My dad was in the US Army before the civil rights movement, and before there was a law about racial discrimination. He dropped out of high school and went into the Army in the 1950's. The Army had segregation at the time. One time he was told by an officer, as he attempted to use the bathroom, that he would have to use the other bathroom because his skin was too dark. Discrimination didn't used to occur just to black people but to everyone who wasn't white.
