Daddy Twofoot Performing During the "Free Bill Johnson" Rally outside of the Red Bird Cafe in Tallahassee

Daddy Twofoot Performing During the "Free Bill Johnson" Rally outside of the Red Bird Cafe in Tallahassee

Political Rally

Performance

Performance and politics meet in two ways in this 1971 photo, as “Daddy Twofoot” performs for a political rally crowd outside of the Red Bird Café in Tallahassee’s Frenchtown neighborhood. By the 1970s, many artists on the Circuit were overtly political. Artists like James Brown and Joe Tex promoted civil rights and Black Nationalism in the early 1970s. Circuit stalwart Joe Tex joined the Nation of Islam and changed his name to Yusuf Hazziez in 1972. Local bands like Daddy Twofoot often shared these political sensibilities.

Buckley, John

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State Archives of Florida

July 31, 1971

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Tallahassee, Florida