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unusual facts about A.B. Spellman



A. B. Spellman

In 1959, Spellman began a career as a music critic for a number of magazines including Metronome and Down Beat, for which he wrote reviews of jazz music and musicians.

Abdul Alkalimat

During the late 1960s, Alkalimat helped create the Institute of the Black World (IBW) in Atlanta with professors Vincent Harding and Stephen Henderson and other student activists including Howard Dodson, A. B. Spellman, William Strickland, and Council Taylor.

Calvin Hicks

He founded the On Guard Committee for Freedom, which included Amiri Baraka, Archie Shepp, A.B. Spellman and Walter Bowe.


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