Fact #39502
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Short story:
Bob Dylan, Mahalia Jackson, Joan Baez, Odetta and other musical celebrities turn out to hear Martin Luther King deliver his 'I have a dream' speech at The Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C., USA. The speech will inspire several songs, including One Vision by Queen.
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Steve Cropper (guitarist, Booker T And The MGs) : When all of that started up with Martin Luther King and the sit-ins, I wasn’t quite sure what that was about. Because we grew up, from when we were little kids, just accepting the fact that that drinking fountain over there was theirs and this one was ours. There was nobody protecting it, nobody actually saying, ‘Hey, you can’t come over here.’ It was just a way of life: You order your food at this window and I order my food at that window. We should have been made aware that something was wrong with that, but we weren’t aware of it until we were adults.
Once I understood it, I was totally sympathetic with all of it. And it did change the world, there‘s no question about it. It changed everything from what it was. A lot of people don’t like change. A lot of my coloured friends didn’t like [integration] at all. It was like you were ruffling up their little mess kits: ‘This is my home, don’t you touch it!’ But they were made aware, like I was, that this was totally wrong and we needed to do something about it.
(Source : http://www.guitaraficionado.com/march-song-steve-cropper-reflects-on-selma-and-the-mid-sixties-civil-rights-movement.html)
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Once I understood it, I was totally sympathetic with all of it. And it did change the world, there‘s no question about it. It changed everything from what it was. A lot of people don’t like change. A lot of my coloured friends didn’t like [integration] at all. It was like you were ruffling up their little mess kits: ‘This is my home, don’t you touch it!’ But they were made aware, like I was, that this was totally wrong and we needed to do something about it.
(Source : http://www.guitaraficionado.com/march-song-steve-cropper-reflects-on-selma-and-the-mid-sixties-civil-rights-movement.html)