Audio cassette of the opening remarks for the 18th annual "Black Music and the Civil Rights" live concert event held at the Meyerson Symphony center on January 14th, 2001, sponsored by The Black Academy of Arts and Letters.

Audio from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during in relation to the "Flute for Two" jazz concert featuring Bobbi Humphrey and Hubert Laws held in 2001. The audio tape includes one track of audio featuring a :30 and :60 second spot advertising the concert and ticket information.

Interview with Ethel Reisberg Schectman regarding her experiences during World War II. She begins by discussing her family background: her parents were Jews born in Poland and emigrated to the United States. Ethel's European aunts, uncles and grandparents all likely died in the Holocaust. As a first grade student, she taught her mother, a Polish immigrant, how to read and write English. She recalls, wartime rationing, Victory Gardens, scrap drives, and antisemitism among her school-aged classmates in Dallas, Texas, and the end of the war.