Portrait of Bunk Johnson, Lead Belly, George Lewis, and Alcide Pavageau in the Stuyvesant Casino, New York, N.Y., ca. June 1946. (Image courtesy of The Library of Congress ) The word "woke" is broadly used to describe a state of being "aware of and actively attentive to important facts and issues especially of racial and social injustice" according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary. While it origi
