Melungeon Voices S1 E1 – Frederick Murphy
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- UPDATED: 8.10.2025
- status: high-priority, in progress
- Inherited Trauma, American History, Melungeons, Black History, History, Race+Ethnicity
- DNA, society, white supremacy, stereotypes, classism, police brutality, historical trauma, mixed-race, the South, history, cultural heritage, race, resilience, racism, segregation, one-drop rule, film, slavery, community, oral history, ethnicity, Jim Crow, allyship, mulatto
date:
6.26.2020
length:
32 min
podcast:
presenter:
producer:
Lis Malone (Lis Malone LLC)
host:
Heather Andolina (MHA President)
guest:
Frederick Murphy
notes:
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description:
Historian and documentary filmmaker, Frederick Murphy, discusses filmmaking, race, historical trauma, his personal story (and Melungeon connection) and the mission of his project organization, History Before Us.
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Other Resources
- Black History in East Tennessee
- The ‘Twenty and Odd’: The Silences of Africans in Early Virginia Revealed
- Divide and Rule: Red, White, and Black in the Southeast
- The Black Potter + an Ugly Jug Named Slave
- Making Gullah: A History of Sapelo Islanders, Race, and the American Imagination
- Melungeons: and Other Pioneer Families