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When The U.S. Sent Its Jazz Greats Abroad As Weapons In The Cultural Cold War by Artsjournal1

"By the mid-1950s, the civil rights movement in the US had become a major international news story. People were horrified by the brutality of Emmett Till's lynching in 1955, and by the mob violence directed at young black students in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957. It undercut America's claims about freedom and equality. US foreign […]

SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:04AM on May 4, 2018

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