Festival of American Folklife
name: label: Collection Collector
content: Maltsby, Portia
label: Collection Creator
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 4: Interviews, Speaking Engagements and Performances
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1974
container: label: Container
content: Box 1, Folder 4-5
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Annual Smithsonian Institution event consisting of seven programs including the African Diaspora, Children's Folklore, Family Folklore, Native Americans, Old Ways in the New World, Regional America and Working Americans. The African Diaspora, led by Rosie Horn (Program Coordinator) and Bernice Johnson Reagon (Folklore Specialist and later Director of the Program on African American Culture), paid tribute to the cultural contributions of the black American community while depicting the historical and cultural continuum that linked them to their African roots via the Caribbean Islands and Latin America. Reagon's festival work served as a creative outlet for some of her personal and professional interests. 
Materials include proposal for African diaspora concept, correspondence, background materials, program and highlights of the event.