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Act. A memorandum concerning the public accommodations provisions is available
for reference.
What I wish to emphasize is the simple point that our law is based on the
premise, with no "ifs" or "buts", that before God and under the American Flag
all men are entitled to equal dignity as men. To reenforce this root democratic
concept we have employed the police power of the state.
So far as public accommodations are concerned the law declares it to be
the public policy of the Virgin Islands that all persons are entitled to equal
access to the "accommodations, advantages, facilities and privileges of any
place of public accommodations, resort or amusement" without "discrimination
in any form based upon race, creed, color or national origin, whether practiced
directly or indirectly or by subterfuge".
The statute contains a comprehensive definition of public accommodation
which includes hotels, restaurants, rooming houses, saloons, swimming pools,
barber shops, beauty parlors, shops, stores, amusement and recreation parks,
golf courses, public and private schools and all public conveyances.
The law prohibits any person operating a place of public accommodation
from adopting or pursuing any custom, policy, practice, requirement or secret
understanding of non-membership discrimination or guest card requirement
designed to result in discrimination on account of race, creed, color or national
origin.
We have made particular efforts to cope with the problem of the private
club subterfuge. The law is so designed as to be applicable at a club when and
if charges are made to members of the club other than dues or contributions.
The law provides that any place at which charges are made, for any article,
service or the use of a facility, is deemed a place of public accommodation,
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October 1963 memo on blacks appointed to positions in the Ohio state government.
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