The Blues Highway

Welcome to the second episode of The Voices of Rondo youth council podcast: The Blues Highway. The Rondo Youth Council picks up where they left off in the previous episode, digging deeper into their findings at the Clarksdale's Hopson Plantation, the creation of northern Black communities through The Great Migration, and connections between places like Clarksdale and Rondo, whether that be through highways, music, or Civil Rights. Clarksdale isn't the only city with similarities to Rondo, as the destruction of Black communities has occurred and continues to happen  all across the country. In the following episodes, the youth council will unearth various other Black communities that were split by highway systems. Key words: Clarksdale, Mississippi Hopson Plantation Mechanized Cotton Gin The Shackup Inn The Green Book Prison Industrial Complex 13th amendment Modern slavery Victor Hugo Green Reconnect Rondo The Grammy Museum The B.B King Museum Muddy Waters Mississippi Delta Blues Museum Mississippi Delta Blues Howling Wolf Trans Atlantic Slave Trade Diaspora Highway The Blues Highway Rondo Ballroom Wee Willy Walker Irv Williams August Wilson Bessie Smith Sam Cooke Tina Turner Civil Rights Movement Interstate Highway System Sundown towns Racism Black History Sharecropper Slavery Plantation Great Migration Segregation Gentrification Redlining