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The Moulin Rouge agreement in 1960 ended racial segregation in Nevada. Blacks were allowed to rent rooms, eat, shop, and attend shows anywhere in Clark County. Blacks were allowed to perform in casinos, and every casino agreed to hire some blacks. It took another decade before many blacks were employed on the casino floor as anything but janitors, but after 1960, blacks could stay, eat, play and perform anywhere in Clark County.
Las Vegas was the first major US city to legally desegregate, and supposedly, other cities used the Moulin Rouge Accords as the basis for relaxing their race-based laws.

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I've been watching a lot of these AI fantasy 1950s remembrance videos. I was around. in the 1950s, and it was nothing like this. Especially, the commingling of blacks and whites. Some of these videos have a black guy and a white girl walking down the street, and he has his arm around her. This just did not happen. In 1964, Frank Sinatra had to force Caesar's Palace. to let Sammy Davis Jr. stay there. There was only one hotel in Las Vegas where black people could stay, and it was not Caesar's Palace. AI videos are trying to rewrite history. Is not. going to work.
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No that was not 1964, that had to be way before 1964. By 1964 few places outside of the former CSA had any interest in segregation.
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During the filming of Ocean's Eleven in 1960, Sammy Davis Jr. had to stay at a colored-only hotel.

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Quote: EvenBob

I've been watching a lot of these AI fantasy 1950s remembrance videos. I was around. in the 1950s, and it was nothing like this. Especially, the commingling of blacks and whites. Some of these videos have a black guy and a white girl walking down the street, and he has his arm around her. This just did not happen. In 1964, Frank Sinatra had to force Caesar's Palace. to let Sammy Davis Jr. stay there. There was only one hotel in Las Vegas where black people could stay, and it was not Caesar's Palace. AI videos are trying to rewrite history. Is not. going to work.
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No that was not 1964, that had to be way before 1964. By 1964 few places outside of the former CSA had any interest in segregation.
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Yeah. No. My city had de facto segregation in county pools until 69 or 70. Places had it just not labeled colored and white.

A lot of people were in favor of desegregating the South, but objected to having their own schools truly integrate. Even to this day, you can find a public high school that is 90% white within a few miles of one that is 90% minorities on Long Island.