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Born Otha Ellas Bates in Mississippi, Diddley moved to Chicago as a child and learned to make violins and guitars in vocational school before dropping out to play music. When Chess Records showed an interest, a harmonica player supposedly suggested the stage name Bo Diddley, slang for a bowlegged fool. A few days later, Diddley made his first professional recording, Bo Diddley; it rocketed to No. 1 on the Billboard R&B chart and introduced the world to rock's defining rhythm, the Bo Diddley "hambone" beat--bum-bum-bum, bum bum--that's fueled everything from Buddy Holly...
...September, Hornig was in the crowd. After the talk, she said, she finally overcame her hesitations about teaching and applied to Teach For America (TFA), which places college graduates in two-year teaching positions in high-need school districts. (She will be teaching high school French in the Mississippi Delta region next year...
...tapes released that June, which included seven-and-a-half hours of recordings and nearly 300 pages of transcript, were the first to be distributed to the general public. They contained discussions that Kennedy had in late 1962 with Cox about the integration at the University of Mississippi and with former economics professor David E. Bell, who was director of the Office of Management and Budget, about developing American economic policy...
According to quotes from the tape cited by The New York Times, Kennedy is heard speaking with his aides and staffers about the growing tension with Mississippi Gov. Ross Barnett over allowing James H. Meredith, a black student, to attend the University of Mississippi...
...1960s he was heavily involved in the civil rights movement in Mississippi, where he had attended Tugaloo College, a historically-black institution. (It was later revealed that he had been investigated and threatened by the FBI’s notorious COINTELPRO, which was charged with disrupting and discrediting the activity of individuals and groups that it deemed dangerously radical...