... collective social resistance. According to Ingrid Byerly, a former professor of ethnomusicology at Duke University, music, "served the purpose of mobilizing social change, whether with the more concrete intentions of invoking peace or threatening war, or with the more abstract intentions of recovering or reflecting a past, suggesting or establishing a present, and projecting or prophesying a future."" This statement seems to be ... steered the native South Africans to seek impartiality and honesty in their country's government. Life for professional musicians was not made easy by aparthe...

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... blacks could not go to the same school with whites, that they had to use separate "colored only- rest rooms and drinking fountains, enter public places such as movie theatres and waiting rooms through separate entrances form whites, and ride in a special section in the back of buses and ... Bayard Rustin's help, King and the SCLC decided to pressure President Eisenhower about voting-rights laws and the proposed Civil Rights Act. To put pressure on the administration, King, Rustin, and NAACP head Roy Wilkings planned a prayer pilgrimage to Washington, D.C. The march did not persuade Cong...

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... learn about King's Campaigns, sit-ins, or being arrested. I remember learning King was a minister, a supposedly pure Christian, and won the great Nobel Peace Prize because he was willing to turn the other cheek. After asking my peers at UC Berkeley, what they learned in public school about X, they only ... quotes King's wife, Coretta, who said King saw her as a "homemaker" and expected her to be "home waiting for him." June Jordan notes that King never in all of his public speaking thanks Ella Baker, Fannie Lou Hamer, or any women for the work that they did within the ... similar to an i...

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