social events:
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On October 15, 1969, Vietnam Moratorium Day, over 200,000
protesters marched in Boston, New York, and Washington,
D.C. A second moratorium in November brought 250,000
protesters parading to the Washington Monument. 10,000
demonstraters were tear-gassed near the Justice
Department
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film:
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Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970). Directed by Ossie Davis.
Costarring Raymond St. Jacques and Godfrey Cambridge as
two African American detectives. Tapping the previously
untested African American market, the film grossed more
than $9 million, paving the way for at least fifty
"black" movies to flood the market between 1970 and
1971.
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