Lawrence was also a club singer, concert promoter, and raconteur. [3] In 2019, it was announced in numerous outlets that Ahmir Questlove Thompson would make his directorial debut with Summer of Soul (Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised), a feature documentary about the Harlem Cultural Festival. But by the time the summer of 1970 had arrived, it became clear that almost none of Lawrences plans would come to fruition. The New York City Police Department (NYPD) has denied your FOIL request FOIL-2019-056-20982 for the following reasons: (https://a860-openrecords.nyc.gov/request/view/FOIL-2019-056-20982) In regard to the document(s) which you requested, this unit is unable to locate records responsive to your request based on the information you provided. Characteristics Structure and syllable choice. Thats rage. (https://a860-openrecords.nyc.gov/request/view/FOIL-2019-056-20982), Subject: [OpenRecords] Request FOIL-2019-056-20982 Closed. For nearly 50 years, this just sat in a basement and no one cared. Tony Lawrence was born sometime around 1935-40 and grew up in Pittsburgh. Tee 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival was referred to as Black Woodstock and was attended by many very prominent Black musicians of the time. Meanwhile, the Talib Kweli-hosted tribute show taking place in Harlem this month will shine a spotlight on the political underpinnings of the 69 festival. Gil, Thomas and Ludevig are all responding, in a sense, to the same urgency once posed by the Amsterdam News Raymond Robinson. But you have the mental capacity to read the signs of the times. Lawrence also alleged several instances of the use of the n-word amongst the corporate entities and white business partners involved with the festival. Now, more than 50 years after the Harlem Cultural Festival, a feature-length concert film on the Harlem Cultural Festival is finally in the works for release next year. Thats outrageous. Kushnick died in 1989). Two of the major No. Concert producer Angela Gil, who is working on conjunction with Neal Ludevig, the 50th anniversary Black Woodstock curator and co-producer, to ensure that Lawrences original dream of taking the Harlem Cultural Festival nationwide finally comes to fruition. "I've been given the responsibility to correct history, which, who'd a thought, you know?". Reached for comment, a representative for Poitier says that the actor has no recollection of Mr. Lawrence). ", "1969 was a paradigm shift, especially for Black people, you know, coming off the tail end of the civil rights period," Thompson said. Photograph by NYC Parks Photo Archive, The Harlem Cultural Festival in 1968. A large, multi-colored stage was built in Mount Morris Park for filming purposes. "Nobody would believe it happened. Tony Lawrence was a singer from the West Indies who made a name for himself in 1960s New York as the man responsible for The Harlem Cultural Festival. Where is he?'" It is the hope of this reviewer, he wrote, as well as the hundreds of thousands of Blacks in the country that this type of Black enterprise will continue to grow and multiply, so that the Black man can attain his place in the economic structure of the entertainment industry of this Nation.. "So I looked it up online. He recorded a series of forgotten singles between 1960 and 1962 for the obscure New York label Jude Records. We can find no records of TOny Lawrence after 1972. [12][13][14][15] According to Metacritic, which assigned a weighted average score of 96 out of 100 based on 38 critics, the film received "universal acclaim. Everyone involved in Lawrence's allegations denied his claims, and Beldock told Rolling Stone that they were "outrageous.". But he did not; he and Jackson were part of the crowd that gathered at Mount Morris Park in Harlem. A second hour-long special followed on September 16 on ABC, featuring Mahalia Jackson, the Staple Singers, and Reverend Jesse Jackson. To help promote the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival (as seen in the documentary film Summer of Soul), Tony Lawrence released this 7" single on Lo Lo Records.To. Tulchins proposed film suffered much the same fate as Lawrences festival. So why was the event all but forgotten for so many decades? I hope that now you will never be able to talk about the summer of 1969 and the pivotal events that happened without mentioning the Harlem Cultural Festival.. "Nobody ever heard of the Harlem Cultural Festival," said Cyril "Bullwhip" Innis Jr., who was part of the Black Panther security team (via the L.A. Times). "Instead, the cultural zeitgeist that actually ended up being our guide as Black people was 'Soul Train.' ", "The #1 question I always had was, like, 'Wait a minute, you're trying to tell me that, for 50 years, no one was interested?'" Grief and unrest infiltrated the African American community, and the relationship between