Khodig

Hello. I am in a Pan African Studies class. I am 23 years old and am a Biology major at CSUN. I have created this account for my final project. My group and I are going to modify a page on wikipedia of an African American man/women that we will be choosing. You will be hearing from me and my group soon on one of the pages that has been created for someone or a new page that we wil be creating.

        Khodig (talk) 18:18, 28 October 2012 (UTC)

November 2012

Hello, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. I've noticed that you have been adding your signature to some of your edits to articles, such as the edit you made to Mystic Falls (The Vampire Diaries). This is a common mistake to make and has probably already been corrected. Please do not sign your edits to article content, as the article's edit history serves the function of attributing contributions, so you only need to use your signature to make discussions more readable, such as on article talk pages or project pages such as the Village Pump. If you would like further information about distinguishing types of pages, please see What is an article?. Again, thank you for contributing, and enjoy your Wikipedia experience! Thank you. Mr T^{(Talk?) (New thread?)} 09:07, 7 November 2012 (UTC)

Nomination of Mystic Falls (The Vampire Diaries) for deletion

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Memphis Minnie: Personal Life

Lizzie Douglas (a.k.a. Memphis Minnie) was born on June 3, 1897 in Algiers, Louisiana. Lizzie Douglas was the eldest from her 13 other siblings. Her parents Abe and Gertrude Douglas nicknamed her the Kid during her early childhood. At the age of 7 she and her family moved to Walls, Mississippi, which was just south of Memphis. The following year after she moved, she received her first guitar for Christmas. She began to practice and learn how to play both the banjo and the guitar and it was seen that she had a great talent as a musician. When she first began performing she did not use her first name Lizzie, but played under the name Kid Douglas. When she was 13 years old she ran away from her home to live on Beale Street in Memphis, Tennessee. She would play on street corners for most of her teenage years and would eventually go home when she ran out of money. She began to get noticed singing and playing guitar on the street corners. This brought an opportunity for her to tour, travel, and play with the Ringling Brother Circus. Eventually she came back to Beale Street and got consumed in the blues scene. At the time, women, whiskey, and cocaine were high in demand with the people and places she would be around. She made her money by playing guitar, singing, and prostitution, which was not uncommon at the time. Most of the female performers were prostitutes because of financial desperation. It was said “She received $12 for her services-an outrageous fee for the time.” (Memphis Minnie Biography, pp.1). She was known as a woman that was very strong and that could take care of herself. She had been married three times in her life; first with Will Weldon (a.k.a. Casey Bill) sometime in the 1920’s, then Joe McCoy (1929 – 1934), and finally to Earnest Lawlars (a.k.a. Little Son Joe), in 1939. McCoy and her would perform together during their marriage. During this time, a talent scout from Columbia Records discovered her. When her and McCoy went to record in New York, she decided to change her name to Memphis Minnie. During the next few years she and McCoy released many singles and duets. She released the song “Bumble Bee” in 1930, which ended up being one of her favorite songs, and led her to a recording contract with the label Vocalion. Under this label, they continued to produce recording for two years, one of them being “I’m Talking About You”, which was one of her more popular songs. They soon decided to leave Vocalion and move to Chicago. Her and McCoy introduced country blues to the urban environment and became very well known. Memphis Minnie continued to have success throughout the years recording under many different labels like Decca Records and Chess Records. Some believe her fame was the reason for her divorce with McCoy due to jealousy and resentment towards her. She remarried after to Earnest Lawlars (a.k.a. Little Son Joe) and began recording material with him. She became very well known in the blues industry and ended up being one of the most famous blues performers of all time, competing with both men and women. She continued to record throughout the 50’s, but her health began to become a problem for her. She retired from her musical career and ended up going back to Memphis. “Periodically, she would appear on Memphis radio stations to encourage young blues musicians. As the Garons wrote in Women With Guitar, “She never laid her guitar down, until she could literally no longer pick it up.”” She suffered a stroke in 1960, which caused her to be bound by wheelchair. The following year her husband, Earnest “Little Son Joe” Lawlars passed away. She had another stroke a short while after and eventually ended up in the Jell Nursing Home. She could no longer survive on her social security income so magazines wrote about her and readers sent her money for assistance. On August 6, 1973 she passed away from a stroke. She is buried in an unmarked grave at the New Hope Cemetery in Memphis. After her death some of her old work began to surface and some of her songs were featured on blues compilations. She was one of the first 20 blues artists that were inducted in the Blues Hall of Fame.

Khodig (talk) 00:44, 2 December 2012 (UTC)

References

Oliver, Paul. "Memphis Minnie." Oxfordmusiconline.com. Grove Music Online, 2007. Web. 22 Nov. 2012. <http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com:80/subscriber/article/grove/music/18374>. Shelton, Sonya. "Memphis Minnie Biography." Musicianguide.com. Musicianguide.com, n.d. Web. 22 Nov. 2012. <http://www.musicianguide.com/biographies/1608002338/Memphis-Minnie.html>. "Trail of the Hellhound: Memphis Minnie." Www.cr.nps.gov. N.p., n.d. Web. 22 Nov. 2012. <http://www.cr.nps.gov/delta/blues/people/memphis_minnie.htm>.

Khodig (talk) 00:47, 2 December 2012 (UTC)