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A Graphic History by Diego Gómez But a Beginning A Graphic History by Diego Gómez 1963 is Not an End

Everything in this time-line of events is true & in chronological order--

everything...

Except for my family & me.

My name is Scarlet Sparrow also

The year is 1963 & this is a story about civil rights.

known as Beaux Deorc as well as, well, you’ll see... I have the power to change my skin color, body mass, shape, and voice.

This is my wife, the Augur: Fay Atropos.

I have been many men & women in my time, some rich, some poor. Wealthy cishet white males i find are preferable.

1963 is not an end, but a beginning, vol. 1, Third printing. Copyright © 2014 Diego Gómez. All rights reserved. Published by DesignNurd. An excerpt of this was Originally published in the Alphabet Anthology. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted, in any form or by any means (except for short excerpts for journalistic or review purposes), without the express written permission of Diego Gómez. All names, characters, events, and locales in this publication are based on world history, except the fictional characters above. Any resemblances to actual persons (living or dead) events, or places, without satiric intent, are coincidental. For licensing information, contact DesignNurd@gmail.com or @DesignNurd everywhere else.

1963 is Not an End, But a Beginning A Graphic History by Diego Gómez

Maria? Music, please.

This is our

newborn, Wilhelm,

Big thanks to MARCUS

EWERT, Nicholas Danby, & Mason J.

This book is Written, Illustrated, & designed by Diego Gómez

buck for the editing help!

The seed for this project was developed for “WORK MORE!” in SF w/ Dean Disaster & 1/2 of this book was produced during my art resisidency @ AS220 in Rhode island.

You got it, Fay!

My soundtrack of ‘63 can be heard On YouTube, here: tiny.cc/1963go

And our teen daughter & siphon-witch, Maria.

Every time you see a set of music notes, play that track!

...and Maria’s boyfriend, Juan-Angel

This story will immerse you into 1963 with words, pictures, video, & audio. All the audio herein was either written, Covered, performed, topped charts or won an award in 1963 with the exception of 4 out of 40 songs & sound-bytes.

5 I LEFT MY HEART IN SAN FRANCISCO TONY BENNETT & JUDY GARLAND 6 I SAW HER STANDING THERE THE BEATLES 7 I WILL FOLLOW HIM PEGGY MARCH 8 A BOY LIKE THAT (1961) RITA MORENO & NATALIE WOOD 9 IF YOU KNEW NINA SIMONE WE SHALL OVERCOME NORTH PHILLY CHILDREN'S CHOIR 12 JOHN BIRCH PARANOID BLUES BOB DYLAN 13 SURF CITY JAN & DEAN 10 LITTLE LIZA JANE NINA SIMONE 11

DANKE SCHOEN WAYNE NEWTON

MEET ME IN ST LOUIS @ 32:07 LEENA HORNE & JUDY GARLAND

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SHE LOVES YOU THE BEATLES

27 A change is gonna come (1964) Sam Cooke X-MEN (1992) 90’S CARTOON OPENING THEME 26 KENNETH ANGER’S SCORPIO RISING FOOLS RUSH IN: RICKY NELSON 18 EASIER SAID THAN DONE ESSEX 19 (YOU'RE THE) DEVIL IN DISGUISE ELVIS PRESLEY 20 THE FOUR SEASONS WALK LIKE A MAN BUSES ARE A-COMIN MISSISSIPPI FREEDOM RIDERS 22 HE'S GOT THE WHOLE WORLD... MARIAN ANDERSON 23 WHEN THE SHIP COMES IN BOB DYLAN & JOAN BAEZ 21 24 HOW I GOT OVER MAHALIA JACKSON 25

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1 TOP 40 BLOWIN’ IN THE WIND BOB DYLAN

GOD SAVE US NELLIE QUEENS WIDOW NORTON (JOSÉ SARRIA)

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TWIST AND SHOUT THE BEATLES

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33 MESSAGE TO THE GRASSROOTS MALCOLM X

I WISH I KNEW NINA SIMONE

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SUGAR SHACK JIMMY GILMER & THE FIREBALLS

