[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

I do not know about back east. I lived in California. Blacks were controlled in the Southern California town where I lived. Up to 1933 there were public signs advising them they had to be out of town by six. After 1933 the police would follow them until they got on the bus(I saw this.).

You could go into black areas in the day time; i.e. to the museum. Blacks had their own schools. Restrictive covenants were allowed which helped make neighborhoods safe.

In short, whites governed and it was generally peaceful. We never really thought much about blacks. My mother was horrified when I saw my first black.(I was about five.) I looked at the lady and said "Mommy that lady is dirty" Mom remembered that all her life. She had to apologize to the lady.

[SoCal Pubbie]

You must have grown up in a different part of So Cal than I did.