Contributor: Palieri, Rik - Vermont Community Access Media
    • Date: 1997
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    John F. Turner video of Howard Finster Catalog Record Only Video recording of Howard Finster's one-man show at the Braunstein Gallery in San Francisco, California, and Finster's visit to John F. Turner's home in Berkeley, California, in April 1981. Includes Finster's religious and artistic philosophy and musical performances.
    • Contributor: Finster, Howard - Turner, J. F. (John F.)
    • Date: 1981
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    Alan Lomax interview and news broadcast, Catalog Record Only United States Information Agency (USIA) Television and Film Service news segment, July 15, 1986, about Alan Lomax's receipt of the National Medal of Arts from President Ronald Regan. It includes an interview with Alan Lomax and footage shot at the Library of Congress, where Alan Lomax was assistant-in-charge of the Archive of American Folk Song from 1937-1942.
    • Contributor: United States Information Agency - Lomax, Alan
    • Date: 1986
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    Mosaic the American ethnic experience ; programs 1-4
    Mosaic - the American ethnic experience | American ethnic experience Catalog Record Only
    Explores the dimension of ethnicity in American society, with emphasis on Americans of Eastern and Southern European descent. Covers topics of ethnic history, social identity, family ties to ethnic communities. "Ethnic communitites" profiles Baltimore, Maryland as a city of ethnic neighborhoods. Shows that ethnicity persists in the suburbs by means of civic, religious and social organizations and family influence.
    • Contributor: Gayeski, Diane M. (Diane Mary) - University of Maryland at College Park. Educational Technology Center - Jurewicz, Edward J.
    • Date: 1979
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    Thurlow Lieurance and American Indian music Catalog Record Only Documentary about Thurlow Lieurance and his involvement with American Indian music. Includes performances of selected Lieurance compositions and arrangements. Seven American Indian songs performed by various musicians and four melodies played on flute by Betty Hensley, based on recordings made at various locations by Thurlow Lieruance, 1911-1926. Includes documentation of American Indian hoop dancing of Tony McCabe, Navaho; a narrative, paintings, and photographs.
    • Contributor: Wichita State University. Library/Media Resources Center - Hurst, Fred - Welsbacher, Richard - Holman, Carol - Lieurance, Thurlow, Jr - Thurlow Lieurance Memorial Committee
    • Date: 1979
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    Tracy Sugarman oral history interview Catalog Record Only Tracy Sugarman was interviewed about his involvement in the civil rights movement when, as an illustrator and journalist, he traveled to the Mississippi Delta and participated in voter registration for African Americans during Mississippi Freedom Summer in 1964.
    • Contributor: Sugarman, Tracy - Library of Congress. Recording Laboratory - Nelson, Josephus - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - American Folklife Center
    • Date: 2009
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    Joe Wilson oral history interview Catalog Record Only Interview with Joe Wilson, who served as the Executive Director and Chairman of the National Council for the Traditional Arts (NCTA) from 1976 until his retirement. Founded in 1933, the NCTA is a private, not-for-profit corporation dedicated to the presentation and documentation of folk and traditional arts in the United States. Interview conducted by Jon Lohman, director of the Virginia Folklife Program.
    • Contributor: Wilson, Joe - Lohman, Jon
    • Date: 2005
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    Dáithí Sproule interview, Catalog Record Only Oral history interview with Irish musician Dáithí Sproule, a guitarist, singer, and song writer, who was born and raised in Derry, Ireland. He was a founding member of the band Skara Brae and a member of Altan and lives in Minnesota. Interview conducted by Stephen D. Winick on May 22, 2007, in advance of Sproule's performance the following day at the Library of Congress...
    • Contributor: Winick, Stephen D. - Sproule, Dáithi - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 2007
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    Nut Hill Productions collection Catalog Record Only Collection of more than 300 hours of video oral history interviews with various performers and participants in the folk song revival in the United States and England originally recorded by Nut Hill Productions as "Word of Mouth: the Journey of American Folk Music," a part of a multi-part series for WETA television titled, "The Music of America: History Through Musical Traditions," which was not...
    • Contributor: Nut Hill Productions
    • Date: 2003
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    Flory Jagoda oral history interview conducted by Howard Bass,
    Oral history with traditional artist Flory Jagoda
    Flory Jagoda tells her life story. Born in Sarajevo, she discusses her upbringing in Bosnia, keeping her family's Jewish traditions in Ladino while speaking Serbo-Croatian in school, remembering the culture of the Sephardim in the Balkans, her family, her grandmother; Jews escaping Bosnia and the Germans during World War II; her life as a refugee on the island of Korčula and in Bari, Italy;...
    • Contributor: Jagoda, Flory - Bass, Howard - American Folklife Center
    • Date: 2013-01-01
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    Robert L. Carter oral history interview conducted by Patricia Sullivan in New York, New York, 2010 October 23 Robert L. Carter recalls growing up in Newark, New Jersey, and attending Lincoln University, Howard University Law School, and Columbia University. He discusses hearing Marian Anderson sing at the Lincoln Memorial and his service in the segregated army during World War II. He recounts his career as a lawyer with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, including the Brown v. Board of Education case and...
    • Contributor: Sullivan, Patricia - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Carter, Robert L.
    • Date: 2010-01-01

