This group of photos is also from B.B. King's 1974 visit to Yale.
He spoke to an Afro-American Studies class there about what it was
like to grow up in the Mississippi Delta and not have the kind of
education that they were receiving. He had dreamed of having the Blues
as part of the university curriculum. Today, Yale University, the
University of Mississippi, the University of North Carolina and others
have classes that study the Blues. B.B. King returned to Yale a second
time and received an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters. |