Choreographer Donald McKayle. They Called Her Moses

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Choreographer Donald McKayle joins dancers Jacqueline Walcott, Robert Powell, Sylvia Waters, Arthur Mitchell, Kathleen Stanford and Carmen de Lavallade in a performance of excerpts from his dance-drama They Called Her Moses" about Harriet Tubman, the ex-slave who was the "conductor" on the Underground Railroad, leading many other slaves to freedom. The music includes singing of "Follow the Drinking Gourd," "Wade In the Water," "Let My People Go," "Been in the Storm So Long.

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49 min 37 sec

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