Steve  Albert

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When kids of all races poured from the grandstand to dance together at a Fats Domino concert in Houston, police intervened and announced over the loudspeaker that only white kids were allowed to dance. Fats Domino said fuck that noise: “Man, I could not go for those happenings as my people made me—and to play for a jim-crow dance would hurt me all over the country.”
Outrageous: A History of Showbiz and the Culture Wars
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