Photo credits: Resonance Records/Charlie Mihn Courtesy of LaBudde Special Collections/UMKC University Libraries On April 10, 1956, African American singer and pianist Nat King Cole (pictured) was performing before an all-white audience of 4,000 at the Municipal Auditorium in Birmingham, Alabama. During that performance, he was attacked and knocked down by a group of white men. […]

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