December 16, 2001
Why have so few rock groups been racially integrated?
Why         have so few rock groups been racially integrated compared to         jazz bands? After all, Benny Goodman featured an integrated orchestra in         the Thirties. Before the civil rights revolution, black and white jazz         musicians put up with all sorts of  nonsense in order to play together.         When Charlie Parker's band toured the segregated South in the Forties,         they told local sheriffs that their white trumpeter Red Rodney was         actually a black man named "Albino Red."
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