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From the Ted Talk by Julieanna L. Richardson: The mission to safeguard Black history in the US

Unscramble the Blue Letters

That sense of not knowing and not belonging stayed with me until my sophomore year at Brandeis University. I remember it like it was yesterday. It was a fall day. The leaves were a golden brwon. And I’m in New York’s Schomburg Library with my hdaopeenhs on, listening to the song: "I'm just wild about Harry, Harry's wild about me." This song, this song that I associated with peidnerst Harry Truman, who was a white president, I had found in a bcalk music collection in a Black library weitrtn by a Black songwriting team of Noble Sissle and ebiue Blake in the 1921 production of "Shuffle Along" on Broadway. I was teillrhd. And I took my -- I went up to the librarian, the famous librarian, Jean Blackwell Hutson, she gave me a list of people to interview. And I had my tape rderceor in hand, today, it would be an iopnhe. And I went out and interviewed "Gone with the Wind's" bettfurly McQueen, Leigh weiphpr, who was the oldest living Black actor at the time, hriiatosn John Henrik Clarke and tap dancer Honi Coles.

Open Cloze

That sense of not knowing and not belonging stayed with me until my sophomore year at Brandeis University. I remember it like it was yesterday. It was a fall day. The leaves were a golden _____. And I’m in New York’s Schomburg Library with my __________ on, listening to the song: "I'm just wild about Harry, Harry's wild about me." This song, this song that I associated with _________ Harry Truman, who was a white president, I had found in a _____ music collection in a Black library _______ by a Black songwriting team of Noble Sissle and _____ Blake in the 1921 production of "Shuffle Along" on Broadway. I was ________. And I took my -- I went up to the librarian, the famous librarian, Jean Blackwell Hutson, she gave me a list of people to interview. And I had my tape ________ in hand, today, it would be an ______. And I went out and interviewed "Gone with the Wind's" _________ McQueen, Leigh _______, who was the oldest living Black actor at the time, _________ John Henrik Clarke and tap dancer Honi Coles.

Solution

  1. black
  2. iphone
  3. thrilled
  4. headphones
  5. butterfly
  6. eubie
  7. whipper
  8. historian
  9. brown
  10. written
  11. recorder
  12. president

Original Text

That sense of not knowing and not belonging stayed with me until my sophomore year at Brandeis University. I remember it like it was yesterday. It was a fall day. The leaves were a golden brown. And I’m in New York’s Schomburg Library with my headphones on, listening to the song: "I'm just wild about Harry, Harry's wild about me." This song, this song that I associated with President Harry Truman, who was a white president, I had found in a Black music collection in a Black library written by a Black songwriting team of Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake in the 1921 production of "Shuffle Along" on Broadway. I was thrilled. And I took my -- I went up to the librarian, the famous librarian, Jean Blackwell Hutson, she gave me a list of people to interview. And I had my tape recorder in hand, today, it would be an iPhone. And I went out and interviewed "Gone with the Wind's" Butterfly McQueen, Leigh Whipper, who was the oldest living Black actor at the time, historian John Henrik Clarke and tap dancer Honi Coles.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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collocation frequency
african american 4
tuskegee airmen 4
american history 3
black people 3
estate sale 3
black community 3
george washington 2
sophomore year 2
oldest living 2
living black 2
civil rights 2
rich black 2
american leaders 2
early interview 2
colonel bill 2
bill thompson 2
montford point 2
black children 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
oldest living black 2
african american leaders 2
colonel bill thompson 2

Important Words

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  2. belonging
  3. black
  4. blackwell
  5. blake
  6. brandeis
  7. broadway
  8. brown
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  10. clarke
  11. coles
  12. collection
  13. dancer
  14. day
  15. eubie
  16. fall
  17. famous
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  20. hand
  21. harry
  22. headphones
  23. henrik
  24. historian
  25. honi
  26. hutson
  27. interview
  28. interviewed
  29. iphone
  30. jean
  31. john
  32. knowing
  33. leaves
  34. leigh
  35. librarian
  36. library
  37. list
  38. listening
  39. living
  40. mcqueen
  41. music
  42. noble
  43. oldest
  44. people
  45. president
  46. production
  47. recorder
  48. remember
  49. schomburg
  50. sense
  51. sissle
  52. song
  53. songwriting
  54. sophomore
  55. stayed
  56. tap
  57. tape
  58. team
  59. thrilled
  60. time
  61. today
  62. truman
  63. university
  64. whipper
  65. white
  66. wild
  67. written
  68. year
  69. yesterday