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I am at a loss when I try to write the story of my encounter with Fisk University that turned out to be a contradiction for all the possibilities it offered me, as well as the difficulties that have ensued as a result. This is not an attempt to defame anyone, because I know full well that I am not in a position to do so. As all too often happens in life, people are sometimes quick to believe those in authority rather than some insignificant person. But, there are such things as facts, from which one cannot get away, even if they be ever so important.
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[Lorenzo Dow Turner (1890–1972), author of the influential Africanisms in the Gullah Dialect (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1949). Fatima Massaquoi served as Turner’s Vai language assistant in this monumental work (p. 292), helping to identify a number of Vai retentions, perhaps most notably Vai-Gullah songs sung by Julia Armstrong of St. Simon Island, Georgia, and Eugenia Hutchinson of Edisto Island, South Carolina (p. 257). These women had been unaware that certain words were Vai, which had survived for perhaps centuries in the traditions of their families. Turner departed Fisk in 1946 for Roosevelt University in Chicago, where he worked until 1967. He visited Fatima Massaquoi in Monrovia in 1951. Eds.]
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Massaquoi, F., Seton, V., Tuchscherer, K., Abraham, A. (2013). The Fisk University Saga. In: Seton, V., Tuchscherer, K., Abraham, A. (eds) The Autobiography of an African Princess. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137102508_18
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