MAC and KATIE KISSOON
MAC and KATIE KISSOON were a popular soul-pop act in the arly-mid 70's, we have reviewed 2 of their songs on page 4 'SONG FOR EVERYBODY' '72 a soulful pop tune, and 'BIG HELLO' '74 which is a super revved-up slice of glam-pop with elec. guitar.....we had their discography on page 4, but lost it when we trasferred in oct '02....
KATIE KISSOON has continued on music today here is one such site with info of her playing with ERIC CLAPTON and others....
JIMMY CLIFF's classic lp
JIMMY CLIFF needs no introduction here, he is a HUGE reggae artist who has played a wide range of music aside from reggae, please see our review is on page 5, and if have never saw the film 'THE HARDER THEY COME', then u simpy must rent it soon, it's a fantastic film of jamaican culture and a corrupt system that one man takes on.....
TROUBLE FUNK in concert
true most people are not aware of what once was the hardest funk group of all time after the glory days of PARLIAMENT in the 70's, this band from wash. d.c. put on excellent shows full of party funk, and soul music, very underrated when one looks at popular music today, our review is on page 5, please buy the lp from '83 which rereleased studio tracks from 3 yrs earlier with a live session that HAS TO BE HEARD TO BE BELIEVED !
Mrs. Hamer began working on welfare and voter registration programs for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).
On June 3, 1963, Fannie Lou Hamer and other civil rights workers arrived in Winona, MS by bus. They were ordered off the bus and taken to Montgomery County Jail. The story continues "...Then three white men came into my room. One was a state highway policeman (he had the marking on his sleeve)... They said they were going to make me wish I was dead. They made me lay down on my face and they ordered two Negro prisoners to beat me with a blackjack.
That was unbearable. The first prisoner beat me until he was exhausted, then the second Negro began to beat me. I had polio when I was about six years old. I was limp. I was holding my hands behind me to protect my weak side. I began to work my feet. My dress pulled up and I tried to smooth it down.
One of the policemen walked over and raised my dress as high as he could. They beat me until my body was hard, 'til I couldn't bend my fingers or get up when they told me to. That's how I got this blood clot in my eye - the sight's nearly gone now. My kidney was injured from the blows they gave me on the back."
Mrs Hamer was left in the cell, bleeding and battered, listening to the screams of Ann Powder, a fellow civil rights worker, who was also undergoing a severe beating in another cell. She overheard white policemen talking about throwing their bodies into the Big Black River where they would never be found.
In 1964, presidential elections were being held. In an effort to focus greater national attention on voting discrimination, civil rights groups created the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP). This new party sent a delegation, which included Fannie Lou Hamer, to Atlantic City, where the Democratic Party was holding its presidential convention. Its purpose was to challenge the all-white Mississippi delegation on the grounds that it didn't fairly represent all the people of Mississippi, since most black people hadn't been allowed to vote.
Fannie Lou Hamer spoke to the Credentials Committee of the convention about the injustices that allowed an all-white delegation to be seated from the state of Mississippi. Although her live testimony was pre-empted by a presidential press conference, the national networks aired her testimony, in its entirety, later in the evening. Now all of America heard of the struggle in Mississippi's delta.
A compromise was reached that gave voting and speaking rights to two delegates from the MFDP and seated the others as honored guests. The Democrats agreed that in the future no delegation would be seated from a state where anyone was illegally denied the vote. A year later, President Lyndon Baines Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act.
Prior to her death in 1977, Fannie Lou Hamer was inducted into Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, as an honorary member.
SEE THE FANNY LOU HAMER SITE for more info
http://www.flhp.org/
