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RAY CHARLES - "YOU DON'T KNOW ME" (1962)

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Lime Kiln Club Field Day (1913) starred Bert Williams, the first superstar black entertainer. Unreleased at the time, the film’s “dailies" were assembled by ‪@themuseumofmodernart‬ 101 years later.

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In this powerful special episode, we explore the legacy of Marian Anderson—a groundbreaking African American contralto and Civil Rights icon. Born in 1897 in Philadelphia, Marian Anderson rose to international fame not only for her extraordinary voice but also for her resilience in the face of racial discrimination in early 20th-century America.

Discover how Anderson's historic 1939 performance at the Lincoln Memorial, after being barred from Constitution Hall by the Daughters of the American Revolution, became a pivotal moment in African American history and the early Civil Rights Movement. Learn how First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt took a public stand, and how Anderson’s insistence on equality helped break barriers in segregated America.

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Dwight D. Eisenhower, the 34th President of the United States, grew up in a segregated America and had little direct experience with Black Americans. Yet during his presidency, Eisenhower was forced to confront the realities of racial injustice, civil rights protests, and the fight for Black equality.

This episode covers Eisenhower’s role in the Brown v. Board of Education decision, the Little Rock Nine crisis, the Civil Rights Act of 1957, and the Civil Rights Act of 1960. Learn how Eisenhower’s uncomfortable relationship with civil rights shaped U.S. history and impacted African American civil rights progress.

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Marian Anderson was born February 27, 1897, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She was one of the finest contraltos of her time.
 
Her 1939 Easter Sunday concert on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial—after she was denied the right to sing at Constitution Hall by the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) because of her race—became one of the defining moments of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States.

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MAYA ANGELOU IS OUT BUT ‘MEIN KAMPF’ STAYS AT THE NAVAL ACADEMY LIBRARY
By John Ismay. He is a Pentagon reporter for The New York Times, and is based in Washington. He was commissioned as an officer from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1999
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/us/politics/naval-acade…


An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office resulted in a purge of books critical of racism but preserved volumes defending white power. Midshipmen at the U.S. Naval Academy can check out copies of “Mein Kampf” by Adolf Hitler but not “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” by Maya Angelou.


 
Gone is “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” Maya Angelou’s transformative best-selling 1970 memoir chronicling her struggles with racism and trauma.


Two copies of “Mein Kampf” by Adolf Hitler are still on the shelves.

Gone is “Memorializing the Holocaust,” Janet Jacobs’s 2010 examination of how female victims of the Holocaust have been portrayed and remembered.


“The Camp of the Saints” by Jean Raspail is still on the shelves. The 1973 novel, which envisions a takeover of the Western world by immigrants from developing countries, has been embraced by white supremacists and promoted by Stephen Miller, a senior White House adviser.


“The Bell Curve,” which argues that Black men and women are genetically less intelligent than white people, is still there. But a critique of the book was pulled.

 
The Trump administration’s decision to order the banning of certain books from the U.S. Naval Academy’s library is a case study in ideological censorship, alumni and academics say.


Political appointees in the Department of the Navy’s leadership decided which books to remove. A look at the list showed that antiracists were targeted, laying bare the contradictions in the assault on so-called diversity, equity and inclusion policies.

“Initially, officials searched the Nimitz Library catalog, using keyword searches, to identify books that required further review,” Cmdr. Tim Hawkins, a Navy spokesman, said in a statement on Friday. “Approximately 900 books were identified during the preliminary search. Departmental officials then closely examined the preliminary list to determine which books required removal to comply with directives outlined in executive orders issued by the president.”


“This effort ultimately resulted in nearly 400 books being selected for removal from the Nimitz Library collection,” he added.

 
At most university libraries, books that the Navy’s civilian leadership banned — like “The Second Coming of the KKK,” Linda Gordon’s account of how the Klan gained political power in the 1920s — and “The Camp of the Saints” would coexist on nearby shelves.

 
The Naval Academy, a 179-year-old institution in Annapolis, Md., has produced generations of military officers, many of whom have become leaders in industry, Congress and the White House. The Department of the Navy’s purge of 381 books there picked sides in the racism debate, and those that examine and criticize historical and current racism against Black Americans lost.

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