Thank goodness Whites aren't allowed in the zoo on that day! It looks like all the gorillas and chimps escaped their cages and are looking to cause some monkeyshines. Good on the Memphis Park Commission for thinking of the safety and wellbeing of White families.
Segregation worked both ways, and benefited both Peoples. The blacks had their own movies and their own music and their own nightclubs, and White people were even less welcome on those places than the blacks were in the White places. For example, the White movie houses allowed negroes to sit in the Balcony area on one side. The black movie houses would let a White patron sit anywhere, but that patron would be beaten up before the movie started.
There is a scene in the movie "Animal House" where the college kids accidentally walk into a black nightclub, and the first thing one of them says is "We are going to die." That scene actually represented the attitudes in the early Sixties very accurately.
Plessy v. Ferguson - fuckin'a right.
a few hours ago, someone was asking what to do with approximately 9 pounds of ripened bananas - we now have the de facto answer.
Oh if only it could be like that (in fine print at the top, 'for your own protection')
Seriously? What kind of bullshit is this? Looks like a while ago, but still…
It was Negro Day at the zoo, this way they didn't have to let negroes in on the other six days of the week.
My grandfather called the inner city zoos.
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