Manuscript/Mixed Material Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Rainbow Sign, 1959
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Image 1 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Rainbow Sign, 1959 American Folklife Center Library of Congress Alan Lomax Collection AFC 2004004 folder 020205 writings books Rainbow Sign transcripts Reverend Roe Transcribed and reviewed by volunteers participating in the By The People project…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1959-01-01
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Image 2 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Rainbow Sign, 1959 Where is the story of the brakemans wife Intro a couple of pages about preaching Chap I Birth place Had to work hard poverty hunger Parents obedience to Fathers story grandfather should…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1959-01-01
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Image 3 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Rainbow Sign, 1959 REVEREND ROE TABLE OF CONTENTS Reel 1 P 1 Where born Parents Learned to read Farmed Father buys farm Working with the plow Reel 1 P 2 Hog claim First time we…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1959-01-01
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Image 4 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Rainbow Sign, 1959 CONTENTS 2 Reel 2 p 2 Vision Reel 2 p 3 First revival Holy Spirit inspires sermons Reel 2 p 4 Itinerant preaching Hard times as a preacher Reel 2 p 5…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1959-01-01
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Image 5 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Rainbow Sign, 1959 CONTENTS 3 Reel 4 p 1 Family driven off the farm Whites whip sister Reel 4 p 2 It was valuable land Hates whites Reel 4 p 3 Boys ears are cut…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1959-01-01
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Image 6 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Rainbow Sign, 1959 CONTENTS 4 Reel 5 p 5 Negro voters All Republicans Reel 5 p 6 Voting contd Reel 6 p 1 Revival SEE FOLLOWING PAGE PLEASE Transcribed and reviewed by volunteers participating in…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1959-01-01
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Image 7 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Rainbow Sign, 1959 Contents 5 Reel 6 p 1 Revival How to run a revival Reel 6 p 2 Sacrificial week Reel 6 p 3 Christ key to revival Reel 6 p 4 Shoutingwhy Reel…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1959-01-01
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Image 8 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Rainbow Sign, 1959 CONTENTS 6 Reel 9 p 1 Different types of preachers Evidence that God had marked him for the ministry Reel 9 p 2 Preachers are tempted Reel 9 p 3 Women interested…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1959-01-01
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Image 9 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Rainbow Sign, 1959 CONTENTS 7 Reel 12 p 3 Conjure People have stopped believing in conjure Reel 12 p 4 Woman who can find things Reel 12 p 5 Trouble in church false accusation by…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1959-01-01
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Image 10 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Rainbow Sign, 1959 CONTENTS 8 Reel 16 p 1 Treatment of mother under slavery Woman and hound Auction block Wed cry and get mad Reel 16 p 2 Old Man Winder they couldnt keep Freedom…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1959-01-01
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Image 11 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Rainbow Sign, 1959 REVEREND ROE TABLE OF CONTENTS Reel 1 P1 Where born Parents Learned to read Farmed Father buys farm Working with the plow Reel 1 P2 Hog claim First time we ate all…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1959-01-01
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Image 12 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Rainbow Sign, 1959 CONTENTS 2 Reel 2 p 2 Vision Reel 2 P 3 First revival Holy Spirit inspires sermons Reel 2 p 4 Itinerant preaching Hard times as preacher Reel 2 p 5 Sunday…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1959-01-01
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Image 13 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Rainbow Sign, 1959 CONTENTS 3 Reel 4 p 1 Family driven off the farm Whites whip sister Reel 4 p 2 It was valuable land Hates whites Reel 4 p 3 Boys ears are cut…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1959-01-01
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Image 14 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Rainbow Sign, 1959 CONTENTS 4 Reel 5 p 5 Negro voters All Republicans Reel 5 p 6 Voting contd Reel 6 p 1 Revival SEE FOLLOWING PAGE PLEASE Transcribed and reviewed by volunteers participating in…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1959-01-01
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Image 15 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Rainbow Sign, 1959 Contents 5 Reel 6 p 1 Revival How to run a revival Reel 6 p 2 Sacrificial week Reel 6 p 3 Christ key to revival Reel 6 p 4 Shoutingwhy Reel…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1959-01-01
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Image 16 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Rainbow Sign, 1959 CONTENTS 6 Reel 9 p 1 Different types of preachers Evidence that God had marked him for the ministry Reel 9 p 2 Preachers are tempted Reel 9 p 3 Women interested…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1959-01-01
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Image 17 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Rainbow Sign, 1959 CONTENTS 7 Reel 12 p 3 Conjure People have stopped believing in conjure Reel 12 p 4 Women who can find things Reel 12 p 5 Trouble in church false accusation by…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1959-01-01
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Image 18 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Rainbow Sign, 1959 Contents 8 Reel 16 p 1 Treatment of mother under slavery Woman and hound Auction block Wed cry and get mad Reel 16 p 2 Old Man Winder they couldnt keep Freedom…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1959-01-01
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Image 19 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Rainbow Sign, 1959 ALL SAINTS PARISH BULLETIN The Fourth Sunday After Trinity Nativity of St John the Baptist June 24 1956 ORDER OF SERVICE AT 915 ORDER OF SERVICE AT 1100 Processional Hymn 10 Processional…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1959-01-01
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Image 20 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Rainbow Sign, 1959 The latter part of June and the early part of July always sees hosts of ordinations in the Diocese of Texas This year is no exception Jack Desel will be ordained June…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1959-01-01
