The Present & the Future

Arthur C. Jones
© 2004 by The Spirituals Project
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Introduction

Funded by grants from the LEF Foundation and the Union Institute and University, The Spirituals Project has talked face-to-face with a number of women and men who are currently devoting large amounts of their time and energy to help keep the legacy of the spirituals alive and vibrant in the twenty-first century. Most of these conversations were recorded between 1999 and 2002. We include here excerpts from some of those conversations.

Francois Clemmons
Brazeal Dennard
Rev. Yvette Flunder
Jacqueline Hairston
Arthur Jones
Hale Smith
Vincent Stringer
Linda Tillery
JoAnne Tucker
William Warfield
Bennie Williams