Credits

Books

Adele, Lynne. Black History/Black Vision. Austin: College of Fine Arts, University of Texas, 1989.

Ayers, Edward. Southern Crossing (New York, Oxford University Press: 1995).

Baer, Hans A. and Singer, Merrill. African-American Religion in the Twentieth Century: Varieties of Protest and Accommodation. Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 1992.

Bennett, Kyle V. Junior Kimbrough's Juke Joint: A Story to be Told (Mississippi, University of Mississippi Press: 1996).

Beoku-Betts, Josephine A. "She Make Funny Flat Cake She Call Saraka." Working
Toward Freedom: Slave Society & Domestic Economy in the American South.
New York: University of Rochester Press, 1994.

Bontemps, Arna A. Forever Free: Art by African-American Women 1862-1980.
Alexandria, VA: Stephenson, Inc., 1980.

Brooks, Gwendolyn. Selected Poems (New York, Harper and Row: 1963).

Burkett, Randall. "The Baptist Church in Years of Crisis." African-American Religion: Interpretive Essays in History and Culture. Timothy E. Fulop and Albert J. Raboteau (Ed.). New York: Routledge, 1997.

Cohn, David. Where I Was Born and Raised. South Bend: Notre Dame Press, 1947.

Cohn, Lawrence. Nothing But the Blues: The Music and the Musicians (Abbeville Press, New York: 1993).

Cobb, James. The Most Southern Place on Earth (New York, Oxford University Press: 1992).

Dorey, Frank David. "The Church and Segregation in Washington D.C., and Chicago, Illinois: A Prolegomenon to the Sociological Analysis of the Segregated Church." Diss. The University of Chicago, 1950.

Drake, St. Clair and Cayton, Horace R. "The Churches of Bronzeville." Milton Sernett (ed.) Afro-American Religious History: A Documentary Witness. Durham: Duke University Press, 1985.

Fauset, Arthur Huff. Black Gods of the Metropolis: Negro Religious Cults of the Urban North. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1944.

Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration. Mississippi: A Guide to
the Magnolia State.
New York: The Viking Press, 1938.

Ferguson, Sheila. Soul Food: Classic Cuisine from the Deep South. New York:
Grove Press, 1989.

Frazier, E. Franklin. The Negro Church In America. New York: Schocken Books, 1963.

Gates, Lewis. The Signifying Monkey (New York, Oxford University Press: 1988).

Gomez, Michael. Exchanging our Country Marks (Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press: 1998).

Grossman, James. The Land of Hope (Chicago, The University of Chicago Press:1989).

Hafner, Dorinda. A Taste of Africa. Berkeley, CA: Ten Speed Press, 1993.

Harris, Jessica B. A Kwanzaa Keepsake: Celebrating the Holiday with New Traditions
and Feasts.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995.

________. Iron Pots and Wooden Spoons: Africa's Gifts to New World Cooking.
New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1989.

________. The Africa Cookbook. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998.

________. The Welcome Table: African-American Heritage Cooking. New York:
Simon & Schuster, 1995.

Height, Dorothy I. The Black Family Dinner Quilt Cookbook. New York:
Simon & Schuster, 1994.

Holloway, Joseph E. Africanisms in American Culture. Bloomington: Indiana
University Press, 1990.

Inquai, Tebereh. A Taste of Africa: The African Cookbook. Trenton, NJ: Africa World
Press, Inc., 1998.

Jeffries, Bob. Soul Food Cookbook. Indianapolis, IN: The Bobbs-Merrill Company,
1969.

Lincoln, Eric C. and Mamiya, Lawrence H. The Black Church in the African American Experience. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1990.

Lomax, Alan. The Land Where the Blues Began. New York: Dell Publishing, 1993.

Lowe, Sylvia and Lowe, Warren. Baking In The Sun: Visionary Images from the South. Lafayette, LA: University of Southwestern Louisiana Press, 1988.

Mae, Verta. Vibration Cooking or The Travel Notes of a Geechee Girl. Garden City,
N.Y.: Doubleday Inc., 1970.

Mays, Benjamin E. and Nicholson, Joseph W. "The Genius of the Negro Church." Milton Sernett (Ed.). Afro-American Religious History: A Documentary Witness. Durham: Duke University Press, 1985.

McKee, Margaret & Fred Chisenhall. Beale Black & Blue (Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press: 1981).

Mitchell, Henry H. Black Preaching. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co., 1970.

Nesbit, Peter (ed.). Jacob Lawrence: Thirty Years of Prints (1963-1993). Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1994.

Palmer, Robert. Deep Blues (New York, Viking Press: 1981).

Pinderhughes, John. Family of the Spirit Cookbook. New York: Simon & Schuster,
1990.

Puckett, Susan. A Cook's Tour of Mississippi. Jackson: Mississippi Publishers Corp.,
1980.