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Image 21 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Rainbow Sign, 1959 Reverend Roe Reel 1 P 1 Where born Parents R I was born in Webster Parish Louisiana A How long ago was that R It was in 1871 A Who were your…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1959-01-01
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Image 22 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Rainbow Sign, 1959 Reverend Roe Reel 1 P 1 Where born R I was born in Webster Parish Louisiana A How long ago was that R It was in 1871 Parents A Who were your…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1959-01-01
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Image 23 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Rainbow Sign, 1959 Reverend Roe Reel 1 P 2 claim you know the hogs you know we had wild hogs there if you Hog claim gave some you put it in the bottom why you…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1959-01-01
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Image 24 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Rainbow Sign, 1959 Reverend Roe Reel 1 P3 want us to learn too much because they said an educated man wouldnt make a good slave and thats true Well after we got our farm paid…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1959-01-01
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Image 25 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Rainbow Sign, 1959 Reverend Roe Reel 1 P 4 seventeen years old and Im now seventyseven the 18th years old now and I havent taken a dram since A moral boy I never gambled in…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1959-01-01
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Image 26 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Rainbow Sign, 1959 Reverend Roe Reel 1 P 5 A Well didnt that make you mad at your father Didnt you resent that R No sir I didnt A It looks like you would have…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1959-01-01
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Image 27 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Rainbow Sign, 1959 Reverend Roe p 6 r Yesm I knew the fellow but I dont recollect his name He worked on a livery stable It was a dead end street up on Texas Street…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1959-01-01
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Image 28 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Rainbow Sign, 1959 Reverend Roe Reel 1 p 1 I was born in Ramsen County Webster Parish Louisiana How long ago was that It was in 1971 Who were your parents Anthony Blue and Eliza…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1959-01-01
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Image 29 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Rainbow Sign, 1959 Reverend Roe Reel 1 p 2 know we had wild hogs thenand if you gave some you put i the bottom why you had to clean you knew and so we bought…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1959-01-01
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Image 30 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Rainbow Sign, 1959 Reverend Roe Reel 1 p 3 tend the farm whilst the chi dren you know went to school helped me somewhat because when they get back why Id read you know Well…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1959-01-01
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Image 31 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Rainbow Sign, 1959 Reverend Row Reel 1 P 4 Well Ill tell you about that hen I was drunk on the part of some smart fellos that was awful mean I had a pistol I…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1959-01-01
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Image 32 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Rainbow Sign, 1959 Reverend Roe Reel 1 P 5 those navy blue suits they cost ten dollars at that time and they didnt wear out and when I had finished the year and went home…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1959-01-01
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Image 33 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Rainbow Sign, 1959 Reverend Roe Reel 1 P 6 own back And they broke his arm shot him and broke his arm I was there and since I had been deputized to help to guard…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1959-01-01
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Image 34 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Rainbow Sign, 1959 Reverend Roe Reel 1 P7 Well I had married then and my wife she was teaching a little school up there and Is farming worked on the farm I was a good…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1959-01-01
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Image 35 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Rainbow Sign, 1959 Reverend Roe Reel 1 p 1 Room 1301 Bea Baron R I was born in Ramsen County Webster Parish Louisiana A How long ago was that R It was in 1871 A…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1959-01-01
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Image 36 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Rainbow Sign, 1959 Reverend Roe Reel 1 p 2 know we had wild hogs thenand if you gave some you put it in the bottom why you had to claim a claim you know and…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1959-01-01
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Image 37 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Rainbow Sign, 1959 Reverend Roe Reel 1 p 3 tend the farm whilst the chi dren you know went to school ad that helped me somewhat because when they get back why white children would…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1959-01-01
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Image 38 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Rainbow Sign, 1959 Reverend Roe Reel 1 P 4 Well Ill tell you about that Now after hen I was drunk and I had a brawl on the part of some there with some white…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1959-01-01
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Image 39 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Rainbow Sign, 1959 Reverend Roe Reel 1 P 5 those navy blue suits they cost ten dollars at that time and they didnt wear out And when I had finished the year and went home…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1959-01-01
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Image 40 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Rainbow Sign, 1959 Reverend Roe Reel 1 P 6 own back And they broke his arm shot him and borke his arm captured him I was there and since I had been deputized to help…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1959-01-01
About this Item
Title
- Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Rainbow Sign, 1959
Names
- Lomax, Alan, 1915-2002 (Collector)
- Lomax, Alan, 1915-2002 (Author)
Created / Published
- 1959
Headings
- - Books
- - Transcripts
- - writings
- - interviews
- - United States
Genre
- Transcripts
- writings
- interviews
Notes
- - Reverend Roe interview transcripts; see also "The Land Where the Blues Began"
Medium
- Manuscripts 8.5 x 14 in or smaller.
Call Number/Physical Location
- AFC 2004/004: MS 02.02.05
Source Collection
- Alan Lomax collection (AFC 2004/004)
Repository
- American Folklife Center
Online Format
- online text
- image