For you history buffs, The 54 named their band after the first official all black unit in the United States Armed forces during the Civil…
It’s unwise to be sniffy about popular culture. Television — the idiot box, the boob tube — was best of friends with the civil rights movement in the 1960s, bringing its valiant images, week after week, into American homes. Pictorial glossies like Life and Look had done a similar service a decade earlier.
