A Different Street

but this one is amazing, Mavis Staples’ “I’ll Be Rested,” created by Randy Caspersen.

Randy was kind enough to share with me his list of the litany of names Miss Staples invokes in this song. Below is some information I found online about some of these people; there are a few that haven’t yet yielded to my entreaties to the Google gods, but I shall persevere.

James Chaney
Andrew Goodman
Michael Schwener
Medgar Evers
Emmett Till
Carole Robertson, Denise & Cynthia, Addie Mae Collins
Herbert Lee
Willie Brewster
Louis Allen
Brother Malcolm (Malcolm X)
Robert Kennedy
Martin Luther King
Mahalia Jackson
Archie Brownlee
Clara Ward
Thomas Ward, gospel singer
Julius Cheeks
Doctor Watts (catalogued early gospel songs in 1700s)
Marion Williams
Dorothy Love Coates
Pops Staples
Secret Hampton

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