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applegrove
Feb 2022
OP
The look on her face makes me cry. We've come so far and now the repubes want to go back
Ziggysmom
Feb 2022
#2
Martin68
(22,671 posts)1. Billie Holiday couldn't sleep in the same hotel as her white bandmates.
The Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) refused to allow Marian Anderson to sing to an integrated audience in Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C.
Ziggysmom
(3,374 posts)2. The look on her face makes me cry. We've come so far and now the repubes want to go back
to the way we were before The Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Joinfortmill
(14,247 posts)3. We need to face our history. I love her.
kwijybo
(220 posts)4. Hope the folks that did that have a special hell
Maybe a perpetual Rick-roll.
NoMoreRepugs
(9,260 posts)5. In the big scheme of things has the country really moved forward?
XacerbatedDem
(511 posts)6. So terrible...
But you know what, I'm glad she never let that stop her from being who she was, one of the greatest singers of our time.