Creole Language | Folks (1985) 

This segment from the June 9, 1985, episode of the series “Folks” features Rob Hinton’s report on a pilgrimage of black Canadians from Buxton, Canada, to south Louisiana. Hinton reports that the travelers are the descendants of fifteen slaves from Louisiana that were freed and moved to Canada by Reverend William King in 1848. He interviews Edna Jordan Smith, the pilgrimage coordinator, who discusses the ancestors of the Canadians. He also follows the travelers as they retrace Reverend King’s route at the courthouse in Clinton and a church in Jackson and attend a concert in their honor at Southern University in Baton Rouge. He also interviews two of the Canadians, who discuss their experience in Louisiana.
This segment from the June 9, 1985, episode of the series “Folks” features Genevieve Stewart’s report on the Creole language of Louisiana. She interviews three native Creole speakers from Breaux Bridge, Joseph Jones, Joseph Alexander, and Agnes Alexander.
This segment from the June 9, 1985, episode of the series “Folks” features Rob Hinton’s profile of Big Buddy, a youth mentoring program in Baton Rouge. Hinton interviews: James Geiser of the Big Buddy Program; Michelle Chamberlain, a Big Buddy volunteer; and Tomeka McGee, Bertrell Williams, Tshombe Williams, and Gerald Tillotson, four of the little buddy participants.
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