The office of Governor LeRoy Collins has advised the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith that future official conventions would not be held at hotels which discriminate against Jews in their admissions policies.
The Southern Governors Conference on Nuclear Energy was recently held at the Tides Hotel in St. Petersburg. The Tides Hotel has a history of anti-Jewish discrimination. The Governor’s office wrote that upon ADL notification of the un-American policy of the Tides Hotel his staff sought other facilities for the convention. The imminent date of the convention, however, and inadequate facilities in the area made a change in convention sites impractical.
The Governor’s office advised the ADL that Governor Jim Folsom of Alabama had also expressed concern over the selection of the Tides Hotel as a site for an official function. Governor Collins informed the League that its alertness” served a very valuable purpose” and gave his assurances that the situation would not recur.
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