Songs--United States--20th Century; Popular Music--United States
Cover: drawing of Caucasian male American troops unloading watermelons from a ship; caricature drawing inset of African American boys eating watermelons
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...