Don Rose

“Mayor of Atlanta was more interested in Harlem, but we arranged a four day weekend to show him all of Chicago. We took him to every African American neighborhood in Chicago. We took him to one or two liberal suburbs to help raise money. And he was very impressed with this. He went on to the other cities.”

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“Yes, yes. And in these days, in the middle forties, a new form of jazz was emerging. When I was just growing up in grammar school and starting high school, I was fortunate enough to be part of what we call the swing era, where jazz was the popular music of the time.”

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“He did, and it was certainly in part his own conscience, but he was also abetted by the fact that he had been redistricted somewhat that there was a redistricting which put Hyde Park a more independent progressive community into his district, and that's when I really hooked up with him because we were never quite sure whether whose side h…”

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“Well, actually, it was broader than that initially. We had had a wide-ranging program from economics, job development, which was Operation Breadbasket, which people heard about because Jesse Jackson was the leader of it. And we had a medical wing and several others, and a testing program to see.”

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