Mentions the college is one of the places that offered hope and inspiration and try to do the right thing. So i just want to call attention to the fact that in addition to those dramatic headlines for you saw police dogs and you saw the bombed church in earning him and those horrific scenes that were the flipside of the courage that the civil rights leaders and protesters were displaying that you also had these quieter things going on in a number of different places. Mobile had an africanamerican man whose name was john leflore and mr. Leflore back in the 1920s decided he was going to take on segregation and started one of the earliest naacp chapters in the south here in mobile and kind of quietly went about the business of opposing lynchings and pursuing the right to vote, pursuing the desegregation of buses and public accommodations and mostly he did it through negotiation and lawsuits and that kind of thing less like demonstrations and confrontation. He found a few moderate wide all
When one thinks of bands that blend pop melodicism with punk aggression and a dose of humor, Blink 182 or pre-millennium Green Day would come to mind for most. Both owe a lot to The Dickies, the San Fernando Valley band that has been mixing all three elements since the late '70s and will be playing at the Catalyst Club Friday.