text: Rock's Early, Segregated Days: Platters, Flamingos, Neville Brothers - Rolling Stone
  February 22, 2021 9:00AM ET
  The Platters, the Flamingos, and other pioneering performers share stories of divided audiences, Jim Crow absurdities and harrowing violence
  Zola Taylor, a.k.a. "The Dish", sings with The Platters' Tony Williams, Herbert Reed, David Lynch and Paul Robi perform in 1958. African-American performers of the era had to contend with Jim Crow absurdities. Often they couldn't stay at hotels, were served rotten food at white restaurants and were outright banned from others.