Charles Neville, 78, grew up in New Orleans during the Jim Crow era and remembers how jazz united a segregated population – and the challenges faced by people in favor of integration. “One of the main black clubs we played at where the white kids came, the police would come and arrest them, the white kids. They’d charge the kids with narcotics, the boys, and for the girls it was soliciting prostitution so families would be embarrassed and wouldn’t bring them there anymore.”
