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Keepthesoulalive

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13. Movie theaters were segregated

Reply to malaise (Reply #3)

Fri Jun 19, 2026, 03:50 PM

Jun 19

If you wanted to see a movie at the white theater you had to sit in the buzzards roost. Everything was done to make you feel less than but we want your money.

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Stolen Girls of the Lee County Stockade- 1963 in Georgia. I learned about this just this morning [View all] irisblue Jun 19 OP

No wonder why the trumpers want to bury racist American history irisblue Jun 19 #1

they don't want to bury it rampartd Jun 19 #5

How utterly awful. I can't imagine. As a white woman who was 20ish at the time i don't know what to say. Srkdqltr Jun 19 #2

All because they wanted to go to the movies malaise Jun 19 #3

Movie theaters were segregated Keepthesoulalive Jun 19 #13

Makes my heart ache..... a kennedy Jun 19 #4

K&R Solly Mack Jun 19 #6

Never heard of this. AverageOldGuy Jun 19 #7

Never! Alice B. Jun 19 #8

K n R with... JoeOtterbein Jun 19 #9

I'd like to think that's one of those regional incidents that were slightlv Jun 19 #10

I read about this in a magazine years after not learning about it in history class. Boomerproud Jun 19 #11

I had not heard of this either. The secrets of the South are deep and ugly. 1WorldHope Jun 19 #12

As soon as Stephen Miller, popsdenver Jun 19 #14

Horrible BlueWaveNeverEnd Jun 19 #15

The Stolen Girls story is news to me. Kid Berwyn Jun 19 #16