To the Victor Go the Spoils

1. To the Victor Go the Spoils

2. Introduction History is written by the Victors Winston Churchill

3. Objectives • Narrating history through creative writing genres • The use of African American fictional narratives to express History • Works chosen • Flyin’ West • The Marrow of Tradition

4. Charles Chesnutt Charles Chesnutt • Charles Waddell Chesnutt was born in Cleveland, Ohio on June 20, 1858. • In 1866 Chesnutt's family moved to Fayetteville, North Carolina, a Freedmen's Bureau school. • Chesnutt returned to Cleveland 1883, where he eventually established a successful stenographic business. He also began publishing different works in newspapers and magazines.

5. Pearle Cleage • Pearl Michelle Cleage was born December 7, 1948 in Springfield, Massachusetts, but she grew up in Detroit, Michigan. • Cleage started her playwriting career in the 1980’s with productions of puppetplay, Hospice, Good News, and Essential. • In 1990 and 1991 she published collections of her essay entitled respectively, Mad at Miles and Deals with the Devil. She gained national attention as a playwright during 1992 with her play called Flyin’ West.

6. Complete Perspective • Alternative to the Main Stream Media • Freedom’s Journal • North Star • In the tradition of Kara Walker • Creating a form for our own voices • Exoduster Movement

7. Flyin’ West • Video • Focuses on Different stages in History • Homestead Act 1862 • Exoduster Movement

8. Marrow of Tradition • Historical fiction • Remembers Wilmington Massacre • Conversation from the past • Current perspective on a past conversation

9. A conversation from the Past • Mrs Felton’s Speech • Alex Manley’s Editorial video

10. The Wilmington Massacre • Book • Twitter

11. Summary

12. Questions ?

13. Group E Members Ernest Smith Jasmin Jordan Matt Rogers Meaghan Lynch Shianne Daniels

14. Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters.Nigerian Proverb