Aretha Franklin & Jimmy Radcliffe Production "black Pride"

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Artist Is David Bryant, Arranged By Truman Thomas (Released on Astral Records #10317 - A Side Stereo, B Side Mono). On Offer Is A 10" 45 Stereo Single-side Acetate!

I've Included A Picture Of Both The Release And The Acetate, But As I Said On Offer Here Is Only The Acetate.

The Release

The Acetate

But First The History

Martin Luther King (Civil Rights Activisim & SCLC Formation)

In 1953, at the age of twenty-four, King became pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church "the most distinguished black church in Montgomery, Alabama. On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to comply with the Jim Crow law that required her to give up her seat to a white man. The Montgomery Bus Boycott, led by King, soon followed. It lasted for 382 days, the situation becoming so tense that King's house was bombed. King was arrested during this campaign, which ended with a United States Supreme Court decision outlawing racial segregation on intrastate buses and all public transport.

Following the campaign, King was instrumental in the founding of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) in 1957, a group created to harness the moral authority and organizing power of black churches to conduct nonviolent protests in the service of civil rights reform. King continued to dominate the organization until his death. King was an adherent of the philosophies of nonviolent civil disobedience used successfully in India by Mahatma Gandhi, and he applied this philosophy to the protests organized by the SCLC.

When King and his allies returned to the South, they left Jesse Jackson, a seminary student with experience with the movement in the south since he had joined King, in charge of their organization. While Jackson had a great deal of heart and oratorical skill, he managed to start the very first boycotts which showed success against what we would have called "Big Box" stores today. One such campaign was that against A&P Stores which refused to hire blacks as clerks in their stores. The campaign was so effective, that it laid the groundwork for the equal opportunity programs of the Seventies and on.

When Jackson joined Martin Luther King, Jr., and his Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) in 1965 during demonstrations in Selma, Alabama, pushing for expanded voting rights for blacks. When the SCLC launched the Chicago Freedom movement in 1966, Jackson was there to put his knowledge of the city and contacts within the black community to work for King. He organized local ministers to support the movement, marched through all-white neighborhoods to push for open housing, and began work on the SCLC's economic program, Operation Breadbasket. Drawing from successful campaigns in other cities, Operation Breadbasket organized the black community to use selective buying and boycotts to support black manufacturers and retailers and to pressure white-owned businesses to stock more of their products and hire more black workers. Jackson served as Operation Breadbasket's Chicago coordinator for one year and was then named its national director. Under Jackson's leadership the Chicago group won concessions from local dairies and supermarkets to hire more blacks and stock more products from black businesses. It encouraged deposits from businesses and the government for black-owned banks and organized a Black Christmas and a Black Expo to promote black-owned manufacturers.

In addition to his SCLC activities, Jackson led a number of other campaigns in his adopted home city and state. In 1969 and 1970 he gathered Illinois's malnourished and led them on a march to the state capital to raise consciousness of hunger. He led a similar event in Chicago. The state responded by increasing funding to school lunch programs, but Mayor Richard Daley's machine in Chicago was less cooperative. The mayor's power and resistance to change, as well as an Illinois law that raised difficult barriers to independent candidates, prompted Jackson to run for mayor of Chicago in 1971. He was not successful; some believe, however, that his efforts laid the foundation for Harold Washington's successful bid to become Chicago's first black mayor in 1983.

In 1969 Jackson organized the first Black Expo, a promotional festival for the companies involved in Operation Breadbasket. The expo was intended to be an annual fund-raiser for the SCLC, but Jackson had quietly incorporated the event independently. SCLC officials were enraged, and Jackson finally left the organization.

In 1971, he, along with William Augustus Jones, Jr. and numerous ministers and several key political figures, organized the first Operation Breadbasket International EXPO in New York City. Dr Jones was the first Black chairman of the Community Board of Kings County Hospital

Black Expo '71' would be the last major event organized by Jesse for the SCLC and for the event he called upon Jimmy Radcliffe and Aretha Franklin to produce a theme. Wanting to keep this a family affair Aretha decided to use her first cousin and upcoming artist David Bryant. David had released two earlier recordings, 1967's "Christo Rendentor" on Brent #7055 and 1969's "My Dashiki" b/w "The Underdog" on Imperial #66406, but as of yet hadn't hit. His song titled "Black Pride" was chosen to express the evr growing feeling of the "Say It Loud - I'm Black And I'm Proud" groove previously established by James Brown.

A Rare Treat Indeed!

If It's Still Here I'll Try And Put A Sound Clip Up After Christmas.

Have A Brilliant Time Of It.

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£500

Edited December 24, 2006 by Mangomn2003

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Finally got round to adding a clip for this one.

You can really hear The Sweathearts Of Soul (Brenda Bryant, Maraget Branch, Pat Smith And Carolyn Franklin) all up in da mix!

This one will get plenty of spins in February for "Black Awareness Month".

pride_clip.mp3

[Guest]

Finally got round to adding a clip for this one.

You can really hear The Sweathearts Of Soul (Brenda Bryant, Maraget Branch, Pat Smith And Carolyn Franklin) all up in da mix!

This one will get plenty of spins in February for "Black Awareness Month".

pride_clip.mp3

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