This is the grave of Willie Dixon. Born in 1915 in Vicksburg, Mississippi, Dixon grew up very poor. He was one of 14 children in the family. He got into.
This is the grave of W.C. Handy. Born in 1873 in Florence, Alabama, William Christopher Handy grew up in the poor but respectable Black community there. His father was a.
This is the grave of Edith Wilson. Born in 1896 in Louisville, Edith Goodall stayed in Louisville into her twenties and began to sing publicly, at least by 1919 in.
This is the grave of Pinetop Perkins. Born in Belzoni, Mississippi in 1913, Joe Perkins grew up as a sharecropper. This was the reality of Black life in Mississippi at.
This is the grave of Mississippi Fred McDowell. Born in 1904 in Rossville, Tennessee, McDowell grew up in the sharecropping world of Jim Crow. His family picked cotton. His parents.
This is the grave of Mississippi John Hurt. Born in 1893 in Teoc, Mississippi, John Hurt grew up as part of the impoverished sharecropping Black working class of the South..
This is the grave of John Cephas. Born in 1930 in Washington, D.C., Cephas grew up in Bowling Green, Virginia. His father was a Baptist minister so he grew up.
Awhile back here, I profiled Marlon Riggs' Tongues Untied, the groundbreaking film about Black gay life that sent Jesse Helms through the roof. Last night, I watched Riggs' UC-Berkeley thesis.
