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  • Next weekend at Smoke, top tenorist George Coleman, known for his early-'60s work with Davis, joins trumpeter Eddie Henderson and a truly Smoke-ing rhythm section led by pianist Harold Mabern.

    Feeling Dizzy, Mulling Miles Will Friedwald 2011

  • Though Zimmerman devotes the bulk of his memoir to the '60s, he also gives readers a front row seat to his post-'60s activities, which have included a key role at Wounded Knee -- check out his previous book, Airlift to Wounded Knee -- and his tireless efforts to help progressive candidates win elections and to promote such issues as public campaign financing, reasonable assisted suicide and medical marijuana.

    Michael Sigman: '60s Memoir Troublemaker Speaks to Us Now Michael Sigman 2011

  • You could not find a true tale more tailor-made for Valentine's Day than the story that ended laws against interracial marriage in America in the mid-'60s.

    Regina Weinreich: 'The Loving Story' on HBO for Valentine's Day Regina Weinreich 2012

  • A host of strategists leveraged the growing power of northern black voters and the liberalizing force of New Deal initiatives to gain fuller access to the White House, press for black inclusion in the government, open up the Democratic Party and lay the groundwork for the civil rights legislation of the mid-'60s.

    Two books on blacks and the White House 2011

  • You could not find a true tale more tailor-made for Valentine's Day than the story that ended laws against interracial marriage in America in the mid-'60s.

    Regina Weinreich: 'The Loving Story' on HBO for Valentine's Day Regina Weinreich 2012

  • You could not find a true tale more tailor-made for Valentine's Day than the story that ended laws against interracial marriage in America in the mid-'60s.

    Regina Weinreich: 'The Loving Story' on HBO for Valentine's Day Regina Weinreich 2012

  • In the mid-'60s, Hollywood's conception of what film music should be changed.

    'Psycho' Maestro at 100 Jim Fusilli 2011

  • In the mid-'60s, Hollywood's conception of what film music should be changed.

    'Psycho' Maestro at 100 Jim Fusilli 2011

  • You could not find a true tale more tailor-made for Valentine's Day than the story that ended laws against interracial marriage in America in the mid-'60s.

    Regina Weinreich: 'The Loving Story' on HBO for Valentine's Day Regina Weinreich 2012

  • A host of strategists leveraged the growing power of northern black voters and the liberalizing force of New Deal initiatives to gain fuller access to the White House, press for black inclusion in the government, open up the Democratic Party and lay the groundwork for the civil rights legislation of the mid-'60s.

    Two books on blacks and the White House 2011

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