the community and the police was as shaky as ever. "He's really coming into his own," Hsu said. James edits music fanzine The Shadow Knows and writes regularly about Mo Wax Records. "There were some that thought I made it up!" Thompson said, "Yeah, he's no longer little Stevie Wonder. Thompson said, "We did a lot of research, and at the time when Stevie's performing, that's when the actual Moon landing is happening, when Stevie's performing. B.B. Fyvolent, intrigued, wondered if that was a better movie. The festival, organized and hosted by singer Tony Lawrence, was filmed by television producer Hal Tulchin, but the 40 hours of footage remained largely unseen. For several decades, the tape reels remained in the basement of the Tulchin family home in Westchester. "We'll never get to know the answer, what the effect would have been. Lewis laughed. Lawrence was also a club singer, concert promoter, and raconteur. The thought of directing, at first, made him panic Smurf, he says. Questloves film, his first as a director, is both a corrective to a lost history and a foot-stomping, soul-stirring party. In 1967, Lawrence helped set up the first Harlem Cultural Festival, a series of free events held across Harlem that included "a Harlem Hollywood Night, boxing demonstrations, a fashion show, go-kart grand prix, the first Miss Harlem contest, and concerts featuring soul, gospel, calypso, and Puerto Rican music". Tony Lawrence Harlem Cultural Festival 1969 - Aug 17, 1969 Aug 17 1969; Following concerts. According to the New York Amsterdam News, like Lawrences previous concert productions, the event was presented free of charge. like this one. It was a timely lesson in racial stereotyping writes Stuart Cosgrove, speaking of the contrast between Woodstock and the Harlem Cultural Festival in Harlem 69. The summer of 1969 was a particularly historic time for the United States. ", Singer Marilyn McCoo, of The Fifth Dimenson, mesmerized young Musa Jackson: "I was in love!". As was the case with Woodstock, a filmmaker Hal Tulchin had captured the entirety of that years Harlem Cultural Festival, confident that the combination of the music (Nina and Stevie) and the setting (a post-68 Harlem reeling from the assassination of MLK) would add up to a feature-length film that could cement the series of uptown Manhattan concerts as generation-defining events. We couldnt afford therapists so that musical expression that you see Abbey Lincoln do with Max Roach, that you see Sonny Sharrock do in his solo, that you see all the gospel artists do, its not just a silly way of getting to the climax of a song. From 1940 to 1941, Lawrence created perhaps his most famous series 60 images chronicling The Migration of the Negro. After vague attempts to bring the Harlem Cultural Festival to Lincoln Center in 1970 were aborted, it was announced that the event was canceled due to a lack of private funds.. I'd like any record of this bombing or of the cases he brought against his lawyers. The friend mentioned the existing footage of the Harlem Cultural Festival. "[16][17][18] On March 27, 2022, Summer of Soul won the Best Documentary prize at the 94th Academy Awards. (When contacted by the Amsterdam News at the time, all of the parties implicated in Lawrences allegations denied any wrongdoing. Copyright 2023 CBS Interactive Inc. All rights reserved. Sly and the Family Stone were performing with a kind of freedom that you never saw before. [6] However, a shortage of funding meant that the plans failed to materialize. But how did the festival get from the dustbin of history to Questloves hard drive? Fifty years later, a rediscovery is finally underway. setlist.fm Add Setlist. . He made plans to bring the Harlem Cultural Festival to Fayette, Mississippi, where he would host a concert with B.B. Nobody would take it. After so many years, you go on with your life, youre doing different things, recalls Billy Davis Jr., 83, of The 5th Dimension. And I know damn well that a whole lot of entertainers wanted to be part of the Harlem Festival., Every type of music was represented:, says Ava Seavey, Tulchins daughter, who attended the festival as a young girl. So go to school, children, and learn all you can. Afterwards Lawrence would try to revive the Harlem Cultural Festival yet again. I'd like any record of this bombing or of the cases he brought against his lawyers. Are you ready to smash white things, to burn buildings? The 55-minute long broadcast can be viewed online in full as part of the University of Georgias Walter. In the 1960s, Lawrence began working on community projects. What was filmed was stored in a basement and hidden from history for decades. Editor: Carol Ross. But I think he had grown cynical that he could get anybodys attention, says Fyvolent. In addition to showcasing the lineages of jazz, blues, and gospel, 1969s Harlem Cultural Festival was a gathering of many