Acting under an 1895 anti-discrimination law, the state of Wisconsin has launched a campaign to eliminate all religious and racial discrimination from its largest industry–the resort business. A special resort committee of the Governor’s Commission on Human Rights has been set up to start the drive by removing all “Gentiles only” and “restricted clientele” signs from resort hotels.
The committee addressed a communication to 6,400 hotel and tourist home owners, reminding them of the state’s anti-discrimination law and calling for compliance with it. The resort division of the State Conservation Commission has at the same time declined to circulate any resort literature containing discriminatory phrases. All Wisconsin maps will hereafter include the legend that state law “guarantees full and equal enjoyment of all places of public accommodation or amusement alike to all persons of every race or color.”
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