The Mt. Zion Memorial Fund Podcast
1) Gabriel Soria Explains How He Found Rubin Lacy's California Grave
Gabriel Soria Explains How He Found Rubin Lacy's California Grave
2) Blues Legend Tommy Johnson
Follow along as the Mt. Zion Memorial Fund helped the descendants of Tommy Johnson fight for access to his final resting place.
3) Billy Smiley Mississippi Blues Musician
Billy Smiley is interred in the Legends Section of the Greenlawn Memorial Gardens in Greenville, MS.
4) Joe Callicott Mississippi Hill Country Blues
Callicott recorded only a handful of songs before World War II. On September 23, 1929 at the Peabody Hotel in Memphis, TN, Garfield Akers recorded “Cottonfield Blues—Part I” and “Cottonfield Blues—Par...Show More
5) Welcome to Tutwiler - Where W. C. Handy Discovered the Blues
Tutwiler, Mississippi is a dusty wide spot in the road and once home to Sonny Boy Williamson, John Lee Hooker, and W. C. Handy.
6) Mississippi John Hurt Burial Site - Preserving the Legacy of John Hurt
The desecration of the burial sites of African American churches is real. In this podcast the Mt. Zion Memorial Fund stands with Mary Frances Hurt to prevent further erasure of the people of St. James...Show More
7) Blind Roosevelt Graves
Mt. Zion Memorial Fund has newly discovered documents about Blind Roosevelt Graves' life and death. Lee Moise Roosevelt Graves was a recording artist and guitarist who mixed secular and sacred materi...Show More
8) Rubin Lacy - Blues King
Follow Mt. Zion Memorial Fund associate Gabe Soria who worked with the Lacy family to reveal and mark his true burial site in California, not Mississippi.
9) The Mt. Zion Memorial Fund Intro
We are a non-profit organization that works to preserve African American history through research and memorialization projects.