TODAY
TODAY at 7:00 !! 👁️👁️
at LIVRA BOOKS
4101 Guadalupe St. #200, Austin, TX
-- I'll present my new book:
EYES OF TEXAS :
how a minstrel song about the forced labor of Black convicts, "Ise been wukkin' on de railroad," was modified to become a joke song for a blackface comedy, UT's first minstrel show. This is the true and dramatic history about how a song about uneducated Black men became the anthem of Texas higher education.
Civil War, convicts, railroads, cowboys, glee club, the Band, football, Hyde Park, and the petitions of bright brave students.