25. Jim Crow Actually Aided Her Defense
Jim Crow laws, which outlined and enforced numerous forms of racial segregation in the US, are a terrible stain on our country’s history. However, in one specific case involving Dorothy Dandridge, they really aided a Black person’s defense. Dandridge was able to point to the segregation rules in force at the hotels named in the Confidential exposé as proof that she would not possibly have been admitted to the hotels for trysts.
