History Of American Blues

By kmaynard2
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    History of American Blues

  • Slaves Come To America

    Slaves Come To America

    The first slaves are brougt to America.
  • The End of Slave Deportation

    The End of Slave Deportation

    Congress ends the importation of slaves to the United States.
  • Civil War Begins

    Civil War Begins

    The Civil War begins with the first shots in Charleston, South Carolina.
  • Emancipation Proclomation

    Emancipation Proclomation

    President Abraham Lincoln nominally free's slaves.
  • Civil War Ends

    Civil War Ends

    The Civil War ends and reconstruction begis in the South.
  • Slave Songs Published

    Slave Songs Published

    The earliest collection of African-American spiritual is published.
  • Jim Crow Rises

    Jim Crow Rises

    Southern states are now in the system of legal segregation,
  • "Maple Leaf Rag"

    "Maple Leaf Rag"

    Scott Joplin publishes "Maple Leaf Rag."
  • W.C. Handy Discovering Bluesman

    W.C. Handy Discovering Bluesman

    The musician W.C. Handy sees a bluesman playing guitar with a knife at a train station in Mississippi.
  • First Recording

    First Recording

    W.C. Handy's "Memphis Blues" and other blue's songs are published as sheet music.
  • Folk Music Begins

    Folk Music Begins

    Ralph Peer, makes his first recordings, marking the recording debut of the folk blues.
  • The beginning of the Great Depression

    The beginning of the Great Depression

    The Wall Street Crash of 1929 cripples the recording industry.
  • Electric Guitar

    Electric Guitar

    The first electric guitar is recorded in a song by Eddie Durham.
  • Brown v. Board

    Brown v. Board

    The Supreme Court rules on school desegregation.
  • Feedom Summer

    Feedom Summer

    The civil rights campaign to register black voters, brought young whites to the South.