Work songs from Ellis Unit, 1966

Pete and Toshi Seeger‘s 1966 film Afro-American Work Songs in a Texas Prison, which captures the signing of an all-black field work crew at Ellis Unit, is mentioned in The Trials of Eroy Brown. The 29-minute black-and-white film, which is available to view online at this link, was made at Ellis 14 years before Eroy […]