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...
Songs--United States--19th Century; Popular Music--United States
Cover: photo of two Caucasian male performers in blackface, one is dressed as a female; ""sung by Charles E. Foreman with J. H. Haverly's Minstrels"" - ""Musical Supplement of the New York Journal and Advertiser, Oct. 9, 1898""