Word, Shout, Song: Ring Shouters

Lorenzo Dow Turner Papers, Anacostia Community Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution
August 4, 2010
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Lorenzo Dow Turner Papers, Anacostia Community Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Doing the Ring Shout in Georgia, ca. 1930s Members of the Gullah community express their spirituality through the “ring shout” during a service at a local “praise house.”