Integration had allowed affluent blacks to move to the suburbs.
The organization's bylaws were changed in 1972 to allow blacks as members, he said.
Apartheid laws allowed blacks into the industry in 1976 because cheaper labor was needed.
Affirmative action has finally allowed qualified blacks - and Indians - to start doing business.
Then the district adopted a plan that allowed whites and blacks to choose which school they would attend.
The race was opened to all athletes for the first time in 1975, allowing blacks and women to take part officially.
Still, she attended a Catholic school deemed good by the standards of education allowed blacks.
Often many places that allowed blacks to be on stage did not allow them to sit in the audience as patrons.
These people were concerned with the belief that allowing blacks into their neighborhoods would lower property values.
The last few years the rule changed to say you have to allow blacks and women in the door.