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1953– · Dates from the Library of Congress · On the Friends’ Local Authors roster → · Library of Congress authority record ↗
3 works about Jaki Shelton Green are indexed here, as are 2 works by Green. 1 held at OCPL →
Works about or by Jaki Shelton Green. Each links to the institution that holds or provides it. Background reading appears below.
New and selected poems by Jaki Shelton Green, the African American poet from Efland who later became North Carolina's poet laureate; Efland gives the collection its Orange County tie. Published by Carolina Wren Press in 2005, 136 pages.
Jaki Shelton Green, the Efland poet who later served as North Carolina's poet laureate, published this collection with Carolina Wren Press in 1983. It brings together the earlier Dead on Arrival poems and new work. 143 pages with a portrait of the author on a plate.
Jean Bolduc's 2016 collection of interviews with African American residents of Durham and Orange counties, presented as short biographies. The subjects are Floyd McKissick (1922-1991), the first African American admitted to UNC's law school, Walter Jackson, Brenda Stephens, Nate Davis, poet Jaki Shelton Green, Jackie Wagstaff, Diane Wright and Michelle Johnson, with a closing chapter on the Ku Klux Klan. 125 pages with illustrations.
Included because: Catalog heading in the OCPL record: Green, Jaki Shelton, 1953- -- Interviews.
Jean Bolduc's collection of oral history interviews with Black residents of Durham and Orange counties, published by The History Press in 2016, 125 pages with photographs and portraits. The narrators are the poet Jaki Shelton Green, civil rights lawyer Floyd McKissick, Walter Jackson, Nate Davis, Brenda Stephens, Diane Wright, Jackie Wagstaff and Michelle Johnson, and a closing chapter deals with the Ku Klux Klan. The interviews document Black life and race relations in the two counties across the twentieth century.
Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Green, Jaki Shelton, 1953-.
Seven audiocassettes from 1978 carrying 'New voices', a radio program associated with WUNC in Chapel Hill, part of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 4036. The recordings are interviews and readings by American poets, among them Jaki Shelton Green, Judy Hogan, Amon Liner, T. J. Reddy and Michael Rigsby Revere.
Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Green, Jaki Shelton, 1953-.
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Jean Bolduc's 2016 collection of interviews with African American residents of Durham and Orange counties, presented as short biographies. The subjects are Floyd McKissick (1922-1991), the first African American admitted to UNC's law school, Walter Jackson, Brenda Stephens, Nate Davis, poet Jaki Shelton Green, Jackie Wagstaff, Diane Wright and Michelle Johnson, with a closing chapter on the Ku Klux Klan. 125 pages with illustrations.
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