A sampling of folklore definitions through the years: 2007AMERICAN FOLKLORE SOCIETY:Folklore is the traditional art, literature, knowledge, and practice that is disseminated largely through oral communication and behavioral example.
HUNTSVILLE, Alabama â You may not recognize him when you see him on the street, but you might remember a desperate helicopter pilot shouting, Mike Durant, we won't leave you behind, in the Oscar-winning 2001 film Black Hawk Down..
Second, he was Black. He flew with the 332nd Fighter Group, The Redtails, the famous all-Black outfit that fought both American prejudice and Nazi militarism. Under the leadership and iron discipline of Col. Benjamin O. Davis, the Redtails had learned that their mission in life was to protect the bombers.