Some different concoctions in the back of the old corner drugstore where the pharmacy was located and he came up with a fragrant smelling mixture that he liked very much. He probably used it in some medicine, but eventually, it was sold as a syrup with carbonated water in it across the Soda Fountain counter. First, we travel to Baylor University to find out about its gospel music restoration project which is working to archive gospel records in an effort to learn about the role this music played in the Civil Rights Movement. I can only speak for myself is why i think gospel music resonates to such a degree even now. And 40s from the 30s no less than the current gospel artists right now seem to me has a certain almost undefinable something. I would say black music in underpinning of the pain and freedom struggle of African Americans that continues to this day. Why it never really goes out of ande it has this longing residents of a deeper pool of emotion that songs about puppy i haved songs about why a bigger car than someone else has cannot match. About music talking that sustained an entire race of people through some of the most rule times in american history, the civil war era and before, the Civil Rights Movement and on , you are dealing with music with a gravity and emotional core that makes it more potent. One of the fascinating things as i started working on what would become nothing but love in gods from the that beginning, the spirituals were really protests spirituals. So many have a double voice about them that meant on the surface, they might be about heaven or escaping to the north. They might be about escaping to the north the two messages were intertwined unless you are part of this inner circle that knew what it was about, it would go right over your head. In could sing these songs front of the coolest overseer and he would not know you are defying him. Spirituals are the first act of defiance by an enslaved people. So we have that. And that they were some for multiple purposes through reconstruction, where they would give the release and hope for things to be better in the future, but at the same time, to rally your people and help them sustain through bad times and there are counting songs and alphabet songs and songs with details on how to escape to the north like follow the drinking board, which is almost like a map for people who cannot use maps but who can see the great dipper and go north. The other thing we have learned through the Black Hospital restoration project at baylor is as we began to receive the vinyl be saved, weed to began turning over the besides of the 45s. First of all gospel music was not widely heard in the White Community and what was would only be the hits. Hearde flipside would be even less and what we discovered b sideswas how many were directly related to the Civil Rights Movement. Years of Freedom Fighters song for you Freedom Fighters out there. When you sing, remember the ones who lost their lives for this precious purpose and wont be around to see it through. Now saying, saying everyone of you. Sometimes i wonder if there is freedom in this world tell me where since there are very few databases and none of them are complete on gospel music, we did not know the sheer number of songs with very overt songs like there aint no segregation in heaven type songs. At a time when possessing one of the songs, much less singing it was a very dangerous thing in the deep south. Trouble for ain lot of things in the deep south but singing that song out loud is a deep risk. It continued this continuum of 45 are like of the the old protests spirituals in that way. And probably the much better chronicled freedom songs which are waste on old protests spirituals and old union songs like which side are you one or like a tree planted by the water. When the Civil Rights Movement against, to have a deep pool of music that has been successful empowering African Americans and calling africanamericans down when they have been beaten and attacked by overwhelming forces with guns and lifting them up and they need to be lifted up and a dozen Different Things the spirituals can do. Once again, they start pulling from this pool and its the first music. There is evidence of these protest spirituals that would become freedom songs as early as the montgomery bus we caught. You have a lot of time walking, you have a lot of time to sing. In the beginning because it begins in the churches, theres more of the old school hymns. To pull outo this and resurrect the old protests rituals. Take malia jackson, the greatest gospel singer, many people say, of all time. It turns out she was very active in the Civil Rights Movement, though it was not in the books. Jackson provided when when it was needed, they were at their wits end in chicago and had just been in and stoned and attacked by that angry mob. They are huddled in a basement and she drivese, through all the writing to come there and seeing these artists. When they are in trouble in montgomery and birmingham, she sends money. She sings civil rights concerts civil rights songs. Shes one of the few black voices white people would hear and it could hurt her career. She is mentioned a few dozen times throughout the biographies and her political affect she was on a first name basis with everyone from hermie everyone from harry truman to lbj and sang at the white house. But her own autobiography had