oral history

“Recording Spirituals Sung by Ex-Slaves, Petersburg, VA.” Part of the Federal Writers’ Project. Photo from Hampton University Archives. Chemist, Educator, Oral Historian, Folklorist Roscoe Edwin Lewis (1904 -1961) Roscoe E. Lewis was born in Washington, D.C., the son of William Harrison Lewis and Mary Over Lewis in 1904. Equipped with a strong public education despite […]