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The Blues Foundation for our efforts and contribution to music Magazine, https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/
education and blues history. D.C. went on to being inducted into unrealized-promise-oklahoma-180977174.
seven Halls of Fame, including the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame 4. Larry O’Dell, “All-Black Towns,” The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma
in 1999 and the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame in 2003. History and Culture, https://www.okhistory.org/publications/
D.C believed, “This is one of the few places where this enc/entry.php?entry=AL009.
history is still left,” and I work diligently and joyfully to keep the 5. Hugh W. Foley, Jr., “Blues,” The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma
blues − and this rich history − preserved and alive in Oklahoma. History and Culture, https://www.okhistory.org/publications/
enc/entry.php?entry=BL016.
Blues singer-bassist Selby Minner toured for 12 years with
her husband D.C. Minner and their band Blues on the Move Photo Sources
before settling in Rentiesville, OK. She continues to perform and i. Nikater, Public domain via Wikimedia Commons, https://
teach, and keeps the Oklahoma blues tradition alive through commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Trails_of_Tears_en.png
her weekly Sunday Jam Sessions, the Dusk ‘Til Dawn Blues ii. Lance Cheung, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Public domain
Festival, the Oklahoma Blues Hall of Fame (OBHOF), and the via Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/
D.C. Minner Rentiesville Museum. For more information, visit: wiki/File:20150407-RD-LSC-1009_(16613396734).jpg
DCMinnerBlues.com. iii. Lance Cheung, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Public domain
via Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/
References wiki/File:20150407-RD-LSC-0969_(17140962852).jpg
1. Linda Reese, “Freedmen,” The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma iv. Lioneldecoster, CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.
History and Culture, https://www.okhistory.org/publications/ org/licenses/by-sa/3.0), via Wikimedia Commons, https://
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2. Dr. Hugh W. Foley, Jr, “From Black Towns to Blues v. Courtesy of Selby Minner
Festivals,” Funded by the Oklahoma Humanities Council vi. Lance Cheung, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Public domain
and the National Endowment for the Humanities. http:// via Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/
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3. Victor Luckerson, “The Promise of Oklahoma,” Smithsonian

Selby Minner, co-founder of the Down Home Blues Club in Rentiesville, OK. vi

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