In his journal Hughes described the black people they met in their travels: educators, sharecropping families, blues singers and conjurers. Hughes also mentioned the chain gang prisoners forced to ...

Chain gangs developed as a popular solution to that problem. Chain gangs were groups of convicts forced to labor at tasks such as road construction, ditch digging, or farming while chained together.

Out came the stadium workers affectionately known as "the chain gang," carrying their signature orange-and-black equipment to see if the Cowboys had indeed made the line to gain. It was so close ...