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<b>Maxwell Street Updates...</b><br><font face=Arial,Helvetica size=1>Posted on Monday, August 21 @ 12:31:37 EDT
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BLUESMAN JIMMIE LEE ROBINSON GOES ON A FAST TO SAVE OLD MAXWELL STREET<BR>
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69 year old Maxwell Street Bluesman Jimmie Lee Robinson will be starting a hunger fast on Friday, August 18 to save the old Maxwell Street area from the final blows of the wrecking ball. Mr. Robinson is a life-long student of religions and natural health systems. Below is his statement of why he is going on this fast.
<br><br>69 year old Maxwell Street Bluesman Jimmie Lee Robinson will be starting a hunger fast on Friday, August 18 to save the old Maxwell Street area from the final blows of the wrecking ball. Mr. Robinson is a life-long student of religions and natural health systems. Below is his statement of why he is going on this fast.<BR><BR>
"It feels like the UIC has cut off one of my hands and one of my feet.
Maxwell Street was my home and where my first morality battles began,
and there was no one with me but my God. We was all alone. From this came
my purpose and my skills."<BR><BR>
"In 1930 was when I went with my Great Grandfather Mr. Mose Jenkins and
my Grandmother hand in hand on Maxwell Street. . Mose Jenkins was a former
slave and later lived near and around a small place called Hillhouse
Mississippi. I learned to play Blues from my Uncle, One Leg Sam, and
Moody Jones. Later on came Snooky Pryors and Homesick James, and also Floyd
Jones. They was there, and great they was."<BR><BR>
"There is over 40 historic buildings left. With the help and the Power
of God we will not let the UIC destroy them. I will fast until Washington
D.C. puts Maxwell Street on the National Register."<BR><BR>
"This is a Spiritual and a Moral Battle. Moral Purity will always win
out. I've withdrawn from eating any food. This is the way that God purifies
me to take on this battle that He may come to our aid."
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"Maxwell Street was a holy place. It was sanctified by the Jewish people
and many Blues and Gospel musicians and preachers of every religion.
Just like our bodies is the Temple of our Soul, these old buildings remaining
on Maxwell Street and on Halsted Street are the temples of the Souls of
Chicago Past. The aura of the past is still in these buildings."
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"This place, and these buildings should be the beginning of a Super
Natural Health Morality Institution of Learning. And it should be spread all
over the world from the UIC. Our music, our life styles, and our philosophies
are in need of a major change for better understanding, that the world
may be saved in inner and outer space."
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"UIC you could be doing a great and a beautiful job, and with this
program you can be the world's greatest. We should not let anything or anyone
come into our neighborhoods and totally destroy our history, for this is a
crime within itself."
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Robinson met the now legendary singer/guitarist Eddie Taylor and they
played the Chicago club scene until 1952. Later, he played with Freddie
King and Frank Scott Jr. in a band called "The Every Hour Blues Boys,"
and would go on to share the stage with Little Walter, B.B. King, and other
Blues legends.
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Robinson is a member of Maxwell Street Historic Preservation Coalition
and wrote their anthem song, the Maxwell Street Tear Down Blues.
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Most of Jimmie Lee's family came from around Hillhouse, Mississippi. His
Grandmother's brothers, Eddie Jenkin and George Jenkin, died in
Hillhouse. His Uncle Ed's son Joe Jenkin died in Chicago but his wife still lives.
She is about 95 years old now. Her name is Annie Mae Jenkin. She lived on
910 or 912 Maxwell St with his cousin Della and Arthur Jenkin.
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Jimmie Lee remembers walking with his Great Grandfather and Grandfather
and Grandmother on Maxwell Street. "My Grandmother's name was, Celia
'Little Mama' Jackson and she was a follower of the Marcus Garvey Movement, Div
217. She was in the Black Star Line protests . Jimmie's mother Emma had
a close friend, Jack Palmer, who was friends with Paul Robeson." It is
these influences that have created Jimmie Lee's social justice concern.
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Mr. Robinson did a protest fast in 1998 for 62 days to protest actions
taken against Maxwell Street. Says Robinson, "That seemed to turn
things a little bit towards the better but now the negative side of UIC seems to
be in total control. So now all we have left to do is to depend on the All
Mighty God."<BR><BR>
Jimmie Lee will also be participating in the 48 Hours Blues Vigil on
Maxwell Street, Friday, August 25 (6PM) to Sunday, August 27 (6PM).
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For more information visit the website of the Maxwell Street Historic
Preservation Coalition http://www.openair.org/maxwell/preserve.html
Also see http://www.openair.org/maxwell/ptear.html and
http://cowdery.home.netcom.com/page24.html
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