Tag: 1960s
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1960s civil rights protesters who staged historic sit-in finally have arrest records cleared
Simon Bouie told his mother and grandmother he wasn’t going to get in trouble back in 1960. Then the Black Benedict College student sat at a whites-only lunch counter in South Carolina and got himself arrested. Finally on Friday, that arrest and the records of six of his friends were erased as a judge signed an order…
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Jack Jones, balladeer famous for ‘Love Boat’ theme and 1960s hits like ‘The Impossible Dream,’ dies at 86
Jack Jones, a singer who found fame and chart success on the easy-listening side of the street in the 1960s, and who later became etched in television-watching America’s psyche with the “Love Boat” theme, died Wednesday at 86. Jones died of leukemia at a hospital in Rancho Mirage, Calif., his wife of 15 years, Eleanora…