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Uncle Tom's Cabin, a play with music, is presented at The Academy Of Music, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 88 performances.
Uncle Tom's Cabin, a play with music, is presented at The Academy Of Music, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 88 performances.
The Columbia Minstrel Co plays its final night of a run of shows at The Alhambra Theatre, San Francisco, California, USA.
Josephine Gassman And Her Pickaninnies play at The Chutes And Zoo, San Francisco, California, USA. Also onthe bill are The Gillen Family, Madeline Franks, Powers And Freed, Carroll The Whistler and The Samayoas.
Cornet soloist Walter B. Rogers records Old Black Joe, Bonnie Sweet
Bessie and Absence Makes The Heart Grow Fonder for Victor Records
in Camden, New Jersey, USA.
William H. West's Big Minstrel Jubilee plays at The Grand Theatre, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
William H. West's Big Minstrel Jubilee plays at The Grand Theatre, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
Singer and "coon impersonator" May Henderson plays the sixth night in a week of shows at The Empire, Brighton, Sussex, UK.Singer and "coon impersonator" May Henderson plays the last night in a week of shows at The Empire, Brighton, Sussex, UK.The American Quartet records A Negro Wedding In Southern Georgia, Louisiana Lou, Nationality Medley, The Battle Of Santiago and The Wedding Of Reuben And The Maid, for Victor Records in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Billed as "The Premier of Modern Minstrelsy", Lew Sully is appearing at The Orpheum Theatre, San Francisco, California, USA. Also on the bill are popular contralto Miss Julia Heinrich and Mlle. Chester with her "$10,000 Statue Dog".
William H. West's Big Minstrel Jubilee plays at The California Theatre, San Francisco, California, USA.
Spiritual group The Dinwiddie Quartet put black music on a disc for the first time, when they record five spirituals, including Steal Away, and one popular song for the Victor Talking Machine Company in Camden, New Jersey, USA.
Singer and actress Blanche Ring, billed as "Darling of the Gallery Gods" is headlining at the Crystal Gardens Theatre, New York City, USA, along with Wayburn's Minstrel Misses.Lew Dockstader's Minstrels are playing at The Victoria Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA.
Lew Dockstader's Minstrels are playing at The Victoria Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA.
Local troupe The Elk Minstrels play at Whitley Opera House, Emporia, Kansas, USA.Prof. W.F. Craig's Orchestra plays at The National Negro Business League's 11th Annual Meeting Banquet in Grand Central Palace, Lexington Avenue, New York City, USA.
A revival of the popular play In Old Kentucky, with "its original and genuine Pickaninny Band" opens at The Lexington Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA.
The Southern Syncopated Orchestra, a large American jazz ensemble featuring young clarinettist Sidney Bechet, plays a free concert at The People's Palace, Mile End Road, London, England, UK, Europe. The Daily Herald will report the concert describing it as "Real Ragtimes By Real Darkies."
Will C. Pepper's White Coons perform a concert-party show live from BBC tv studios in Alexandra Palace, London, UK.
After Paul Robeson and Pete Seeger perform a civil rights benefit concert at Cortlandt Manor, Peekskill, Westchester County, New York State, USA, organised riots take place directed against African Americans and Jews attending the concert.
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The Bill Bailey Minstrel Show, described as "a blackface opera", opens at Fort Myers, Florida, USA. The show has a company of fifty, including Brother Slim Williams, Danny Evans and Possum Gill.
Asa Carter of the North Alabama White Citizens' Council, announces that rock'n'roll, which he regards as an 'immoral' music, is a plot hatched by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. With this in mind, he begins a campaign to get radio stations to ban rock'n'roll records.
Nat 'King' Cole is subjected to a violent racist attack during his concert at The Municipal Hall, Birmingham, Alabama, USA, by thugs from the White Citizens' Council.
The Kingston Trio, with Voyle Gilmore as producer, record The Deportee (Plane Wreck At Los Gatos), Four Strong Winds and Turn Around in Coast Recorders, 1340 Mission Street, San Francisco, California, USA.
Liz Lands releases May What He Lived For Live on Gordy Records in the USA. The song is a tribute to US Presdent John F. Kennedy, written by Motown founder Berry Gordy with his sister Esther Edwards and Lincoln Perry, during the week following the president’s assassination.
Sam
Cooke records A Change Is
Gonna Come and Falling In Love at RCA Studios, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life imprisonment on Robben Island, South Africa, for the crime of sabotage. The charge sheet at his trial listed 193 acts of sabotage in total. Inspired by Nelson Mandela's life and his plight, The Special AKA will release a single, Free Nelson Mandela, in 1984 on 2 Tone
Records in the UK. The song will peak at No9 in the UK singles chart, and is widely credited with having helped achieve Mandela's release from prison.
