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.
I've been reading Ted Gioia's Delta Blues: The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized American Music. I'll talk a bit more about the book next time I.
This is the grave of Junior Wells. Born Amos Blakemore in 1934 in or around Memphis, the boy who became Junior Wells began playing harmonica at the age of 7..
