Legendary #composer and #performer Samuel L. Waymon coming to UC Santa Cruz
#SamWaymon #UCSC #music #history #UofCalifornia #SantaCruz #NinaSimone
Legendary #composer and #performer Samuel L. Waymon coming to UC Santa Cruz
#SamWaymon #UCSC #music #history #UofCalifornia #SantaCruz #NinaSimone
Today in Labor History 6/12/1963: Civil Rights activist Medgar Evers was assassinated in Mississippi by white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith. Malvina Reynolds references Evers's murder in her song "It Isn't Nice."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lWkV2QpgQo&list=RD2lWkV2QpgQo&start_radio=1
#workingclass #LaborHistory #medgarevers #civilrights #civildisobedience #mississippi #whitesupremacy #racism #segregation #naacp #kukluxklan #kkk #folkmusic #protest #jazz #bobdylan #ninasimone #medgarevers #BlackMastodon

Today in Labor History 6/12/1963: Civil Rights activist Medgar Evers was assassinated in Mississippi by white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith. Phil Ochs’s classic satirical folk song "Love Me, I'm a Liberal" refers to Evers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLqKXrlD1TU&list=RDbLqKXrlD1TU&start_radio=1
#workingclass #LaborHistory #medgarevers #civilrights #civildisobedience #mississippi #whitesupremacy #racism #segregation #naacp #kukluxklan #kkk #folkmusic #protest #jazz #bobdylan #ninasimone #medgarevers #BlackMastodon

Today in Labor History 6/12/1963: Civil Rights activist Medgar Evers was assassinated in Mississippi by white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith. Nina Simone’s “Mississippi Goddam” is about Evers’s assassination.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ25-U3jNWM&list=RDLJ25-U3jNWM&start_radio=1
#workingclass #LaborHistory #medgarevers #civilrights #civildisobedience #mississippi #whitesupremacy #racism #segregation #naacp #kukluxklan #kkk #folkmusic #protest #jazz #bobdylan #ninasimone #medgarevers #BlackMastodon
