Word: bolden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SPRING of 1942, two jazz collectors followed up a rumor that a survivor of the legendary Buddy Bolden jazz band was living and working as a day laborer in the rice fields of rural Louisiana. They drove all the way across the country hoping just to see him, to speak to him, to learn what New Orleans jazz had been before the turn of the century, before the first World War, before the "dixieland" musicians and the arrangers of the swing era had diluted and transformed its raw power and beauty almost beyond recognition...
Bunk was a symbol of the perseverence of that music and the culture which had engendered it. His career stretched all the way back to the 1890's when he had played with the famous Buddy Bolden band. Bunk had been the idol and teacher of many great New Orleans trumpet men, including Louis Armstrong. "They was all crazy behind old man Bunk's playing" he said himself in 1942. He had worked in every joint in Storyville, and played countless parades and funerals throughout the city. And now in the 40's, ten years after his "retirement" from music...
...plus registered Negroes turned out for the Democratic primary. Half of them had never been registered until the past year. Despite advance talk of Negro "apathy," after nearly a century of disfranchisement the act of voting was, for most, a compelling duty and an unforgettable experience. Said Willie Bolden, 81, the grandson of a slave, who had never cast a ballot until last week: "It made me think I was sort of Somebody...
...American Negroes have their own case to present: to them, the Africans sometimes seem deliberately aloof. Says LeRoy Bolden, a Negro who was an All-America halfback at Michigan State in 1953 and is now doing research at Stanford: "Most of these Africans are high ranking, chiefs' sons or others with the contacts needed to line up an American education. They want to identify themselves with the group on top-and that's not us. Try calling one a Negro. Chances are he'll correct you by saying 'I'm an African...
...yard freestyle--Won by Oldham (N); 2, Bolden (N); 3, Ulbrich (H). Time...