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                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SATURDAY, January 30, 1993                   TAG: 9301300289
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: A4   EDITION: STATE 
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DATELINE: EMORY                                LENGTH: Short

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ACTING GROUP'S FOUNDER TO PORTRAY EDUCATOR

The founder and director of the Afro-Appalachian Performance Company will lecture at Emory & Henry College on Tuesday at 8 p.m. about the political and artistic career of James Weldon Johnson.

Joseph Bundy will open the performance in Wiley Hall with a monologue in the character of Johnson, a black educator, poet and politician at the turn of the century who taught school in the 1890s and created the first high school for black students in Jacksonville, Fla. Johnson later became executive secretary of the NAACP.

Bundy is a native of Bluefield, W.Va., where he founded the company. He will hold a question-and-answer session with the audience in the character of Johnson. - Southwest bureau

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