ロン・パールマンさんのインスタグラム写真 - (ロン・パールマンInstagram)「Repost from @historic_imagery • Ella Fitzgerald sitting in a jail cell for singing to an integrated audience in 1955. When American jazz producer and concert promoter, Norman Granz, rented Houston’s Music Hall, he made sure that there was a non-segregation clause. He took down all the signs in the bathroom that denoted “white” or “Black” and refused to pre-sell tickets to prevent the concert goers from creating a section for whites only. He recalls the following incident: “A lot of people never saw Ella, or they may have seen Ella but not a lot of the musicians. I got to the concert hall early, and somebody came up and wanted to change tickets because they were sitting next to a black. And I said, ‘No, you can have your money back, but we’re not going to change your seat.’ (The customer took the money.) We did everything we could, and of course I had a strong show. People wanted to see my show. If people wanna see your show, you can lay some conditions down.” Despite no disturbances in the integrated crowd, the police showed up to arrest the performers in between sets. They arrested the group on charges of gambling because some of the jazz musicians were playing craps, while Fitzgerald was sipping some coffee. The group was taken to the police station where one police officer asked Fitzgerald for her autograph. After paying a fine, the group was released and were able to make it back to perform their second set to an unbeknownst audience. In a 1963 interview, Fitzgerald discussed her frustration with dealing with racism in the South: “Maybe I’m stepping out (of line), but I have to say it, because it’s in my heart. It makes you feel so bad to think we can’t go down through certain parts of the South and give a concert like we do overseas, and have everybody just come to hear the music and enjoy the music because of the prejudice thing that’s going on. I used to always clam up because you (hear people) say, ‘Oh, gee, show people should stay out of politics.’ But we have traveled so much and been embarrassed so much. (Fans) can’t understand why you don’t play in Alabama, or (ask), ‘Why can’t you have a concert? Music is music.’”」2月18日 15時22分