The Charles Mingus Sextet: Take the ‘A’ Train
Fly Flicks: Lena Horne & Paul Robeson
Billie Holiday & The Count Basie Band
Dorothy Dandridge introducing Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Dorothy Dandridge introducing Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as a speaker. She discusses freedom and entertainers speaking up and speaking out.
“It really wasn’t very long ago, that it was considered dangerous for the people in show business to endorse anything more controversial than toothpaste.” -Dorothy Dandridge
Fly Flicks: Fly Athletes From The 1960s
Front row: Bill Russell, Muhammad Ali, Jim Brown, and Kareem Abdul Jabar.
Back row: Carl Stokes, Walter Beach, Bobby Mitchell, Sid Williams, Curtis McClinton, Willie Davis, Jim Shorter, and John Wooten.
This photograph was taken at a press conference given on June 4, 1967. The top African American athletes of that time, gathered together as a show of unity for Muhammad Ali, as he publicly proclaimed his reasons for rejecting the Vietnam War draft.