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Bob Marley was shot. Then he brought two rivals together
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In 1957, Louis Armstrong refused a proposed U.S.
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State Department tour of the Soviet Union as the Little Rock school-integration crisis unfolded. His protest made international news, but the federal action that followed came through a separate presidential decision. Three years later, Armstrong accepted another State-backed mission, this time in Africa.
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