Long Train Running A History of the Oakland Blues (1981)

Marlon Riggs and Peter Websters thesis project reflects on the heyday of Oakland blues in the late 1940s and 50s when an influx of African American shipyard workers mostly hailing from Louisiana and Texas arrived in the Bay Area Combining vintage photographs archival footage interviews and performances at venues like Elis Mile High Club Riggs and Webster chronicle Oaklands vibrant past while revealing an uncertain present