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HE’S SO FINE THE CHIFFONS

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Johnny Angel (1962) Shelley Fabares WHITE CHRISTMAS DARLENE LOVE

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If I Had A Hammer Peter, Paul and Mary THE SPECTRUM SONG LUDWIG VON DRAKE MISSISSIPPI GODDAM NINA SIMONE

OUR DAY WILL COME RUBY AND THE ROMANTICS

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THE END OF THE WORLD SKEETER DAVIS

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This is a show tune, But the show hasn ' t been written for it, yet. -Nina Simone

January 1st, 1863. as the United States approached its 3rd year of civil war, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in hope that the freed slaves would join the north in thier fight.

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Bob Dylan performs “Blowin’ in the Wind” for the 1st time on television in the UK on BBC’s “Madhouse On Castle Street.”

January 2, 1963: Vietnam. A U.S. Helicopter Crew chief watches ground movements of Vietnamese troops from the air during a strike against communist Viet Cong Guerrillas in the Mekong Delta Area. as of today, nearly 16,000 American military personnel are deployed in South Vietnam.

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Bayard Rustin organized the original plan for the March on Washington, introduced Martin Luther King Jr. to Ghandian nonviolence & inspired King’s decision to critique economic inequality as well as racial discrimination.

Rustin’s story has stayed relatively obscure because he is openly gay.

January 14th. George Wallace becomes governor of Alabama. In his inaugural speech, he defiantly proclaims:

" segregation now, segregation tomorrow, & segregation forever! "

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January 28th. Harvey Gantt is the first African-American student to attend Clemson University in South Carolina.

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January 31st, The Fitting.

Gloria Steinem is a reporter for SHOW Magazine.

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January 26th, Gloria is assigned to go undercover as a Playboy Bunny at thier new club in New York City.

the club says Bunnies are chosen for three reasons. 1st: beauty. 2nd: personality, 3rd: ability.

You’re Bunny Marie.

January 30th, Steinem is too old to apply so she adopts an alias: “Marie Catherine Ochs.”

Despite lacking references or a social security

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number, she lands the job after her second intrview - Playboy is desperate for bunnies!

your costume, I’ll give you a swatch of fabric to get your shoes dyed to match.

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We are american Geisha.

February 1st we have makeup training at “Larry Mathews”, we tease our hair into ridiculous shapes, and stuffed our bosoms full of kleenex.

Feb 2nd & 3rd we study the bunny bible.

Feb 4th we have lectures with bunny mother and father and a complete physical. Including an internal exam. Turns out the state of new york doesn’t require waitresses to have any exams, so why were bunnies being tested for venereal disease?

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February 8th, commercial transactions by United States citizens to Cuba were made illegal by the Kennedy Administration.

Thank you, now i’ll be happy to take your order.

we were bunnies, made to speak like flirtatious robots, surrounded by pigs. Our corsettes were so tight that our zippers broke if we sneezed. Girls with colds usually had to be replaced.

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February 4th, Betty Friedan, mother of Second-wave feminism turns 42 years old.

February 11th, poet Sylvia Plath commits suicide less than a month after “The Bell Jar” is published.

February 19th, The publication of Friedan’s book ‘The Feminine Mystique’ gives a name to the unspoken dissatisfaction women had been bearing in American society & is credited with sparking the feminist movement of the 1960s.

February 17th, Michael Jordan is born.

FLASHBACK. 1957, Friedan interviews women for her book “The feminine Mystique.”

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My first week working as a playboy bunny was harder then expected. I morph into a large white man as I leave the club so I don’t get followed to my car again. I change yet again once the coast is clear just in case one of my coworkers sees my car driving off. Finally, I get home & shed the guises of repressed femininity &

The February issue of Wonder Woman # 136, sees aliens transform princess Diana into a giant! At her newfound size, Wonder Woman clumsiness, unquenchable thirst, & hunger begin to threaten the world’s food & water supply! This comic’s sad & salty sentiment mirror anti-feminist arguments that feminists are “taking up too much space” & that “female’s inherent over-emotional state” make them dangerous if placed in a position of power, such as in government, managerial positions or simply being paid equally to men.

masc brut & transform into someone more comfortable.