hundreds of listings where she was and what she sang and why shes hanging. Why she sang it. There are other people who did as much or more but the hell you jackson was the lone black artists who could afford to do that. ,he ward sisters to a degree but they were marching on the front lines, dividing the music at the meetings, giving where they could and doing benefit concerts. Never been chronicled the way i think it deserved to be. When we started nothing but love and gods water, we went to the places where the movement happened and tried to track down not just the gospel singers, but the pastors, the djs, the people on the front lines, the members of the mass choirs and said what did you sing, where did you sing it and why did you sing it . Were you compelled to sing this in the face of the dogs and the Water Cannons and the hate you are experiencing on a daily basis . We went to arming him very early in the project and as people talked about those exciting nights for those months and months where they were having mass meetings every night that would last three hours tell me about the average mass meeting. Have 15 or 20 minutes of announcements we need you to do this, dont do that, we need 100 people to be arrested tomorrow at 16th street. Then we would have 45 minutes of preaching. Then we would sing for two hours. Before everybody arrived, we had been singing for an hour outside. At the most important time in africanamerican history, where they are changing the entire culture of the United States, they are changing against a culture that is act against them and they have no rights under law, no protection from the federal government, they are being bombed in birmingham and attacked everywhere, these meetings, two thirds of them are singing. Something must be being accomplished of your singing gospel songs for two hours at three. The more i talked to the singers about it, the choice was that we had to sing. We did it for a variety of reasons to lift us up when we were down, to calm us were angry, to do evangelism it was the best show in town. The best voices and birmingham sang for free every night. I missed church on sunday but im going to get a Better Church going toay because im hear carlton recent and the mass choir. Its accomplishing something thats hard to qualify. To detail what happened and this and why and show why was a transformative agent and a and transformative in a way that changed the hearts and minds of angry white people. And inspired by people to be a part of it and suffer what they suffered. Why wouldnt i want to chronicle what they are doing . It more than just transcends history. This is my life yes it is. You know that im going to let it shine the black gospel music restoration project began while i was writing people get ready, the new history of gospel music. As i was researching and writing that was theongs foundation of American Popular Music in many ways, i would discover all these people would cite a song and i would go and try to hear it. It was not available. Orould not get it on ebay amazon. It was not available. This went on over and over again. At the end of writing the book, i contacted a few of my friends i made while writing the book or big collectors and i said what percentage of the golden age of gospel music, what percentage of that moosic of that music is available to the public right now . We came up with a figure of about 75 are sent is not available. Its been destroyed, lost or is tied up in litigation, or the companies that owned it have no intention of releasing it. A number of factors came up with that figure. That so angry about because this is the music of my childhood, the soundtrack to my wife had been gospel music, but i had only heard such a narrow portion of it. So i sat down and added out a very angry editorial unscented to the New York Times which gets about 800 a day and lo and behold they ran it. The next day, german named Charles Royce from new york called and said i think what you are talking about is important. You figure out a way to help save this music and i will pay for it. With the librarys technical help, came up with a stateoftheart digitizing and lab with scanners, cataloging and storing all of the stuff and came back with a scary figure and sent it to mr. Royce and he sent us a check. So it began partly out of my frustration and partly out of mr. Royces generosity to save something he did not know much about. Another white guy, this couple, from connecticut, saw their was value here and wanted to be part of it. Since then, we have had a number of wonderful donors who continue to help. The Prichard Family Foundation and others that help hey for things we did not know we needed and we should have asked for more money. Now it is the Largest Initiative in the world to identify acquire , digitize the catalog and make accessible this past vanishing legacy of vinyl and gospel music. This is part of an almost apostolic succession. This is it being sung now was sung back before the civil war days and if you listen carefully on the International News or al jazeera, you are going to hear freedom songs ring sung right now in egypt, in hong kong, you will hear them sung in Tiananmen Square or on the berlin wall. You will hear it sung in ferguson, ive heard it sung every place where theres a group of people yearning to have the rights that are routinely afforded to everyone else. I want people