Easy Lawd: On Death and Dying: Afro American Mythology and Folklore
name: label: Collection Collector
content: Maltsby, Portia
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content: Smithsonian Institution. Program in African American Culture
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content: Program in African American Culture Collection
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content: Program in African American Culture Collection / Series 1: Program Files
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content: 1986 April 5
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content: Box 15, Folder 10-11
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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content: Archival materials
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content: Program held on April 5, 1986, at the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution. Easy Lawd is a performance-based song narrative recreating Afro-American experiences of dying and beliefs in death and the time after death. Delivered in folk speech and Standard English, the presentation contains literary selections from Jonah's Gourd Vine by Zora Neale Hurston, Jubilee by Margaret Walker, Death and Burial on Yamacraw by Pat Conroy, and a sermon by James Weldon Johnson. The program was organized by Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon, director, Program in Black Culture (later known as the Program in African American Culture). Materials include   audio cassettes, a script, and a program guide. Program number AC408.41.