This is a concert of song, poetry, and jazz with Ms. Darrelle-Morgenstern, a professional singer and actress, portraying in costume black ladies throughout history, including queens, singers, and social activists. She is accompanied by pianist Nancy Abercrombie. John has performed in 1,200 schools across the country since 1986. Requires assembly setting. This group consists of high school youth who, through stepping performances, demonstrate African heritage or ritualistic movements.
Routines consist of coordinated dance, precision drills, and marches, as well as rhythmic maneuvers.
Ms. Russell addresses issues of personal strength, integration, emancipation, civil war, personal integrity, abolition, Jim Crow laws, civil rights, and black migration from the South to the North. The museum provides information and culturally relevant materials, as well as resources regarding African history and folklore. This story about life and living in a rural town in Tallulah, Louisiana from the perspective of a small child is in book and cassette form, and can be presented the author in single and multiple classes as storytelling.