Thursday, March 13 Book Presentation & Performance: Sharecropper’s Troubadour: John L. Handcox, the Southern Tenant Farmers Union, and the African American Song Tradition Two free events with civil rights historian Michael Honey Book Presentation: 3:30pm-5:00pm, Communications Building, Room 230, University of Washington, Seattle. Performance with Seattle Labor Chorus: 7:00pm-8:30pm, University Temple, United Methodist Church, 1415 NE 43rd Street, Seattle, WA 98105. Folk singer and labor organizer John Handcox was born in 1904 in the Arkansas delta of King Cotton amidst segregation and sharecropping, but went on to become one of the most beloved folk singers of the prewar labor movement. Now, a new beautifully told oral history gives us Handcox in his own words, recounting a journey that began in the Deep South and went on to shape the labor music tradition. Michael Honey’s new book, Sharecropper’s Troubadour: John L. Handcox, the Southern Tenant Farmers Union and the African American Song Tradition, is an overdue tribute to the legacy of a man central to the history of American music. Michael Honey is the Fred T. and Dorothy G. Haley Endowed Professor of the Humanities at the University of Washington Tacoma, and was a 2011 Guggenheim fellow. He is author of numerous award-winning books on labor, race relations, and Southern history, including Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King’s Last Campaign. Sponsored by the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies, the MLK Jr. County Labor Council, and UW American Ethnic Studies. For more information, contact the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies at 206-543-7946, [email protected].
Posted on: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 17:00:34 +0000
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