St. James Missionary Baptist Church of Canton - Angels In Heaven(1978)

Bessie Jones & the Georgia Sea Island Singers - Sink 'Em Low (1959)

Joe McDonald - Before I'll Be Beaten (1940)

Joe McDonald - Before I'll be beaten (1940)

Billy McCrea Interview, Jasper, Texas, 1940 (Excerpt)

Interviewer: Lomax, John Avery, 1867-1948
Interviewer: Lomax, Ruby T. (Ruby Terrill)

Recorded by John A. and Ruby T. Lomax
Sound Recording, Non-Music.

http://S3R.news/former-slaves-break-their-silence-on-juneteenth/

Billy McCrea

Laura Smalley Interview, Hempstead, Texas, 1941 (Excerpt)

Interviewer: Faulk, John Henry

Recorded by John Henry Faulk
Sound Recording, Non-Music.

S3R.news/former-slaves-break-…lence-on-juneteenth/

Laura Smalley Part II

Fountain Hughes Interview, Baltimore, Maryland, June 11, 1949 (Excerpt)

Interviewer: Norwood, Hermond

Recorded by Hermond Norwood
Sound Recording, Non-Music.

S3R.news/former-slaves-break-…lence-on-juneteenth/

Fountain Hughes

Laura Smalley Interview, Hempstead, Texas, 1941 (Excerpt)

Interviewer: Faulk, John Henry

Recorded by John Henry Faulk
Sound Recording, Non-Music.

http://S3R.news/former-slaves-break-their-silence-on-juneteenth/

Laura Smalley Part I

Clyde Maxwell- Everybody Ought To Love Jesus (1978)

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Lay My Burden Down - I Aint Lying MIssissippi Folktales Documentary

Howard Gospel Choir - Aint Gon Let Nobody (2015)

Sounds of The South
 
This page is an archive dedicated to the foundation of the Black American Experience in sound... notes formed to the very heartbeat of Jim Crow. This is America through the eyes of marginalized men and women of color, their story of pain, love, honesty, fear and ultimate triumph. 

These are the Sounds of the South
 
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