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9 unusual facts about racial segregation in the United States


Chickamauga Dam

Two recreational areas— Booker T. Washington State Park and Harrison Bay State Park— were developed as segregated parks along Chickamauga Lake's shores, with the former originally being for African-Americans and the latter originally being for caucasians.

Essie Mae Washington-Williams

It explored her sense of dislocation based on her mixed heritage, as well as going to college in the segregated South after having grown up in Pennsylvania.

She did not visit the segregated South until 1942, when she met relatives in Edgefield.

Jones Lake State Park

Jones Lake State Park was opened in 1939 during the segregation era as a state park for the use of African Americans.

Joseph Lawson Howze

He was later transferred to the segregated public schools of Mobile, graduating from Mobile County Secondary School in 1944.

Pain in My Heart

These performance venues were safe for African-American musicians during the age of racial segregation, which lasted until the early 1960s.

Perry Wallace

Wallace attended Pearl High School in the then segregated Nashville public schools.

Thomas Trueblood

In the early 1900s, Michigan's athletic teams (and those throughout the country) were re-segregated.

Van Lingle Mungo

This seating arrangement was an innovation; the other small movie theater in town was segregated.


Alan Silva

At the very height of racial segregation in the United States, Silva emigrated to the United States at the age of five with his mother, eventually acquiring U.S. citizenship by the age of 18 or 19.

Bayless Rose

Although the music industry was highly segregated at the time, it is uncertain whether he was White or African American.

George Busbee

In 1967, Busbee was one of thirty Democrats in the legislature who voted for the Republican Howard Callaway in the disputed 1966 gubernatorial race, rather than the Democratic nominee Lester Maddox, a segregationist from Atlanta.

Henry Loeb

Loeb supported segregation, declaring support for "separate but equal facilities" and describing court-ordered integration as "anarchy".

James L. Boldridge

James L. Boldridge (December 17, 1868 - May 18, 1918) was a famous horse trainer in the late 19th century and early 20th century, and is the only other African-American other than Hiram Young buried in an Independence, Missouri cemetery along with other honored city leaders/pioneers, at a time when African-American burials were segregated.

John Duncan, Sr.

Another contentious issue erupted in the Summer of 1960, when several black students from Knoxville College initiated a series of sit-ins to protest segregation at downtown-area lunch counters.

Joyce Hamilton Berry

On one occasion while seeking to join a civil rights protest against segregation of public places in downtown Lexington, Kentucky, her father asked her why she wanted to go into a place and spend her money where she was not welcomed.

Murder of Louis Allen

On September 25, 1961, Louis Allen witnessed the murder of Herbert Lee, a member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, by E.H. Hurst, a pro-segregation legislator in Mississippi's House of Representatives.

Risley C. Triche

Triche was originally a segregationist during the administration of Governor Jimmie Davis.

Roosevelt Williams

This did not make Williams famous, but he became a regular in nightclubs like the Victory Grill and other venues that catered to the African-American community during racial segregation in the United States.

Texas Communist Party

The party has a long history of progressive struggle against segregation and for immigration reform, as well as being targeted by state-supported repression and terrorism.


see also

Anglo-American Freemasonry

The Anglo-American branch has several noteworthy sub-branches, most notably Prince Hall Freemasonry (a legacy of past racial segregation in the United States, and so predominantly found in that country).