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The Jazz Ambassadors
Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Teams Up with Dizzy Gillespie
In 1955, Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. convinced U.S. leaders that jazz was the best way to intervene in the Cold War cultural conflict, with trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie becoming the first jazz ambassador to help counter Soviet stories about American racism.
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