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BROADCAST ON WNYC TODAY IN…
1925: Uncle David Corey, 'the jackrabbit man,' reads his children's stories.
1953: Robert Moses speaks at the groundbreaking for New York City's first public parking lot, located in Flushing, Queens.
1964: Mayor Robert Wagner tells the Overseas Press Club that there is a new feeling about politics and that younger people are voting and doing their part for the Democratic Party.
2001: Suzzy Roche of The Roches plays selections from her work at the Institute on Arts and Civic Dialogue at Harvard, in a program founded by Anna Deveare Smith.
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May 23, 1930
Dr. W. E. B. DuBois
Speaking on behalf of the N.A.A.C.P., scholar and civil rights leader Dr. W. E. B. DuBois comes to the WNYC studio to deliver remarks on "The Negro Vote." (Photo of DuBois in 1918/Library of Congress)
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'The Weavers'
"We cast about for a name, but it would be a while before we found the right one. Oscar Brand had us on his WNYC radio show once or twice while we billed ourselves as the No-Name Quartet, and he held a naming contest for us. In the the end though, we named ourselves after a nineteenth-century play Fred [Hellerman] was reading about a strike of factory workers in Silesia, Gerhardt Hauptmann's The Weavers.
Source: Gilbert, Ronnie, Ronnie Gilbert: A Radical Life in Song, A Memoir, University of California Press, 2015, pg. 56
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