Originally Posted by af250xxl
I was helping my nephew with his school project. One of the topics was about Rosa Park's refusal to move on the bus.
It got me thinking... back in those days, were black passengers allowed to fly? If so, were there seperate areas on the planes?
How about South Africa? During the old days, what was the policy when it came to flying?
Also, a somewhat related question... when segregation was going on back then, which group did Asians fall into? For example, if a Korean/Chinese/Mexican/etc, were on the bus with Rosa Parks, where would he sit?
Thanks for any info!
East asians in South Africa weren't discriminated against nearly as badly as the indegenous blacks were. Jo'burg has a distinct Chinatown and personally met a few Chinese/Korean South Africans who lived there during apartheid.
One of the more infamous SAA plane crashes occured on a flight from TPE -> JHB which had rocketfuel in the cargo hold, going against the SA embargo.
I'm actually sort of curious myself to the segregation question. Remember though, air travel was very new and mostly for the upper eschelon of society and wasn't nearly was widespread as it is today.