Word, Shout, Song: Lorenzo Dow Turner at The Smithsonian’s Anacostia Community Museum








The Smithsonian’s Anacostia Community Museum

1901 Fort Place, SE
Washington, DC 20020

Main office: 202-633-4820

The hours of operation for the museum are 10am to 5pm daily except December 25 when the museum closes in observance of the Christmas holiday.

Connecting Communities through Language

August 9, 2010 - March 27, 2011


Word, Shout, Song documents the historical journey made by people from Africa, their language, and their music, to the Americas. Through words, music, and story, Lorenzo Dow Turner discovered in the 1930s that the Gullah people of Georgia and South Carolina still possessed parts of the culture and language of their enslaved ancestors, which had long been believed lost.

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