Post by peregrine9 on Apr 24, 2012 6:10:35 GMT 1
Mental Floss
April 18, 2012
All Together Now: Civil Rights and The Beatles’ First American Tour
“We will not appear unless Negroes are allowed to sit anywhere,” The Beatles said in a press statement on September 6, 1964. Halfway through a 23-city U.S. tour, the group was looking ahead to their date at the Gator Bowl in Jacksonville, where they’d heard that blacks were confined to the balconies or upper tiers at public events such as concerts.
www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/123906
April 18, 2012
All Together Now: Civil Rights and The Beatles’ First American Tour
“We will not appear unless Negroes are allowed to sit anywhere,” The Beatles said in a press statement on September 6, 1964. Halfway through a 23-city U.S. tour, the group was looking ahead to their date at the Gator Bowl in Jacksonville, where they’d heard that blacks were confined to the balconies or upper tiers at public events such as concerts.
www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/123906