Integration wasn't as easy as going up to a white person
             if you were black and saying, "Hi, since were supposed to be integrating with each other I
             guess we'll be friends." There was extreme racial tension and some whites would just
             absolutely not integrate. In Chapter 17 Gates writes about an episode in his life when his
             friends and himself try to integrate a local all white dance club. The owner forced the boys
             out using violence and the next Monday the club was shut down by the Human Rights
             Commission, because the owner wouldn't integrate. In this incident the owner of the
             nightclub closed his place down rather than integrate with the black community. Gates felt
             that it was better to have the club be turned into a family restaurant than stay segregated .
             Gates felt like a pioneer, someone who was helping out the cause fighting against
             segregation and racism. Racism was a major cause of segregation throughout the bo
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