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He helped start the Chicago

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 28 Sep 2017 14:53:27 +0000

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He helped start the Chicago Jazz Festival in 1959, with first day's *gross* receipts going to the NAACP, and would buy back franchises for Playboy clubs that didn't allow black clientel. Pretty forward acting in the civil rights category.

Thanks Dick, RMRD - I'll be

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 28 Sep 2017 13:53:00 +0000

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Thanks Dick, RMRD - I'll be writing more on this, but I don't think it was "surprising", just as Frank Sinatra's wonderful 1964 Playboy interview wasn't surprising so much as refreshing that this rebellious singer was also rebellious in attitudes about race and peace and personal liberties. There are certainly things Hef got wrong, and there are contrasting sides to life's puzzle that are hard to square, but there are many things he helped along.

(and technically, Dick, you don't "read" pictures - you may look, stare, ogle, lick and snuggle with them, but you don't read them. but when you're finished, you can always read the articles and peruse the cartoons ;-)

I actually read Playboy for

Richard Day — Thu, 28 Sep 2017 13:46:41 +0000

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I actually read Playboy for the pictures. hahahhaha

But I spent my teens actually reading the opinions contained in that naughty mag.

Hef made an impression on me.

He lived a long and prosperous life.

And I loved him.

Hefner also supported Martin

rmrd0000 — Thu, 28 Sep 2017 12:39:36 +0000

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Hefner also supported Martin Luther King Jr. and helped Fund Jesse Jackson''s Rainbow PUSH coalition. Alex Hayley, author of "Roots" and the "Autobiography of Malcolm X" got his start doing interviews for Playboy. Hayley interviewed Dr Martin Luther King Jr., Sammy Davis, Miles Davis, and Malcolm X for the magazine.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/hugh-hefners-surprising-civil-rights-legacy

Dick Gregory thanked Hef for

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 28 Sep 2017 11:09:34 +0000

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Dick Gregory thanked Hef for putting up the money to find 3 murdered civil rights workers*, and for letting him and other minority comedians perform back in '61 without a lecture or instructions - launching what otherwise woild have been a short- lived career - later hosting a number of black musicians like James Brown.

*and yes it's horrid that Mississippi Burning ignored Gregiry's role and mythed the heroic role off to a hard-working, sympathetic white guy.