“I had a real reason for running,” Gillespie wrote in his autobiography, “because the proceeds from the sale of buttons went to CORE, SCLC [the Southern Christian Leadership Conference], and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and I could threaten Democrats with a loss of votes and swing them to a more reasonable position on civil rights.”
http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/4/22/dizzy-gillespie-forpresident.html
listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pVG95yHhsc
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