When did the apocalyptic thing happen? Because we know that separate but equal, struck down by Brown v. Board in 1954 but not fully implemented in many places until the 1970s, rarely if ever meant actual equal facilities. If the apocalyptic thing happened in the 50s, likely as not the restrooms designated for non-white use were in basements, behind buildings, and in other inconvenient places that were already likely in poor repair by the time the bad thing happened. In many places the point was to render African Americans (and, in many places, Mexican Americans and Natives) as invisible as possible.
The military was also integrated -- not in the sense of integrated combat units (until the Korean War), but as an operation also encompassing logistics, it was integrated. And it was integrated to a degree that civilian society was not -- which was a driving factor in the multiple civil rights movements that occurred simultaneously in the 50s and 60s, of which the African American civil rights movement in its classical phase (hat tip to Bayard Rustin) was only one. People who served their country and who were accustomed to better treatment in the military were rightfully angry when they came home and whites continued treating them like crap. Hence (in part) the African American civil rights movement, the Chicano movement, the American Indian Movement, and more.
And on the subject of African American civil rights: stuff had been happening for a long, long time before MLK showed up, and even before the founding of the NAACP. Plessy v. Ferguson was an intentional test case before the Supreme Court that was a result of a lot of organizing in New Orleans. Rosa Parks had been an activist all her life, including work on the case of the Scottsboro Boys and a stint at the Highlander School.
...tl;dr on a bunch of stuff you didn't even ask about and possibly the game makers didn't know about: hello, I know nothing about Fallout but a lot about Jim Crow, how may I be of service?
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The military was also integrated -- not in the sense of integrated combat units (until the Korean War), but as an operation also encompassing logistics, it was integrated. And it was integrated to a degree that civilian society was not -- which was a driving factor in the multiple civil rights movements that occurred simultaneously in the 50s and 60s, of which the African American civil rights movement in its classical phase (hat tip to Bayard Rustin) was only one. People who served their country and who were accustomed to better treatment in the military were rightfully angry when they came home and whites continued treating them like crap. Hence (in part) the African American civil rights movement, the Chicano movement, the American Indian Movement, and more.
And on the subject of African American civil rights: stuff had been happening for a long, long time before MLK showed up, and even before the founding of the NAACP. Plessy v. Ferguson was an intentional test case before the Supreme Court that was a result of a lot of organizing in New Orleans. Rosa Parks had been an activist all her life, including work on the case of the Scottsboro Boys and a stint at the Highlander School.
...tl;dr on a bunch of stuff you didn't even ask about and possibly the game makers didn't know about: hello, I know nothing about Fallout but a lot about Jim Crow, how may I be of service?