- Collection:
- Indices to Atlanta University Historical Theses and Dissertations
- Title:
- Interview with A.C. Salaam by Tessa Desmond, September 27, 2023
- Date of Original:
- 2023-08-01
- Subject:
- Oral history
Food--History
Female
Indigenous peoples
Americans
Pitt County (N.C.)
Fairfield County (Conn.) - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- born digital
- Type:
- Moving Image
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- A.C. Salaam reflects on her time attending medical school in the Caribbean and discusses how that experience led her to the practice of plant healing. She shares stories of plant medicines and how she uses them throughout the interview. She reflects on her family's food practices and the role of sufficiency. Salaam touches on the importance of sustenance, and connects this value to her work in the Farmville, NC, community garden.
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/sc.heirloom:0022_01
- Rights Holder:
- Spelman College
- Additional Rights Information:
- To order a reproduction or to inquire about permission to publish, please contact the Spelman College Archivist at https://www.spelman.edu/about-us/archives with the web URL or handle identification number.
- Extent:
- 00:15:38
- Original Collection:
- Heirloom Gardens Oral History Project
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library
- Rights:
-
