One : The Life and Music of James Brown (9781101561102) (65 page)

BOOK: One : The Life and Music of James Brown (9781101561102)
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B
rown’s manager and confidante, Ben Bart, relaxing at the racetrack.
COURTESY OF JACK BART

S
inging at Jackson, Mississippi’s TougalooCollege, the endpoint of James Meredith’s 1966 “March Against Fear.”
JIM PEPPLER; STATE OF ALABAMA, DEPARTMENT OF ARCHIVES AND HISTORY

“A
shape with lion body and the head of a man”: The Cape Act as seen at the Alabama State College Arena in Montgomery, circa 1965, and elsewhere on the road.
COLLECTION OF THE AUTHOR

J
ames Brown endorsing Hubert Humphrey for president in Watts, 1968.
COLLECTION OF THE AUTHOR

B
rown knew his face was his currency, and he literally made it so when he printed it on the short-lived Black & Brown Trading Stamp.
COLLECTION OF THE AUTHOR

E
nter the mugs: left to right, Robert “Chopper” McCullough, Clayton “Chicken” Gunnels, Phelps “Catfish” Collins, William “Bootsy” Collins, and Charles Spurling. They changed everything.
COURTESY OF PATTI COLLINS

B
rown and his wife, Adrienne, celebrating their union.
SPECIAL COLLECTIONS UNIT, CLEMSON UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES

S
trom Thurmond’s house. The senator and Brown were longtime friends.
SPECIAL COLLECTIONS UNIT, CLEMSON UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES

T
he bronze statue of Brown, unveiled in downtown Augusta in 2005.
THE RAINIER EHRHARDT/AUGUSTA
CHRONICLE/ZUMAPRESS.COM

J
ames Brown’s final appearance, January 2007.
RICK MACKLER/GLOBE
PHOTOS/ZUMAPRESS.COM

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