Music: The Ballad of the Brown King live concert

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{"value"=>"circa 1960 December 11", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1960-12-11", "certainty"=>"approximate"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Live concert of <span class=\"title\">The Ballad of the Brown King</span>, a Christmas cantata composed by composer, pianist, arranger, and teacher Margaret Bonds with text from Langston Hughes's poem \"Carol of the Brown King.\" Also includes Christmas spirituals and community singing. The concert was produced by the Emergency Committee for the Southern Freedom Struggle as a benefit for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). It was also dedicated to civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. Maya Angelou, poet and northern coordinator for the SCLC New York office, speaks at the end of the recording.</p>"}
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1960-12-11
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1960-12-11
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1960-12-11
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1960
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1 audio_recording : sound recording (quarter-inch open-reel audio)

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