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African-American Childhood in Life and Letters

Presentations

“A Little Boy in a Black Velvet Suit”: Little Lord Fauntleroy, Absalom, Absalom!, and Impossibility of Southern Boys

Presenters

MicKenzie Elise Fasteland

Keeping it Real: The Influence of the Blues in African-American Children’s Poetry

Presenters

Wynn William Yarbrough

‘We must lift up the negro or he will pull us down’: A Southern Black Orphanage in the 1890s

Presenters

August M Butler

Session chairs

MicKenzie Elise Fasteland