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Aug 13, 2016 · Prevalent racism legend holds that a Las Vegas hotel once completely drained their pool because black entertainer Dorothy Dandridge stuck her toe in the water.
Mar 8, 2021 · Dorothy Dandridge once dipped her toe into a pool in a Las Vegas hotel that was to be used by only white people. The pool was drained.
Jun 2, 2023 · Dandridge, who died of an antidepressant overdose in September 1965 at age 42, never once publicly mentioned the pool-draining incident while she was alive.
Cigarette girls in frilled dresses and rouge-jacketed waiters served guests looking over the hotel’s palm-lined swimming pool.
Jun 21, 2020 · The pool might be most famous for an incident involving Dorothy Dandridge in April 1953 that illustrates the segregationist rules of Las Vegas Strip hotels in the 50s. It was described in Donald Bogle’s biography of Dorothy Dandridge.
Mar 25, 2024 · Enraged and with much indignation, Dandridge ignored hotel management, appeared poolside in her swimsuit and stuck her toe in the pool as onlookers stared in disbelief. As promised, the pool was drained and scrubbed clean by the hotel’s Black maintenance workers that evening.
In 1957, Dandridge sued Confidential for libel over its article that described a scandalous incident that it claimed occurred in 1950. In May 1957, she accepted an out-of-court settlement of $10,000.
