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ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. As we continue to help move the conversations forward from last year’s racial unrest throughout our country, Spectrum News 13’s Jeff Allen talked with several people about the union between two Orlando marching bands in the 60s one white and one Black and why that can serve as a great example for us today.
What You Need To Know
UCF s 2019 documentary, Marching Forward, tells the story of two Orlando bands performance in the 1964 World s Fair
Edgewater High School s all-white band was initially invited to perform at the World s Fair in New York City
Band Director Del Keiffner, though, insisted Jones High School s all-Black band join his students for the performance
The Wells’Built museum in Orlando celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. As one of the few hotels in the South where African Americans could stay during segregation, the Wells’Built hosted activists, artists and athletes- like Ray Charles, Jackie Robinson and Thurgood Marshall.
On this episode of Intersection, host Matthew Peddie talks with Elizabeth Thompson- who’s on the board of the Association to Preserve African American Society, History, and Tradition- about the last two decades of the museum and what comes next.
Plus, UCF professor of English and Africana Dr. Obi Nwakanma discusses the links between African literature and African American literature- and the role of poetry in society.
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