Taking the Chicago story to DC.
In 1938, the great blues guitarist, singer and songwriter Huddie Ledbetter wrote about his experiences in Washington, D.C..
I tell all the colored folks to listen to me.
Don’t try to find you no home in Washington, DC
‘Cause it’s a bourgeois town.
Uhm, the bourgeois town.
I got the bourgeois blues,
Gonna spread the news all around.
Washington is historically a Southern city. It was also the first city in the United States with an African-
