Corona had several white-only country clubs. Black people were sometimes allowed to work in them, but weren't allowed to join as members.
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In the mid 1920s, one of the white-only clubs, Parkridge, had serious money troubles. They found buyers... except those buyers were black.
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Corona's white supremacists nearly rioted. They got local papers to write "negro invasion" stories. They specifically hated black wealth.
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Once the black buyers successfully purchased Parkridge, they explained to club-goers that they wanted to create a space for *all* races.
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In response, white vigilantes armed with shotguns guarded the club, intimidating would-be black club-goers from entering.
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Important to note that the new black owners also welcomed Mexicans, which also drove white vigilantes up the wall. It was unreal to them.
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White supremacists got Corona's cops to station near the club entrance, pulling black drivers over so they wouldn't want to go to Parkridge.
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But Corona's new, wealthy black population wasn't swayed. They went anyway. Then, one day, the white supremacists burned a cross.
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They positioned their burning cross in such a way that club-goers would see it right as the were leaving Parkridge.
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They burned their cross on a small hill, elevated enough so that most of Corona could see it; it was burned to terrify non-white residents.
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There's a lot more to this story. It's really shameful, and Corona has gone out of its way to suppress its own violent, racist history.
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That, in and of itself, is one of the ways in which Corona perpetuates racial inequity: by pretending it never even happened to begin with.
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