
Episode 166: “Crossroads” by Cream
A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs
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The Segregation of a South
Robert Johnson would not have been born if it wasn't for white men trying to steal from black men. The normal thing was that the white man would make some kind of accusation against the black man, usually that the black man had been trying to have sex with a white woman. So in 1906 when Joseph Marchetti accosted Charles Dodds, a farmer who owned a small piece of land and accused him of talking to a white woman, the woman in question was actually mixed race as was Dodds himself. He quickly ran home, explained the situation to his wife, and hid himself in a ramble thicket so thick that nobody could get in there. Then he made his escape
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