African American educators

Scope and Contents Singer Rawn Spearman and musician Carlesta Henderson performed on 4/14/1981 (2015-0002/RR273). Hale Smith makes several announcements regarding the course before introducing the evening's speakers. Rawn Spearman, collaborating with him Carlesta Henderson, accompanied on piano is Kelley Wyatt. Performing music tha thas been written to Langston Hughes' poetry.Spearman earned degrees from Florida A&M and Columbia University. In his performing career. Spearman sang a wide...

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Historian Donald Spivey lectured on 3/27/1990 (2015-0002/AC20).

Scope and Contents Actor, director, and theatre professor James Spruill spoke to Black Experience in the Arts students on 2/18/1986 (2015-0002/RR274/AC21) and on 2/10/1987 (2015-0002/RR247) with Lynda Patton and Georgette Leslie. Spruill attended Boston University (BU) for a Master’s of Fine Arts in directing in 1968 and was the first to be awarded the Martin Luther King, Jr. Fellowship. While a student at BU, Spruill co-founded the New African Company, a small professional theatre dedicated to presenting the...

Scope and Contents Musician, composer, performer, poet, arts advocate and administrator, director emeritus of the University of Massachusetts Fine Arts Center (FAC) and co-founder and director emeritus of its Jazz in July program Frederick Tillis delivered 4 lectures. He spoke on 10/15/1985 (2015-0002/RR278), 10/7/1986 (2015-0002/RR279), 10/6/1987 (2015-0002/RR280), and 9/12/1989 (2015-0002/AC24). RR 278 Recording begins after Professor Tillis has begun talking about his childhood and his...

Scope and Contents Poet and journalist Quincy Troupe delivered 11 lectures over a 17 year period. Troupe spoke on 11/18/1975 (2015-0002/RR281), 1/24/1978 (2015-0002/RR282), 2/5/1980 (2015-0002/RR283), 3/24/1981 (2015-0002/RR284) 2/1/1983 (2015-0002/RR285), 1/31/1984 (2015-0002/RR286), 2/25/1986 (2015-0002/RR287), 1/27/1987 (2015-0002/RR288), 3/22/1988 (2015-0002/RR289), 4/12/1971 (2015-0002/RR313), and on an unidentified date (2015-0002/AC25).AC 25 [Difficult to hear speakers over the sound of...

Scope and Contents Musician and conductor Lenzy Wallace lectured on 3/18/1975 (2015-0002/RR291). Hale Smith makes several class related announcements before introducing the speaker for the evening. Lenzy Wallace provides historical background and connections between early forms of Black musical expression, some of which are African in origin and some through transmutation come down to us through what's known as "field call" or "field holler." Wallace will make a connection between this transmutation and...

Scope and Contents Art professor at UConn, Oscar Walters delivered lectures on 11/1/1977 (2015-0002/RR293) and 9/24/1985 (2015-0002/RR294).RR 293 Hale Smith introduces Professor Walters who brought some paintings over from the gallery to illustrate his talk. Walters provides background and significance of his work. [introduction begins at 0:1:03 and sound is uneven until 0:1:40]RR 294 Professor Walters spoke about his experiences in all-white educational institutions, a matriculated...

Scope and Contents A 4/2/1970 lecture featured 3 artists: Oscar Walters, Jayne Cortez, and Melvin Edwards (2015-0002/RR315). Please view the individual profiles of each person for more information. RR 315 A 4/2/1970 lecture featured 3 artists: Oscar Walters, Jayne Cortez, and Melvin Edwards (2015-0002/RR315). Oscar Walters speaks first about about the development of the form in which he's been working. Poet Jayne Cortez reads from her works including ...

Scope and Contents Painter and art professor William Williams delivered a lecture on 11/2/1970 (2015-0002/RR299). Having earned his MFA from Yale University in 1968, Williams saw early success with the purchase of one of his paintings from the Museum of Modern Art in 1969. That same year he began to work at the Studio Museum in Harlem, where he was the artist-in-residence and organizer for the X to the Fourth Power. In 1971, Williams had his first solo exhibition and began teaching at Brooklyn...