of the eras most popular artists. The 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival was one of the most exciting things that happened in Harlem, says former congressman and Harlem native Charles Rangel. That May, Lawrence and Parks Commissioner August Heckscher announcedtheir plans for a new summer event series called the Harlem Cultural Festival. But he was also a . The 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival was, indeed, a meaningful entity, Robinson wrote, but was it fully appreciated?. [7], Film maker Hal Tulchin used five portable video cameras to record over 40 hours of footage of the Festival. In the summer of 1969, four-year-old Musa Jackson and 19-year-old Darryl Lewis attended a music festival. Roots band leader Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson, director of "Summer of Soul.". 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Request Title: Tony Lawrence - Musician and Entertainer (New York City Police Department) Request Description: Other Request Other Request Type of Request: Report #: Date: Time: Precinct: Location: Description: To Whom It May Concern: We are seeking any and all documents related to musician and entertainer Tony Lawrence. All Rights reserved. Over the years, I dont think he was unaware that he had these materials and they were valuable. 2021 CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved. Some 300,000 people poured into the free, daytime concerts. The Harlem Cultural Festival attracted some of the biggest artists of the late Sixties, from the Fifth Dimension (pictured) to Sly and the Family Stone. Andnext year, a long-awaited documentary featuring Tulchins never-before-seen musical footage is finally slated to be released, after years of failed deals and broken-down negotiations. For the first day of the festival June 29, when Sly & the Family Stone played the New York Police Department refused to provide security, per Smithsonian. [4] Lawrence also made claims against Tulchin over ownership of the recordings, and attempted to set up his own film company, Uganda Productions. The artists tried to express the tensions of the time, a fierce pain and a fierce joy.. [21][22], Tony Lawrence made plans for further festivals, aiming to turn the Harlem festival into an international touring enterprise, and made recordings aimed at promoting the festivals. In 1967, Lawrences civic-minded work in Harlem led him to his most important job yet: working for New Yorks Parks Department. The festivals location was central to the entire premise of the series. In his October 69 column, Robinson had asked if the festival would ever receive proper mainstream recognition. One of Tony Lawrences greatest fans, Sammy Davis Jr., considers him a lad with a great deal of personality and first-rate singing versatility, read one account of the singer from that time. They weren't at that other music festival in upstate New York: "I didn't see Woodstock; my parents would not let me go!" It's said Woodstock defined a generation. Tee 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival was referred to as Black Woodstock and was attended by many very prominent Black musicians of the time. Thank you in advance for your anticipated cooperation in this matter. Lawrence went further, claiming in the newspaper that his life was under threat from a mafia enforcer. According to Lawrence in the New York Amsterdam News, after visiting his friend Sidney Poitier in Pleasantville, New York, in May of 1970, his car blew up in an attempted murder. Then, towards the end of his life, Tulchin considered a series of offers with acclaimed filmmakers like Alex Gibney and Robert Gordon. King. "And you know the reason why. Summer of Soul, the new documentary from Questlove, spotlights 1969s Harlem Cultural Festival, a series of concerts that entertainer turned promoter Tony Lawrence presented in Harlems Mount Morris Park in the summer of 1969. This month, the city of New York is revisiting its own history with a week of panel discussions on the festival, culminating in a 50th-anniversary concert in Harlem on August 17th featuring Sly and the Family Stone guitarist/co-founder Freddie Stone, Talib Kweli, and Igmar Thomas. You may appeal the decision to deny access to material that was redacted in part or withheld in entirety by contacting the agency's FOIL Appeals Officer: (https://a860-openrecords.nyc.gov/request/view/FOIL-2019-056-20982) foilappeals@nypd.org within 30 days. He accused me and Kushnick of fraud? he says. Last year, British journalist Stuart Cosgrove published Harlem 69, a history of the neighborhoods transformational year that includes the most comprehensive account of the festival to date. Timeline of significant events and developments related to the Harlem Renaissance. Troops were sent home from Vietnam. Plans for the fest to tour nationally never materialized. Are you