African Americans

Scope and Contents Novelist and essayist Louise Meriwether delivered 14 lectures to the Black Experience in the Arts course, dating from 1971 to 1988. Louise Meriwether (born May 8, 1923) is an American novelist, essayist, journalist and activist, as well as a writer of biographies of historically important African Americans for children. She is best known for her first novel, Daddy Was a Number Runner (1970), which draws on autobiographical elements about growing up in...

Scope and Contents Painter and illustrator Don Miller lectured 5 times. The presentations can be found on 6 reels. 1st lecture was 11/5/1974 (2015-0002/RR59), the 2nd was 4/12/1977 (2015-0002/RR60), 3rd time was 4/4/1978 (2015-0002/RR61), 4th time was 10/30/1979 (2015-0002/RR62), and the 5th lecture was 4/17/1984 (2015-0002/RR63 reel 1) (2015-0002/RR318 reel 2).It is unknown whether the 2 4/17/1984 lectures required 2 reels or if one of the recordings is a duplicate.RR 62 ...

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Artist Evelyn Mitchell spoke on 2/27/1973 (2015-0002/RR223). Evelyn Mitchell shares her background in her discussion of African art.

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Playwright and theater professor Loften Mitchell delivered 5 lectures over 11 years. Mitchell spoke on 2/2/1970 (2015-0002/RR224), 10/17/1972 (2015-0002/RR225), 10/8/1974 (2015-0002/RR226), 9/28/1976 (2015-0002/RR227) and lastly on 1/27/1981 (2015-0002/RR228). James Loften Mitchell (April 15, 1919 – May 14, 2001) was an American playwright and theatre historian who was part of the black American theatre movement of the 1960s.

Scope and Contents Jamaican-style percussionist and drummer Montego Joe (birth name Roger Sanders) delivered 5 lectures. He spoke on 11/23/1982 (2015-0002/RR200), 10/23/1984 (2015-0002/RR201), 10/1/1985 (2015-0002/RR202), 2/4/1975 (2015-0002/RR324), and 11/28/1989 (2015-0002/AC10). AC 10 Montego Joe is joined by Linda Randall and Joseph Lindquist for this lecture. The subject of this presentation was how to create own recording whether it be a single 45 rpm or an album.RR 200 Hale...

Scope and Contents Married composers Dorothy and Kermit Moore lectured on 4/24/1984 (2015-0002/RR233). Dorothy Moore is a composer who has studied with Mark Fax at Howard University, Washington, DC (1963), with Nadia Boulanger at the American Conservatory at Fontainebleau (summer 1963), and with Chou Wen-chung in New York (1965). Moore went on to teach at the Harlem School of the Arts (1965–6), New York University (1969) and Bronx Community College, CUNY (1971).In addition to teaching,...

Scope and Contents Musician Eddie Moore lectured on 9/7/1976 (2015-0002/RR234). Moore was a drummer who was active from the 1960s-1990.RR 234 Edward O'Connor makes announcements regarding dance and theatre groups being formed and meeting in the Afro-American Cultural Center, class related issues and then introduces Hale Smith as the instructor for the course. Hale Smith introduces Eddie Moore (percussionist), who is accompanied by reed (saxophone, etc.) player Dewey Redmond and poet Jamel Carma. ...

Scope and Contents Composer, conductor, and cellist Kermit Moore lectured on 3/12/1974 (2015-0002/RR235). Although primarily a cellist, Kermit Moore was also a conductor, composer, and teacher. Having begun his music training as early as six-years-old, Moore began studying with cello faculty at the Cleveland Institute of Music, and went on to spend a summer at the Tanglewood Music festival all before simultaneously attending both Julliard and New York University for three years receiving an MA in Music. ...

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Singer and actress Melba Moore lectured on 11/14/1989 (2015-0002/AC12).

Scope and Contents Painter and professor of art Deborah Muirhead lectured on 2 occasions. Professor Muirhead was a professor at the University of Connecticut in the School of Fine Arts. Deborah Dancy, also known as Deborah Muirhead (born 1949), is an American painter of large-scale abstractions in oil; she is also a printmaker and mixed media artist. Her work is also known to encompass digital photography. In 1981, she began to teach at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, where she taught painting for...

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Saxophonist and flute player Najee lectured on 10/3/1989 (2015-0002/AC13).

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Binders, files, and clippings of the Norwich Chapter of the NAACP’s activities.

Scope and Contents Composer and trumpeter Jalalu Nelson lectured on 9/14/1982 (2015-0002/RR236). Nelson studied composition with John Eaton, Iannis Xenakis, and Gunther Schuller at the Berkshire Center in Tanglewood. Upon moving to New York in 1974, Nelson began working in the field of Creative Music Education and was associated with such institutions as the Lincoln Center Institute, the Guggenheim Museum, and Adelphi University, among others. Having lived in the Netherlands from 1981-1985, where he worked at...

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The collection contains the papers of Marilyn Nelson, author of several books of poetry and formercurrent Poet Laureate for the State of Connecticut.

Scope and Contents Composer, conductor, and flutist James Newton lectured on 9/13/1983 (2015-0002/RR237). Newton is primarily known as a classical and jazz flautist. Although being multi-instrumental during his childhood and early adult years, Newton began to focus more directly on the flute and eventually earned a BA in music from California State University, Los Angeles in 1980. Throughout the 1970s, Newton played in various jazz ensembles, recorded, and toured across Europe and the US. Starting...

Scope and Contents Sculptor and art professor Billy Omabegho spoke to the Black Experience in the Arts course 3 times. In his 1971 lecture, the Nigerian-born Omabegho spoke about ancient African art, some work dating back to 60,000-30,000 BCE. He also had a slide show featuring examples of African masks, dances, paintings, and clothing. It is clear he wanted students to see that black individuals have been creating art since the earliest moments of humankind and that black artistic expression...

Scope and Contents The Black Experience in the Arts featured 2 performances by inmates of the Osborn Minimum Security Correctional Facility. The groups performed 11/16/1970 (2015-0002/RR251) and 12/7/1971 (2015-0002/RR7). RR 7 A melange of music, monologues, one-act scenes, and spoken word performances. None of the speakers are identified individually but several of the performers spoke before their performance and described prison as a place for questioning and a confrontation with oneself's...