Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The "Up With People" people converged on Oklahoma City in 15 buses Sunday, unloaded themselves and their musical instruments at the Skirvin Hotel and proceeded to fill the giant Imperial Ballroom with song…Their songs asked "What Color is God's Skin," and proclaimed "Freedom Is Not Free." They paid musical tribute to the late astronaut Ed White. The young musicians were welcomed to Oklahoma by attorney general G. T. Blankenship, who appered on behalf og Gov. Bartlett. Bartlett asked the group to come to Oklahoma during January. Vice Mayor Rowe Cook bif the treveling minstries welcome to the city and told them, "Somewhere along the line our generation let you people down. That's the reason today we hear so much about rights and so little about responsibilty."...Fifty-seven of the young people will ride the theme float entitled "Foward Together - Up With People" in the inaugural parade January 20 in Washinton, D.C."
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Source context
Visible Gateway description identifies Up With People musicians and the role mixed musicians; musical instruments. Creation information: Heaton, Dave; 1969. Source: Daily Oklahoman, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, January 6, 1969. Collection: Oklahoma Publishing Company Photography Collection.
Oklahoma connection
Named Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, arrival/performance context for Up With People musicians carrying instruments; individual instrumental roles are not resolved.
People, groups, or instruments recorded
mixed musicians; musical instruments
Reading this source
This is a broad instrument-wording capture, not a full biography or identity resolution. Exact Oklahoma origin, duplicate relationships, cultural context, and republication rights require separate review. Supporting rows do not independently establish active playing in the pictured scene. Per-page local hashes are recorded in the Markdown record.
