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Willie King

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Willie King lives in Pickens County Alabama, just a few miles from Mississippi, several miles from Aliceville. He envisioned and created a non-profit organization called the Rural Members Association to teach the young people their heritage and what he calls “survival skills.”

 

How We Helped:
In 1998, Willie King connected with Music Maker Relief Foundation, where he has received grants for prescription medicine and help with sponsorship of his Freedom Creek Blues Festival for several years. Music Maker has arranged the donation of a tractor for the Freedom Creek Association and donated guitars, drums, bass and an electric keyboard to the association. Music Maker has also helped Willie arrange a tour in France to the Cognac Blues and Passion Festival, and featured him in the 2004 publication Music Makers: Portraits and Songs from the Roots of America.

 

“We see these kids now, they got all the problems we had coming up – dealing with the oppressor, figuring how to survive, feeling their self-worth under attack; success around them most always wearing a white face unless it’s the preacher’s and most time he just content to have his fine clothes, nice car, a church where they come, and there on the wall is a blond Jesus. So all....


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