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Old 09-04-2018, 10:34 PM
 
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What were the attitudes like towards interracial relationships in the Bay Area during the 1950's to 70's? I'm asking about all but especially Black-White relationships.
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Old 09-05-2018, 10:24 AM
 
Location: East of Seattle since 1992, 615' Elevation, Zone 8b - originally from SF Bay Area
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In the 1950s I lived in San Bruno, and don't remember ever seeing any minorities there, it was all white. In the 1960s I lived in Lafayette, and knew one mixed family, white woman black man. The only other minority I remember was the garbage man who was black, and his wife, also black who we hired to do some housekeeping work. As a kid in elementary and Junior high it was all white, in high school there was one black boy in my entire school. I went to college in Hayward, graduate school in Sacramento, and in 1975 started working in Oakland. All that time, through the 1970s and even 80s I was not aware of any attitudes toward mixed relationships because there were very few, if any that I was aware of.
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Old 09-08-2018, 06:25 PM
 
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Not as big a deal here as elsewhere...

Growing up there were a few Asian-Caucasion familes as well as Hispani-Caucasion...

My neighbor is Chinese and 91 years old... his sister married an African American man in the late 50s and they have a large family...

The African American Caucasion families I know are all 1980's and later...

One of my friends... went to high school with both of them... he is white and she is black... never an issue in Oakland... but they traveled to a family wedding in MN and said it was culture shock...
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