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re: Italian Immigration to Louisiana
Posted on 3/17/24 at 11:56 am to notiger1997
Posted on 3/17/24 at 11:56 am to notiger1997
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Many Italians and def Irish were treated pretty bad when they first came to this area
My mother-in-law - RIP - was Italian. She said when she was a young adult that would have been in the early 50's, Italians were not allowed in the Baton Rouge Country Club.
I know Country Clubs were and still to some extent are exclusive by nature, but this surprised me. I guess it should not have.
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Posted on 3/17/24 at 12:02 pm to Tiger Ugly
My family came to America through New Orleans.
This is true.
quote:
Italians were not allowed in the Baton Rouge Country Club
This is true.
Posted on 3/17/24 at 1:11 pm to Tiger Ugly
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Italians were not allowed in the Baton Rouge Country Club. I know Country Clubs were and still to some extent are exclusive by nature, but this surprised me. I guess it should not have.
Posted on 3/17/24 at 2:11 pm to Tiger Ugly
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My mother-in-law - RIP - was Italian. She said when she was a young adult that would have been in the early 50's, Italians were not allowed in the Baton Rouge Country Club.
I know Country Clubs were and still to some extent are exclusive by nature, but this surprised me. I guess it should not have.
A story/joke I've heard from my dad is that some Italians resented not being able to join the country club in Hammond no matter how successful they were, but that wasn't an issue in Independence where no one knew what a country club was.
Posted on 3/17/24 at 2:58 pm to Tiger Ugly
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She said when she was a young adult that would have been in the early 50's, Italians were not allowed in the Baton Rouge Country Club.
I know Country Clubs were and still to some extent are exclusive by nature, but this surprised me. I guess it should not have.
That shite lasted well beyond the early 50s.
Posted on 3/17/24 at 3:56 pm to Tiger Ugly
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Italians were not allowed in the Baton Rouge Country Club.
I remember hearing this in the 2000’s… no idea if it was true then though.
Posted on 3/18/24 at 12:16 am to Tiger Ugly
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My mother-in-law - RIP - was Italian. She said when she was a young adult that would have been in the early 50's, Italians were not allowed in the Baton Rouge Country Club. I know Country Clubs were and still to some extent are exclusive by nature, but this surprised me. I guess it should not have.
Same with Oak Knoll Country Club in Hammond.
My dad had hard feelings about it and would not agree to our request to join when we were growing up.
Posted on 3/18/24 at 7:21 am to Tiger Ugly
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I know Country Clubs were and still to some extent are exclusive by nature, but this surprised me. I guess it should not have.
Wasn't there an episode about this in Mad Men? An Italian brand was evaluating Sterling Cooper's work and Don asks Roger "don't we have some Italians working here we could show off?"
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