Word: bolden
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...took Natherlene Bolden, a Bronx Community College scholarship student, almost four months to find a temporary job answering a telephone in a carpet showroom for $2 an hour...
Black capitalism's champions and critics generally agree that some kind of Government-sponsored program must be continued, but that it must not concentrate on failure-prone small businesses. Says Darwin W. Bolden, a member of the President's Advisory Council on Minority Enterprise: "It's time to take the next step and begin to develop a clear-cut blueprint from which you will move blacks from the mom-and-pop stage to the mainstream of American business-knowing that it is going to take at least another decade...
Robinson gets more solo opportunities than is usual for the trombonist, perhaps because, though over 80 years old, he is the spryest of the group. He was alive when Buddy Bolden formed the first real jazz band, back around 1895, with 16-year-old Bunk Johnson as second cornet. Johnson took over the band after Bolden's health failed, and some years later Robinson played with...
...five he discovered music. The town's most famous honky-tonk dance place, Funky Butt Hall, used to send its band-including Cornettist Buddy Bolden, Trumpeters Bunk Johnson and Joe ("King") Oliver-out on the street to drum up business. Armstrong hung around to listen. By the time he was twelve, he was strolling through the Storyville red-light district singing tenor in a boys' quartet. Taunted one day by a neighborhood tough, he swiped a revolver and charged down Rampart Street, firing shots into the air. He was caught and shipped off to the Colored Waifs...