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creator of the Smithsonian Museum’s “Programs in Black Culture,” and one of the leading authorities on Black American music culture,
Leonard Brown • John Coltrane and Black America's Quest for Freedom: Spirituality and the Music
Congressman Vito Marcantonio
Nelson Denis • War Against All Puerto Ricans
Vito Marcantonio
Nelson Denis • War Against All Puerto Ricans
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, that is not afraid to make a stand for right and justice. Its most noted columnist (and now publisher), Ralph McGill, Pulitzer Prize winner, is significantly referred to as “Rastus” by the White Citizens Councils.
John Howard Griffin, Robert Bonazzi, Studs Terkel • Black Like Me
especially liked Adolphus because he was black.
Nelson Denis • War Against All Puerto Ricans
The PR person for Latinos pro Derechos Humanos, Manolo Gomez, who’d arranged the radio “debate,” was beaten and left for dead in an alley. His car was firebombed. He was also fired from his job as an editor for the Spanish-language edition of Cosmopolitan magazine because he’d made public declarations about his homosexuality.
Lillian Faderman • The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle
representative of black freedom.
Leonard Brown • John Coltrane and Black America's Quest for Freedom: Spirituality and the Music
Frank Donovan, a lifetime close friend and a lawyer from Detroit. He was known among his friends and clients as a brilliant legal analyst with a nonaggressive temperament. No litigator. When we were both twenty, I remember him saying: "When there's a fight, I pick up my hat and go home." He had a large head, somewhat out of proportion to
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