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Communication in Black Culture.
"For a long time in many parts of our republic it was a crime to teach the Black man to read and write...forcing hime to lean heavily on his oral tradition, and thus out of repression the spirituals were born. These developed into other forms, as as the work songs, ballads, blues and street cries. In all these musical forms, the words were as important as the music."
Lindsay Patterson
INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF NEGRO LIFE AND HISTORY
Pubco, Washington, D. C. 

Communication through culture has always kept Americans together. Today America's various cultures have become a significant part of our nations heritage and are helping to bring all Americans closer. Because communication is the beginning of understanding. 

Communication is what we're all about.
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Painting "The Banjo Lesson" by Henry O. Tanner, Collection of Hampton Institute, Hampton, Virginia.