page_title: Will Dockery
hierarchical_section_title: Will Dockery
caption_attribution_description: Dockery Farms / Dockery Plantation, Ruleville in Sunflower County, Mississippi, the place where the Delta Blues was born. Original description: This picture was taken by Carla Batchelor on "The Civil Rights Road" trip in May 2005 with Western Carolina University's History Department. The photo album can be access at http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/carr0202
context_page_description: William Alfred Dockery was an American landowner who built from scratch the Dockery Plantation, the famous home of such original Delta blues musicians as Charley Patton, Robert Johnson, Son House, Howlin' Wolf, Willie Brown, Tommy Johnson, and Pops Staples.
context_section_description: William Alfred Dockery (November 10, 1865–December 29, 1936) was an American landowner who built from scratch the Dockery Plantation, the famous home of such original Delta blues musicians as Charley Patton, Robert Johnson, Son House, Howlin' Wolf, Willie Brown, Tommy Johnson, and Pops Staples.
caption: Dockery Plantation cotton gin, May 2005
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