O.K. folks, I'm making a little time to post another thought. I'm quite sure that my comments might be viewed as a serious thread creep. And yet, they really are NOT.

The subject as started by the original poster, was focused on "the Weavers and the McCarthy era." And we have all be addressing that issue. However, things to NOT happen in a vacuum.

It's just about impossible for me to separate the original subject from what else was happening to me, and also Seattle, during that same time. I'm talking about the 'rise,' for lack of a better term, of the integration movement.

It was at this same time that I met a man who became very pivotel to me. He was black, I was white. He was a schoolteacher, I used to sing songs to his students. He was a well trained stage actor. He formed an amateur theater company. We connected. Up until the time that I married and moved to California, I was very active with him. We wrote plays together, I acted on stage in several productions. I sang songs in his productions. I became the token "white" in an all black company.

Why does this fit here? It fits because what was happening to me was also happening to Seattle.

As we've noted before, many of the popular political issues of those times attracted "communists." And it was very logical.

The "communists" needed social issues, and the black movement was a HUGE issue in Seattle then. Unfortunatly, it still is.

So, to more complete the story, I think we need to bring the nationwide aspects the the black movement here.

Am I wrong? CHEERS, Bob