Word: south
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nielson hurt his wrist in a bicycle accident. But he is rallying now and will go South. His forehand is painful, but he is improving rapidly...
...Alabama, and the Federal government was on our side. The Movement was a good-hearted affair with plenty of idealism and not too much analysis. Its politics were still those of the fifties: everyone pretty much agreed with everyone else about most everything, and young people had to go South to find things that were obviously wrong...
...these groups openly admitted that they owed their success to such people as Muddy Waters. Howlin' Wolf, Elmore James, Sonny Boy Williamson, Little Walter Jacobs, J.B. Hutto, and the rest of the old-style blues musicians who had carried the blues up from the south to Chicago. And yet of all these great artists, few remain. Sonny Boy, Elmore James, Little Walter have all died. And the rest of the people in Chicago like J.B. Hutto and Homesick James (Elmore's cousin) barely make a living and are still playing in the same Chicago bars. Only Muddy Waters and Howlin...
...Chicago Blues Allstars (a group put together by Muddy Waters to tour the country--Johnny Shines on guitar, Shaky Walter Horton on harmonica, Sunnyland Slim on Piano, Willie Dixon on bass, and Clifton James on drums), a rare collection of great individual artists who grew up in the south and later moved to Chicago. Shaky Walter and Johnny Shines met in Memphis after Johnny Shines had travelled and played with one of the greatest and most innovative blues people, Robert Johnson (who was killed in 1937 at the age of 21). Like Robert Johnson, who wrote such great songs...
There will be a rally at noon today at City Hall Plaza, Boston to protest the policies of the South African government and U.S. economic involvement there. Speakers from Harvard and Brandeis will also discuss the liberation movement in South Africa...