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This Week in People’s History, Jun 25-Jul 1, 2025

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An integrated group of students, together immediately after their school was desegregated School Integration in a Small Town (1955), Love Is All You Need (2015), ‘That Flag Just Had to Come Down’ (2015), Liberation Day, (1970), It’s a Police Action, Not a War (1950), Goodnight Irene (1950), Shut Up and Get Out! (1965)

Fred Hellerman, Last of the Weavers Folk Group, Dies at 89

William Grimes The New York Times
“We really got together for the fun of it, singing in Pete’s basement on Macdougal Street,” Mr. Hellerman told The New York Times in 1980. “We sang for unions, at picket lines and at hootenannies, but we had no anticipation of getting jobs. Even Pete, the most accomplished of us, could not get jobs on his own, so we couldn’t expect anyone to pay for four of us.”
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