377 Lloyd Price (1933- ) “Personality” 1959

“‘I was accused of integrating; they called it ‘mixing,’ Price says. Concerts, of course, were segregated: When Price played in the South, at black dances in civic centers, whites were permitted to attend in a separate section as ‘spectators.’ ‘Wherever I went, they couldn't keep them out, these [white] kids that would come to see me. There were more spectators than those at the real dance,’ he says. ‘I was happy to see them in the dance hall. But when we got to Raleigh, N.C., I started getting the message about segregation. More white kids came to see me because of the colleges -- it was a black dance, but you couldn't tell. The security man stopped the show because these kids were dancing together’” (Wayne Robins, Billboard, 2013).

Lloyd Price “Personality”