The Beatles played a key role in helping to stamp out racial segregation in the US, a new documentary reveals
Contracts unearthed from their earliest US tours in the 1960s show that John, Paul, George and Ringo were the first foreign group to refuse to perform at “whites only” venues
John Lennon was so furious when he discovered that the Gator Bowl stadium in Jacksonville, Florida would be racially segregated that he issued a press statement saying the group would not appear unless black fans were allowed to sit where they liked.
source: express
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