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6 months ago

in Barack Obama for the Generations on Hungry Blues
And now I have found this! One of the last things William said to me when I asked what would happen now to the civil rights movement, when Nixon got elected in 68, and he said, "we'll go underground for 20 years...." Well, it's 40 and Obama is our president and part of the reason is all the beatings William took in the front lines of those marches. What a smart, kind man he was.
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6 months ago

in William J. Douthard (aka “Meatball”), Jan. 6, 1947 - Jan. 4, 1981 on Hungry Blues
Dear Ben...I don't know if you are still doing this.; I was glad to see your blog about William...who was my boyfriend off and on from 1968-1973...in NYC when he was James Farmer's campaign manager, in Jim's run against Shirley Chisholm. I was thinking about William, who really loved my baby (now 35 year old son) ...and wondered what happened to his son!
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Ben Marcia, thank you for leaving this comment. Currently my work is more
focused on unresolved racial violence from the 50s and 60s in
Mississippi—but I am still working on my dad's story and am still very
interested in William's story. I'll drop you a line over email.
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