Memory Wall

Fun Highlights from Hands Across America

  • Five couples got married that day while participating in the Hands Across America festivities
  • In Pittsburgh’s Three River Stadium, hundreds of Little Leaguers held hands with big leaguers as the line crossed the grandstand
  • In New Mexico, Hopi & Navaho tribesmen met in a hand-holding pow-wow
  • In Texas, migrant workers organized a 51 mile stretch
  • In Iowa, Jesse Jackson stood between a Motel 6 night manager and Mr. Goodwrench
  • In Washington, DC, Reagan and his staff joined Rev. Graham, Olympic Gymnast Mary Lou Retton & Coretta Scott King in a line that went right through the White House Portico
  • Through sparsely populated New Mexico, ranchers lined up cattle horn-to-hoof to fill in for missing humans
  • In Pittsburgh, nuns held hands with members of the Hell’s Angeles
  • The massive human line featured 21 year old Brooke Shields on the George Washington Bridge, Billy & Hillary Clinton in Arkansas, and Kenny Rogers braving blistering heat in the Southwest.

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Photo In Memoriam: Quincy Jones, 1933-2024

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The USA for Africa family mourns the passing of Quincy Jones, whose genius and generosity enabled our vision for change to prosper for nearly 40 years. We celebrate his remarkable life, his incomparable talent, and his expansive heart for the world. Our gratitude is endless.