Memphis Slim

Five million African-Americans fled north to escape Jim Crow and the Ku Klux Klan in the second Great Migration. One of the emigrants was a Mississippi sharecropper who had been recorded in 1941 by Alan Lomax for the Library of Congress. McKinely Morganfield was a hot commodity at the juke joints and house parties around the Stovall plantation, but he thirsted for bigger … [Read more...] about Monday Evening Thread: Chess Records