The 500 Club Came Close To Reopening In Atlantic City, NJ
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The 500 Club Came Close To Reopening In Atlantic City, NJ
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Grammy-winning historian and author Jeff Gold noticed something when he received more than 200 exclusive images from a newly discovered photo archive of American jazz clubs from the 1940s and 1950s, including Atlantic Cityâs Club Harlem, 500 Club and Paradise Café.
The photos, which showed the fans as much as or more than the famous musicians, illustrated that the jazz clubs had more integration between whites and Blacks than the country as a whole at the time.
These clubs were integrated before Jackie Robinson broke the baseball color line when he started for the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 15, 1947, and before the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education U.S Supreme Court decision that ruled racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional.