Profile in Courage, Bruce Boynton Died Yesterday

This is the man who set in motion the sequence of events that resulted in the end of Jim Crow in the South. His case, where he was convicted of trespassing for refusing to leave the "white" section of a restaurant, went all the way to the Supreme Court, where Boynton was represented by Thurgood Marshall. Marshall later became the first black Supreme Court Justice. The Supreme Court verdict was in Boynton's favor. It set off a wave of challenges to restaurants and other segregated facilities in the South as people tested the verdict.

He died at 83. May he rest in peace.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/1...m-rides-440768

Those "jim crow" laws were also practiced in the north and west coast! They were not isolated to just the "South"!

Those "jim crow" laws were also practiced in the north and west coast! They were not isolated to just the "South"! Originally Posted by winn dixie

democrats and republicans were doing it north and south of the Mason Dixon line.

democrats and republicans were doing it north and south of the Mason Dixon line. Originally Posted by dilbert firestorm

East and west! Agreed!

Leave it to David and Daisy to stand tall for the racist history of the Old Confederacy.

YOU BOYS HAVE A POINT?

Now we have blonds tanning.

It set off a wave of challenges to restaurants and other segregated facilities in the South as people tested the verdict.

He died at 83. May he rest in peace.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/1...m-rides-440768 Originally Posted by Tiny

democrats and republicans were doing it north and south of the Mason Dixon line. Originally Posted by dilbert firestorm

East and west! Agreed! Originally Posted by winn dixie

I didn't know that. You're right. Massachusetts kicked off Jim Crow with restrictions on who could ride in rail cars in the 1830's. And as recently as 1945, California passed a law prohibiting marriage between whites and "Negroes, mulattos, Mongolians and Malays."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...mples_by_state

https://time.com/5527029/jim-crow-plessy-history/

It must have been more common in the south but the northerners and westerners weren't exactly exemplary either.

-Fact Checker Tiny

I didn't know that. You're right. Massachusetts kicked off Jim Crow with restrictions on who could ride in rail cars in the 1830's. And as recently as 1945, California passed a law prohibiting marriage between whites and "Negroes, mulattos, Mongolians and Malays."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...mples_by_state

https://time.com/5527029/jim-crow-plessy-history/

It must have been more common in the south but the northerners and westerners weren't exactly exemplary either.

-Fact Checker Tiny Originally Posted by Tiny

Good piece Tiny. The Times article is a good one.

I didn't know that. You're right. Massachusetts kicked off Jim Crow with restrictions on who could ride in rail cars in the 1830's. And as recently as 1945, California passed a law prohibiting marriage between whites and "Negroes, mulattos, Mongolians and Malays."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...mples_by_state

https://time.com/5527029/jim-crow-plessy-history/

It must have been more common in the south but the northerners and westerners weren't exactly exemplary either.

-Fact Checker Tiny Originally Posted by Tiny

Just a side note on california. They had a history with very harsh laws against Asians. Especially Chinese. As recent as WW2 they passed anti-Japanese laws. One of those links reminded me as I read it.

california is a strange bird. I read an article by a black writer who discussed his biography; I think it was Larry Elder, Walter Williams, or thomas Sowell. I forget which one it was. he says his father worked different jobs then moves to california and gets a job there. this was in the 1940's. he says CA was more progressive than other states, his father was not discriminated over there.

Those "jim crow" laws were also practiced in the north and west coast! They were not isolated to just the "South"! Originally Posted by winn dixie

But they were a hanging offense in the South.

Kinda hard to act as if they were the same in all parts of the country.

Sounds like other laws...

But they were a hanging offense in the South.

Kinda hard to act as if they were the same in all parts of the country. Originally Posted by WTF

Not true! Very isolated if at all by true authorities!

Correct me if I'm wrong, but weren't Japanese Americans placed in concentration camps during World War II? There were no gas chambers and the occupants were better fed, but still that's awfully Unamerican.