Tribute Banquet, 1994 September 30

File — Digital-Materials: Preservica

Identifier: UA 0017. Series 4. Sub-Series 1. Sub-Group 1

Staff Only

Scope and Content

Tribute Banquet to honor important black poets at the 1994 Furious Flower Conference. Mari Evans, Raymond Patterson, Margaret Walker, Naomi Long Madgett, Samuel W. Allen, Pinkie Gordon Lane, and Gwendolyn Brooks were the honored poets. The banquet was held at Phillips Hall, James Madison University on Friday, September 30, 1994 at 7 p.m.

This footage was originally recorded on 2 MII videocassettes.

Dates

Creation: 1994 September 30

Creator

Gabbin, Joanne V. (Joanne Veal), 1946- (Speaker, Person)
Stover, Darrell "SCIPOET" (Speaker, Person)
Collier, Eugenia W. (Speaker, Person)
Evans, Mari, 1919-2017 (Speaker, Person)
Redmond, Eugene (Speaker, Person)
Patterson, Raymond R. (Speaker, Person)
Graham, Maryemma (Speaker, Person)
McDowell, Deborah E., 1951- (Speaker, Person)
Madgett, Naomi Cornelia Long (Speaker, Person)
Ward, Jerry W., Jr., 1943- (Speaker, Person)
Allen, Samuel W. (Speaker, Person)
Moore, Opal (Speaker, Person)
Lane, Pinkie Gordon (Speaker, Person)
Sanchez, Sonia, 1934- (Speaker, Person)
Ward, Val Gray (Speaker, Person)
Brooks, Gwendolyn, 1917-2000 (Speaker, Person)

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