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[https://www.npr.org/programs/latino-usa/520574914/blood-and-betrayal-in-the-southwest by npr 17/3/17] | [https://www.npr.org/programs/latino-usa/520574914/blood-and-betrayal-in-the-southwest by npr 17/3/17] | ||
Latino USA looks into the long and little-told history of segregation, discrimination, and state-sanctioned violence towards Mexicans and Mexican-Americans in the Southwest. | Latino USA looks into the long and little-told history of segregation, discrimination, and state-sanctioned violence towards Mexicans and Mexican-Americans in the Southwest. | ||
=====https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/the-rope-the-forgotten-history-of- | |||
segregated-rock-roll-concerts-126235/===== | |||
[https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/the-rope-the-forgotten-history-of-segregated-rock-roll-concerts-126235/ by Steve Knopper 22/2/21 RollingStone] | |||
One night in the late 1950s, the Flamingos’ bus pulled up to a concert hall in Birmingham, Alabama, and a row of 30 to 50 police officers holding rifles and billy clubs was waiting for them. The cops escorted the six-member doo-wop group, famous for “I Only Have Eyes for You” and “The Ladder of Love,” to its dressing room and gave strict instructions. | |||
