Upper East Side Soundtrack III

Per Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in a March 19, 1968 speech, “We’re going to show our young people that Bach and Beethoven are not the only musicians [alluding to 18th century Black classical composer Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges]. They are great, but they’re not the only ones. We’re going to let our young people know that Shakespeare, Euripides, and Aristophanes are not the only poets that have lived in history. We’re going to let them know about Countee Cullen and Langston Hughes. We’re going to let our children know that the only philosophers that lived were not Plato and Aristotle, but Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois and Alain Locke came through the universe. We’re going to let our children know that Einstein was not the only scientist that ever lived, but George Washington Carver came by history.”