‘A reaction to injustice’: The story behind Bob Dylan’s ‘The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll’

In the spring of 1963, a 21-year-old Bob Dylan was on the train reading a copy of Broadside, the left-wing mimeographed publication known for nurturing a number of important folk musicians. Often included in the magazine were photocopied articles from other newspapers, so alongside coverage of an early Dylan song, “Train-a-Travelin’”, was a report in the Baltimore Afro-American by Roy…

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