"The ship took a long way around, via the Caribbean. A West Indian cricket player befriended me, and I began to sit at his table. From that point on, I noticed that the white passengers began treating me very strangely. Finally, one of them said: "We don't do that you know. Don't socialize with those people." That was my first encounter with segregation."
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Interviewed by Leonard Feather, as cited in "Alfred Lion Emerges from Den of Obscurity", Los Angeles Times (10 March 1985), p. 52
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Alfred Lion
Alfred Lion (born Alfred Löw; April 21, 1908 – February 2, 1987), was a German-born American record executive who co-founded the jazz record label Blue Note in 1939 with Max Margulis, who soon ceased active involvement in the company. Lion's childhood friend in Berlin, Francis Wolff, soon joined him in New York as his associate. Lion retired in 1967 after producing recordings by many leading musicians; he had sold the company only a year or two earlier.
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