Liberty Theater was built in 1921 and is located in the heart of downtown Amarillo. The theater spent years as the only integrated theater in Amarillo. The theater was built by two Jewish Amarillo ...

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Poet, playwright, novelist, and social activist Langston Hughes and civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. shared a ...

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Based on a poem by James Weldon Johnson and set to music by his brother ... she cut for 2007's "We'll Never Turn Back," a concept album of songs related to the civil rights movement produced by Ry ...

Based on a poem by James Weldon Johnson and set to ... "We'll Never Turn Back," a concept album of songs related to the civil rights movement produced by Ry Cooder. Like many spirituals, its ...

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