HI, ca, 1950 the Marquette Hotel must have been a white hotel, and all
white one, since the following site and quotation from it indicate
that hotels in Kansas City did not desegregate until 1954.
Civil Rights, 1940-1970 - [ Diese Seite übersetzen ]
... of 1948 ordering desegregation in all American armed forces paved the way for
desegregation in civilian ... Two years later, several Kansas City
hotels did the same ...
www.duboislc.org/MissouriBlacks/p07_CivilRights.html - 34k
Inroads were also made in opening some places of accommodation to
Negroes. In 1952, the Jefferson Hotel, of St. Louis, opened its doors
to Negroes, and was shortly thereafter followed by several others. Two
years later, several Kansas City hotels did the same.
This site gives a series of interviews with a white politician
relative to the period before 1950.
I could not find the quotation in the long text, but the statement is
by the politician, so I have no doubt that the hotel was then a
segregated white place. Found of picture of it from the period
1941-70, early in that period from the cars on other photos, and it
looks like a very modest place. It?s (was) on 12th Street in downtown
Kansas City.
Truman Library - James P. Aylward Oral History Interview - [ Diese
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... Oral History Interview with JAMES P. AYLWARD. ... He was the ace
political writer for
the Kansas City Star ... a note and I said I'd be at the Marquette
Hotel, which was ...
www.trumanlibrary.org/oralhist/aylward.htm - 101k
Can I be so curious as to ask why you want to know.
Best, Myoarin |