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What if Walt Disney created a theme park which was largely segregated in it's early years? It has separate entrances for Blacks and Whites, separate restrooms, ride queues, etc.
What if Walt Disney created a theme park which was largely segregated in it's early years? It has separate entrances for Blacks and Whites, separate restrooms, ride queues, etc.
Not legally possible in California in the 1950's: "California has a long-reaching history of anti-discrimination law. Extending as far back as 1897, California law has prohibited discrimination against individuals in places of public accommodation..." http://www.cd-lawyers.com/americans...ations-the-california-unruh-civil-rights-act/
What do you mean?I bet those laws in Cali excluded Chinese and Japanese.
What do you mean?
I bet those laws in Cali excluded Chinese and Japanese.
Is a segregated Disneyworld a possibility then?
Only if you delay the passing of the Civil Rights Act by more than 7 years.Is a segregated Disneyworld a possibility then?
California did have a nasty segregation streak vis a vis Asian people. It tried to close down Chinese schools entirely in the 1880s and proceeded to segregate them thereafter, attempted to destroy the Chinese laundromat business sector, to segregate Japanese schools (which was only stopped by an agreement between Roosevelt and the Japanese that stopped Japanese immigration in exchange for not segregating Japanese schools), and passed laws preventing aliens who wouldn't be naturalized (Ie. Chinese, Japanese, a host of others) from owning land. Plus very severe racial tensions. California's history in regards to Asian people isn't exactly stellar. We also didn't allow Chinese to vote, and established numerous judicial and employment barriers for them, part of a belief that they couldn't be naturalized, and were a threat to local workers.
As an example;
"[The codes] let us keep our public schools free from the intrusion of the inferior races. If we are compelled to have Negroes and Chinamen among us, it is better, of course, that they should be educated. But teach them separately from our own children. Let us preserve our Caucasian blood pure. We want no mongrel race of moral and mental hybrids to people the mountains and valleys of California."
The San Francisco Evening Bull, Feb. 24, 1858
Admittedly as the following article points out this did start to change later on and earlier than what we'd think of as the Civil Rights era, but it was still a pretty unfortunate display.
Good article on the subject