University of Mississippi eGrove Honors College (Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors Theses Honors College) 2017 Please Accept My Love: Race, Culture, and B.B. King's Live in Cook County Jail Eugene Brinson Polk III University of Mississippi. Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College Follow this and additional works at: https://egrove.olemiss.edu/hon_thesis Part of the History Commons Recommended Citation Polk, Eugene Brinson III, "Please Accept My Love: Race, Culture, and B.B. King's Live in Cook County Jail" (2017). Honors Theses. 332. https://egrove.olemiss.edu/hon_thesis/332 This Undergraduate Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Honors College (Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College) at eGrove. It has been accepted for inclusion in Honors Theses by an authorized administrator of eGrove. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. 1! of !91 Please Accept My Love: Race, Culture, and B.B. King’s Live in Cook County Jail by: Tre Polk A thesis submitted to the faculty of The University of Mississippi in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College. Oxford May 2017 Approved by: _____________________________ Advisor: Professor Darren Grem ______________________________ Reader: Professor Adam Gussow _____________________________ Reader: Professor Ted Ownby 2! of !91 Dedication I would like to dedicate to this thesis to my late aunt, Julie Walker, who passed away during the process of writing of this work. I hope you understood how much we all loved you. You will, forever, be missed. 3! of !91 Acknowledgements First, I would like to thank Dr. Grem for advising me throughout the entire process of creating, organizing, and drafting this thesis.