theeurbanrover: In 1963, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, James Baldwin, John Oliver Killens, Odetta, and Loui
theeurbanrover: In 1963, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, James Baldwin, John Oliver Killens, Odetta, and Louis Lomax formed the Association of Artists for Freedom, which called for a Christmas boycott to protest the church bombing, and asked that, instead of buying gifts, people make Christmas contributions to civil rights organizations. Read the Jet Magazine Article from October 17, 1963: HERE Source -- source link
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