Posted on : IF IT AIN’T GOT THAT SWING. A look back at a time when the U.S. knew how to make the U.S. look good, at least as good as it could in a time of Jim Crow, “Gentleman’s Agreements,” and very low glass ceilings for women, indeed: HALF a century ago, when America was having problems with its image during the cold war, Adam Clayton Powell Jr., the United States representative from Harlem, had an idea. Stop sending symphony orchestras and ballet companies on international tours, he told the State Depa (source)
