MOULIN ROUGE Casino ULTRA RARE (2) Champaign Glasses
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ULTRA RARE * Moulin Rouge Casino * .. Set of (2) Champaign Glasses. Description:Clear Glass with Black Lettering: Moulin Rogue Las Vegas Nevada. What a find, you can only imagine who might have drank out of these glasses, Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis, Jr.?? History: Promoters of the Moulin Rouge Hotel called it "the nation's first major interracial hotel." Until the hotel's opening on May 24, 1955, black entertainers performing in Las Vegas were denied access to casino and hotel dining areas and were forced to seek overnight accommodations in black boarding houses. Black tourism was non-existent. Nevada Assembly bills designed to bar discrimination in public places had failed, the last by only one vote. So a diverse group of investors took a different tactic. They developed plans for an integrated hotel in a prime location--a site between the predominately white area of the Strip and the largely black west side. The result was a hotel integrated at all levels, from employees to patrons to entertainers. Opening night was a gala affair hosted by Joe Louis and featuring performances by The Platters and flashy chorus-line routines. Within the next few months the hotel attracted such performers as Louis Armstrong, George Burns, Nat King Cole, Jack Benny, Frank Sinatra, and Sammy Davis, Jr. Initially, the night spot became so popular, a
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