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Go to Nikki Giovanni speech and poetry reading, Black Cultural Center, Penn State University, April 6, 1973 with duration: 55 minutes, 0 seconds

Nikki Giovanni speech and poetry reading, Black Cultural Center, Penn State University, April 6, 1973

Created by Kevin Clair

Nikki Giovanni spoke and read her poetry in the Walnut Building on the Penn State campus on Friday, April 6, 1973. She spoke about the relevance of fraterniti

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Go to It's Our Thing! Black Arts Festival with duration: 58 minutes, 30 seconds

It's Our Thing! Black Arts Festival

Created by Kevin Clair

Members of the Penn State Black Student Union organized a Black Arts Festival in May of 1969. The purpose of the festival was to educate whites about Black

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Go to Still I Rise : a portrait of African American women at Penn State with duration: 22 minutes, 21 seconds

Still I Rise : a portrait of African American women at Penn State

Created by gwyn johns

Still I Rise : a portrait of African American women at Penn State, Pennsylvania State University, Office of the Vice President for Student Affairs records (01379)

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Go to Race and Penn State (2001 April 30) with duration: 1 hour, 12 minutes

Race and Penn State (2001 April 30)

Created by gwyn johns

featuring Pennsylvania State Representatives, LeAnna M. Washington (Philadelphia) and John Myers (Philadelphia)

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Go to Afro-American Art and the Contemporary Scene (part two) with duration: 11 minutes, 30 seconds

Afro-American Art and the Contemporary Scene (part two)

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Since the Harlem Renaissance : 50 years of Afro-American art symposium (University Park, Pa.) (1985 October 5)

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Go to The Harlem Renaissance (part two) with duration: 33 minutes, 40 seconds

The Harlem Renaissance (part two)

Created by gwyn johns

Since the Harlem Renaissance : 50 years of Afro-American art symposium (University Park, Pa.) (1985 October 5)

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Go to Afro-American Art of the 1960s (part one) with duration: 1 hour, 3 minutes

Afro-American Art of the 1960s (part one)

Created by gwyn johns

Margaret Taylor Burroughs; Edmund B. Gaither; Sam Gilliam; Richard Mayhew

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Go to African-American Art of the 1940s and 1950s (part one) with duration: 1 hour, 3 minutes

African-American Art of the 1940s and 1950s (part one)

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Romare Bearden; Elizabeth Catlett; Ernest Crichlow; Grace Hampton

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Go to Afro-American Art of the 1960s (part two) with duration: 16 minutes, 3 seconds

Afro-American Art of the 1960s (part two)

Created by gwyn johns

Since the Harlem Renaissance : 50 years of Afro-American art symposium (University Park, Pa.) (1985 October 5)

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Go to An informal discussion with Romare Bearden with duration: 46 minutes, 42 seconds

An informal discussion with Romare Bearden

Created by gwyn johns

Since the Harlem Renaissance : 50 years of Afro-American art symposium (University Park, Pa.) (1985 October 4)

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Go to African-American Art of the 1940s and 1950s (part two) with duration: 33 minutes, 40 seconds

African-American Art of the 1940s and 1950s (part two)

Created by gwyn johns

Since the Harlem Renaissance : 50 years of Afro-American art symposium (University Park, Pa.) (1985 October 5)

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Go to The Harlem Renaissance (part one) with duration: 1 hour, 3 minutes

The Harlem Renaissance (part one)

Created by gwyn johns

David C. Driskell; Edmund B. Gaither; David Levering Lewis; Michael Chisolm

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Go to Afro-American Art and the Contemporary Scene (part one) with duration: 1 hour, 2 minutes

Afro-American Art and the Contemporary Scene (part one)

Created by gwyn johns

Benny Andrews; Michael Chisolm; Richard Mayhew; Lowery Stokes Sims

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