The Musicians’ Green Book – An Enduring Legacy
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The Musical Performers
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Participants
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H.B. Barnum toured with James Brown and Otis Redding, was the music director for the Temptations, Gladys Knight & The Pips, Aretha Franklin and Barry White, and has written arrangements and compositions for many artists including Michael Jackson and Justin Timberlake.
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The Washington director for the Urban League, Courtland Cox was active in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and is a long-time social advocate based in Washington D.C.
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Rick Lee is the now retired owner
of Lee’s Flower Shop, a mainstay on U Street in Washington DC since 1945.
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Rev. Dr. Sandra Butler-Truesdale, who worked with Ray Charles and James Brown, is a music historian from Washington DC and co-hosts the Don’t Forget the Blues radio series on WPFW.
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Benjamin Wright is a legendary record producer, song writer and arranger who was also a child actor in the 1940s, a singer with the Dootones and the Robins, and an arranger for, among others, Count Basie, Frank Sinatra, the Supremes and Aretha Franklin.
The Writers
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