Freedom
Train Civil Rights Recording
Long before
the Civil Rights Movement had a name, Buddy Green, Langston Hughes
and the California Labor School Chorus produced a 78 rpm record
of songs related to the Freedom Train and the American Heritage
Foundation's stand against segregation aboard the Freedom Train.
That policy
lead the Train to bypass Memphis and Birmingham -- but did allow
it to display in Savannah and Brunswick, GA, where alternating groups
of blacks and whites were allowed aboard -- 25 at a time.
As one observer
noted in Savannah -- "They went in separate, but came out all
mixed together".
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