Liturgy for The Disorderly Procession

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Sister Rosetta Tharpe with guitar, Unknown date. Amsterdam News Photograph Archive 8084, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library. https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.10193618

A table of friends including Burcey, Oni, Dutch and Al at a Fourth of July backyard barbecue, Compton, California, 1980. Shades of L.A. Photo Collection of the Los Angeles Public Library Digital Collection. https://tessa2.lapl.org/digital/collection/photos/id/80089‍ ‍ Pg 3

Masque wara, A Minyanka performer of the wara mask for a Komo fraternity in Mali. From Philippe Jespers, “La puissance du masque: De l’audble au visble,” in Puissances de la voix: Corps sentant, corde sensible, ed. Semir Badir and Herman Parret , shown in African Masks and Emotions: In Theory and in Practice. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2026, pg. 60.

Pg 6-7 Dancer Eunice Cain, Los Angeles, 1960. Charles Williams Collection, California State University Northridge. University Library. Special Collections & Archives. Tom & Ethel Bradley Center. Photograph by Charles William. https://digital-collections.csun.edu/digital/collection/Bradley/id/9697‍‍ ‍

Saturday afternoon in a negro beer and juke joint, Clarksdale, Mississippi Delta, November 1939. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library, New York Public Library Digital Collections. Photograph by Marion Post Wolcott. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/cc1c2c70-c612-012f-4918-58d385a7bc34‍‍ ‍

Party goers at backyard party for saxophonist Louis Jordan, Los Angeles, California, circa 1943. Shades of L.A. Photo Collection of the Los Angeles Public Library Digital Collection. https://tessa2.lapl.org/digital/collection/photos/id/76074

Jitterbugging in Negro juke joint, Memphis, Tennessee, November 1939. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black-and-White Negatives Collection of the Library of Congress. Photograph by Marion Post Wolcott. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsa.8c11029

Big Mama Thornton seated on stage, during the KPBS Special "Three Generations of the Blues" filmed at the Belly Up Tavern in Solana Beach, California, 1983. University of Missouri--Kansas City. Dr. Kenneth J. LaBudde Special Collections. Photograph by Grace Bell. https://digital.library.umkc.edu/node/3254‍‍ ‍

View of a large crowd of people filling Third Street during the celebration of Juneteenth Day, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, June 19, 1984. Historic Photo Collection, F.P. Zeidler Humanities Room, Milwaukee Public Library. Photography by Michael Sears. https://content.mpl.org/digital/collection/HstoricPho/id/5982‍

Negro migratory workers by a "juke joint" (?), Belle Glade, Fla. February 1941. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black-and-White Negatives Collection of the Library of Congress. Photograph by Marion Post Wolcott. https://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/fsac.1a34395/‍‍ ‍

United Steel Workers of America party, Atlanta, Georgia, 1944. Lane Brothers Commercial Photographers Photographic Collection, 1920-1976, Georgia State University Library. https://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/digital/collection/lane/id/6338‍ ‍

The ball after supper, Harper's magazine. (New York : Harper Brothers, 1850-).The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. New York Public Library Digital Collections. Illustration by Charles Stanely Reinhart. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/0dd6c460-c52f-012f-7be7-58d385a7bc34

Untitled photo, possibly related to: Negro unloading bale of cotton from railroad car, Compress, Houston, Texas, October 1939. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black-and-White Negatives Collection of the Library of Congress. Photograph by Russell Lee. https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017784544/‍ ‍

Negro women cleaning up damaged bales of cotton, Compress, Houston, Texas, October 1939. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black-and-White Negatives Collection of the Library of Congress. Photograph by Russell Lee. https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017784598/‍ ‍ Pg 10 Found images from on reddit Back Cover Gambling (skin game) in juke joint on Saturday night, near Moore Haven, Florida, 1941. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Dr. John H. and Jann Arrington Wolcott. Photograph by Marion Post Wolcott. https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/gambling-skin-game-juke-joint-saturday-night-near-moore-haven-florida-36665