Arkansas State University’s Lecture-Concert Series continues tomorrow with the annual Greenfield Lecture. The speaker will be Dr. Michael Honey from the University of Washington-Tacoma. Honey will present “Sharecropper’s Troubadour: John Handcox, the Southern Tenant Farmer’s Union, and the African-American Song Tradition.” Dr. Honey conducted oral histories with the late John Handcox, who spent part of his young life as a sharecropper in Arkansas. Dr. Honey tells why Handcox’s poems and songs from the 1930’s are still relevant today:
Honey says Handcox was a master storyteller:
Dr. Michael Honey. He will present tomorrow night at seven at the Carl R. Reng Student Union on the campus of Arkansas State University. Honey will present “Sharecropper’s Troubadour: John Handcox, the Southern Tenant Farmer’s Union, and the African-American Song Tradition.” The event is free to the public. On Friday afternoon at four, Honey will meet the public at the Southern Tenant Farmers Museum in Tyronza. More information can be found here.
