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April 2012

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Apr 30, 201219 notes
#athletes #WACS #WWII #history
Apr 29, 201228 notes
#expatriates #history #quotations #Elizabeth Catlett #Mexico
Apr 28, 201240 notes
#history #musicians #expatriates #Jimi Hendrix #London
Sinnerman Nina Simone

“Sinnerman”, recorded by Nina Simone, 1965, Phillips Records, NYC

From the album Pastel Blues

Ms. Simone often used this song to end her concerts. It was a traditional spiritual she learned as a child in her family’s Methodist church.

Apr 27, 20127 notes
#music #Nina Simone #expatriates
Apr 27, 201216 notes
#history #expatriates #Nina Simone #France #musicians
Apr 26, 201214 notes
#North Carolina #Radio Free Dixie #Robert Williams #Timothy Tyson #exile #history #books
Apr 25, 201277 notes
#history #expatriates #USSR #Robert Robinson
Apr 20, 201280 notes
#history #political cartoonists #Ollie Harrington #Germany #expatriates
Apr 19, 2012145 notes
#1960s #James Baldwin #expatriates #history #writers #quotations
Apr 18, 201221 notes
#history #artists #expatriates #Barbara Chase-Riboud
Apr 17, 201231 notes
#Dexter Gordon #1960s
Listen

drum-taps:

Dexter Gordon—“Coppin’ the Haven”

One Flight Up (Blue Note 1964).

Apr 17, 201229 notes
#Dexter Gordon #jazz #1960s
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Apr 17, 20128 notes
#history #jazz #expatriates #Dexter Gordon #bebop
Apr 16, 2012115 notes
#history #writers #Chester Himes #expatriates #France #Spain #pulp fiction
Apr 15, 201229 notes
#history #expatriates #France #Josephine Baker #world war II
Apr 15, 2012921 notes
#history #expatriates #Josephine Baker
Apr 14, 201274 notes
#history #W.E.B. Du Bois #expatriates #Ghana
Apr 13, 2012216 notes
#history #expatriates #World War I #Eugene Bullard
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Apr 12, 20126 notes
#history #Paris #jazz #Montmartre
Apr 11, 20129 notes
#history #writers #expatriates #Richard Wright
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