Jazz Was A Midwife To The Civil-Rights Movement
Nat Hentoff argues that a Kennedy Center inauguration celebration's "focus on jazz as well as President-elect Barack Obama (who, I'm told, has John Coltrane on his iPod) should help make Americans, including our historians, aware of the largely untold story of the key role of jazz in helping to shape and quicken the arrival of the civil-rights movement." Wall Street Journal 01/15/09

Posted January 15, 2009 05:15 AM