Reverend Charles Albert Tindley: A Musical Tribute and Colloquium
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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: 1984 April 28-29
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content: Box 13, Folder 11-12
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content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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content: Program held Saturday, April 28, and Sunday, April 29, 1984, as a musical tribute and colloquium honoring Reverend Charles Albert Tindley presented by the Tribute to Tindley Committee. The program was conceived of and directed by Bernice Johnson Reagon with script created by Eleanor Traylor. It was   held at the Tindley Temple United Methodist Church on Broad and Fitzwater Streets in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The same program was presented at the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution May 1982.

The Saturday afternoon program included "Reverend C. A. Tindley: A Cultural Biography" and "Tindley's Themes: Songs, Sermons, and Theology". Sunday afternoon featured "Tindley's Songs: Musical Analysis and History". The Song Ministry of Reverend Charles Albert Tindley: A Musical Tribute took place in the evenings. Eleanor Traylor featured songs developed within the performance tradition of Reverend Tindley. The cColloquium featured panels of African American scholars, theologians and oral informants including Reverend Marion Ballard, Dr. Horace C. Boyer, Kenneth Goodman, Dr. William C. Jason Jr., Ralph H. Jones, Dr. Bernice Jonson Reagon, Wayne Shirley and Pearl Williams Jones. Program number AC408.25.