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During the Watergate hearings in 1974, we all felt that we were finally getting rid of President Nixon, the great hate object of young people and blacks in those years. This picture was taken the night of a speech Nixon gave shortly before resigning, when I was living with my girlfriend Baggie in Greensboro. I loved Baggie’s big afro and the whole “Black is Beautiful” movement the afros came to symbolize that was a showdown with centuries of black self-hate. Today, it’s harder for me to tell who the real beast is. Just one month later, Baggie was arrested for bank robbery and sentenced to 25 years in prison.
Morningside Housing Project, Greensboro, NC – February 25th 1974
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