TV Talk with the Sistas
For decades we have heard stories about the Woodstock festival in 1969 and how monumental it is in music history. But there was a festival in Harlem in 1969 that was just as colossal, but like much of African American history has been hidden. Listen as the Sistas talk about this documentary about the festival.
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Nannie Helen Burroughs meets us at the intersection of gender, race, and profession. She was an educator, civil rights activists, feminist, and businesswoman.
Burroughs was born May 2, 1879, in Orange Virginia. Her parents were formerly slaves, and her father was a farmer and Baptist preacher. Her father died when she was young, so Burroughs and her mother moved to Washing DC.
She attended high school in DC where she met Anna Julia Cooper and Mary Church Terrell, who were suffragists and civil rights activists.
After graduation she applied for a job with the District but could not get one because her skin was too dark. This set in her the determination to ensure women of her skin tone could improve their situation.
From 1898 to 1909 Burroughs went to work for the National Baptist Convention in Kentucky. She was one of the founders of the Women’s Convention and served as president for 13 years. She also found the National Training School in 1908 that provided evening classes for women who had no other means of education.
In 1908 she opened the National Training School. Her goal was to uplift the race. The main themes of the school was the three B’s: the Bible, the bath, and the broom.
In 1920 she wrote two plays, one The Slabtown District Convention and Where is My Wandering Boy Tonight?
In 1928, Burroughs was appointed committee chairwoman by the Hoover Administration for the White House Conference 1931 Home Building and Ownership. She also spoke at conferences.
She died in May of 1961.
Working with other people often inspires me in new ways. Some of my best work has been with other creators.
TV Talk with the Sistas
It was at the height of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.This movie opens with Ray Charles singing and lets the viewers know there is gonna be some trouble. Listen as the Sistas take you back in time.
Listen Season 8 Episode 3
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Nannie Helen Burroughs meets us at the intersection of gender, race, and profession. She was an educator, civil rights activists, feminist, and businesswoman.
Burroughs was born May 2, 1879, in Orange Virginia. Her parents were formerly slaves, and her father was a farmer and Baptist preacher. Her father died when she was young, so Burroughs and her mother moved to Washing DC.
She attended high school in DC where she met Anna Julia Cooper and Mary Church Terrell, who were suffragists and civil rights activists.
After graduation she applied for a job with the District but could not get one because her skin was too dark. This set in her the determination to ensure women of her skin tone could improve their situation.
From 1898 to 1909 Burroughs went to work for the National Baptist Convention in Kentucky. She was one of the founders of the Women’s Convention and served as president for 13 years. She also found the National Training School in 1908 that provided evening classes for women who had no other means of education.
In 1908 she opened the National Training School. Her goal was to uplift the race. The main themes of the school was the three B’s: the Bible, the bath, and the broom.
In 1920 she wrote two plays, one The Slabtown District Convention and Where is My Wandering Boy Tonight?
In 1928, Burroughs was appointed committee chairwoman by the Hoover Administration for the White House Conference 1931 Home Building and Ownership. She also spoke at conferences.
She died in May of 1961.
Collaboration
I move with others, not alone,
each voice a thread, each gift a stone.
Together we build what one could not,
a garden grown from every plot.
I honor the wisdom that others bring,
their vision, their laughter, their song to sing.
In shared creation, I find my place,
our hands together shaping space.
The more we join, the more we grow,
our light combined, a brighter glow.
Collaboration is my way,
I rise with others every day.
An African American woman moved home to take care of her dying mother giving up the opportunity to experience a world beyond segregation. Zoraida Hughes Williams finds that some things have changed about her hometown of Fort Worth, Texas while some have stayed the same, like Hell’s Half Acre, an area where saloons, prostitution and gambling runs wild. Like most of the residents, she wants to keep her head down and stay away from trouble, but it comes in the unlikely form of an Anglo Baptist preacher. He messes up everything and almost gets them killed.
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