For the love of Hera!

Stop me, Steve -- before I grow any bigger -- and cannot be stopped!

I’ve been living as Scarlet sparrow, Beaux Deorc & others for years, changing as the need arises. Sometimes, if I’m feeling over emotional, my shape will change involuntarily, a mistake I can’t afford to make when in the presence of regular humans!

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March. Casa Susanna, once named “the Chevalier d’Eon Resort” is a home for Heterosexual transvestites in the Catskills searching out their true selves. The resort, owned by Susanna Valenti, is self-described as a “TV haven”—a place where the “girl within” can be developed.

the guests of Casa susana are not showy drag queens, but people who want to dress as they feel most comfortable - thier wives are also welcome. Sometimes, they simply sit and read together.

Published this month:

City of Night, by John Rechy

What Is Remembered, by Alice B. Toklas

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The Amazing Spider-Man # 1, by Stan Lee & Steve Ditko

Female Mimics magazine feat. Christine Jorgensen, a U.S. World War II-era G.I. trans woman who was the 1st person to become widely known in america for having gender affirmation surgery in the 1950’s.

Iron Man debuts in Marvel Comics ' Tales of Suspense # 39, by Stan Lee & Jack Kirby

Virginia Prince, Publisher of Transvestia magazine

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“The End of the World” by Skeeter Davis peaked in March 1963 at # 2 on the Billboard Hot 100, # 2 on the Billboard country singles, # 1 on Billboard ' s easy listening, & # 4 on Billboard ' s rhythm & blues. It’s the 1st, &, to date, only time a song cracked the Top 10 on all 4 Billboard charts. Billboard ranked the record as the # 3 song this year.

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March 14th, the first big Pop Art show, " Six Painters and the Object, " opens at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, featuring " Pop " artists: Jim Dine, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg, James Rosenquist & Andy Warhol.

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March 18th, Vanessa L. Williams, the 1st African-American woman to be crowned Miss America is BORN.

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winner of the 5th Annual Grammy Awards for record of the year.

March 22nd, The Sugar Shack Diner.

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A BOY LIKE THAT (1961) RITA MORENO & NATALIE WOOD

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April 1st, The 1962–63 Nyc newspaper strike ends after 114 days.

The Carson & Barnes’ Big 3 Ring Circus comes to town.

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April 3rd - 4th, The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (sclc) kicks off the Birmingham campaign against segregation with a sit-in.

April 12th, during the Birmingham protest, reverends Ralph Abernathy & Martin Luther King jr, & many others are arrested for “parading without a permit . ”

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70,000 marchers arrive in London from Aldermas ton, to demonstrate against nuclear weapons.

April 12th. Election Day, hundreds of Mexicans in Crystal City, Texas, gather to do something that most had never done before: vote! Although Mexican-Americans outnumbered Anglos by 2-to-1, Anglos controlled all five seats on the city council. when the election was over, “Los Cinco” had beat all five white incumbents.

The “Letter from Birmingham Jail” was MLK Jr’s response to “A Call for Unity,” a statement made by 8 white Alabama clergymen against King & his methods in a newspaper from April 12th. King writes: “because segregation distorts the soul & damages the personality, It gives the segregator a false sense of superiority & the segregated a false sense of inferiority.”

Divine meets John Waters in Baltimore, Maryland This month.

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U.S. postal worker William Moore – member of the Baltimore chapter of Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) & former U.S. Marine, embarks on a solo freedom journey from Chattanooga, TeNnessee, to Jackson, mississippi.

April 20th

Moore stops at the White House 1st to tell the President that he plans to hand-deliver his letter in support of integration to Mississippi Gov. Ross Barnett, but isn’t granted a meeting. pushing his gear in a postal handcart & wearing a sandwich-board, he attracts a lot of attention. His body is discovered on April 23 by the side of U.S. Highway 11, in Attalla, ALabama with two bullets in his head.

