“Negro Put Out Dance Hall Says Jive Did It.” The Globe and Mail. August 19, 1955.
Theme: Legislation and Protest
Date: August 19, 1955
Object Type: Newspaper Article
Object Name: “Negro Put Out But Dance Hall Says Jive Did It”
Originating Collection:
Description: One of a selection of clippings that demonstrate the variety of ways that Black people were denied entry to: dance and concert venues even when Black artists were on stage; dance classes when dance studios were teaching social dances derived from cultural practices of the African Diaspora; and social dance venues for participating in racialized dances such as the jive or jitterbug.
Text from clipping:
Negro Put out But Dance Hall Says Jive Did It
A complaint against the Palais Royale dance hall at Sunnyside by a Negro youth under the province’s anti-discrimination legislation has been dismissed, Labor Minister Daley said yesterday.
The youth, Bernard Dolman, charged that he was thrown out of the dance hall July 25 because he danced with a white girl.
Mr. Daley said evidence by police was that Dolman had been jiving and jumping around the floor contrary to the dance hall’s rules and was put out of the hall after he had ignored a warning by police.
There was no basis for Dolman’s assumption that he had been put out of the hall because he danced with a white girl, Mr. Daley declared. The hall, he said, did not prohibit mixed dancing