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Teddy Wilson and Lionel Hampton broke the band color barrier when a white man  invited them on the same stand with him.  Benny Goodman made a stand for integration onstage nine years before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in baseball.

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Sammy Davis Jr. was headlining at the Sands, Sinatra's Vegas base back in the ring-a-ding '50s, and, as was usual for black entertainers, he was forbidden from staying there. He was likewise relegated to using non-public entrances to go to and from the famed Copa Room.

This didn't sit well with Sinatra, who, in those days, reigned supreme in Sin City. He told Jack Entratter, the Sands' famed entertainment director, that if Davis wasn't afforded the same privileges enjoyed by white guests at the hotel, he (Sinatra) would no longer perform there.

Thus ended Jim Crow's days in Vegas, at least for black headliners. But it wasn't all that long before segregation throughout the casino industry was history.

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In the 1950’s The Flamingos, like all A frican-American performers from that era, had to contend with Jim Crow absurdities. Often they couldn’t stay at hotels, were served rotten food at white restaurants and were outright banned from others; they would instead drive out of the way to eat at black friends’ homes.

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Sam Phillips Founded Sun Records believed that those records helped the United States become a freer and more equal place. Aiming to show how the music of black and white Southerners could bring down racial and social boundaries, Phillips oversaw a series of recordings that made Sun Records a central player in the rock-and-roll revolution of the 1950s.

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Sam Phillips Founded Sun Records believed that those records helped the United States become a freer and more equal place. Aiming to show how the music of black and white Southerners could bring down racial and social boundaries, Phillips oversaw a series of recordings that made Sun Records a central player in the rock-and-roll revolution of the 1950s.

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https://www.thecurrent.org/feature/2019/02/13/a-timeline-of-historymaking-black-music

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Lloyd “Lawdy Miss Clawdy” Price performed in Raleigh, North Carolina, and was delighted to see blacks and whites dancing to his songs – until a white policeman stopped the music and stretched a rope down the middle of the dance floor. “It started happening a lot,” Price, 84, says. “The rope was up in a lot of places. Whichever was the largest crowd, that was their dance. If it was more blacks, it’d be a black dance, and if it was more whites, it’d be a white dance.

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Lloyd Price - Personality   (EDITED BY HB 2017)

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...black performers found themselves on the front lines of the battle over segregation. The clashes at lunch counters, schools and on buses have been well documented....
but reporters weren’t exactly covering James Brown club shows back then.

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Barry Gordy founded his Tamla label in 1959 which lead to Motown.

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The Beatles had previously taken a public stand on civil rights in 1964, when they refused to perform at a segregated concert at the Gator Bowl in Jacksonville, Florida.

City officials relented, allowing the stadium to be integrated, and the band took to the stage.

"We never play to segregated audiences and we aren't going to start now," said John Lennon. "I'd sooner lose our appearance money."

The struggle for racial equality in America later inspired Paul McCartney to write Blackbird.

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There are so many examples of the Klan loving black music, and as soon as the show was over, putting their hoods back on.

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Daryl Davis: Why I, as a black man, attend KKK rallies | Daryl Davis | TEDxNaperville | TED Talk

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An encounter with prejudice early in life led black musician Daryl Davis on a quest to determine the source of the hate, leading to how and why he has attended KKK rallies. His unorthodox yet simple approach has wielded surprising results and just might be the solution for all racial discourse. Dar…