Radio CALS

February 19, 2016


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Selections from Legacies & Lunch featuring Dr. Brian Mitchell discussing the expulsion of free blacks from Arkansas in 1859; a reading of an interview with a former slave, Railroad Dockery, part of the WPA Slave Narratives; an interview with Cpl. Charles O. Hilburn, from the Korean War Project; a pre-birthday celebration of Johnny Cash; another installment of "Chewing the Fat with Rex & Paul"; information about the Butler Center's resources for teachers, including its Summer Seminar, a two-day workshop focused this year on Pulitzer Prize-winning authors with connections to Arkansas; "Authors on Air" with Arkansas Literary Festival Coordinator Brad Mooy; "The Council for the Liberation of Blacks", a reading from the Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture; and recordings of music composed by William Grant Still, an African American classical composer raised in Little Rock who broke race barriers with his highly acclaimed work.
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