Circus Tickets - an integrated circus has to provide for it's customers two separate entrances for blacks and whites, and two separate ticket officers.
This law was passed in Louisiana - a totally unnecessary law! They might have felt that if there was such thorough segregation everywhere else, why stop at a circus? You could still catch black germs at a circus, couldn't you? That's why Jim Crow laws are so random - segregation can't just stop at logical spots- it has to continue on. Once it's started, it can't stop. They might have felt motivated by the fact that since Blacks are the 'lower' kind of humanity, they couldn't enjoy something at the same level as the white people - so having to go to separate ticket booths might dampen the fun of a treat event for small black kids, and maybe encourage not going at all! These may have been likely motivations - all self centered and horrible to the black people. The whites did not realize that blacks were humans with the same rights, just as them.
I think this law is terrible. It makes me squirm to think of the embarrassment of going to the white ticket booth by accident and being turned away and laughed upon, and having done nothing wrong. It's just - barbaric. I think that if everybody had surpassed this hurdle sooner, a lot of depression nad degrading actions could have been avoided.
