This folder contains: "The Significance of the Ma Rainey House, Columbus, GA" by Kenneth H. Thomas, June 14, 1992 "Biographical Study of Gertrude "Ma" Rainey with Emphasis upon Her Period of Residence in Columbus, Georgia" by Joseph B. Mahan "Early American Blues Singer Gertrude P. Rainey" by Katherine H. Mahan, in the Music Clubs Magazine, Spring 1992 Telephone interview with Sandra Lieb of Chicago, IL, by Kenneth H. Thomas, March 24, 1992 Plan for Preservation and Utilization of the Residence of the Famed "Mother of the Blues" during her Final Years in her Native City Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, a play by August Wilson, 1986/87 season.