Individuals

Thomas Greene Wiggins

(“Blind Tom”)

Thomas Wiggins circa 1880
(Public Domain via Wikipedia Commons)

– – – Books – – –

Karen Juanita Carrillo. African American History Day By Day: A Reference Guide To Events. (Santa Barbara, Calif: Greenwood, 2012).

Clarence Lusane. The Black History of the White House. ([S.I.]: City Lights Publishers, 2013). 

Deirdre O’Connell. The Ballad of Blind Tom, Slave Pianist: America’s Lost Musical Genius. (New York, NY: Overlook Press, 2009).

Geneva H. Southall. Blind Tom, The Black Pianist-Composer (1849-1908): Continually Enslaved. (Lanham, Md: Scarecrow. 1999). 

Joseph Nathan Straus. Extraordinary Measures: Disability in Music. (New York City: Oxford Univ. Press, 2011).

– – – Websites – – –

“Thomas “Blind Tom” Wiggins (1849-1908): African American Pianist and Composer,” Africlassical, January 23, 2008.

Zick, William J., “Wiggins, Thomas “Blind Tom” (1849-1908),” Blackpast.org.

Blind Tom Wiggins – Wikipedia 

– – – Videos – – –

Blind Tom Wiggins: Slave Pianist & Autistic Savant – [Min: 2:34]

Brilliant Quartette “Blind Tom” 1893 brown wax cylinder Columbia Phonograph Company – [Min: 2:18]

Thomas “Blind Tom” Wiggins – Battle of Manassas (1861) – [Min: 7:56]

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