Word: bill
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BILL COEN...
...BILL ROBERTS...
Despite the passage of the Civil Rights Bill, the cities have almost nothing to go on in their fight against urban poverty and racial discrimination. Anti-poverty funds have been cut, summer work programs are looking very thin, the whole employment picture for Negroes is as bleak as ever and the same is true of new and rehabilitated housing. Ghetto schools are the same old schools...
...BILL HALEY...
...BILL HALEY is the earliest rock auteur (which chronologically places him somewhere between Johnny Ray and Elvis Presley). Not only did Haley accomplish rock's conquest of the pop charts with Rock Around the Clock, he molded a cheerful, sincerely synthetic style that brought him hits like Shake, Rattle, and Roll and See Ya Later, Allgiator, and enabled him and his Comets to appropriate any old song for rock's use--remember, for instance, Rockin' Through the Rye. (While speaking of Haley, we might note the best successor to his practices, Johnny and the Hurricanes. Though not properly belonging...