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Audio Recording Interview with Judy McLaughlin and Holly Highfill at Southern Culture Exchange Center, Chicago, Illinois, part 2

Interview with Judy McLaughlin and Holly Highfill at Southern Culture Exchange Center, Chicago, Illinois, part 2

About this Item

Title

  • Interview with Judy McLaughlin and Holly Highfill at Southern Culture Exchange Center, Chicago, Illinois, part 2

Names

  • Browning, Rebecca (Collector)
  • Fleischhauer, Carl (Collector)
  • McLaughlin, Judy (Interviewee)
  • Highfill, Holly (Interviewee)

Created / Published

  • Chicago, Illinois, April 15, 1977

Headings

  • -  Southerners (United States)
  • -  Ethnography
  • -  Interviews
  • -  Illinois -- Chicago

Genre

  • Ethnography
  • Interviews

Notes

  • -  Highfill & McLaughlin, part 1
  • -  Part 2 of a 3-part interview with Holly Highfill and Judy McLaughlin at the Southern Culture Exchange Center of Columbia College, 954 W. Montrose Ave.; Holly Highfill on churches, about a fundamentalist preacher comes with bus and takes kids to Hammond IN all day Sunday; then about Highfill’s work, concerning murals, coal mining mural at a college here; mention of several murals that Highfill has created, with helpers, about creating murals; about alternate schools to high schools for some children; about art and schools; McLaughlin joins the conversation; about the history of the Center, four years old, started by groups that wanted a place to meet, desire to support sense of community, most who come are not college educated; one involved person was a son of political activist Peggy Terry; there was a feeling that people could be brought together via art and other activities; Center conducted a survey of children; about quilting; about how some whose parents came from the South want to learn traditional arts; Louise Heymann teaches quilting; Ada Sparks was a writer and is a quilter; Kenneth Johnson is a sculptor (figurines) from Logan WV.

Medium

  • audiocassette, C-60

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Call number: AFC 1981/004: AFS 20775a
  • MBRS Shelflist: RYA 0779
  • Field Project Identifier: CH77-T251-C

Source Collection

  • Chicago Ethnic Arts Project collection (AFC 1981/004)

Repository

  • American Folklife Center

Digital Id

Online Format

  • audio

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Credit line: Chicago Ethnic Arts Project collection (AFC 1981/004), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

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Chicago citation style:

Browning, Rebecca, Carl Fleischhauer, Judy McLaughlin, and Holly Highfill. Interview with Judy McLaughlin and Holly Highfill at Southern Culture Exchange Center, Chicago, Illinois, part 2. Chicago, Illinois, 1977. Audio. https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1981004_afs20775a/.

APA citation style:

Browning, R., Fleischhauer, C., McLaughlin, J. & Highfill, H. (1977) Interview with Judy McLaughlin and Holly Highfill at Southern Culture Exchange Center, Chicago, Illinois, part 2. Chicago, Illinois. [Audio] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1981004_afs20775a/.

MLA citation style:

Browning, Rebecca, et al. Interview with Judy McLaughlin and Holly Highfill at Southern Culture Exchange Center, Chicago, Illinois, part 2. Chicago, Illinois, 1977. Audio. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/afc1981004_afs20775a/>.