My Country Right or Wrong

My Country Right or Wrong

by Cliff Joseph (1968)

Additional social and political expressions for the year 1968

Music to take you Back in Time

political event:

Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. in Memphis, TN on April 4,1968

500,000 American soldiers stationed in Viet Nam by 1968; among these a disproportionate number of African American soldiers

social events:

The Poor People's Campaign set up Resurrection City in Washington, D.C. to drive home economic demands from the U.S. government

drama:

Establishment of the New Lafayette Theatre in 1968. Supported by grants from the Ford and Rockefeller goundations, plus state and private contributions. Located in the heart of Harlem. Ed Bullins served as writer-in-residence

Lorraine Hansberry posthumously represented on Broadway when her selected writings are dramatized as the production To Be Young, Gifted and Black (1968)

sculpture:

"Black Unity" (1968) Elizabeth Catlett

film:

The Split (1968), costarring Jim Brown and Diahann Carroll. Brown portrays the leader of a gang of white criminals out to grab the gate receipts of a gridiron game.

dance:

Louis Johnson

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	Music to take you Back in Time
political event:	Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. in Memphis, TN on April 4,1968 500,000 American soldiers stationed in Viet Nam by 1968; among these a disproportionate number of African American soldiers
social events:	The Poor People's Campaign set up Resurrection City in Washington, D.C. to drive home economic demands from the U.S. government
drama:	Establishment of the New Lafayette Theatre in 1968. Supported by grants from the Ford and Rockefeller goundations, plus state and private contributions. Located in the heart of Harlem. Ed Bullins served as writer-in-residence Lorraine Hansberry posthumously represented on Broadway when her selected writings are dramatized as the production To Be Young, Gifted and Black (1968)
sculpture:	"Black Unity" (1968) Elizabeth Catlett
film:	The Split (1968), costarring Jim Brown and Diahann Carroll. Brown portrays the leader of a gang of white criminals out to grab the gate receipts of a gridiron game.
dance:	Louis Johnson