THE DETROIT FREE PRESS, July 9, 1956 

* Fats Domino concert riot disaster 
* San Jose's Palomar Gardens Ballroom
* White and black teenagers integration 

The front page has a nice banner headline: "2,500 ROCK 'N' ROLLERS RIOT" with lead-in: "10 Teen-Agers Arrested, Scores HURT" (see images) Nice for display.
Complete with all 40 pages, small binding holes along the spine, nice condition.

Background: The July 7, 1956 riot at San Jose's Palomar Gardens Ballroom was uniquely significant because it served as the definitive opening salvo in the nationwide "moral panic" against rock 'n' roll, transforming a local venue's operational failure into a national debate over youth culture and race. While the chaos itself was largely triggered by an oversold, sweltering room of 2,500 densely packed fans and a lack of security to handle a localized fistfight, the mainstream establishment immediately misdiagnosed the violence as a direct symptom of the music's rhythmic, primal influence. By using Fats Domino—a Black artist whose "Big Beat" possessed an unprecedented power to organically integrate white and Black teenagers on a single dance floor—as the face of the incident, conservative politicians, religious leaders, and older generations found a convenient scapegoat for their deeper anxieties regarding desegregation and the loss of parental authority. The political fallout from San Jose was swift and systemic: it provided a blueprint for cities across America to enact emergency bans on rock 'n' roll dances, implement strict curfews, and heavily police rhythm and blues concerts, ultimately proving that the new musical genre was not just a passing teenage trend, but a highly disruptive social force capable of fracturing the rigid socio-cultural status quo of the 1950s.