Rankin, Tom. Sacred Space (Mississippi, University of Mississippi Press: 1993).

Roberts, Leonard E. The Negro Chef Cookbook. New York: Vantage Press, 1969.

Schweid, Richard. Catfish and The Delta: Confederate Fish Farming in the Mississippi
Delta.
Berkeley, CA: Ten Speed Press, 1992.

Sernet, Milton. Bound for the Promise Land (Durham, Duke University Press: 1997).

Smalls, Alexander, and Hettie Jones. Grace the Table: Stories & Recipes from My
Southern Revival.
New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1997.

Thompson, Robert. Flash of the Spirit (New York, Vintage Books: 1983).

Tucker, David M. Black Pastors and Leaders: Memphis 1819-1972. Memphis: Memphis State University Press, 1975.

Webster, Cassandra H. Mother Africa's Table. New York: Main Street
Books/Doubleday, 1998.

Wheat, Ellen H. Jacob Lawrence: An American Painter (Seattle, University of Washington Press: 1986).

Woodson, Carter G. "Things of the Spirit." Milton Sernett (ed.) Afro-American Religious History: A Documentary Witness. Durham: Duke University Press, 1985.

Wright, Richard. Black Boy (New York, Harper & Brothers: 1945).

Young, Alan. Woke Me Up This Morning: Black Gospel Singers and the Gospel Life. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1997.

Periodicals

Living Blues Magazine: African Influence and the Blues N(6) Autumn 1971; Africa and the Blues N(10) Autumn 1972; Arthur Crudup N(16) Spring 1974; Black Music By Any Means Necessary N(25) Jan/Feb 1976; Living Blues interview: Son House N(31) March/April 1977; The state of Blues in Mississippi March/April 1997; Obituaries: David " Junior" Kimbrough May/June1998.

Chicago Tribune March 10, 1985 Section 10 Blues Highway.

People

Brooks, Blandie. Personal Interview. January 13, 1999.

Dunlap, Jimmye. Personal Interview. March 10, 1999.

Edwards, Barbara. Personal Interview. March 11, 1999.

Ehr, Donald, Fr. Personal Interview. March , 1999.

Glisson, Susan. Personal Interview. January 10, 1999.

Heron, Blondine. Personal Interview. January 14, 1999.

Heron, Thomas. Personal Interview. January 14, 1999.

Higginbothan, Thomas Revervand of Quinn Chapel. Personal Interview. March, 1999.

Holmes, C. Preston. Personal Interview. January 12, 1999.

Holmes, Pauline. Personal Interview. January 12, 1999.

Iglaur, Bruce. Personal Interview. March ??, 1999.

Lee, Clyde. Personal Interview. March 10, 1999.

Lowery, William. Personal Interview. March 11, 1999.

Nelson, David. Personal Interview. January ??, 1999.

Peterson, Katherine. Personal Interview. January 12, 1999.

Raggs, Robert Pastor. Personal Interview. January 12, 1999.

Ruskie, John. Personal Interview. January ??, 1999.

Shurman, Richard. Personal Interview. March ??, 1999.

Taylor, Melvin. Personal Interview. March 10, 1999.

Vaesser, Lena. Personal Interview. March 10, 1999.

Waterman, Bruce. Personal Interview. January ??, 1999.

Wiley, Mary. Personal Interview. March 10, 1999.

Web Sources

A Brief History Of The Blues http://thebluehighway.com/history.html
Fat Possum Records http://www.fatpossum.com
The Official Unofficial Guide To The Bluff City Memphis, Tennessee U.S.A http://www.memphisguide.com
History Of The Chicago Defender http://aman.interman.net/bronzeville/defend.htm
National Park Service: Lower Mississippi Delta Projects http://www.cr.nps.gov/seac/deltapro.htm
The Death Of Emmett Till http://members.aol.com/deverysa/index.html
Brown v. Board of Education http://www.nationalcenter.inter.net/brown.html

Songs

Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup Thatās All Right Victor, Chicago 9/6/46 Mississippi John Hurt Stack O' Lee Blues New York 12/28/28
Blind Lemon Jefferson That Black Snake Moan Paramount, Chicago 4/1927
Robert Johnson I Believe Iāll Dust My Broom Vocalion, San Antonio 11/23/36
B.B. King Please Love Me RPM Single, 1953
Bessie Smith Backwater Blues Columbia records, New York 2/17/27
Muddy Waters You Got to Take Sick and Die some of These Days Chess (1993), recorded in ?Clarksdale, 7/42?
Muddy Waters Burr Clover Blues Chess (1993), recorded Stovall 7/24/42 Muddy Waters Lousiana Blues Chess, Chicago, 10/23/50
Muddy Waters My Home is in the Delta Chess "Muddy Waters: His best 1956-1964), Chicago 1963

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