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Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)

77 %|Jul 2, 2021|Music, Documentary, History

During the same summer as Woodstock, over 300,000 people attended the Harlem Cultural Festival, celebrating African American music and culture, and promoting Black pride and unity. The footage from the festival sat in a basement, unseen for over 50 years, keeping this incredible event in America's history lost — until now.

Featured Crew

Robyn Fisher
Makeup & Hair
Sunny Bourgeois
Hair Supervisor
Lauren Nikrooz
Art Direction
Viola Nicholson
Makeup & Hair
Mark Thompson
Art Direction
Nicola David
Makeup & Hair
Rich Mach
Sound Mixer
Mike Stahr
Sound Mixer

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Cast

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Nina Simone
Self (archive footage)
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B.B. King
Self (archive footage)
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Mahalia Jackson
Self (archive footage)
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John V. Lindsay
Self (archive footage)
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Questlove
Self (uncredited)
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Walter Cronkite
Self (archive footage)
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Malcolm X
Self (archive footage)
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Martin Luther King Jr.
Self (archive footage)
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Robert F. Kennedy
Self (archive footage)
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Richard Nixon
Self (archive footage)
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John F. Kennedy
Self (archive footage)
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Jesse Jackson
Self (archive footage)
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Moms Mabley
Self (archive footage)
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Max Roach
Self (archive footage)
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Fidel Castro
Self (archive footage)
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Redd Foxx
Self (uncredited)