These recordings of oral history, play songs, blues, spirituals, and stories were made in 1948 when Alan Lomax invited Vera Hall to come from her home in Livingston, Alabama, to New York City for a concert. Vera Hall's mother had been a slave, and...
Williams, John Bell, 1918-1983; Mississippi -- Race relations
Excerpts from a speech Mississippi representative John Bell Williams to a group of lawyers, warning that racial conflicts in the state create opportunities for federal government interference