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  1. May 8, 2016 · Woody Guthrie -- I Ain't Got No Home/Old Man Trump by the Missin' Cousins - YouTube. The Missin' Cousins. 990 subscribers. Subscribed. 7K. 521K views 8 years ago. In December 1950,...

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  2. "Old Man Trump" is a song with lyrics written by American folk singer-songwriter Woody Guthrie in 1954. The song describes the racist housing practices and discriminatory rental policies of his landlord, Fred Trump (the father of the 45th president of the United States, Donald Trump ).

  3. Beach Haven ain't my home! No, I just can't pay this rent! My money's down the drain, And my soul is badly bent! Beach Haven is Trumps Tower. Where no black folks come to roam, No, no, Old Man Trump! Old Beach Haven ain't my home! *The recorded version of this song is available on iTunes.

  4. Sep 4, 2020 · 63. 2K views 3 years ago. " 'Old Man Trump' is a song with lyrics written by Woody Guthrie about the racist housing practices and discriminatory rental policies of his landlord Fred...

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    • A Champion For Equality
    • A Postwar Housing Haven – For Whites
    • ‘Old Man Trump’S’ Color Line

    By the time he moved into his new apartment, Guthrie had traveled a long road from the casual racism of his Oklahoma youth. He’d learned along the way that the North held no special claim to racial enlightenment. He had written songs such as “The Ferguson Brothers Killing,” which condemned the out-of-hand police killing of the unarmed Charles and A...

    In the postwar years, with the return of hundreds of thousands of servicemen to New York, affordable public housinghad become an urgent priority. For the most part, low-cost housing projects had been left to cash-strapped state and city authorities. But when the Federal Housing Authority (FHA) finally stepped in to issue federal loans and subsidies...

    Only a year into his Beach Haven residency, Guthrie – himself a veteran – was already lamenting the bigotry that pervaded his new, lily-white neighborhood, which he’d taken to calling “Bitch Havens.” In his notebooks, he conjured up a scenario of smashing the color line to transform the Trump complex into a diverse cornucopia, with “a face of every...

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  6. Jan 22, 2016 · Will Kaufman, a professor of American literature and culture at the University of Central Lancashire, says he has discovered unpublished lyrics by Woody Guthrie, in which the folk singer...

  7. Nov 6, 2018 · Old Man Trump knows. Just how much. Racial Hate. He stirred up. In the bloodpot of human hearts. When he drawed. That color line. In his best songs, Guthrie is equally seized by feelings of...

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