Parsons: I would sound facetious, wouldn't I, if I were to suggest that perhaps as a condition to a preliminary injunction they wear britches. Parsons seemed amenable, but had one request. Judge Parsons had already issued a temporary restraining order against the ordinance January 27, but it was about to expire when Reid sought a longer-lasting preliminary injunction. Daley and Ellis Reid, attorney for the Metropolitan Tavern Owners Association and several women who wanted to bartend. Parsons, the first African American to become a life-tenured federal judge city attorney Benjamin Novoselsky, representing mayor-defendant Richard J. The three main characters in the Februhearing were U.S. A hearing transcript, housed at the National Archives' regional office in West Lawn and never before republished, documents the proceedings, which roved from off-topic to offensive. Daley, heard a half century ago this week, were even more jaw-dropping. While the ordinance itself seems ludicrous, the court arguments for McCrimmon v. If it's a man behind the bar, the troublemaker is more likely to start swinging, but they usually don't swing at a woman." She also said women were better than men at handling nasty drunks: "If you've got someone who's belligerent, he's more likely to listen to a woman than to a man. Lead plaintiff Carolyn McCrimmon told the Chicago Tribune that pouring drinks was better than factory work for mothers because their children could reach them more easily by phone. And a Chicagoan named Hugh Hefner was having a heck of a time at the original Playboy Mansion, just a couple miles north of the federal courtroom where the barmaid case was heard. Helen Gurley Brown's Sex and the Single Girl had been out for eight. The Civil Rights Act had been in force for six years. Fifty years ago, a judge overturned Chicago's Barmaid Ordinance, which banned women from working as bartenders unless they were related to the tavern owner.Įven by 1970 standards, the law was antiquated, resisting a cultural revolution that was already well underway.
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