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- Record Album, "L.U.V (Let Us Vote)," 1969 - During the height of the Vietnam War in the 1960s, America's youth fought to lower the voting age from 21. At the time, most draft-aged 18-year-olds could not vote. Student-led organizations, such as Let Us Vote (L.U.V.), lobbied for change. In late 1969, the singer-songwriting duo "Tommy" Boyce and Bobby Hart composed "L.U.V. (Let Us Vote)," which became the organization's official campaign song.
- 1969
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Record Album, "L.U.V (Let Us Vote)," 1969
During the height of the Vietnam War in the 1960s, America's youth fought to lower the voting age from 21. At the time, most draft-aged 18-year-olds could not vote. Student-led organizations, such as Let Us Vote (L.U.V.), lobbied for change. In late 1969, the singer-songwriting duo "Tommy" Boyce and Bobby Hart composed "L.U.V. (Let Us Vote)," which became the organization's official campaign song.
- Record Album, "March on Washington: The Official Album," 1963 - More than 250,000 civil rights advocates -- both African American and white -- showed up at this peaceful march on August 28, 1963, to support unity, jobs, and a new Civil Rights bill being proposed by President Kennedy. This LP record includes speeches by ten Civil Rights leaders heard at the Lincoln Memorial that day.
- August 28, 1963
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Record Album, "March on Washington: The Official Album," 1963
More than 250,000 civil rights advocates -- both African American and white -- showed up at this peaceful march on August 28, 1963, to support unity, jobs, and a new Civil Rights bill being proposed by President Kennedy. This LP record includes speeches by ten Civil Rights leaders heard at the Lincoln Memorial that day.
- Record Album, "The Great March to Freedom: Rev. Martin Luther King Speaks," June 23, 1963 - Detroit's 1963 Walk to Freedom--a protest that grew to a national event attracting some 125,000 people--helped move the civil rights struggle to a new focus on the urban North. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., presented a prelude to his famous "I Have a Dream" speech here. Berry Gordy, the founder of the Motown Record Corporation, produced this record album documenting the event.
- June 23, 1963
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Record Album, "The Great March to Freedom: Rev. Martin Luther King Speaks," June 23, 1963
Detroit's 1963 Walk to Freedom--a protest that grew to a national event attracting some 125,000 people--helped move the civil rights struggle to a new focus on the urban North. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., presented a prelude to his famous "I Have a Dream" speech here. Berry Gordy, the founder of the Motown Record Corporation, produced this record album documenting the event.
- Record Album, "Crosby, Stills & Nash," 1969 -
- 1969
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Record Album, "Crosby, Stills & Nash," 1969
- Record Album, "In Search of the Lost Chord," 1968 -
- 1968
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Record Album, "In Search of the Lost Chord," 1968
- "Eustis, the Useless Rabbit and The Animals' Dance" Record, circa 1955 -
- circa 1955
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"Eustis, the Useless Rabbit and The Animals' Dance" Record, circa 1955
- Record Album, "How to CB," 1976 - Truckers use citizens' band (CB) frequencies to talk to other truckers in their vicinity. In the 1970s, CB radio became a fad with drivers of all types. This record instructed the uninitiated in the truckers' language and culture.
- 1976
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Record Album, "How to CB," 1976
Truckers use citizens' band (CB) frequencies to talk to other truckers in their vicinity. In the 1970s, CB radio became a fad with drivers of all types. This record instructed the uninitiated in the truckers' language and culture.
- Record Album, "Negro Prison Songs," 1958 - Folklorist Alan Lomax, believing all people and cultures deserved equal respect, spent his career documenting remote musical traditions. This record's powerful songs, collected 1947-8 at the Mississippi State Penitentiary, attest to the parallels between the Deep South's oppressive prison system--requiring arduous physical labor under constant threat of physical punishment--and the experiences of enslaved work groups on 19th-century plantations.
- 1947
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Record Album, "Negro Prison Songs," 1958
Folklorist Alan Lomax, believing all people and cultures deserved equal respect, spent his career documenting remote musical traditions. This record's powerful songs, collected 1947-8 at the Mississippi State Penitentiary, attest to the parallels between the Deep South's oppressive prison system--requiring arduous physical labor under constant threat of physical punishment--and the experiences of enslaved work groups on 19th-century plantations.
- "Freedom in the Air: A Documentary on Albany, Georgia" Record Cover, 1962 -
- 1961-1962
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"Freedom in the Air: A Documentary on Albany, Georgia" Record Cover, 1962
- Reissue of Phil Spector's 1963 Christmas Album -
- 1963
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Reissue of Phil Spector's 1963 Christmas Album