Fact #83738
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When the Motor Town Special, a two-month long all-Motown package tour featuring The Miracles, The Supremes, Mary Wells, Marvin Gaye, The Contours, The Marvelettes, Martha And The Vandellas and Little Stevie Wonder, plays a date in The National Guard Armory, Birmingham, Alabama, USA, bass-player James Jamerson runs foul of a moronic white security guard who causes trouble because Jamerson has used the backstage toilet reserved for whites.
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