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    Mildred Bond Roxborough oral history interview conducted by Julian Bond in New York, New York, 2010 October 29 Roxborough discusses how she became active in the Civil Rights Movement at the age of nine, when she sold subscriptions to the NAACP The Crisis magazine. Roxborough began working with the NAACP as a fieldworker and worked in a variety of administrative positions including as director of development.
    • Contributor: Bond, Julian - Roxborough, Mildred Bond - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)
    • Date: 2010-01-01

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    Myrtle Gonza Glascoe oral history interview conducted by Dwandalyn Reece in Capitol Heights, Maryland, 2010 November 17 Myrtle Gonza Glascoe recalls growing up in Washington, D.C., attending Howard University and the University of Pennsylvania, and her early career in education and social work. She remembers joining the Baltimore Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), moving to California, and her work as a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) Field Secretary in West Point, Mississippi and Phillips County, Arkansas, where she worked closely with...
    • Contributor: Glascoe, Myrtle Gonza - Reece, Dwandalyn R. - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)
    • Date: 2010-01-01

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    Gertrude Newsome Jackson oral history interview conducted by LaFleur Paysour in Marvell, Arkansas, 2010 November 22 Gertrude Jackson recalls growing up in Madison, Illinois, and Marvell, Arkansas. She recalls organizing her community to renovate a local segregated school and becoming involved in the civil rights movement in rural Arkansas. She discusses assisting Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) fieldworkers Howard Himmelbaum and Myrtle Glascoe, working for Head Start, and starting a community center. Jackson's grandson is also interviewed.
    • Contributor: Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Jackson, Gertrude Newsome - Paysour, Lafleur
    • Date: 2010-01-01

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    Lawrence Guyot oral history interview conducted by Julian Bond in Washington, D.C., 2010 December 30 Lawrence Guyot recalls growing up in Pass Christian, Mississippi, and the influence of his family, and attending Tougaloo College. He remembers meeting members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), joining the organization, and participating in Freedom Summer. He discusses his opinions and memories of Mississippi politics, the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, and his later life in Washington, D. C.
    • Contributor: Bond, Julian - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Guyot, Lawrence
    • Date: 2010-01-01

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    C. T. Vivian oral history interview conducted by Taylor Branch in Atlanta, Georgia, 2011 March 29 C. T. Vivian recalls growing up in Macomb, Illinois, working in Peoria, Illinois, and his call to the ministry. He discusses attending the American Baptist Theological Seminary in Nashville, Tennessee, where he met other civil rights activists and participated in demonstrations. He remembers planning the Freedom Rides, his imprisonment at Parchman Prison, the Children's Crusade in Birmingham, Alabama, and working for the Southern Christian...
    • Contributor: Vivian, C. T. - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Branch, Taylor
    • Date: 2011-01-01

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    Ruby Nell Sales oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Atlanta, Georgia, 2011 April 25 Ruby Sales discusses her father's military career, growing up in Columbus, Georgia, and attending the Tuskegee Institute. She recalls joining the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the Selma to Montgomery March, registering voters in Lowndes County, Alabama, and her arrest in Hayneville, Alabama. She remembers the murder of Jonathan Daniels, a seminary student who saved her life, and discusses her opinions on African American...
    • Contributor: Mosnier, Joseph - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Sales, Ruby
    • Date: 2011-01-01

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    Doris Adelaide Derby oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Atlanta, Georgia, 2011 April 26 Doris Derby discusses her childhood in the Bronx, joining a National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) youth group, and attending Hunter College. She recalls her work in African art and dance, and traveling to Albany, Georgia, to join the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) with voter registration. She remembers teaching adult literacy in Mississippi with SNCC, starting the Free Southern Theater,...
    • Contributor: Derby, Doris Adelaide - Mosnier, Joseph - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)
    • Date: 2011-01-01

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    Jamila Jones oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Atlanta, Georgia, 2011 April 27 Jamila Jones recalls participating in the Montgomery Bus Boycott as a child and forming a singing group at age 11, the Montgomery Gospel Trio, to raise money for the Civil Rights Movement. She recalls helping the Freedom Riders, visiting the Highlander Folk Center, writing a new verse of the song "We Shall Overcome," and founding the Harambee Singers.
    • Contributor: Jones, Jamila - Mosnier, Joseph - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)
    • Date: 2011-01-01

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    Simeon Wright oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Chicago, Illinois, 2011 May 23 Simeon Wright discusses his cousin, Emmett Till, and his attempts to correct the historical record concerning Till's murder. He recalls Till's visit to his home in Mississippi, going to Bryant's store, and the night that Till was kidnapped. He remembers the trial, moving to Chicago, and how the murder and publicity affected his family.
    • Contributor: Wright, Simeon - Mosnier, Joseph - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)
    • Date: 2011-01-01

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    Wheeler Parker oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Chicago, Illinois, 2011 May 23 Wheeler Parker, Jr., discusses his visit to Mississippi with his cousin, Emmett Till. He recalls the incident at Bryant's store and the night that Till was kidnapped, and Till's funeral in Chicago. He remembers how the murder and publicity affected his family, the reopening of the case in 2004, and efforts to memorialize Till.
    • Contributor: Parker, Wheeler - Mosnier, Joseph - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)
    • Date: 2011-01-01

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