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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Discusses the annual and "various clubs that have been organized: "Stag Club", "Turkey Club," "Half a Dayers" as well as fraternity life; his impending grade report; warns his parents about absences and possible demerits; asks for cake and other...