Reverend Utah Smith: Shreveport’s Guitar Evangelist
Photo: Rev. Utah Smith, circa 1948. Source: Shreveport Sun (Shreveport, LA), June 26, 1948; Black Ethnic Archives, Southern University at Shreveport. The scene of a minister conducting faith healing ceremonies under a tent in Shreveport’s Allendale-Lakeside neighborhood during the 1940s evokes a striking mental image. Perhaps even more so when …
