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(EDUCATION.) TURNER, LORENZO DOW. Archive of material. Includes: an 8 x 59 inch sepia toned panoramic photograph of companies A, B, C and D of Howard University's Student Army Training Corps, Dec. 4, 1918; two other panoramic photographs; Volume 1, number 1 (and several other numbers) of Turner's newspaper The Washington Sun with a point of purchase sign for the paper and related material; The Howard 1918 Year Book; 3 8 x 10 mounted photographs of Howard's baseball team and one signed photo of one of the team's "stars"; six large (8 x 10 image size) mounted photographs of Howard's Beautician's School; plus six other mounted photographs of student life at Howard University and a portrait of Turner by the noted black photographer Arthur P. Bedou. should be seen. Washington, D.C., 1917-1919
a small but rich visual archive from lorenzo dow turner. Turner (1890-1972) was an African-American academic and linguist who did seminal research on the Gullah language of the Low Country of coastal South Carolina and Georgia. His studies included recordings of Gullah story tellers in the 1930s. His newspaper, The Washington Sun, sadly lasted only one year. It promised "Strong Editorials, Clean and Reliable News, and Exceptional Features." Present in this archive is the first copy of the paper from Saturday, September 8, 1928, as well as #'s 8, 11, and 16. As head of the English departments at Howard University and Fisk University for a combined total of nearly 30 years, Turner strongly influenced their programs. He created the African Studies curriculum at Fisk, was chair of the African Studies Program at Roosevelt University, and in the early 1960s, co-founded a training program for Peace Corps volunteers going to Africa. The Smithsonian recently held an exhibition titled "Word, Shout, Sing" in honor of Turner.
