[Magdalen] DT reads

[Sibyl Smirl]

Nothing at all to do with DT, and I wish the subject line were 
different, but at this time, I'm reading Harry Belafonte's "My Song: A 
Memoir" autobiography, and I'm learning a lot of things about the Civil 
Rights Movement from the inside, that nobody except Belafonte and the 
principals involved with each story (people like Bobby Kennedy and 
Rockefeller) knew at the time, or for long afterward, and a general 
story of the history-- also a lot about Belafonte's own personal life, 
that even a fan didn't know at the time.  I'm loving it!  It's also very 
slow going, because I keep drifting off into my own memories.

https://www.amazon.com/My-Song-Memoir-Harry-Belafonte-ebook/dp/B004N63658/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1477235699&sr=1-1&keywords=belafonte+my+song

ObAng:  Martin Luther King, Jr. is a TEC "Saint" (April 2), and 
Belafonte quotes an amazingly "prophetic" passage from his last public 
speech, delivered hours before his death.

ObCurrentEvents: Bob Dylan's Nobel, and Belafonte relates his own first 
meeting with Dylan, when Belafonte was a top singer, and Dylan was 
totally unknown, when Belafonte needed a harmonica player for a 
recording session, and the man he'd expected to use, at the last minute 
couldn't make it-- so someone recommended a "skinny white kid", who 
nailed it on the first take.


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