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Charlemae Hill Rollins discusses and reads from her book "The Christmas gif'"

BROADCAST: 1970 | DURATION: 00:53:13

Synopsis

Charlemae Hill Rollins and Studs Terkel read from "The Christmas Gif" and discuss it's importance in African American literature. The book is an anthology of Christmas poems, songs, and stories, written by and about Negroes, and compiled by librarian Charlemae Hill Rollins. The book was first published in 1963.

Details

Broadcast Date
1970

Digital Format
WAV

Duration
53 minutes, 13 seconds

Language
English

Ownership
The Chicago History Museum

Topics

African American History & Culture Literature

People

Literary personnel

Tags

WFMT (Radio station : Chicago, Ill.) Rollins, Charlemae Hill--Interviews Christmas gif' African Americans--Literary collections. American literature--Literary collections. Christmas--Literary collections. Oral interpretation--United States--20th century. Audiotapes. Radio programs. Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895 Bradford, Roark, 1896-1948 Applegarth, Margaret T. Brooks, Gwendolyn, 1917-2000 Graham, Lorentz Scripture Cake Ebonics African-American English Traditional Christmas stories African-American spiritual

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