“The South in Color” completes an informal trilogy that Bill Ferris began with “Give My Poor Heart Ease” and “The Storied South.” The earlier works featured his black-and-white photographs of Southern musicians and writers; this is his first book of color photographs.

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Pete Seeger discusses the song “We Shall Overcome” with Bill Ferris, author of “The Storied South: Voices of Writers and Artists.”