the avalon hotel started off life as a northwestern hotel was bought by vern manning and renamed the avalon. vern manning needed to when histhe avalon wife came to rochester to be treated at the mayo clinic, get a roomd not at any of the hotels in rochester. place to needed a stay. he ended up buying a hotel, turning it into a hotel for african-americans and allowing all african-americans to stay there. verychester's changed significantly since i've been here. it started small, but it now has a very diverse population, of not only african-americans but africa, people from people from mexico, a variety of many people, chinese, japanese. probablyic is responsible for a lot of diversity work, bringing they also work with the diversity council, when they first started to help to create an environment that everybody would want to come or that come. would want to >> green book stopped its publication in the mid-1960s in the lead up act.e civil rights at this point in time, businesses could no longer services to african-americans and bookfore, the green necessarily wasn't needed at this tim

the avalon hotel started as a northwestern hotel, and it was bought by vern manning and renamed the avalon. themanningn purchased avalon with his wife needed to come and attend the mayo clinic, and they needed a place to stay. entered itt a hotel into a hotel for african americans and allowed african americans to state their -- stay there. george: rochester has changed significantly. small, but has a very diverse population of not only african but people from africa, people from mexico, a variety of many people have come, chinese. the mayo clinic is probably responsible for a lot of diversity work in bringing people in, and they also work with the diversity council, they started to help to create an environment that everybody would want to come or people would want to come. green book stopped in the middle of the 1960's in the lead up to the civil rights act. at this point in time, businesses could no longer refuse services to african americans, and therefore the green book necessarily was not needed at this time, according to the true letter of the law. george: i hope people come to the e

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