Sort of simplistic...There was a little more to it than that. In fact I don't recall laws ("back in the day") allowing refusal of services to a customer to be as obvious as in current times, but I was younger then. Black people "abided"; so to speak, to unwritten laws...
The store was wrong.
Oren "My doctor says I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fiber, and that I am therefore excused from saving Universes."