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Today in Labor History June 12, 1967: “Race riots” broke out in Cincinnati, with one death and scores injured after National Guardsmen began patrolling the city with machine guns. That same day, riots also broke out in Tampa, after white cops killed a black man. There were 159 race riots during the so-called Summer of Love, with over 85 deaths. 26 of the deaths occurred in Newark. In every case, the riots were precipitated by violence against black residents, after years of racial profiling by police, red-lining by banks, and political disempowerment. In 1968, President Johnson's Commission on Civil Disorders blamed the Cincinnati riots on poverty and racist police harassment of racial minorities.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #Riot #cincinnati #racism #police #policebrutality #murder #newark #SummerOfLove #BlackMastodon

50+ Music May 28

"A Whiter Shade of Pale" is a song by the English rock band #ProcolHarum that was issued as their debut single on 12 May 1967. The single reached number 1 in the #UKSinglesChart on 8 June and stayed there for six weeks. Without much promotion, it reached number 5 on the US #Billboard Hot 100. One of the anthems of the 1967 #SummerOfLove, it is one of the most commercially successful singles in history, having #soldMoreThan10Million copies worldwide. In the years since.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=St6jyEFe5WM

Procol Harum - A Whiter Shade of Pale, live in Denmark 2006

Procol Harum performing A Whiter Shade of Pale with the Danish National Concert Orchestra and choir at Ledreborg Castle, Denmark in August 2006

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Gemma ⭐️🔰🇺🇸 🇵🇭 🎐Apr 7

I think the one thing that defines the left wing of #GenerationX #GenX more than any thing else is deep #skepticism of #sincerity. Not that we don't believe that sincerity exists, but it has been shown to us so many times that displays of sincerity are hiding lies.

We're the children of #BabyBoomers who demand we worship the #SummerOfLove and their #antiwar and their #EarthDay, #CivilRights, and #Feminism, yet everything the #MeGeneration did in subsequent years put the lie to all of that.

7sleepersmusic Mar 30

The world needs more #Cowsills. “I love a flower girl” and all that. BTW Three of ‘em are still performing, and little Susan is a grandma now 🎶👍😁 #Music #MusicMonday #PopMusic #ClassicPop #SummerOfLove https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AExpbyq48UA

The Cowsills - The Rain, The Park and Other Things (The Ed Sullivan Show 1967)

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Andrew Shields Mar 16

At the Martinskirche in Basel, Dianne Reeves sings about the summer when she was nine (1966), and I think about the summer when she was ten (1967). #111Words #DianneReeves #RomeroLubambo #Martinskirche #Basel #Jazz #LiveJazz #Music #OffbeatJazzBasel #Nine #EddieDelBarrio #QuietAfterTheStorm #Summer1966 #1967 #MartinLutherKingJr #Detroit #LongHotSummer #SummerOfLove https://111-words.ghost.io/at-the-martinskirche-in-basel-dianne-reeves-sings-about-the-summer-when-she-was-nine-1966-and-i-think-about-the-summer-when-she-was-ten-1967/

At the Martinskirche in Basel, Dianne Reeves sings about the summer when she was nine (1966), and I think about the summer when she was ten (1967)

At her concert with guitarist Romero Lubambo at the Martinskirche in Basel last night, Dianne Reeves sang "Nine", a song about being nine years old that she co-write with Eddie del Barrio and released on her 1994 album "Quiet After The Storm": "Double Dutch, kickball, hop scotch, bobby socks." She

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David W. Jones Mar 9

"Gimme a F-"arewell, Country Joe! ☹️

Country Joe McDonald, Bay Area rock icon and Woodstock anti-war voice, dies at 84

https://www.sfchronicle.com/entertainment/article/country-joe-mcdonald-dead-21962993.php

> Country Joe McDonald, the Berkeley singer-songwriter who headed Country Joe and the Fish, has died at 84.

#music #protestmusic #summeroflove #hippies

penworks Feb 28

The timeless photos of Irving Penn.

https://www.famsf.org/learn-engage/read-watch-listen/irving-penn-summer-of-love

#summeroflove #hippies #sf #AlternativeCulture #counterculture

BornToBeBlueUnderABadSign Feb 8

San Francisco AD 1967

https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/summer-of-love-photos/

#fotografia #photography #SanFrancisco #SummerOfLove #hippy #beatnik #musica #controcultura #storia

The Summer of Love in 1967: Hippie Life as It Happened in Haight-Ashbury, San Francisco - Rare Historical Photos

Rare photos and firsthand moments capture hippie life during the Summer of Love in 1967, revealing daily scenes from Haight-Ashbury at the height of the counterculture movement.

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Liam O'Mara IV, PhD Jan 14

The pro-#LSD #HumanBeIn event took place #ThisDayInHistory in 1967 in #SanFrancisco's #GoldenGatePark. The event helped to popularize the #psychedelic movement, and made #HaightAshbury a front line site for the #CounterCulture of the era, setting the stage for the #SummerOfLove.