Writing Problems: Politics / Empathy / Change
Parker, Kunitz, Jordan, Clifton, "Pink Gloves"
Charlie Parker
On Friday, September 26, 1952, Charlie Parker performed at the Rockland Palace Ballroom on W. 155th Street and Frederick Douglass Boulevard in Harlem. It was a benefit concert to raise money for the legal defense of the only African American New York City Councilman, Ben Davis. A member of the Communist Party, Davis had recently been sente…
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