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The Life and Times of Albert Lee Murray: Albert Murray Exhibit

Located in the Ford Motor Company Library on the campus of Tuskegee University

Albert Murray Exhibit

"The Murray installation — entitled “Beyond Category” — details the extraordinary lives of the Murrays. It draws from the couple’s personal collections and includes a comprehensive amalgam of books, family memorabilia, posters, military gear, personal reflections, chronological data, awards, and an extensive selection of photographs of Murray with some of America’s most famous personalities and musicians."  Michael Tullier, APR, Office of Communications, Public Relations and Marketing

Also included on this page are "Albert Murray's Life Through Photographs" and The 2018 Founder's Day Convocation speech by Dr. Paul Devlin.

Albert Murray Exhibit Video

Founder's Day 2018. Tuskegee University

Dr. Paul Devlin is an Assistant Professor of Humanities at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy. He is a scholar of American literature, with a focus on African American literature. His dissertation (2014) was on Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Ellison, Albert Murray, and Percival Everett. He is the editor of Albert Murray's previously uncollected and unpublished interviews and music writings, Murray Talks Music: Albert Murray on Jazz and Blues (University of Minnesota Press, 2016), and Rifftide: The Life and Opinions of Papa Jo Jones (University of Minnesota Press, 2011), a finalist for the Jazz Journalists Association's book award in 2012. He is a co-editor (with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.) of the Library of America's definitive two-volume edition of Albert Murray's work. Volume one (Essays and Memoirs) was published in October 2016 and volume two (Complete Novels and Poems) will be published in early 2018. Dr. Devlin is an appointee to the Modern Language Association's Committee on the Literatures of People of Color in the United States and Canada (term: July 1, 2016 - June 30, 2019) and is the Book Review Editor of African American Review (Johns Hopkins University Press).

Source: https://www.usmma.edu/academics/faculty/dr-paul-devlin