A series of sit-ins were held throughout the '50s and '60s to protest segregation in restaurants and other public places. Though President Lyndon B. Johnson forbid the practice by signing the Civil Rights Act of 1964, black customers often still suffered unfair prices, poor service, and m...
I understand it was very overcrowded, especially in tenements for refugees. It appears that white people had far nicer homes. What was it like for Chinese people who had money? What was the entertainment like in the late 50s and early 60s? I’m in my early 20s so I can only imagine!
I understand it was very overcrowded, especially in tenements for refugees. It appears that white people had far nicer homes. What was it like for Chinese people who had money? What was the entertainment like in the late 50s and early 60s? I’m in my early 20s so I can only imagine!
he later said he experienced “segregation in the raw.” When he was a young man, he said, a mob of whites in a nearby county abducted a black man for some imagined slight. They publicly tortured him for seven hours and then burned his still-breathing body. This is the world he knew...