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Subject: Re: My Southern US trip Posted on: Tue, 17 May 2005 16:59:04 PDT


Bill Pittman wrote:

> You must be pretty young; that is, younger than about 40! I worked in LA
> in the late 1950's, and the whole region was as racist/segregated as you
> could get. That has only changed gradually since passage of the civil
> rights laws in the late 1960's.


I'm only 51 and I remember seeing "colored only" drinking fountains, etc.
when visiting the South in the early 60's...

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Greg