Spring 2009: Featured Video

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Related video: Kevin Young

Poet and professor Kevin Young, curator of Emory’s literary collections, invites you on a video tour of Emory’s most remarkable African American materials . . . some of which may surprise you.

Related video: Rudolph Byrd

Rudolph Byrd, professor of American and African American studies, talks about pieces of the James Weldon Johnson collection, and gives viewers an up-close look at the personal notebook and the handmade quilt Alice Walker created while writing The Color Purple.

Randall Burkett, curator of Emory’s African American Collection, just returned from Europe with a new acquisition. Here’s a look at this and more, through the eyes of a lifelong collector of rare and interesting things.

Video produced by Emory Photo/Video, www.photo.emory.edu.