Johnny Cash spends the first of two days of recording sessions in Nashville, Tennessee, USA, working on tracks for the album Bitter Tears : Ballads Of The American Indian. The completed album will include six songs by Greenwich Village songwriter Peter La Farge.
The musical Hallelujah Baby!, starring Leslie Uggams, closes at The Martin Beck Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, after running for 293 performances.A group of seventeen young demonstrators are ejected from the National City Christian church, frequented by US President Lyndon Johnson in Washington DC, USA, after they protest about the treatment of singer Eartha Kitt, who had spoken out during a recent function at The White House against the war in Vietnam.
Multi-racial Motown band Bobby Taylor And The Vancouvers release a new single, Does Your Mama Know About Me, in the USA. (Vancouvers' guitarist Tommy Chong will go on to greater success in the comedy duo Cheech And Chong.)
In The Ghetto by Elvis Presley enters the Billboard Top 40 singles chart in the USA, where it will peak at No3 during an eleven-week run.
While working in the UK, The Temptations meet with the Archbishop Of Canterbury in Lambeth Palace, London, England, to discuss the problems of race relations.
A group of men known as The Birmingham Six are each sentenced by
jury to 21 life sentences for murder in the Crown Court sitting at
Lancaster Castle, before Judge Nigel Bridge. The men were accused
of planting bombs in two Birmingham pubs which resulted in 21
deaths and 182 injuries. The sentences will be overturned on appeal
in 1991, but their plight will also inspire the song Streets
of Sorrow/Birmingham Six [1988] by The Pogues.
Ahmet Ertegun, President of Atlantic Records, recommends that the controversial Rolling Stones' song Some Girls should be re-edited, to remove racist and sexist lyrics in the song.
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Police officer Daniel Faulkner and journalist/cab driver Mumia
Abu-Jamal are involved in an altercation in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, during which both are shot. Faulkner dies at
the scene, while Abu-Jamal is hospitalised, and later found
guilty of murder. The verdict is widely disputed and will inspire
the songs The Murder Of Daniel
Faulkner by Hurtsmile, and Free
Mumia by KRS-One.
In an interview with Blues And Soul magazine, Miriam Makeba urges the West to boycott South Africa in order to bring the apartheid regime to an end.Blues singer and songwriter Andrew Tibbs, best known for his heavily ironic song Bilbo Is Dead, about a racist politician, dies aged 62 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Motley Crue play at Greensboro Coliseum, Greensboro, North Carolina, USA. During the show, Crue members Nikki Sixx and Tommy Lee hurl racial slurs at John Allen, an allegedly over-zealous African-American security guard, and encourage the audience to assault Allen.
An article in the New York Times tells the story of a secret jail
hidden inside a tobacco barn in Alexandra, Virginia, USA. The jail was used to incarcerate slaves in dreadful conditions from 1790 onwards. In later years, the owner of the farm always told his
children never to go into the barn, but never told them why. Tom Waits will read the story and it will inspire his 2004 song Don't Go Into The Barn.
Wiltshire-based superstar Peter Gabriel announces that he will organize a sixth simultaneous Live 8 concert, called Africa Calling, which will feature only African artists, to counter criticisms that most Live8 performers announced so far are white. The event is to be held in Cornwall, UK, on 2 July. Senegalese musician Youssou N'Dour will host the event, which will also feature performances by Maryam Mursal, Salif Keita and Thomas Mapfumo.
Noel Gallagher of Oasis declares that hip-hop star Jay-Z, recently announced as the headliner for the next Glastonbury Festival, is an unsuitable act for the event. "I'm not having hip-hop at Glastonbury," he fumes. "It's wrong."
Syd Kitchen, who found success as a folk, jazz and rock musician, much admired for his uncompromising attitudes toward the music business as well as for his music, dies aged 60 of lung cancer, in Durban, South Africa.
The Assistant State Attorney of Florida, USA, decides not to pursue a charge of disorderly conduct against rapper Hopsin which was made almost a month earlier following an altercation at Club 57 West, Orlando, Florida. In a subsequent comment on the case, Hopsin will refer to the police officer who charged him as a racist.
John Legend and Colombian rocker Juanes perform outside the Eloy Detention Center in Arizona, USA, as part of their campaign to reform America's immigration and incarceration procedures.British rapper Giggs speaks out against the Metropolitan Police's use of the controversial Form 696 which requires venues in London, England, UK, Europe, to supply the names, stage names, addresses and phone numbers of all promoters and artists participating in an event - particularly if a night "predominantly features DJs or MCs performing to a backing track". Form 696 is widely thought to have racist implications, and Giggs declares, "They need to work with us. If they think there's a threat then help us - put some police out there and work with us rather than just shutting us down."
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