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      1. .@RiceUniversity began desegregating in the 1960s. What's happening in this 1937 yearbook? Find out on today's 12pm CST Zoom "Doc Talk" from the Task Force on Slavery, Segregation, & Racial Injustice. Hint: Houston music history fans, tune in. taskforce.rice.edu/doctalks/webinars
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      Spoiler alert: Legendary Houston musician Milton Larkin formed a jazz orchestra in 1936. Larkin's band was the first band for Texas tenors Illinois Jacquet & Arnett Cobb, as well as members Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson & Wild Bill Davis. tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/larkin-milton-sr
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    In 1937, the band went on the road, touring the south & becoming a national sensation, eventually grabbing headlines in Chicago and New York. But first, in February 1937, they played the Rice Institute Archi-Arts Ball, an annual dance.
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      The photograph at the beginning of this thread from the 1937 Campanile captures that event, likely one of the band's earliest gigs, providing a snapshot from a moment in the history of a still segregated Houston. scholarship.rice.edu/handle/1911/105977
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        Unfortunately, no recordings of the music made by this historic band exist. Larkin performed live but refused to accept the unequal pay offered to Black recording artists at the time; in subsequent years, white bands who learned to play his style took up many of the local gigs.
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          For more on Larkin, check out @TyinaSteptoe's book "Houston Bound," and listen to a 1988 interview he gave on his early years as a Houston musician. cdm17006.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/Interviews/id/12
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            You can also see a photograph of the Milton Larkin orchestra from around this time at @houstonlibrary cdm17006.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/images/id/2664/rec/11
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