"Processional" by Norman Lewis (1965)

Additional social and political expressions for the year 1965

	Music to take you Back in Time
political event:	January 1965 Lyndon Baines Johnson stood before Congress and proposed a domestic program of immense scope, his idea for the Great Society. Later that year he signed the massive Voting Rights Act   20,000 African Americans in the armed forces in Viet Nam
social events:	February 21, 1965 Malcolm X assassinated while carrying out a speaking engagement at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City August 1965, the Watts riot, Los Angeles,CA Black Arts Repertory Theatre-School of Harlem established by LeRoi Jones in 1965   Barbara Ann Teer won the Vernon Rice Award as best actress for 1965 in the Off-Broadway production Home Movies.
drama:	James Baldwin's Amen Corner produced in 1965, starring veteran actress Beah Richards
sculpture:	"Rebozo" (1965) Elizabeth Catlett
film:	A Patch of Blue (1965) starring an African American man--SidneyPoitier, and his sincerity in helping a blind white woman (played by Elizabeth Hartmann) to a better life
dance:	"Phoebe Snow," one of the earliest works of African American choreographer Talley Beatty frequently danced by the Alvin Ailey Company. The piece deals with life along the wrong side of the Lackawanna Railroad, set to the music of Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn. Evocative of life, youth, and death in the ghetto.

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