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title: "Why might black musicians have been commercially less successful than white musicians in the 1950s?"  
description: "Why might black musicians have been commercially less successful than white musicians in the 1950s?"  
author: "Howard fuller"  
published: 2018-05-22  
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category: "history, politics & society"  
tags: ["usa history"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# Why might black musicians have been commercially less successful than white musicians in the 1950s? 

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