Toni Cade Bambara Speaks at the Conference on Black South Literature and Art, November 1980

Author Toni Cade Bambara is shown speaking at the Conference on Black South Literature and Art held at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. Written on verso: Novelist Toni Cade Bambara addresses the keynote session of the Conference on Black South Literature and Art. Other platform guests shown are (l-r) novelist Albert Murray; Ann Carol Rivers of the Atlanta University Center; former U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young; playwright Ossie Davis; David Wilk, director of the literature program of the National Endowment for the Arts; Benjamin Hudson, dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at Atlanta University; and Sondra O'Neale, professor of English at Emory and organizer of the conference.The Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library acknowledges the generous support of the Joseph & Evelyn Lowery Institute for Justice and Human Rights, the Joseph Echols Lowery Irrevocable Trust, and other donors in supporting the processing and digitization of Morehouse College's Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection