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Video of Son Thomas, Hawkins Bolden, and Mary Lou Furcron, 1985

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@ Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection

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African American folk artist Son Thomas sculpts a duck at his home in Leland, Mississippi. Blind African American artist Hawkins Bolden displays some of his artwork at his home in Memphis, Tennessee. Mary Lou Furcron is interviewed at the log cabin home she built herself in Vesta, Georgia. She talks about her childhood, family, and growing cotton and vegetables. A tour of her cabin and surrounding area is given.

Record Contributed By

Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection

Record Harvested From

Digital Library of Georgia

Keywords

  1. African American Folk Art
  2. African American Sculptors
  3. African Americans
  4. Blind Artists
  5. Bolden, Hawkins, 1914 2005
  6. Georgia
  7. Log Cabins
  8. Memphis
  9. Mississippi
  10. Rural African Americans
  11. Tennessee
  12. Thomas, Son, 1926 1993
  13. Vesta

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