ready?, One of the things I hope this film does is bring this ignored part of American history into the canon of American history, says producer Joseph Patel. The event, held the same summer as Woodstock, drew together Nina Simone, a 19-year-old Stevie Wonder (a genius already), Sly and the Family Stone (the lone act to hit Woodstock, too), B.B. We didnt go over real well in the beginning. But I do believe that, even 50 years later, this is still as potent and powerful as Woodstock was, and can still work its magic for another generation.". For the previous decade or so, Lawrence had been an entertainer with a flair for both singing and acting. What I worry about is that there is a generation that just thinks that our history is being bashed on the head with billy clubs, or being sprayed with firehoses. Tony Lawrence is best known as the host of the Harlem Cultural Festival, as seen in the documentary film Summer of Soul. That's the first year that, you know, we acknowledged that Black is beautiful. Send us a tip using our anonymous form. The audiences were overwhelmingly Black, with families throughout. There wasnt open protest, but there was a sense of bringing us all together for a great sense of pride. Tony Lawrence is best-known as the MC and one of the organisers of the Harlem Cultural Festival. Thompson said. Sly and the Family Stone sang their counterculture anthem, "Everyday People," and wore styles to match. Sponsors included Maxwell House Coffee, and what was then the Parks, Recreation, and Cultural Affairs Division of the City of New York (later separated into Parks and Recreation and Cultural Affairs). All Rights reserved. King, the Staple Singers, the 5th Dimension, and Gladys Knight and the Pips. Jesse Jackson, who spoke at the festival in 1969, recalls to Rolling Stone. Harlem's Hellifighters: The African-American 369 th Infantry in World War I by Stephen L. Harris Right away you go back and remember.. A minor celebrity named Tony Lawrence started it all CBS/YouTube In 1967, the New York City Parks Department hired a man named Tony Lawrence to organize summer events in Harlem. Your request FOIL-2019-056-20982 has been successfully submitted to the New York City Police Department (NYPD). Tony Lawrence was born sometime around 1935-40 and grew up in Pittsburgh. The most successful series of concerts, in 1969, became known informally as Black Woodstock,[1] and is presented in the 2021 documentary film Summer of Soul. www.theshadowknows.com.au, An Australian writer with a passion for research. The series had been an unprecedented success, with combined attendance numbers (roughly 300,000) that nearly rivaled those of that summers other unexpected musical phenomenon, Woodstock, which took place 100 miles north. Organized by a 30-something St. Kitts-born singer and actor named Tony Lawrence, the festival actually got started in the summer of 1967. King, Sly and the Family Stone, Chuck Jackson, Abbey Lincoln & Max Roach, the 5th Dimension, David Ruffin, Hugh Masakela, Gladys Knight & the Pips, Stevie Wonder, Mahalia Jackson, Mongo Santamaria, Ray Barretto, and Moms Mabley, among many others. ", With all that was going on in and around 1969, particularly in the African American community, that summer seemed the optimal time for a celebration of Black culture. He was a regular in New york Jazz Clubs and in Bedford-Stuyvesant and Harlem. "It really was like a sea of people," Jackson said. [3] At the same time, in the mid-1960s, nightclub singer Tony Lawrence began working on community initiatives in Harlem, initially for local churches but from 1966 working under New York City Mayor John Lindsay and Parks Commissioner August Heckscher. Questlove's film was released on July 2, 2021 in theaters and on Hulu to critical acclaim. "If I could find something shocking and jarring to someone visually, that would be my beginning," he replied. For the previous decade or so, Lawrence had been an entertainer with a flair for both singing and acting. Hopefully, he wrote of the festivals then-uncertain future, [it] will continue to grow.. And who knows? [11] Although the majority of this video remains commercially unreleased, CBS broadcast a one-hour special on July 28, 1969 featuring the Fifth Dimension, the Chambers Brothers, and Max Roach with Abbey Lincoln. The NYPD eventually showed up, but the Panthers stayed put to make sure the Black community was sufficiently protected. Neil Armstrong landed on the moon. Meadowlark spent the last several years of his life as an ordained minister and motivational speaker. I look forward to receiving your response to this request within 5 business days, as the statute requires. Theres so much more and so much underneath the surface that a lot of people dont know.. "Even now, when I think about it, I'm a little emotional about it, because it's something that I've had in my heart, in my head since I was