Julieanna L. Richardson
speaker
226 appearances
9 recordings
5 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 10 Jul
Julieanna L. Richardson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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She gave me a list of people to interview, and I had my tape recorder in hand.
Today it would be an iPhone, and I went out and interviewed Gone with the Wind's Butterfly McQueen, Lee Whipper, who was the oldest living black actor at the time, historian John Henry Clark, and tap dancer Honey Coles.
I had found myself.
I had a history to call my own.
I too, according to Langston Hughes, I too was, am America.
And from that day forward, my life was forever changed.
Today, from our boardrooms to our classrooms, on TV and social media,
Debates are raging about whose history matters.
Those who document their history are who society says matters.
For the Black community, that documentation has been elusive.
How many of you had heard about Tulsa and its Black Wall Street?
Black people went from having absolutely no rights to the US electing its first black president.
Our civil rights gains paved the way for the women's movement, the gay rights movement, and the social movements of today.
In the 1960s, we had found ourself, and James Brown led the way.
Say it loud.
I'm black and I'm proud.
He did it for us.
That became our national anthem.
And recently, I attended the state sale of Porgy and Bess's Edmonton Barnett.
She had the famous contralto voice.
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