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Peter goodall's avatar

Playing for love is really what matters. Doesn't matter who pays. Many black Americans settled in Europe after touring with the big bands and weren't so old. X

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Steve Swindells's avatar

Such horrific hypocrisy *makes jazz hand movement*! Then, we had The Black And white Minstrel Show on TV in the UK! White people in black-face! Grotesque.

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lorrie carse-wilen's avatar

Great writing, but quite shocking to learn this.

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hmmm...Daniel B. James's avatar

Great article and an eye opener

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Melisa Lalich's avatar

Great history lesson!

Nice to know that the jazz greats in the US used their talents to promote change in racism too.

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