Roosevelt ‘Giant’ Hudson – Field Holler
Published By: Lamont Jack Pearley John and Ruby Lomax recorded Roosevelt 'Giant' Hudson at the Cummins State Farm in Gould, Arkansas, Camp #1 Jack Dappa Blues Public Media and Heritage Preservation Foundation reintroduces African American Traditional Music and the Black Experience to the People of the…

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We The Blues People F/ Marquis Knox
Published By: Lamont Jack Pearley “We The Blues People” is a biweekly broadcast produced and hosted by Jack Dappa Blues Public Media, in partnership with Knox Entertainment located in St. Louis, which is a live feed broadcast that discusses events and laws from the past…

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Gumbo Friday’s – Blues People in the Bible
Published By: Lamont Jack Pearley Gumbo Friday's where we discuss everything that has to do with African American Tribal Music and the Black Experience. Our main topic of the last few weeks is the Blues in The Bible, Blues People in the Bible, and identifying…

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African American Writers, Folklorists and The Blues
Published By: Lamont Jack Pearley On this episode we will be looking into and discussing Eileen Southern, a scholar of Renaissance and African-American music and the first black woman to be appointed a tenured full professor at Harvard University, and her works. After that, I have…

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The Slave Narrative – Uncle Cinto Lewis
Published By: Lamont Jack Pearley On this episode of Jack Dappa Blues Heritage Radio i will be reading from and discussing the Slave Narrative of Ex- Slave Uncle Cinto Lewis. Uncle Cinto Lewis, ex-slave, claims to "be 111 years old. He lived in a brick cabin…

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Slave Narrative – Lucius Abernathey Interview
Published By: Lamont Jack Pearley Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves. These narratives were collected in the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers' Project…

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Slave Narrative – Silas Abbott
Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves. These narratives were collected in the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers' Project (FWP) of the…

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