We'll Understand It Better By and By: National Conference on African American Gospel Music Scholarship in Tribute to Pearl Williams Jones
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 / Series 1: Program Files
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content: 1993-02-04-1993-02-06
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content: Box 22, Folder 4
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content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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content: Archival materials
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content: In celebration of African American History Month, the Program in African
American Culture presented "We'll Understand It Better By and By": A National Conference on African American Gospel Music Scholarship in Tribute to Pearl Williams Jones, from Thursday, February 4, through Saturday, February 6, 1993, in the Flag Hall, Palm Court, and the Carmichael Auditorium, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution. The sessions included roundtable discussions, performances, presentations of papers, selected readings, and oral histories. Participants included Doris Akers, The Bible Way Radio and Television Choir, Horace Clarence Boyer, Lisa Pertillar Brevard, Evelyn Simpson Curenton, Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje, Luvenia A. George, Michael W. Harris, Anthony Heilbut, Michelle Lanchester, Judi Moore Latta, Gwendolyn R. Lightner, Portia K. Maultsby, William Howard Moore, Priscilla Ann Neely, Yvonne Jones Pettice, The Philadelphia Ambassadors Chorale and Ensemble, Bernice Johnson Reagon, Toshi Reagon, Reverend Eugene D. Smallwood, Sweet Honey in the Rock, Reverend Donald Vails, "The Voices," Reverend Charles Walker, Jacquie Gales Webb, Ernest P. White, Jr., William H. Wiggins, and The Williams and Jones Family Singers. Program number AC408.77.