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