Civil Rights Oral History Project and
housed in the Louie B. Nunn Center for
Oral History at the University of
Kentucky. “Pure joy” comes from tape 1
of his interview with Wyatt Walker on
March 18, 1964.
The argument that the trickster tales
informed the civil rights movement has
been made before. For example: Don
McKinney, “Brer Rabbit and Brother
Martin Luther King, Jr: The Folktale
Background of the Birmingham Protest,”
The Journal of Religious Thought 46,
no. 2 (winter-spring 1989–1990): 42–
- McKinney writes (page 50):
Just as Brer Rabbit’s cunning