To demonstrate how Gleason's was a safe haven for black musicians, George Hendricks recalls when he and Lou Ragland played in an all-black club that was warned not to mingle with white patrons, especially women, when they played at the Can-Can on West 25th Street. Police stopped and questioned the band almost every night as they tried to make their way home from the club. | Source: Cleveland Regional Oral History CollectionDownload Original File