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Harley "Griff" Lofton's avatar

Yep... newsreels of Paul Robson being treated like man and being warmly received by Soviet audiences in 1949 were powerful.

But the rhetorical ammunition was turned back on American Civil Rights activists in America by conservatives. J Edgar Hoover, had files and files of "dirt" on every major civil rights activist.

Perhaps most ironically it was the Republican Party at that time that was most interested in civil rights for all Americans.

And yet no one will ask "What happened to the Republicans?"

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