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The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson was only 27 on Sept. 22, 1969, when he led a rally of 4,000 people in Chicago, calling for an end to discrimination in the construction trades. In an interview, which has been condensed, he described what he remembered from that day:

We wanted to demand that if they were going to build where we live, we should have the trade skills to build. If there were public contracts, we should have the right to have a part of those contracts.

The police were there to protect them from us; we should have been protected from them.

We were just fighting regular racial segregation, except it was segregation in the unions – as it was in the schools, as it was in the police and fire departments. It was as hostile as anything we faced in the South, maybe even more so.[X]

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“We are history. We tell the history of human beings through the so called ‘arts.’ [They] are more than ‘arts,’ it’s creativity and keeps people alive… It’s very necessary for human existence to have the arts, because without the arts there would be nothing.” - Carmen De Lavallade

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Nikki Giovanni (June 7th, 1943 - December 9th, 2024)

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Tina Turner (1981)

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Tina Turner performing with a member of the Ikettes, October 2, 1970

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Close-up portrait of American actor (and former professional football player) Jim Brown during production of the film ‘Dark of the Sun’ (aka 'The Mercenaries,’ directed by Jack Cardiff), Jamaica, March 1967.

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“Three of the stars of the Parade of Stars benefit for the Actor’s Fund of America, ‘Playing the Palace,’ get together after the show. They are Gregory Hines (L), who portrayed famed dancer Bill “Bojangles” Robinson; Harry Belafonte as himself; and Debbie Allen who played dancer Josephine Baker. The performance took place at the Palace Theater” (May 3rd, 1983)

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Harry Belafonte (ca.1958)

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Activist Fannie Lou Hamer singing to a group of people during the "March Against Fear" (1966). Photos by Jim Peppler

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Bern Nadette Stanis, circa 1975. (Photo: Michael Ochs)

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Author/Poet Alice Walker in New Haven, Connecticut (1977), photo by William R. Ferris

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Coretta Scott King displaying her book “My Life With Martin Luther King, Jr.,” February 9, 1970

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James Earl Jones featured in the tv series NBC Children’s Theatre (c. 1970s)

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“Hearing this voice — this vibrant, beautiful, soaring, amazing voice, on whatever that stereo equipment was at the time, was quite overwhelming. I used to sit — very often alone — just listening to the sound and wondering what she really looked like and what her friends were like and what it must it be like to carry such an instrument around in one’s own body.” - Jessye Norman on Leontyne Price

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“Because we’re three or four individual people, we like to express ourselves in a show. That’s why we don’t all wear the same clothes and dance the same. There is a tie in our show that is togetherness, but you still see the individual personalities onstage and in the singing.”- Ruth Pointer of The Pointer Sisters

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Samuel L. Jackson during Video Software Dealers Association Convention in Las Vegas - July 11, 1993 at Las Vegas Convention Center

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Michael Jackson poses for a portrait session on June 12, 1971 in Los Angeles, California