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by Alan Johns (Author), Sherman Pyatt (Author)
African Americans of the South have long had a rich tradition of folklore and customs, many of which predate the Civil War. Some of these beliefs originated in the South, while others have their roots in voodoo and African religions. But with the end of the Civil War and the decline of segregation, the folklife of Southern African Americans has been disappearing. Many African American children were taught to forget all reminders of the long hard years of slavery, and many African Americans continue to be unaware of their people's cultural contributions in song, dance, art, and literature. While folklore has always been an intrinsic part of African American society, it was not until the early 1940s that African American folklore was a subject of research.
SHERMAN E. PYATT is an archivist at the Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture, at the College of Charleston. His previous publications include Martin Luther King, Jr.: An Annotated Bibliography (Greenwood, 1986) and Apartheid: A Selective Annotated Bibliography, 1979-1987 (1990).
ALAN JOHNS has worked as a catalog librarian at The Citadel, the University of South Carolina at Spartanburg, and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
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