Peterborough, New Hampshire - On Friday, September 14 at 7 pm the Mariposa Museum will host All You Jim Crow Fascists! presented by Woody Guthrie scholar, Dr. Will Kaufman in the barn at Four Winds Farm in Peterborough. Will Kaufman’s new musical presentation explores Woody Guthrie’s anti-racist songs and activism. Conventionally known for championing unions and poor white Dust Bowl migrants, Guthrie also left an extensive body of songs condemning Jim Crow segregation, race hatred and racial fascism. Most of these songs were never recorded, but remain a legacy of Guthrie’s personal transformation into a committed civil rights activist, working and singing with the likes of Lead Belly, Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee and Paul Robeson in the 1940s and 50s. Along with Guthrie’s lifetime body of work, it is a heartening and uplifting legacy.
Dr. Will Kaufman is Professor of American Literature and Culture at the University of Central Lancashire in England and the author of Woody Guthrie: American Radical (University of Illinois Press).
Admission is $15, Members $12. Reservations recommended by email:
admin@mariposamuseum.org or telephone: 603.924.4555.
All You Jim Crow Fascists! is part the Museum’s ongoing exhibition This World is Your World—Woody Guthrie and the Art of Change. (Aug 1-Oct 31)
The Mariposa gratefully thanks Duffy and Rick Monahon for hosting the event at their barn at Four Winds Farm. Directions are on the Museum’s website (
www.mariposamuseum.org).
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