Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Delta Blues Museum & "Ole Miss"

First we visited the Delta Blues Museum where we saw the famous guitar "Lucelle" which belonged to B.B. King. The Delta Blues Museum is an old freight train station because that's the way the blues singers traveled. They had to travel this way because they didn't have much money and it was cheap. I think the Delta Blues Museum which is a juke joint tied into the civil rights thing because it's where people could go and express themselves. Blues was a creative way to express themselves. Next we visited the University of Mississippi where SNCC had 20 student volunteers. They had to have $500 for bail or getting home if necessary and be willing to except the non-violence part of the movement. One of the marches was there and the reporter and a innocent by stander was murdered. The universty also known as "Ole Miss" is a beautiful college with a lot of important history. The only thing I disagreed with was that the campus had a Confederate flag to represent itself. I think that is very disrespectful seeing that black students now attend that college.

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