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Chuck Renslow, photographer & founder of Kris studio, launches Mars Magazine, a gay magazine masquerading as a fitness mag.

May 1st

I’m your bunny sharon.

Sharon Risiner is one of 1st “chocolate bunnies.”

Show magazine publishes Gloria Steinem’s exposé “A Bunny’s Tale part 1” revealing bunnies only make about half of the WEEKly $200-300 advertised, are being illegally charged $25 per 100 demerits, & The only way to ensure bunny’s breasts don’t fall out of their costume is to serve drinks over the shoulder by leaning back & bending at the knee. They call it the bunny dip.”

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100s of laughing children, some as young as 8-years-old, ditch school & march off to jail! led by comedian Dick Gregory they walk & skipp, two-by-two, all while singing hymns & freedom songs. Over 600 children are arrested.

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May 12th, Bob Dylan walks off the set of The Ed Sullivan Show (the country ' s highest-rated variety show) after network censors reject the song he planned to perform.

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Surf City is a # 1 hit, Surf-culture is at an all-time high & misogyny isn’t far behind!

MAY 24th, The Baldwin-Kennedy meeting. civil rights leaders discuss race relations in the “united” states of america.

James Baldwin tours the south speaking about civil rights & lands on the cover of time.

it was hard for my Irish ancestors 100 years ago, maybe in 40 years there will be a black president.

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Lena Horne musician / actor

Edwin C. Berry director: Chicago Urban League

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Lorraine Hansberry playwright of “A Raisin in the Sun”

The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin - “I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”

Kenneth Clark psychologist & activist

Racial Equality & Freedom Rider

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May 19th - excerpts of the “Letter from Birmingham Jail” are published in the Post

Harry Belafonte singer & activist

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June Shagaloff white NAACP official

May 26th Emmy award winners:

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June 1st, ‘A Bunny’s Tale part 2’ reveals the ‘bunny’ costume cause serious health concerns, from dramatic weight loss, to numbing of the legs, fallen arches, welts & exhaustion.

June 10th, Gadsden, Alabama.

A peaceful protest. two dozen african american youths picket two theaters & several stores - There was no violence or arrests on this day.

JUNE 4th, Playboy Chief, Hugh Hefner, is arrested for “publishing & distributing an ”obscene magazine " with June’s Jayne Mansfield issue. Trial Ends in Hung Jury.

John F. Kennedy delivers his speech, " a Strategy of Peace " at American University in Washington, D.C. & invites Dorothy Height, president of the National Council of Negro Women to the signing of ‘The Equal Pay Act of 1963’ to " prohibit discrim ination on account of sex in the payment of wages by employers. "

June 11th, Saigon, vietnam. Buddhist monk Thích Qu ả ng Ð ứ c commits self immolation to protest the oppression of Buddhists.

Governor George Wallace prevents Vivian Malone & James Hood from registering at the university of Alabama, the last all-white state school.

June 12th, Cleopatra is released in theatres.

General Henry V. Graham gets wallace to stand down & the students register.

Nina Simone’s " Mississippi Goddam” is inspired, in part, by the events of this day.

June 12th, after Medgar Evers sued to desegregate Jackson, Mississippi schools, KKK & ‘White Citizens Council’ member Byron De La Beckwith shoots evers in the back with a rifle.

June 15th, mourners march to the funeral. Medgar is

survived by his widow, Myrlie Evers & their 3 children.

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June 11th, JFK’s “Civil Rights address” asks the nation to help solve the moral crisis of racial inequality.

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treat our fellow Americans as we want to be treated?

26-year-old Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova is the first woman in space.

after six weeks of boycotting, stores in downtown birmingham that promoted or supported segragation, start taking thier signs down. Commissioner Bull Connor threatens their business licences if they don’t obey the segraga tion ordinances but he is booted out of office & the jim crow signs are finally taken down.

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June 23rd, Martin luther King jr. speaks at ‘Walk to Freedom’ - the largest civil rights demonstration to date. 125,000 march to Detroit, Michigan’s “cobo arena.”

