Word: mezzrow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jazz Clarinetist Milton ("Mezz") Mezzrovv also crossed the line from white to black. Arrested by New York police for marijuana peddling, Mezzrow, whose parents were Russian Jews, asked to be confined with Negro inmates on Riker's Island. Later he wrote: "Some of the finest, most high-spirited guys of the [Negro] race landed in jail because of their conditions of life . . . I made up my mind to do something drastic. Just as we were having our pictures took for the rogues' gallery, along came Mr. Slattery, the deputy . . . 'Mr. Slattery,' I said...