<I>Lesser, But Not Least</I>
date: label: Date
content: February 1, 1981
name: label: Created by
content: Brooks B. Robinson Ph.D., American
label: Subject of
content: Saint Kateri Tekakwitha, Mohawk, 1656 - 1680
label: Subject of
content: David Walker, American, ca. 1796 - 1830
label: Subject of
content: Reies Tijerina, Mexican American, 1926 - 2015
label: Subject of
content: Patsy Tijerina, American, born ca. 1948
label: Subject of
content: Henry Garnet, American, 1815 - 1882
label: Directed by
content: Robert Cham
notes: label: Description
content: A white plastic audiocassette tape with a recording of the radio program "Lesser But Not Least." The cassette tape has a beige label on which typewritten text on one side reads [TRY OUT RADIO / 2/1/81 / "LESSER BUT NOT LEAST" WHA / RADIO]. The radio show was produced by Dr. Brooks Robinson for a "Tryout Radio," and focuses on "lesser-known" individuals in American history and is divided into three segments.
label: Description
content: The first segment discusses the life of Kateri Tekakwitha, the first Native American Catholic saint. In this segment, there is also a fictional dramatization of a conversation between Saint Kateri story and one of her suitors. In the second segment, the narrator moves to a discussion of David Walker's life and the impact of his essay "Appeal to The Colored Peoples of The World." There is also a reading of Henry Highland Garnet's commentary on David Walker's essay, as well as a dramatization of an encounter between Walker and Savannah’s representatives over the "seditious material" Walker wrote. Toward the end of the second segment, "The Star-Spangled Banner" instrumental is played while the narrator describes Walker’s contributions to the abolitionist movement.
label: Description
content: The last segment focuses on the contributions of Reies Lopez Tijerina. It is dramatized as a narration by his former wife Patsy Tijerina. Some of the topics they cover are the Mexican-American War of 1846; Mexico’s land grants to settlers; the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo; La Alianza; San Joaquín de Chama land grant; the occupation of the Echo Amphitheater; the July 4 March from Albuquerque to Santa Fe; the planned citizen’s arrest of Sanchez on June 5; Reies Tijerina's arrest and the ensuing legal battles; Poor People's March on Washington in 1968; as well as Tijerina's activism post 1968.
place: label: Place made
content: Wisconsin, United States, North and Central America
label: Place depicted
content: New York, United States, North and Central America
label: Place depicted
content: New Mexico, United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Activism
label: Topic
content: American West
label: Topic
content: Antislavery
label: Topic
content: Catholicism
label: Topic
content: Literature
label: Topic
content: Poetry
label: Topic
content: Radio
label: Topic
content: Religion
label: Topic
content: United States History
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Classification
content: Time-based Media - Audio
label: Movement
content: BAM (Black Arts Movement 1965-1976)
label: Movement
content: Abolitionist movement
label: Movement
content: Chicano Movement / El Movimiento
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Contributed in memory of Professor Sarah Webster Fabio (1928-1979), poet, educator, Black Arts Movement icon, and one of the Literary Corner's analysts.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2010.17.2.1a
objectType: label: Type
content: audiotapes
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: © Brooks B. Robinson
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: tape and plastic
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 2 3/4 × 4 1/4 × 5/8 in. (7 × 10.8 × 1.6 cm)
label: Dimensions
content: Duration: 00:27:26