Follow up question: Which bathroom would a Korean person used? How about Jewish people? White Hispanics?

Another question. How did they enforce who was "white enough" to use the white bathrooms?

Follow up question: What would happen if a black use a white's bathroom, or vice versa? Is there some kind of guard standing there to check or something?

Maybe related question, I read The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson. It covers this in some detail, have any of the historians read this and how accurate would you consider it? I found the whole book mind blowing.

After owning an old building in deep georgia, it had one female bathroom, one male, and one that Africans would share. It seemed to be the norm for the area

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