A Legacy Project

This clip is a brief excerpt of 15 hours of recordings that document the lives of 4 generations of American women. They are my paternal mothers -- The Sanders Women. Their story begins near 1845 in Shreveport, Louisiana. This historically significant narrative moves off the slave plantation, up the Great migration, through Chicago's Jazz band scene, the roaring twenties, into the Great Depression in Harlem and the Civil Rights movement of the 1960's.The sisters, passing for white at will, glided between the chorus lines of the Cotton club uptown to the Zeigfield Follies on Broadway. Included on the recordings are stories of ommunist recruitment meetings, J. Edgar Hoover's 'other' life and the American Negro Theater in Harlem.

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[Donnafortworthtexas]

Would love to know who the pepole was who her grandpa was If they might be Attaway

[xGunslingerMomox]

@GAMOM2 They are whatever THEY say they are.

[GAMOM2]

They are black women

[pinkilady17]

strong white woman

[zuniga6412]

sisterdiggins....hey thanks! nina simone sings that song.she sings that song better than anyone.when she sings she makes you really feel what she is feeling.check her out sometime. zuniga6412.

[sisterdiggins]

I shall be released was written by Bob Dylan .

Many , many people have sung it.

Not sure who is singing this version though.

[zuniga6412]

ps.whats the name of this song? does anyone know.and who sings it.thanks

[zuniga6412]

i just love this story.would like to see more. thanks

[chetansingh2006]

oh the blues so infectious

[angelbluerotic33]

I must agree with Briannas21. It sounds like a facinating family history. I wish I could hear more of it also.