Episodes Located: WILKINSON, Mississippi in the 1890's

  1. African American Composer William Grant Still is Born
    date May 11, 1895map WILKINSON, Mississippitags African-Americans, Arts/Leisure

    William Grant Still was born on May 11, 1895 in Woodville, Mississippi. His father passed away when Still was only three months old, and he and his mother moved to Little Rock, Arkansas, where she soon remarried. As a boy, Still learned to play the oboe and cello and took violin lessons. He soon developed an interest in African American, jazz, popular, opera, and classical genres. Still attended...