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The public is invited to attend a special symposium to be held at the Auburn
Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History, in Atlanta,
Georgia on June 15, 1999, at 7:00 p.m. The symposium is the second in a series
entitled African Americans and Native Americans: Explorations in Narrative,
Identity, and Place that takes an intimate look at the relations between two
peoples whose paths have often crossed and whose identities and stories at
times became blurred in that process. This program is the second in a planned
year-long series that will continue to examine different aspects of the
historical interactions between African Americans and Native Americans.
Participants in the symposium will be Malinda Maynor, who was born in North
Carolinaís Lumbee Community. She gained experience writing and researching
documentaries while completing a BA in American History and Literature at
Harvard University and later studied documentary film making at Stanford
University where she finished an MA degree in 1997. Her first production, Real
Indian, has been screened widely including the Sundance Film Festival, the
Smithsonianís National Museum of the American Indian, and won the award for
the Best Short Documentary at the 1997 South By Southwest Film Festival. Her
most recent project is Sounds of Faith, a fifteen minute video about Lumbee
Indian musical and spiritual traditions. Visit her website at http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~lumbee/
Joining Maynor on the program will be Dr. Constance J. Carter, Research
Associate in the Manuscripts and Archives Division at the Auburn Avenue
Research Library on African American Culture and History. She is a graduate of
Duke University, Howard University and the Catholic University of America.
Dr. Carter has served as Washington Liaison for the American Indian
International Development Corporation, and currently develops collections on
African American and Native American relations for the Auburn Avenue Research
Library on African American Culture and History. She Dr. Carterís
presentation is entitled African American and Native American Relations: A
Contemporary View.
The program will include screenings of two productions by Malinda Maynor:
Sounds of Faith and Real Indian. Please pass this invitation on to your
colleagues or students who may be interested in our main theme. The program is
free and open to the public.
The Auburn Avenue Research Library is located at 101 Auburn Avenue NE,
Atlanta, Georgia 30303 in the heart of the Sweet Auburn district.
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