On April 30, 1900, one of America’s classic folk songs, The Ballad of Casey Jones, was written. Wallace Saunders a black railroad laborer wrote it. It was one of three songs written by him. Very little is known about Wallace Saunders. He performed odd jobs for the railroad all his life. At the time of […]
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