English 320: Sing, Unburied, Sing: Parchman Farm

Grabenstein, Hannah. PBS NewsHour, Jan 29, 2018.

New York Times, Jun 04 1911, p. 1. ProQuest Historical Newspapers database.
This 1911 article mentioned in Grabenstein's PBS NewHour piece, praised Parchman Farm.

Yesko, Parker. APM Reports. May 29, 2018.

Altman, Susan. Encyclopedia of African-American Heritage, Second Edition, Facts On File, 2000. History Database Center.
Includes a section on the convict lease system.

Jess, Tyehimba. Callaloo, vol. 27, no. 2, 2004, pp. 404–405. JSTOR.

Comprised of two photo collections. Photographs taken at the Mississippi State Penitentiary in the early twentieth century. They document Parchman facilities and activities from 1914 to the early 1940s.

Song by Bukka White.
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Work Songs and Blues recorded by Alan Lomax. Note: Need free Pandora account to listen.

Parchman 12/47
November 1, 1947 to December 31, 1947
Parchman, Sunflower County, Mississippi, United States
These recordings were made in late 1947 at the Lambert Camp at the Mississippi State Penitentiary, better known as Parchman Farm. Some were originally issued by Tradition on a 1958 LP entitled "Negro Prison Songs," and were were later (1997) issued on CD in two volumes - "Prison Songs" - as part of the Alan Lomax Collection on Rounder Records, and in a two-CD set on Dust-to-Digital called "Parchman Farm: Photographs and Field Recordings, 1947–1959."