Blues on Maxwell Street - comments by Sterling Plumpp

Sterling Plumpp is a Professor of African-American Studies at University of Illinois at Chicago. He is a poet, a frequent visitor to Maxwell Street, and was a principal interviewee in the Discovery Channel series on the Great Migration, The Promised Land.


These are excerpts from a article by Howard Reich who interviewed Professor Plumpp. Chicago Tribune, "Musicians also singing the Maxwell Street blues". April 13, 1993, p. C1



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