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Portrait of Dizzy Gillespie, New York, New York, circa May 1947. Gillespie toured in Eastern Europe and Asia as a Jazz Ambassador. (GPA Photo Archive / William P. Gottlieb / Library of Congress)

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The Lessons of 1989: Freedom and Our Future