four years old," Jackson said. They saw some of the biggest acts of the time, including Stevie Wonder, Sly & The Family Stone, The 5th Dimension, and Nina Simone. Tony Lawrence is best-known as the MC and one of the organisers of the Harlem Cultural Festival. Stevie Wonder performs at the 1969 Harlem Cultural festival. Drawing on his own life and what he witnessed in his Harlem neighborhood of New . Leaked footage of the bands set shows an apathetic crowd standing motionless as the band performs songs like M Lady and Sing a Simple Song. But by the time the band reached its hits like their Number One record Everyday People, Dance to the Music, and I Want to Take You Higher, the crowd was fully cutting loose. Tony Lawrence had an even bigger idea. '", The Untold Truth Of The 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival. "That was the first year that we referred to ourselves as Black. It was like opening a treasure chest," he says. Available in print and online. "This mythical, magical festival thrown in 1969, with all these great names, and I never heard about it?" Performers at Newark's 1969's Love Festival included Bobby "Blue" Bland and the Chambers Brothers. My stomach dropped. said Allen Zerkin, who was Lawrence's assistant at the Parks Department in 1967 (via Rolling Stone). In the film, the Chambers Brothers perform their cover of the Bee Gees To Love Somebody, Bland sings a stirring version of his ballad Save Your Love for Me, and Bradford delivers a revelatory three-song set. Artist: Tony Lawrence, Venue: Mount Morris Park, New York, NY, USA. According to Rolling Stone, he sang R&B- and soul-infused songs in several languages for an obscure New York record label. It's not on the internet, so I was highly skeptical. After a few local television specials aired portions of the Harlem Cultural Festivals musical programming in the late Sixties, Tulchin, who created a copyright for a motion picture by the name of Harlem Festival in July of 1969, failed to secure any larger deal for a documentary. ", Several of the performers at the festival seized the opportunity to make political, or generally empowering, declarations onstage. The documentary included clips excavated from 40 hours of live footage from the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival, which had gone unseen for five decades, per The New York Times. And so, I'm always going to wonder, 'How could this and 'Soul Train' have pushed potential creatives further? All rights reserved, CODA,' Summer of Soul' Win Top Prizes at Sundance Awards, Questlove Uncovers Black Woodstock' in His Hit Sundance Doc, This 26-Year-Old Pays $0 to Live in a Luxury Tiny Home' She Built for $35,000 in Her Backyard Take a Look Inside, 4 Ferraris Stolen on Long Island in Service Center Heist, Kylie Jenner's Ex, Rapper Travis Scott, Wanted in $12,000 Manhattan Nightclub Mayhem, Dunkin' Is Giving Away Free Iced Coffee This WeekHere's How to Order, The Harlem Fine Arts Show Celebrates 15 Years. The Harlem Cultural Festival began in 1967, when a 30-something local entertainer named Tony Lawrence was hired by the citys Parks Department to organize summertime programming in the neighborhood. Born in St. Kitts, the aspiring entertainer had spent his twenties working as a performer in music and television after moving with his family to Virginia as a child and later settling in New York. Tee 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival was referred to as Black Woodstock and was attended by many very . At one of his outdoor performances for 1500 people, read one review of a show in Jamaica, the management had to ask him to change his tempo or stop singing because the swinging audience was demolishing the grandstands and getting out of control.. We had em going, Martini says. [6] A further five TV specials were announced at the time, but do not appear to have been broadcast.[3]. He was a regular in New york Jazz Clubs and in Bedford-Stuyvesant and Harlem. One of the articles stated that Lawrence was "suing his former white partners in promoting the festival for $100 million for fraud." We had forgotten all about it. He was originally from St. But now you've got an education. First published on June 27, 2021 / 9:35 AM. "What were the moments that would force you to sit down and take a note?". They were all deeply impacted by a festival that took place in Mount Morris (now Marcus Garvey) Park from June 29 to Aug. 24, 1969. "Dashikis and sideburns and sunglasses," noted Jackson. Perhaps most famously, Tony Lawrence hosted the Harlem Cultural Festival from 1967-1971. Tulchins Harlem Cultural Festival footage, filmed in color on high-resolution two-inch tape, has become a holy grail of sorts, with extraordinary excerpts leaking over the years. People spread for three and four hundred yards around the stage just enjoying themselves.. It started in 2012 when Robert Fyvolent, an