Chuck Berry poses for the portrait circa 1958. Michael Ochs Archives

That event paled in contrast, nevertheless, aided by the situation brought later on that year, when he ended up being faced with breaking the federal Mann Act — also referred to as the White Slave Traffic Act — which forbids transporting females across state lines for “prostitution or debauchery, or even for every other immoral function. ”

The target at issue had been a waitress that is 14-year-old prostitute who Berry found whilst travelling in Mexico and cut back to St. Louis to the office as a hostess at their Club Bandstand nightclub.

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