Papers. 1957, 1977-1981, n.d.

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Papers. 1957, 1977-1981, n.d.

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Includes libretto, music, piano score, correspondence, clipping, and two audition tapes (audiocassette) regarding her folk opera "The Ballad of Catfoot Grimes", based on the poem of the same title by Hodding Carter II. The Flood song is on the audition tapes, it was performed by the University of Georgia Chorus and conducted by Eva Jessye. Clipping is a photocopy and contains biographical data regarding Goreau, journalist and author of the biography of Mahalia Jackson; Just Mahalia, baby.

0.4 linear ft. (U). 1 Box (some photocopies)

Tulane University, Amistad Research Center

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Tulane University, Amistad Research Center

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Vid Glavac.

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University of Georgia Chorus.

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Carter, Hodding II, 1907-1972.

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Goreau, Laurraine R.

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Jessye, Eva, 1895-1992

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Eva Jessye-Director of Music-Writer. b. Coffeyville, Kan.; educated Western University, Kansas City, Kan.; State University for Colored, Langston, OK. Director of Music, Morgan College, Baltimore, Md., 1920; Editorial staff, Afro-American, Baltimore, Md., one year. Won prizes: Essay, Music, Poetry, Interstate Literary Society of Kansas and the West; President Interstate Society, 1924. Director of Music, first all-Negro moving picture, "Hallelujah," produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corporation, di...