Born to sharecroppers on Mississippi, Howlin’ Wolf was illiterate into his 40s, when he earned his GED and took college courses, and in 1972, received an honorary doctor of arts degree from Chicago’s prestigious Columbia College.

Vivian Carter and James C. Bracken founded Vee-Jay Records in Gary, Indiana in 1953.

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