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Dick Clark, Sam Cooke, and the Klan

By Timothy P. Carney
Published April 18, 2012 4:00am ET
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Dick Clark, Sam Cooke, and the Klan
Dick Clark has passed away, and I just learned about a pretty brave stand he took for integration in the Jim Crow-era South. Here’s the account, as written in 1997 in the New Pittsburgh Courier: Clark also became friends, he says, with a lot of the African-Americans who appeared on “American Bandstand” and developed a […]

Dick Clark has passed away, and I just learned about a pretty brave stand he took for integration in the Jim Crow-era South. Here’s the account, as written in 1997 in the New Pittsburgh Courier:

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