entertainment lawyer and former studio executive, was talking with a friend about rights clearances for a Ken Burns-style soul documentary. "Sunday Morning" contributor Hua Hsu asked, "What happened to it? said Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson. The Harlem Cultural Festival served as a pause from the racial and civil unrest sweeping across the United States during the late 1960s including riots, the assassinations of Dr. Martin Luther. ", For Thompson, leader of "The Tonight Show" house band The Roots, that magical festival is now the basis of his documentary, "Summer of Soul," which opens this week. Gospel, blues pop, rock, everything., It was hotter than hell at Sly and the Family Stones July performance, according to the bands saxophonist Jerry Martini, who can still vividly recall specifics of that afternoon: The bands drummer, Greg Errico, performed with the flu, and the Harlem crowd did not immediately take to the bands funk-rock fusion. "When it was shown to me, I got humbled real quick! You felt really safe"), and in some ways it was excluded from history being made elsewhere. www.theshadowknows.com.au, An Australian writer with a passion for research. Tulchin connected with filmmakers Morgan Neville and Robert Gordon in 2004, but those plans fizzled. Learn more. Tony Lawrence also claimed that his car had been bombed and that the FBI was aware of this bombing. There could be, The Shadow Knows is a music fanzine looking at the careers, influences, and samples of our favourite artist. When he first heard about the festival, Questlove questioned how such a major musical and cultural event could have flown under his radar. But for a variety of financial, creative, and personal reasons, Tulchin, to the frustration of everyone around him, backed out of the deals at the last minute. In the early 1970s (1971 or 1972) In 1971-72, Lawrence claimed that his lawyers and business partners, Jerrold Kushnick . The Harlem Cultural Festival attracted everyone from Stevie Wonder and Nina Simone to Jesse Jackson and Marcus Garvey Jr., but quickly faded into obscurity. In the early 1970s (1971 or 1972) In 1971-72, Lawrence claimed that his lawyers and business partners, Jerrold Kushnick and Harold Beldock, had stolen several hundreds of thousands of dollars from the festivals fund. [2] The 1969 event took place around the same time as the Woodstock festival, which may have drawn media attention away from Harlem. Summary of Jacob Lawrence. The next month, on August 17th, Tony Lawrence invited onstage some of the 200 men and women who had protested the construction of a state government office building in Harlem that summer,. Issue #4 out soon! The 100 Greatest TV Shows of All Time You may be president of the United States one day., We really needed a shot in the arm, says Rangel. Contacted by Rolling Stone, several lawyers associated with the case in the newspaper say they have no memory of the man. Like a rose coming through the concrete is one description of 1969s Harlem Cultural Festival heard in Ahmir Questlove Thompsons exuberant, illuminating documentary Summer of Soul (or: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised).. There's been a change, and you may be president of the United States one day. The Amsterdam News noted that Lawrence's claims were unsubstantiated, and, at the urging of Shirley Chisholm and Charles Rangel, the legal action was dropped. ", Thompson said, "Pretty much everyone just expressed disdain for it, which I didn't realize it was that universal.". In the late 1960s and early 1970s, he was one of the main organisers of the annual Harlem Cultural Festival [1] in New York City, including the 1969 festival celebrated in the 2021 documentary film Summer of Soul. I knew in anyone elses hands, that there would be some sort of factoid that would set off the cynic in me and the audience. Pursuant to the New York Freedom of Information Law, I hereby request the following records: We are seeking any and all documents related to musician and entertainer Tony Lawrence. Conceived in part as a way for the community to heal after the death of Martin Luther King Jr. the year before, the Harlem Cultural Festival, where the Black Panthers handled security, throbbed with the tumult of the times a pivotal year, the Rev. Throughout his life, Tony Lawrence remained a private enigma, a mystery to even those who worked closely with him. And who knows? "I know that Hal Tulchin tried very hard to find any and every one. Why Doesn't Anyone Remember? In 1940, he recieved a grant from the Rosenwald Foundation to create a series of images on the migration of African-Americans from the South. To watch a trailer for "Summer of Soul (Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised)" click on the video player below: Story produced by Mary Raffalli.
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