Robert Sonkin Alabama and New Jersey collection

Description:

subjects: African American farmers,  Traditional medicine,  African American gospel singers,  Sharecropping,  Interviews,  Slave narratives,  Jubilee singers,  Spirituals (Songs),  Religious life and customs,  Gospel music,  United States. Farm Security Administration,  Music,  Blues (Music),  Social life and customs,  English Hymns,  United States,  Texts,  African American families,  Field recordings,  Ethnomusicological collections,  English Folk songs,  Folklore,  African American school children,  Social conditions,  African Americans,  Freedmen,  Slavery

People: Robert Sonkin

Places: New Jersey,  Alabama,  Boykin (Wilcox County, Ala.),  Shell Pile (N.J.)

Times: 1941-1950