Storming Caesars Palace

After reading this book, I asked my parents if they had ever heard about the strike in Vegas or the march. Unfortunately they never heard of it. That was kind of disappointing. So I couldn't help but wonder if this was really a well-known event or if my parents were just clueless teenagers. Regardless, I found this book to be really interesting. I had never heard of the march prior to this book and was actually surprised when she talked about the black entertainers being subjected to racism and prejudice as well. Maybe I was naive to think that they'd be treated better than the common black person, but the section in Chapter 2 about Sammy Davis Jr. and other black entertainers having to cross the "concrete curtain" to eat, drink, and sleep, really surprised me. There were also a lot of parallels with Sugrue's Origins of the Urban Crisis when Orleck discussed the division of the city and the poor housing in the West Side. Overall I thought this was a very interesting read.