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African American

Kind of Blue

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2. Such a bizarro world that being human becomes

Reply to heaven05 (Original post)

Tue Jun 12, 2018, 09:09 AM

Jun 2018

a revolutionary act. Your first link, heaven05, reminds me of the documentary White Wash of a few years ago. It chronicles not only the experience and history of AA, pools and beaches but reaches further back in history off this continent where the problem for AA and water began.

https://vimeo.com/6106544

Interestingly, it was water again that played a role in eventually pushing LBJ to finally sign the Civil Rights Act, documented here in Journey - 450 Years Of The African American Experience. St. Augustine, Florida a bastion for free blacks. After 450 years, protesters' defied the policy of a hotel's white only pool because of the odious treatment of MLK, Jr.

Thanks for the links. Will explore your second one now.

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