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[14th annual Black Music and the Civil Rights Movement Concert, audio tape]

Description: Audio cassette from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during the 14th Annual Black Music and the Civil Rights Movement Concert, Musical Reflection- 20 Years Later...A Spiritual Jubilee. The tape includes choral singers and was recorded at the Meyerson Symphony Center.
Date: January 19, 1997
Duration: 1 hour 37 minutes
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[14th annual Black Music and the Civil Rights Movement Concert, full concert]

Description: Video footage from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during during the 14th Annual Black Music and the Civil Rights Movement Concert, Musical Reflection- 20 Years Later...A Spiritual Jubilee. The VHS footage includes choral singers, speakers, gospel singers and choir, and an organist. The concert was recorded at the Meyerson Symphony Center on January 19th, 1997.
Date: January 19, 1997
Duration: 2 hours 2 minutes 55 seconds
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[4th annual Christmas and Kwanzaa concert "I Believe I Can Fly", audio tape 1 of 3]

Description: Audio cassette from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during the 4th annual Christmas and Kwanzaa celebration concert on December 13th, 1997. The tape includes two tracks of audio recorded from the performance. The audio is not entirely clear as if recorded from far away.
Date: December 13, 1997
Duration: 48 minutes 05 seconds
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[4th annual Christmas and Kwanzaa concert "I Believe I Can Fly", audio tape 2 of 3]

Description: Audio cassette from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during the 4th annual Christmas and Kwanzaa celebration concert on December 13th, 1997. The tape includes two tracks of audio recorded from the performance. The audio is well recorded.
Date: December 13, 1997
Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 07 seconds
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[4th annual Christmas and Kwanzaa concert "I Believe I Can Fly", audio tape 3 of 3]

Description: Audio cassette from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during the 4th annual Christmas and Kwanzaa celebration concert on December 13th, 1997. The tape includes one track of well recorded audio of Curtis King giving closing remarks and honoring individual students.
Date: December 13, 1997
Duration: 8 minutes 20 seconds
Creator: King, Curtis
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[African Awakening '97]

Description: Program for the annual African Awakening Conference hosted by the Junior Black Academy of Arts and Letters on November 1-2, 1997.
Date: November 1997
Creator: Junior Black Academy of Arts and Letters
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Akin Babatunde as Louis Armstrong broadcast clip]

Description: Video footage provided by The Black Academy of Arts and Letters of a Channel 8 broadcast clip showing a news story on the upcoming performance of Akin Babatunde at the Clarence Muse Café Theatre in November of 1997. The footage shows clips of the actor impersonating music icon Louis Armstrong with the song "What a Wonderful World" along with an interview on his process of successfully becoming the character.
Date: November 13, 1997
Duration: 2 minutes 01 second
Creator: Channel 8
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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["Black Living Legends Speak"]

Description: Audio cassette from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during one of two spring dialogues featuring the Black Living Legends of 1997. The tape was recorded on March 8th, 1997 and featured C.C Berry, Clifford Davis, Iola Johnson, Jean Lacey, Lucy Phelps-Patterson. The tape includes one track of poorly recorded audio with indistinguishable speech and medium static throughout.
Date: March 8, 1997
Duration: 46 minutes 18 seconds
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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["Black Living Legends Speak" speakers series]

Description: Audio cassette from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during the second Black Living Legends Speaks speaker series held in the spring of 1997. The event featured John Briggs, Edison Fowlks, Foster Kidd, Mamie McKnight, Travis Lewis, Ima Runnels and Allison Tucker. The tape includes two tracks of audio that are noisy but with the content of the speakers still maintained enough to be heard and understood.
Date: April 12, 1997
Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 32 seconds
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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