- Created by
- Robinson, Brooks B. Ph.D., American
- Subject of
- Saint Tekakwitha, Kateri, Mohawk, 1656 - 1680
- Walker, David, American, ca. 1796 - 1830
- Tijerina, Reies, Mexican American, 1926 - 2015
- Tijerina, Patsy, American, born ca. 1948
- Garnet, Henry, American, 1815 - 1882
- Directed by
- Cham, Robert
- Date
- February 1, 1981
- Medium
- tape and plastic
- Dimensions
- H x W: 2 3/4 × 4 1/4 × 5/8 in. (7 × 10.8 × 1.6 cm)
- Duration: 00:27:26
- Description
- A white plastic audiocassette tape with a recording of the radio program "Lesser But Not Least." The cassette tape has a beige label on which typewritten text on one side reads [TRY OUT RADIO / 2/1/81 / "LESSER BUT NOT LEAST" WHA / RADIO]. The radio show was produced by Dr. Brooks Robinson for a "Tryout Radio," and focuses on "lesser-known" individuals in American history and is divided into three segments.
- The first segment discusses the life of Kateri Tekakwitha, the first Native American Catholic saint. In this segment, there is also a fictional dramatization of a conversation between Saint Kateri story and one of her suitors. In the second segment, the narrator moves to a discussion of David Walker's life and the impact of his essay "Appeal to The Colored Peoples of The World." There is also a reading of Henry Highland Garnet's commentary on David Walker's essay, as well as a dramatization of an encounter between Walker and Savannah’s representatives over the "seditious material" Walker wrote. Toward the end of the second segment, "The Star-Spangled Banner" instrumental is played while the narrator describes Walker’s contributions to the abolitionist movement.
- The last segment focuses on the contributions of Reies Lopez Tijerina. It is dramatized as a narration by his former wife Patsy Tijerina. Some of the topics they cover are the Mexican-American War of 1846; Mexico’s land grants to settlers; the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo; La Alianza; San Joaquín de Chama land grant; the occupation of the Echo Amphitheater; the July 4 March from Albuquerque to Santa Fe; the planned citizen’s arrest of Sanchez on June 5; Reies Tijerina's arrest and the ensuing legal battles; Poor People's March on Washington in 1968; as well as Tijerina's activism post 1968.
- Place made
- Wisconsin, United States, North and Central America
- Place depicted
- New York, United States, North and Central America
- New Mexico, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Time-based Media - Audio
- Movement
- BAM (Black Arts Movement 1965-1976)
- Abolitionist movement
- Chicano Movement / El Movimiento
- Type
- audiotapes
- Topic
- Activism
- American West
- Antislavery
- Catholicism
- Literature
- Poetry
- Radio
- Religion
- United States History
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Contributed in memory of Professor Sarah Webster Fabio (1928-1979), poet, educator, Black Arts Movement icon, and one of the Literary Corner's analysts.
- Object number
- 2010.17.2.1a
- Restrictions & Rights
- © Brooks B. Robinson
- Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.




