Three Jazz Works

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Some of the major struggles and victories of the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s coincided with a most active period for jazz music. For Martin Luther King Jr. Day, WNYC's Sara Fishko looks at a few cases where the movement and the music came together, in this edition of Fishko Files.

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