[Dixielandjazz] The Power of Dixieland

[Steve barbone]

Once you get past the blurb about the live telecast of former President Bill
Clinton and John Hope Franklin, NOTE THE BAND FOR THE RECEPTION, 2nd & 3rd
paragraphs.  The telecast is October 27 at 7 PM.

Cheers,
Steve


John Hope Franklin and President Bill Clinton
John Hope Franklin lived through America's defining twentieth-century
transformation - the dismantling of legally protected racial segregation. A
renowned scholar, he has explored that transformation in its myriad aspects,
most notably in his book, From Slavery to Freedom. He experienced
segregation firsthand. Born in 1915, he was evicted from whites-only train
cars, confined to segregated schools, threatened - once with lynching - and
consistently faced racism's denigration of his humanity. He earned a Ph.D.
from Harvard; became the first black historian to assume a full
professorship at a white institution; reshaped the way African American
history is understood and taught; and personally challenged the racism he
chronicled. From his effort in 1934 to force President Franklin Roosevelt to
respond to the Cordie Cheek lynching, to his 1997 appointment to head
President Clinton's initiative on race, Franklin, with determination and
dignity, has influenced the nation's racial conscience. His books include
George Washington Williams: A Biography,  Reconstruction After the Civil
War, The Emancipation Proclamation, and Racial Equality in America, an
examination of the egalitarian principles of America's founding fathers. In
1995, Franklin's lifelong fight for civil rights earned him the Presidential
Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor. John Hope Franklin
taught at Howard University, Brooklyn College, University of Chicago, and
Duke University. He maintains a greenhouse containing more than 200 orchids,
one, the "phalaeonopsis John Hope Franklin," named for him.


David Ostwald's Gully Low Jazz Band aka The Louis Armstrong Centennial Band
will perform at the reception prior to the event.

Inspired by such jazz pioneers as Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke, Duke
Ellington, and Jelly Roll Morton, David Ostwald's band has appeared at
Lincoln Center's Midsummer's Night Swing, at The New York Public Library's
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, at Lionel Hampton's New
Orleans-style funeral procession, and every week for the past six years at
Birdland. The band will perform Fats Waller's Black and Blue, Nobody Knows
the Trouble I've Seen, and Duke Ellington's Black and Tan Fantasy.