Meet Munir Ertegun and family: their love of jazz prevailed against hate and racism in 1930s and 40s America.
Protests are sweeping across the US and countries worldwide in the aftermath of the killing of a black man, George Floyd, by a white police officer. Racism in the US didn’t end with the abolition of slavery. Instead, Black Americans face untold indignities even after the landmark Civil Rights Movement.
In 1934, when Munir Ertegun took on his assignment in the US as Turkey’s ambassador, Washington DC also happened to be a hub for jazz music in the country. In addition to this, Ertegun’s sons, Ahmet and Nesuhi, were big fans of the genre. At the time, it was frowned upon for Blacks and whites to mix and some senators from the Southern US asked Munir Ertegun how he could be arranging such events., “We take our guests in from the front door, whoever they are and we would be glad to host you as well if you decide to become our guests.”
In 1943, Ahmet and Nesuhi organised a concert at the Jewish Society Center in the capital. Black and white jazz musicians gathered together, an event that caught the attention of the media who said that two Muslim Turkish brothers were dividing views in Washington D.C. by mixing blacks, white Christians and Jews in a concert.
The company still continues to operate today as part of Time-Warner, one of the few independent record companies that has survived since the 1940s. It has a large share of the world’s music market.
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