Lorenzo Dow Turner : Father of Gullah Studies

List of Illustrations ix Introductory Note xi Lois Turner Williams Foreword xiii Irma Aloyce Cunningham Preface xv Acknowledgments xxi Sally Rooks, Jacob Brady, and the Origins of the Rooks/Turner Clan: 1799--And After 1(3) Rooks Turner: 1844--1926 4(8) Elizabeth R. Sessoms Freeman Turner: 1861--1931 12(5) Childhood: 1890--1910 17(3) Howard University: 1910--1914 20(5) Chicago: 1914--1915 25(2) Harvard University: 1915--1917 27(5) Professor Lorenzo Dow Turner: 1917--1926 32(7) The University of Chicago: 1919--1926 39(13) Howard University---Turner's Final Two Years: 1926--1928 52(3) The Washington Sun---A Venture in Entrepreneurship: September 1928--January 1929 55(4) Fisk University: 1929--1932 59(13) The Beginnings of Gullah Research: 1932--1942 72(25) The University of London: 1936--1937 97(14) Lois Gwendolyn Morton: 1918--1938 111(8) Yale University: Fall 1938 119(5) Brazil and Back: 1940--1941 124(16) Fisk University and the Founding of African Studies: 1943--1946 140(8) Roosevelt College and the Publication of Africanisms in the Gullah Dialect: 1946--1966 148(17) Africa at Last! 1951 165(20) The Peace Corps Project and Public Service: 1962--1966 185(4) Relations between Colleagues---Turner and Herskovits: 1936--1963 189(8) Turner's Final Years: 1960--1972 197(5) Conclusions 202(3) Epilogue: Contemporary Relevance of Turner's Contribution to Linguistics 205(16) Appendix: Lorenzo Dow Turner Family 221(6) Notes 227(50) Bibliography 277(26) Index 303(22) About the Author 325