What I’m Reading: Race, Riots, and Roller Coasters – 25 in a series – “…restrict “the use and occupancy of property” to whites only.”

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“In addition, elite whites formed the Pasadena Improvement Association in the summer of 1939 to restrict “the use and occupancy of property” to whites only.”

From Race, Riots, and Roller Coasters: The Struggle over Segregated Recreation in America by Victoria W. Wolcott

Race, Riots, and Roller Coasters: The Struggle over Segregated Recreation in America by Victoria W. Wolcott

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