On the "A" w/Souleo: Stax Records Book Explores Issues of Race

Stax Records was more than a music machine releasing hits by the likes of Otis Redding and The Staple Singers. According to author and music historian, Robert Gordon it was also an example of unity in 1960s segregated South Memphis. In his new book, Respect Yourself: Stax Records and the Soul Explosion Gordon uses the backdrop of the Civil Rights Movement to emphasize Stax's groundbreaking interracial harmony from the relationship its white founders Jim Stewart and Estelle Axton shared with Afri...