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