as they read this book to know im just trying to capture a snapshot of this music at this time and how it got from where it was to hear as is potent, powerful transformative agent in american culture. While we were in waco, the cspan tour visited the Texas Rangers hall of fame. We will hear about the agency and get a look at items in the museum, including some of the guns confiscated from the criminal couple, bonnie and clyde. The institute of texan culture in san antonio said the second most wellknown thing in texas is the Texas Rangers. First thing the alamo. Everyone remembers the alamo, right . They have had a long legacy. Were talking 200 years of legacy of upholding values of law and order and justice. It is something a lot of foreigners have taken two. We hear about ranger reenactment groups in the ukraine, belgium, france, you name it. Began with the innocent beginnings of just protecting their friends and family members from indian raids. It has grown, adapted and developed into the Law Enforcement agency we compared to the fbi of texas. In 1823, the Texas Rangers were established. Stephen f austin who was the father of texas, was given permission from the republic of mexico to bring the first 300 settlers to texas and start colonizing the area. When they got here, Stephen F Austin realized there was a need to protect the sellers from indian raids, particularly the comanche indians. He asked for a group of 10 volunteers to range the countryside. If you owned it, you had it and if you didnt own it, you didnt have it. They banded together to protect from those indian raids and that is how they got their start. Involved rs, they they evolved into the modern Law Enforcement agency they are today. The evolution took place over 200 years. They are celebrating their anniversary in 2023. Most native americans were relocated, so that threat was no longer there. Developed during the civil war and after and became a more modern state. As this development came about, the rangers would change. Thehe 1900s, you have discovery of oil and texas is the place where you can get rich asked if you have some of that oil. People started coming to texas, so the rangers would work security in the oilfield. There were things in the early 1900s like prohibition. The United States government decided alcohol should be illegal. Unfortunately, texas borders mexico and mexico has a lot of tequila. Started acting as border security, which is something they do today. Of course it is not alcohol, it is narcotics and other things they are working to protect texas from. Place in theon to times in the era and they always adapted. They were formalized under the department of a look safety. They created the first crime lab that year. They were working for an sixpack than just like they are today. With the changes. Marvelouseum has a collection of material that goes all the way back to the founding of the rangers. We try to select not only the earliest material, but the rings they are using currently today. Its a collection with somewhere in the neighborhood of 10 or 15,000 10,000 to pieces. It dates over an almost 200 year time span. The museum is a complex. Another is the texas ranger hall of fame. It was set up for the hundred 50th anniversary of the Texas Rangers. Madenors 30 rangers who major contributions to the service or gave their lives under heroic circumstances. We have paintings were portraits of all those rangers. They begin with Stephen F Austin. He was successful with his rangers. They not only managed to make the area are reasonably safe from indian raids, but when the texas war for independence roque out, the rangers played a major role was texas gaining its independence by staving off the mexican army long enough to allow them to develop a strategy. As a result, texas became its nation, theent republic of texas, for about 10 years. Austin is regarded as being the founder of the Texas Rangers in 1823, so he made it into the texas ranger hall of fame. Collectionsresting tied not only to specific rangers, but what they do. One of the most interesting ones is the collection of u. S. Paper currency. It goes all the way back to the republican to the republic of owns when texas was its nation and issued its own currency. Although there was a lot was not a lot backing it, it interesting to know texas was at one point hunting its own money. One of the things we have is a collection of engraved firearms. Firearms engraving is an art form, and it is one that is fading out today. And theween the 1850s of anyone was a goal who carried firearms on a regular basis to have one pistol or one rifle that was very well decorated. This were persons who did to an unbelievable level. A lot of them had failing because later in life of staring and engraving microscopically for hours and hours. Still haves today their sidearms engraved or at least some of them engraved. Barbecue guns. Is rangers wind up doing speeches at rotary clubs and will often carry a firearm with them that has been finally decorated. Climbs,he cost of that it is a tradition that seems to be fading out. One of the legendary rangers that spans the time from the 1930s to the 1970s was man well gonzales. As the name might just, lone wolf, as he was called, was born of canadian and portuguese parents. Andmigrated to mexico became an officer in the mexican army and decided he would emigrate to the United States. He came to