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and righteousness like a mighty stream!

justice will roll down like waters,

“Letter from Birmingham Jail” is printed in the June issues of Liberation, Christian Century, & The New Leader magazines.

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June 26th, JFK visits Berlin

MLK jr. quotes Chief Justice Earl Warren, stating: “justice too long delayed is justice denied.

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“One” Magazine gets political

in new York, Maria confesses her crush to her adopted mother.

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now. “Letter from Birmingham Jail” was reprinted in the July “The Atlantic” as " The Negro Is Your Brother. "

sugah, you look like you could use a meal and a hot bath.

Gay “Mattachine Review,” Vol IX, # 7 cover reads: “Can the courts enforce moral law? Should private acts that harm no one be punished by the state?”

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July 2nd: John Lewis, Bayard Rustin, Roy Wilkins, James Leonard Farmer Jr., Martin Luther King Jr., A. Philip Randolph, & Whitney Young meet to plan a united march for August 28th.

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July 8th, The New York Supreme Court Rules “Tropic of Cancer” by Henry Miller to be Flagrantly Obscene.

July 7th, a mass demonstration at segregated “Gwynn Oak” amusement park in Baltimore, Maryland finds nearly 400 people arrested, includ ing almost two dozen Catholic, Protestant & Jewish clergy members.

July 21st, Cambridge, Maryland. Mrs. Gloria richardson, head of the cambridge nonviolent action committee, casually pushes the national gaurdsman’s bayonet aside as she tries to convince the crowd to disperse.

July 23rd, Gloria richardson & Robert Kennedy witness the 5-point “Treaty of Cambridge” signing by civil rights activists and government officials. This coveres desegregation, housing & employment issues.

yoko ono is known as the “High Priestess of the Happening” many of her pieces consist merely of instructions!

july 24th, teenage bill clinton meets JFK.

FLY PIECE. Fly. 1963 summer

it’s an honor, sir.

Love is blind. this page was drawn as a “Blind contour” using photo references without looking at the paper.

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j. edgar hoover is the 1st Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). in August he starts a campaign to destroy Martin Luthor King Jr. & the civil rights movement. upon RFK’s approval, he is allowed to tap telephones, bug hotel rooms, photograph & tape conversations of King’s & his associates. He then passes this information & other disinformation off to Senator Strom Thurmond & other white supremacists who in turn rail against Bayard Rustin as a " Communist, draft-dodger, & homosexual who was in a sexual relationship with King.” Both men denied the allegation of this affair.

scarlet-- Beaux, you’re a father now! what will we name our son?

Patrick Bouvier Kennedy.

August 3rd, Is the 6th night of consecutive disturbances. Chicago police knock down a burning cross at the home of an african american family who moved into an all-white neighborhood.

August 7th, two very different women give birth to two very different babies. fay atropos to a healthy & unique child who she foresees will bring about great change & Jacqueline Kennedy to premature newborn wHo dies 39 hours later from hyaline membrane disease.

August 18, in spite of extreme harassment & isolation, James Meredith is the 1st african american person to graduate from the University of Mississippi.

August 27 William Edward Burghardt " W.E.B. " Du Bois is an American sociologist, teacher, historian, civil rights activist, author, editor, & founding father of the NAACP. Born 5 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, he died today at 95 years old in Accra, Ghana while working on an encyclopedia of the African diaspora.

Think Pink! This page is drafted in pink mechanical pencil as a nod to gay rights. In 1930’s/40’s nazi germany, concentration camp inmates acused of homosexuality were forced to wear pink triangles. the pink triangle has since been reclaimed as a symbol of pride.

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Over 2,000 buses, 21 special trains, 10 chartered aircrafts, & uncounted autos converged on the city in the morning.

Josephine Baker is the 1st African American woman to become a world-famous entertainer. she addresses the crowd before the official program begins.

Daisy Bates, is the only woman to formally address the crowd during the official program.

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“Tell ’em about the dream, Martin!”

