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Mary Carter Smith (1919 – April 24, 2007) was a noted American educator who helped revive storytelling as an educational tool. She graduated from Coppin State University and was a teacher in the Baltimore City Public School system for thirty-one years.
[21] [23] She developed the idea with storyteller Mary Carter Smith while attending one of many Black storytelling festivals in the United States. [14] The first of these Toronto festivals was held in 1984 and there were at least two others, in 1987 and 1990. [23] [24] They spanned storytelling, music, dance, poetry, and drama. [23]
Other storytellers, artists, and scholars of folklore were sources of encouragement and community, including Brother Blue, Stephen Henderson, Sonia Sanchez, [6] [9] Ella Jenkins, Jackie Torrence, and Mary Carter Smith. [7] She worked in Philadelphia for over 30 years, and was named by the mayor as that city's official storyteller in 1984. [10]
A look at the lives of Dr. Susan Smith McKinney Steward, the first Black female doctor in New York, and her sister Sarah J. S. Tompkins Garnet, the first Black female principal in NYC.
Miskel Spillman was just a regular 80-year-old grandmother from New Orleans when she hosted “SNL” in 1977. The winner of a contest and the only non-public figure to ever host the show, her ...
This category contains people known as storytellers from the United States.. While artists may utilize a wide variety of media to tell a story (i.e. painters or filmmakers), this category is specifically for people whose performance medium is the spoken voice (with or without musical accompaniment), most usually in performances to an audience (rather than recordings).
What are Carter Smith's high school stats this season? According to MaxPreps, Smith has completed 117 of 192 passes (60.9%) for 1,386 yards, with 14 touchdowns and four interceptions. He's run for ...
In 1936 eastern Kentucky, 19-year-old Cussy Mary Carter works for the New Deal–funded Pack Horse Library Project, delivering reading material to the remote hill people of the Appalachian Mountains. Cussy Mary, sometimes known as Bluet, lives with her coal-miner and labor-organizing father, and feels her work as a librarian honors her long ...