Images: above: An early photo of the construction
of the Panama Canal
Administration Building
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below: President William Howard Taft
responsible for the “Nationality Restriction”
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For the Silver roll, whether they were West Indian or Black American citizens, every aspect of their lives would be segregated and generally inferior in quality to that offered to the members of the favored Gold roll workers. The separate housing areas then would become small cities that were also kept apart. Thus, all these rules and policies had started becoming a reality as soon as the army of West Indian Blacks had given their all to secure and clean most of the area, making Panama livable for human habitation. Continue reading
