Resources
- Jim Crow Laws
- The Long-Lasting Legacy of the Great Migration
- Azusa Street Revival (1906-1909)
- Gertrude "Ma" Rainey
References
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Dargan, William T. 2006. Lining Out the Word: Dr. Watts Hymn Singing in the Music of Black Americans. Berkeley: University of California Press.
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Harris, Michael. 1992. The Rise of Gospel Blues: The Music of Thomas A. Dorsey in the Urban Church. New York: Oxford University Press.
Jackson, Mahalia with Evan McLeod Wylie. 1966. Movin' On Up. New York: Hawthorn Books.
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Smitherman, Geneva. 1977. Talkin and Testifyin: The Language of Black America. Detroit: Wayne State University Press.