Village clubs doubled as fundraising nodes for civil rights groups

Evidence

Art D’Lugoff’s Gate was originally a showcase for folk acts and ethnic music. Over the past year, the venue had hosted several fundraising concerts for civil rights organizations and the Sunday performance of the Freedom Now Suite, was a benefit for CORE. The poster used a wire-service photograph from recent lunch-counter sit-ins in Greensboro, North Carolina; the same image, with one of three student demonstrators, all of whom wore jackets and ties, turning away from the counter to stare defiantly into the camera, could be found on the cover of the newly released LP We Insist!, produced by jazz critic Nat Hentoff for his experimental label Candid. — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 312

Categorization

• XREF: Feeds the reader’s core interest in the material conditions of scene density — here, venues as political-financial infrastructure, not just performance spaces.