Black American Gospel Music Series, Scott A. White Family Singers
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 1: Program Files
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content: 1981 May 17
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content: Box 10, Folder 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 in African American Culture Collection highlighted the exceptional talent of one of the nation's largest gospel singing family. The Scott A. White Family Singers consists of father and mother, fifteen children, fifty grandchildren and at least eight great-grandchildren. There are many other talents in the family. Nine family members are ministers, seven are missionaries, seven are piano players, one is a minister of music, one is an evangelist, seven are songwriters, and three are playwrights. The Scott A. White Family has been singing for more than twenty-five years, presided over by their father, elder Scott A. White, pastor of the New Hope Primitive Baptist Church in Steelton, Pennsylvania. (From unpublished program notes by Pearl Williams Jones. See notes for additional information about the Scott A. White Family). The concert by the Scott A. White Family was held on Sunday, May 17, 1981 at Baird Auditorium, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. The concert was presented as part of the Black Gospel Music Series by the Division of Performing Arts. The series and program were organized by Bernice Johnson Reagon, director, Program in Black Culture (later known as the Program in African American Culture). Program number AC408.12.