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DIAMOND GIRL 🔹 Seals And Crofts Guitar Solo Lesson @EricBlackmonGuitar

In the summer of 1944, Alma Stone Williams, a graduate and valedictorian of @spelman_college with an MA in English from #atlantauniversity was likely the first Black student to integrate an institute of learning in the South. ✨1944, y’all.✨ She didn’t think it was possible so she was looking toward northern states to further her music education. The @universityofga wouldn’t accept her when she expressed interest, only based on her race. The place that did? Black Mountain College. @blackmountaincollege was trying to do the right thing, though not without its own conflict within the faculty. People were nervous. It had never been done. Zora Neale Hurston said she couldn’t believe it would happen smoothly. Well... it happened. And it was fairly smooth due to the isolation in the mountains near Asheville. The next year they quietly and officially integrated, and had such incredible professors as #JacobLawrence and #GwendolynKnight “I was at home among these people: students and teachers, Northern and Southern, regulars and institute members, Americans and foreigners, Thomas Mann’s daughter and Sigmund Freud’s daughter-in-law. The arts brought us together, and differences were not so much threatening as they were attracting.” (-from her memoir) “It is very noteworthy that most predominately white institutions of higher learning in the South did not integrate for another twenty years!” (source: http://theurbannews.com/our-town/2008/opening-doors-alma-stone-williams-1944-integration-of-black-mountain-college/) #almastonewilliams #blackmountaincollege #blackhistorymonth #blacklivesmatter #racialsegregation #whitesonly #civilrights #nojusticenopeace #schoolintegration #blackmountain #elainedekooning #josefalbers #johncage #mercecunningham #williemdekooning #robertrauschenberg #buckminsterfuller #annialbers #cytwombly #allenginsberg #danseals #beforebrownvsboardofeducation

Come out tomorrow for my acoustic set in Haxtun, Colorado for Haxtun Cornfest! My acoustic set starts at 7:30pm. If you're wanting to come, tag your friend in the comments below and I'll be giving away two free tickets! "The crowd will always love you, but as for me I've come to know, everything that glitters, is not gold." Ahhh this song fills my heart! #braydonzink #haxtuncornfest #everythingthatglitters #danseals #coloradomusic #livemusic (at Haxtun, Colorado)