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November 1st, Coretta Scott King joins the Women Strike for Peace who march from Central Park to the U.N. Headquarters, in New York City.

November 4th, London: The Beatles play for the Royal Family.

For our last number I’d like to ask your help.

Would the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands?

And the rest of you, if you’ll just rattle your jewelry.

TWIST AND SHOUT THE BEATLES

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November 1st-5th. the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) holds an unofficial statewide “Freedom Ballot” based on the principle of “One Man, One Vote.” to show how many blacks would vote if they could. 80,000 people came out. The Freedom Ballot platform called for an end to segregation, fair employment, better schools and a guaranteed right to vote but Registering to vote got Many people arrested, tear-gassed, evicted from their homes, fired from thier jobs & some even had their homes firebombed by Klansman.

November 10th, King Solomon Baptist Church in Detroit, Michigan. Malcolm X’s Message to the Grass Roots.

MESSAGE TO THE GRASSROOTS MALCOLM X

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The same white element

This is what they did with the march on Washington. They joined it. They didn’t integrate it; they infiltrated it. They joined it, became a part of it, took it over. And as they took it over, it

that put Kennedy in power — labor, the Catholics, the Jews, & liberal Protes tants; the same clique that put Kennedy in power, joined the march on Washington.

It ' s just like when you ' ve

got some coffee that ' s too black, which means it ' s too strong,

lost its militancy. They ceased to be

angry. They ceased to be hot...

...it was a sellout. It

What you do? You integrate it with cream, you make it weak. If you pour too much cream in, you won ' t even know you ever had coffee.

was a takeover. When James Baldwin came in

from Paris, they wouldn’t let him talk, ’cause they couldn’t make him go by the script. Burt Lancaster read the speech that Baldwin was supposed to make; they wouldn’t let Baldwin get up there, ’cause they know Baldwin’s liable to say anything. They controlled it so tight — they told those Negroes what time to hit town, how to come, where to stop, what signs to carry, what song to sing, what speech they could make, and

It used to be

hot, it becomes cool. It used to be strong, it becomes weak. It used to wake you up, now it ' ll put you to sleep.

what speech they couldn’t make; and then told them to get out town by sundown.

“The Servant,” a film regarding class, control & covert homosexuality, is released in London.

November 12th, Billy Taylor recorded “I Wish I Knew (How It Would Feel To Be Free)” which would later be popularised by Nina Simone.

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November 20th, “From Russia with Love” is the last film jfk sees at the White House before going to Dallas.

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