The anti-jazz crusade was anti-Black, but Henry Ford of the Ford Motor Company switched it up and made it anti-Semitic. One of the pamphlets he distributed through his Ford dealerships was titled “Jewish Jazz … the Moron Music of the Yiddish Popular Song.” Ford wrote, “Many people have wondered whence come the waves upon waves of musical slush that invade decent homes and set the young people of this generation imitating the drivel of morons. Popular music is a Jewish monopoly. Jazz is a Jewish creation.”
