^* Henrietta Yurchenco, Around the World in 80 Years: A Memoir (Point Richmond, CA: MRI Press, 2002), 44. For Lomax’s work with Pete on his radio shows and much else, John Szwed, Alan Lomax: The Man Who Recorded the World (New York: Viking, 2010).

^* Alan Lomax to Son House, December 24, 1941, Ronald D. Cohen, Alan Lomax, Assistant in Charge: The Library of Congress Letters, 1935–1945 (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2011), 270; Alan Lomax to Son House, January 28, 1942, ibid., 276. See also Daniel Beaumont, Preachin’ the Blues: The Life and Times of Son House (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011), who has a reference to Lomax’s correspondence but only mentions “an unspecified group of singers” in New York, 103.

^† Robert L. Stephens, “‘Peace’ Choir Changes Tune,” New York Post, February 17, 1942; Eugene Burr, “From Out Front,” Billboard, June 27, 1942.