Block 23 of James Spaulding Weeksville Oral History (Q24808)

James Spaulding: It was all around me at The East; there was no other place teaching about our ancestry, our black history. This is what I was searching for; it opened my eyes, nobody had told me about Africa. The only thing I knew about Africa was those Tarzan and Jane movies [chuckles], all those characters. They called Jitu [Weusi] "Big Black" during that period, but he was the head man, ...