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African American Women in Arts & Literature

Lectures in History

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We Shall Overcome Well, Maybe Will We?

Lorraine hansbury underlined the importance of her own creative impulse when she met with several young black wriders. Billy holiday and nina samon stopped singing songs of activism and moved abroad. And anne moody became kind of burned out on change. They broadened opportunities for so many with their poetry, their lyrics, their literature,. Their memoirs and their legal arguments. The important break through their writing and activism made possible by polly murray all speak to their lasting contributions.

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