A view of Mr. Handy : one afternoon in Memphis, 1918 -- Slavery, the AME Church, and emancipation : the Handy family of Alabama, 1811-1873 -- W.C. Handy and the music of black and white America, ...

William Christopher Handy is recognized as the Father of the Blues because he is acknowledged as being the first person to write down the musical translation of the black sounds of the rural South ...