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The Deep South Suite (Podcast #22-008)
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“In 1946, we might remind ourselves, the American South was a one-party apartheid society, the Klu Klux Klan still operated without police intervention and lynchings were still an accepted form of justice; in Congress, Southern senators and representatives prevented the passage of any civil rights legislation. The political intent of the Deep South Suite was originally recited by Leonard Feather as an introduction to the Vdisc recording.”
David Schiff, Going South: Going South: Representation in…
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