John Levy Smithsonian Interview Block 520 (Q15469)

52nd Street was open to anybody, everybody. It wasn't - there wasn't any restrictions on who could come in or who could - if you had the money, you came in and sat down, and that was all that was needed. But basically there's more whites turned out on 52nd Street than blacks. A lot of blacks didn't come downtown as much as you might think to see these kind of people play. Most of the blacks st ...