Communities On The Move: From Enslavement to Freedom McWorter and New Philadelphia (NMAH)
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content: Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
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content: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 2016 Smithsonian Folklife Festival
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content: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 2016 Smithsonian Folklife Festival / Series 3: On the Move: Migration and Immigration Today / Audio
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content: 1 Sound recording (digital audio file)
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content: 2016 July 09
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content: Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
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content: CFCH.SFF.2016, Item SFF2016_0709_OTM_OTM_0001.wav
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content: Archival materials
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content: Sound recordings
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content: Listening copies available
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content: Charlotte King; Lonie Vond Wilson; Sabrina Smith (participants) Facilitated by Charlotte King, a board member of the New Philadelphia Association, this session will look at the power of place as it traces the migration story of Frank McWorter from enslavement to freedom and the 1836 founding of New Philadelphia, Illinois, the first town legally registered by an African American in the United States.