Fact #112200
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When The Biggest Show For 1951, starring Nat King Cole, Duke Ellington and Sarah Vaughan, plays at The City Auditorium, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, black fans are told they must enter the venue by a side door. The Baltimore Afro-American newspaper reports that about 1,000 people tore up their tickets in protest but "more than 4,000 crowded in to see and hear Duke Ellington, Sarah Vaughan and Nat (King) Cole" and "there were 1,500 white record fans with a great big section all to themselves."