Segregated theatre entrances for people of Color were not limited to the states of the former confederacy. The Moore Theatre is Seattle’s oldest entertainment venue, having opened in December 1907. While much of its architecture was innovative, it maintained the painful tradition of forcing all non-Whites to enter through a side door and slog up several steep flights of stairs to the completely isolated second balcony. Few people strolling past this enigmatic doorway in downtown Seattle realize that it is a vestige of Jim Crow segregation
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“Ghosts of Segregation,” the spring exhibition at LMU’s Laband Art Gallery, is featured in the Los Angeles Times’ news rundown for the week by arts and culture writers Jessica Gelt and Ashley Lee.
In “Ghosts of Segregation,” which runs through March 29, “photographer Richard Frishman chronicles the residue of segregation, slavery and institutional racism that remains visible in American architecture.”
Source: Los Angeles Times
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