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Long Train Running: A History of the Oakland Blues
Long Train Running: A History of the Oakland Blues
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LONG TRAIN RUNNING: A HISTORY OF THE OAKLAND BLUES

Directed by Marlon Riggs, Peter Webster
United States, 1981
Documentary, Short

Synopsis

Marlon Riggs and Peter Webster’s thesis project reflects on the heyday of Oakland blues in the late 1940s and ’50s, when an influx of African American shipyard workers mostly hailing from Louisiana and Texas arrived in the Bay Area.

Synopsis

Marlon Riggs and Peter Webster’s thesis project reflects on the heyday of Oakland blues in the late 1940s and ’50s, when an influx of African American shipyard workers mostly hailing from Louisiana and Texas arrived in the Bay Area.