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History in Motion: Boll Weevil Blues

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This scenario shows the spread of the weevil and a few of the songs that singers such as Charley Patton, Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, and others created in the wake of its devastation. Click on the events to see the details of the devastation and to hear the folk and blues songs that came as a result of it.

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