**How does one go from slavery to equality? That is the question African Americans grappled with after their emancipation in 1863. The Emancipation Proclamation released Blacks from their enslavement, but they continued to experience inequality in all phases of American life —social, cultural, political, and economic. In episode 43, Dr. Ronald L. Sharps, Associate Dean of College of the Arts at Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ joins us to discuss his new book 'Black Folklorists in Pursuit of Equality-African American Identity and Cultural Politics, 1893–1943.' We talk about the folklore of African Americans After the Civil War and how they sought to solidify and create their identity by defining their own folklore. Through this pursuit of equality, African Americans developed movements to reveal in their rhetoric the soul of a race and a path toward civilization. **
**Book: **Black Folklorists in Pursuit of Equality-African American Identity and Cultural Politics, 1893–1943.)
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