This is true.
Our times and thinking we’re vastly different then in comparison to what the typical person in America does in this “modern day.”
Few remember that, with the exception of a very small number of higher educational institutions, segregation was legal and never considered evil, but the law until the 1960’s.
It wasn’t right, certainly, but it also was not isolated to some geographical area of the US. It was part of Yankee states as well as the South. Golf courses, dining places, water coolers, five and dime stores, grocery stores, Sears, Penney’s, Montgomery Wards, trains, planes, ….
The rule was separate and equal, but equal was often not considered the same as.
Does anyone remember that President Regan first ordered his team to support BJU against the IRS, but had to reverse that decision under high pressure?
How many years is it between 1960 and the Regan administration? Yet, segregating people continued.
Back then the typical resume’ and job applications included a photograph.
BJU has made both public apology and administrative changes concerning these matters, yet some still want to through it in their face.
Sorry, but that just isn’t right. Do not presume to apply today’s thinking upon those of the past, for even to this day there is a cry from some to have Black only campuses, black only housing, black only …