Glades restaurants first integrated 50 years ago | www.palmbeachpost.com

Eliot Kleinberg reminds us that it was only 50 years ago that Palm Beach County emerged from its segregationist past. Sometimes I wonder how far we have advanced from those days, but it is instructive to remember what passed as a normal practice at one time. Click title for link.

Florida had its share of strife as it dug out from segregation, but as ugly as it was, it wasn’t nearly what other Southern states went through. Often, acts of integration were done quietly, with the establishment realizing change could come peacefully or not, but it was coming.
And, by 1964, it had the clout of the federal government, in the form of the federal civil rights bill president Lyndon B. Johnson had signed on the Fourth of July.
The more rural Glades area took a little longer to come around. It was a half century ago this week, on Wednesday, July 30, 1964, when the first restaurants in the area were integrated “without incident,” The Palm Beach Post reported.