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...
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Requests permission to travel to Holly Springs for a football game the following Saturday; elaborates on his financial situation; asks if they think it "would be advisable to go to Mrs. Rascoe's"; mentions an upcoming ball and that, while...