re: #239 Joe Bacon 🌹

Segregation wasn’t limited to the South. Before the Civil Rights Act was passed there was a lot of segregation in Western PA not only involving people of color but religious minorities too.

In the Jim Crow states segregation was required by law; it took a change in the law to end it.

In the other states the law didn’t require or forbid it; business owners established whatever policies they preferred.

That’s why Frank Sinatra was able to single-handedly desegregate Las Vegas; he was a big enough star that “Let’s Make Frank Happy” was the policy every business owner preferred.