texas and wound up joining the Texas Rangers and became a ranger restoring law and order. He later went on to set up a first crime lab the Texas Rangers and department of Public Safety ever had. Then became a consultant to the movie and Television Industry for programs like tales of the Texas Rangers. Hes one of the few oldtime rangers who lived to see this museum founded. Its pretty amazing. One of the interesting stories is when he was in the oil fields, he was being followed by a bunch of criminals who wanted him out of the way. They would follow his car and tried to get him off the road. Car with ais thompson submachine gun in the trunk and one beside him pointing forward by the drivers seat. When they came up, he popped a wire which raised the trunk and exposed the machine gun in the back and the people driving toward him saw the thompson pointing from the front seat and he did not have many other problems. We have one of his thompson submachine guns and a photograph of the car that shows how he had it rigged up. He was a legendary ranger who spanned everything from the horse and the dday all the way to modern forensic terminology. We are fortunate in having a large collection of materials related to bonnie and clyde, the famous desperados who have shown up in movies, television and everything else. The real story of money and clyde is often a lot different than what you see in movies and television. Clyde barrow was a minor criminal who started out in the 1930s with such exotic crimes as chicken theft. He wound up getting sent to the state prison in huntsville, where he managed to of great his criminal skills. He hooked up with a waitress from west dallas, bonnie parker, and a started a criminal spree centered around 1934, carried them through about half a dozen to a dozen states in the u. S. Career took a downward spiral when they decided to break into the state prison and break out one of their gang members and managed to shoot to death one of the Prison Guards in the process. The prison system when to a retired ranger. They pulled him out and gave him a special commission with the prison system and he tracked on and clyde for over 100 days. He found out who they were, where their relatives were, what their personal habits were and that sort of thing. He convinced the family they were going to be pulled in as accessories unless they got money and clyde off the path they were on. And found out through an informant where they were going to be. They set up an ambush in western louisiana that ended bonnie and clydes career. This is a pocket watch that belonged to clyde barrow. When he was incarcerated one time, the pocket watch was taken away from him. Into visiter went visit him and broke him out of jail and he left the pocket watch behind. This is one of the more interesting artifacts we have. One of the things we do is not only deal with the real Texas Rangers but the Texas Rangers of american pop culture. If you look at Motion Pictures there are over 200 Motion Pictures that have been made since 1910 with a major character being a texas ranger in the movie and it doesnt how any sign of abating. The rangers of course first appeared in literature and some were novels that started out in the 1840s to 1890s all over the world. We have examples printed in languages such as dutch and japanese and italian and that sort of thing. One of s and 1940s the things that existed alongside comic books were pulp magazines basically monthly novels that were issued. You had such things as the texas ranger pulp magazines that came out and we have complete runs of a lot of these. Today you see things such as the italian version of the comic book down here which has been in production in italy nce the 1940s and we have a belgian childrens book, the Texas Rangers, that was very popular at that point in time. Literally, thousands and thousands of them. We cant even keep up with them. One of our real treasures at the museum is the material directly connected with Clayton Moore who was the Famous Television lone ranger for so many years. We have one of the masks that he had made each time that they would start a new seasons production he would have a number of masks made and then pick out the most comfortable ones to wear. There are only a handful of these that still survive to these days. Thanks to a collector, dr. Taylor, who lived up in montana, who collected lone ranger material for about 50 years, we have a huge collection of this material including one of the masks and Clayton Moore had a gun belt made for her. He had his own gun belts made and presented it to her, that is the identicals of the ones that were used in the Television Productions and the Movie Productions and that sort of thing. The pistols are replicas but the gun belt is original. And then we have one of the hats that was that was produced for him to wear in the tv series. This material, or things that are actually tied directly to the production of the lone ranger and we are just delighted to have them. The Texas Rangers really seem to have fired peoples imaginations. Since the 1840s, they have been a part of american culture, both as a pop culture item and a real thing. The reason the museum exists is to kind of perpetuate the heritage that the rangers bring to us. You know, its sort of like gary coopers high noon. They are regarded as the few people taking on overwhelming odds and, you know, in the