Cops jailed Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie, Illinois Jacquet, and Norman Granz in 1955 for planning to perform for a racially integrated audience. They got out on bail in time to play the show, audience none the wiser, and the “gambling” charged were dropped.

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