Downbeat, the legendary jazz magazine, reports that the White Citizens Council (WCC) told New Orleans radio station WNOE that they were targeting rock & roll, specifically that “radio stations and jukeboxes featuring [Black] performers were to be monitored by members of [the WCC] and [if they discovered rock & roll or rhythm & blues music being played] action would be taken by them against stations, sponsors, operators, and locations.”
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Downbeat, the legendary jazz magazine, reports that the White Citizens Council (WCC) told New Orleans radio station WNOE that they were targeting rock & roll, specifically that “radio stations and jukeboxes featuring [Black] performers were to be monitored by members of [the WCC] and [if they discovered rock & roll or rhythm & blues music being played] action would be taken by them against stations, sponsors, operators, and locations.”