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JAMES BROWN

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JAMES BROWN
A Certificate of Life Membership of the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People.. inscribed James Brown and dated May 1966, the certificate laminated onto a wooden plaque decorated with a painted gold border, 10¼ x 8½in.; accompanied by a photograph of James Brown receiving the certificate on stage at the Apollo Theatre, New York, 1966.

出版

Brown,(James): The Godfather Of Soul, Thunder Mouth's Press, New York, 1990, p.168

拍品專文

James Brown acknowledges that he started to get involved in public issues when he ..integrated the concerts in Macon and Augusta . But it really went back to the "White Water" and "Coloured Water" signs I saw when I was little...I wanted to use my position to help people...I took out a lifetime membership..of the NAACP..I was trying to help by joining publicly...