In his autobiography,
father of the blues, W.C. Handy
stated that he first heard the blues,
a native negro ballad form, in the
railroad station of Tutwiler in 1895. — — Map (db m89919) HM
On August 31, 1955, Woodrow Jackson prepared Emmett Till's
body here at the Tutwiler Funeral Home, to return to Emmett's
mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, in Chicago. Emmett's uncle, Crosby
Smith, had to sign a document promising not to open the . . . — — Map (db m173985) HM
Front
Bandleader W. C. Handy was waiting for a train here at the Tutwiler railway station circa 1903 when he heard a man playing slide guitar with a knife and singing “Goin’ where the Southern cross’ the Dog.” Handy later published an . . . — — Map (db m90027) HM
