Block 19 of Viola Plummer Weeksville Oral History (Q24777)

Viola Plummer: We thought that in this community, after The East was gone, after all the music places were gone... and remember, we had started that in Harlem... "Jazz Comes to Fight Back", because we feel that it is jazz that really expresses, at least for us old people, our culture; it's the music that grew out of struggle, that got interpreted, and that some of the brothers and sisters [jaz...