Thank you for marking this day! Mahalia Jackson's courage and voice changed gospel music forever, and her stand for civil rights still inspires us.

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Also anniversary of the murder of journalist Paul Guihard on the University's campus. His last story noted the unfolding of "the gravest Constitutional crisis that the United States has known since the War of Secession" and asserted that the "Civil War never came to an end." [Wiki].

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“Put on my blue suede shoes, And I boarded a plane. Touched down in the land of the land of the Delta blues, In the middle of the pouring rain. W.C. Handy, watching down over me. Yeah, I got a first class ticket, But I’m as blue as a boy can be. Then I’m walking in Memphis…” — Marc Cohn

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