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Podcast: Jazz in DC
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Life in Segregated Washington, DC
Category: Education
Duration: 00:07:36
Publish Date: 2007-02-23 14:54:48
Description: Jazz legends Billy Taylor and Frank Wess talk about the upsides and down-sides of being African-American in the segregated Washington, DC of their childhood. Segregated theatres and restaurants, racist neighbors, and predujiced law-enforcement made life in Shaw difficult. Despite this, African American-owned establishments in DC afforded a respite from some of these hardships— one of these havens being the prestigious Dunbar High School.
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