Boykin, Alabama
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Boykin, also known as Gee's Bend, is an African American majority community and census-designated place in a large bend of the Alabama River in Wilcox County, Alabama. As of the 2020 census, its popul
Rear view of the detached kitchen and former plantation home of the Mark Pettway family, called Sandyridge, in Boykin April 1937. The house was demolished a short time later. Photographed by Arthur Rothstein.
Annie Pettway Bendolph carrying water, 1937. Photo by Arthur Rothstein.
Children rehearsing around a maypole for health day exercises, 1939. Photo by Marion Post Wolcott.
Old cable ferry between Camden and Gees Bend, 1939. Photo by Marion Post Wolcott.
Robert Petway
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Robert Petway was an American blues singer and guitarist. He recorded only 16 songs, but it has been said that he was an influence on many notable blues and rock musicians, including John Lee Hooker,
Boykin, Alabama
…Polly Bennett, quilter Robert Petway, blues singer and guitarist J.R. Moehringer…
The only known photograph of Petway (c. 1941)