Beale Street.
From the early days of black and white reel-to-reel video ... Beale Street is where W.C. Handy wrote the blues, where Boss Crump abused his power, and where Martin Luther King, Jr. marched days before his death in 1968. Beale Street has been the victim of Urban Renewal, and we went to the original B...
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| Access Note: | Access to electronic resources restricted to Simmons University students, faculty, and staff. Access ends 8/8/20. |
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| Format: | Video |
| Language: | English |
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[San Francisco, California, USA] :
Kanopy Streaming,
2016.
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| Summary: | From the early days of black and white reel-to-reel video ... Beale Street is where W.C. Handy wrote the blues, where Boss Crump abused his power, and where Martin Luther King, Jr. marched days before his death in 1968. Beale Street has been the victim of Urban Renewal, and we went to the original Beale Streeters who knew and loved it best in the making of our oral history, including B.B. King, the Hooks Brothers, Bobby Blue Bland, Prince Gabe, Maurice Fess Hulbert, Nate D. Williams and Rufus Thomas. |
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| Item Description: | Playing time: 27 min. In Process Record. Title from title frames. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 29 min.) |
| Playing Time: | Pl:ay:in |
| Access: | Access to electronic resources restricted to Simmons University students, faculty, and staff. Access ends 8/8/20. |