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Among the important recordings to be saved are:
- Authentic Native American music, dance, and story
recordings of the late 1800s
- Unique oral histories of the last living ex-slaves
recorded for the WPA project in the 1930s
- Songs of Chinese, Irish, Italian, Jewish, and
Latino immigrants
- Anglo and Mexican American cowboy songs from
the early 1900s
- Woody Guthrie's songs, including the original
"This Land Is Your Land"
- Songs and stories of the Farm Workers Movement
- The poetry of Langston Hughes
- Speeches of every U.S. president since Teddy
Roosevelt
- Sounds of technology from steam locomotives to
space satellites
- Speeches of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., and
Civil Rights leaders including "I Have a Dream"
- Interviews with coal miners, mariners, farmers,
factory workers, artists from every region of the U.S., and from around
the world
- The recordings documenting American life in the
Library of Congress Archive of the American Folklife Center
- The Folkways Collections at the Smithsonian Institution
- The voices of musicians, artisans, and carriers
of community cultural heritage recorded for three decades at the annual
Smithsonian Folklife Festival on the National Mall
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