October 27, 2024
Tag: John Pepper
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The Civil Rights Movement and Its Anti-Communist Opponents
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The 1950s-1960s civil rights movement drew widespread opposition that frequently called Martin Luther King, Jr. and other activists as “communists,” as this John Birch Society card shows. It’s numbered CR2. There just had to be a CR1. It took years to find, and here’s its story.
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September 15, 2022 7 Comments
It is hard to imagine how many iterations of Anything Goes have been performed since the 1934 premiere of Cole Porter’s musical of the same name. The original lyrics mention some high-society personalities and their silly antics and ridiculous scandals. The Depression Era gossip that followed shocked his listeners. This postcard illustrated rendition features the composer’s original version.