Clyde Woods, professor of Afro-American Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park, is author of the ground-breaking study, "Development Arrested: The Blues and Plantation Power in the Mississippi Delta." Woods speaks of the Blues both as music and as the unique philosophy of life that fostered the survival and creativity of the African American culture of the rural south. He reads a moving portrayal of the "Blues Transformation," by Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., that produced the Poor People’s March on Washington in 1968. From the Series:The Writer's Tale