I have a dream that

my four little children will one day live in a nation

where they will not be judged by the color of their skin,

but by the content of their character!

The March on Washington was held exactly 8 years after the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old african-american teenager who was murdered in Mississippi after reportedly flirting with a white woman.

Somewhere over the Rainbow. this day was watercolored in full color to capture the biggest civil rights event of 1963.

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September 7th, Eric “Eazy-E” Lynn Wright of N.W.A., aka " The Godfather of Gangsta rap " was born in Compton, California.

September 12th, Birmingham’s public schools integrate & many white students boycott classes.

September 16th, “The OutER Limits” debuts

students drag an effigy past west end high. police warn them, but only about “fast driving & honking in front of school”

here is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are controlling transmission.

If we wish to make it louder, we will bring up the volume. If we wish to make it softer, we will tune it to a whisper.

We will control the horizontal. We will control the vertical. We can roll the image, make it flutter.

We can change the focus to a soft blur or sharpen it to crystal clarity.

“X-MEn” debuts, Inspired by the civil rights movement, created by Stan Lee & Jack Kirby.

this young team is feared & hated for being born “different.”

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divided we fall.

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indubitably!

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September 15th, the KKK bombs the 16th st Baptist church in Birmingham killing 4 young girls & injuring 22 more.

September 19TH, THE 1ST homosexual rights demonstration in the U.s. finds picketers proting the violation of confidentiality of homosexual’s draft records at the Whitehall Induction Center in New York City.

virgil was riding on the handle bars of his brother’s bicycle when he was fataly shot by white teens who had come from a segregationist rally held after the 16th street Baptist Church bombing.

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“when the kids got killed in that church, that did it... first you get depressed, then you get mad, and when these kids got bombed, I just sat down and wrote this song” - Nina Simone “Mississippi GodDam” September 18th, The “Eulogy for martyred children” is Delivered as a funeral service for the children killed in the bombing. “Their death says to us that we must work passionately and unrelentingly for the realiza tion of the American dream….” - Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.

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September 15th

Lena Horne makes the cover of Show Magazine.

The Second City Motorcycle Club is founded in Chicago, Illinois at “Gold Coast” a Gay leather scene Bar owned by Chuck Renslow. the club featured Renslow, artist ‘Etienne’ (aka Domingo Stephen Orejudos), tattoo artist Cliff Ingram (aka Cliff Raven), 10 Levi’s-and-Leather charter members, James Robert Burns & his lover Blaine Cunningham (aka Marty Paul).

A. Philip Randolph & Bayard Rustin, on the cover of LIFE Magazine.

You are about to participate in a great adventure. You are about to experience the awe and mystery which reaches from the inner mind to –

For the next hour, sit quietly and we will control all that you see and hear.

We repeat: there is nothing wrong with your television set.

“The Avengers” debuts, created by Stan Lee & Jack Kirby, the comic book team consists of ‘all-american’ heroes & one Nordic God.

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Hulk Smash!

let’s get some shoes!

I have a hankering for some fried crickets, myself.

September 29th, The Judy Garland Show Debuts

Shh! Judy’s on!

September 30th is the 1-Year anniversary of the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA). Dolores Huerta co-founded it with César Chavez in Fresno, CA to help migrant farm workers fight for thier rights.

these 2 pages were partially colored digitally to mimic comics coloring of the era - you color in the rest!

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October 1st, “Lilies of the Field” is released starring Sidney Poitier who wins “Best Actor in a Leading Role” for this film, becoming the 1st African-American to recieve an Oscar.

Kenneth Anger’s experimental short film “Scorpio Rising” debuts. it contains no dialogue & has a 60’s pop soundtrack. Themes include: homosexuality, the occult, Leather, bikers, Nazism, Catholicism, & rebel worship.

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the President ' s Commission on the Status of Women (PCSW) issues its final reports to President Kennedy, entitled " American Women " , documenting the status of American women & making recommendations for further action on the 79th anniver sary of PCSW ' s 1st chairman - Eleanor Roosevelt ' s birth.

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