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To: Shoot1st who wrote (40550)	9/28/2000 9:51:55 PM
From: Ish	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

<<What the hell kind of establishment in the 60's in Washington pulled this kind of crap. Perhaps private dinner clubs or CC's.>> Being from Central Illinois I hadn't run into the white's only policy, then when I went to Charlottesville, Va. for a summer in the 60s it was a policy in the reservations only places. Seems like the Gores only ate at finer eateries.

To: Shoot1st who wrote (40550)	10/1/2000 12:25:29 AM
From: nihil	Respond to of 769670

You mighty recall that in the 60's almost every restaurant in the South was strictly segregated, usually by law. Many were segregated elsewhere too. The CRA of 1964 had a provision banning discrimination in "public accommodations." The key prosecution was "Heart of Atlanta Motel" in which the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the public accommodations provisions. Much earlier, in 1876, the public accommodations of the 1866 CRA were held to be unconstitutional. In the next 100 years, the commerce clause was extended to recognize that discrimination did in fact interfere with interstate commerce. Years before, it was almost impossible for a multiracial group to travel together. I remember in 1936 my father on a trip from Georgia to Pennsylvania having to negotiate a place for my beloved nurse to sleep and eat. After much persuasion (he must have been much more persuasive that Al Sr.), we always found a place that would let us eat and sleep together, most often in a private cabin.