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Adam's Mark Hotels & Resorts is a former chain of upscale hotels in the United States. The company had its headquarters in the HBE Corporation offices in Creve Coeur, Missouri in Greater St. Louis.〔"(Contact Us )." Adam's Mark. April 9, 2003. Retrieved on April 5, 2013. "Adam's Mark Corporate Headquarters HBE Corporation 11330 Olive Blvd. St. Louis, MO 63141"〕〔Jonsson, Greg. "(NAACP PROTESTS AT HEADQUARTERS OF ADAM'S MARK HOTELS )." ''St. Louis Post-Dispatch''. August 11, 2001. Five Star Lift Edition p. 11. Retrieved on April 5, 2013. "About 30 NAACP protesters marched outside the corporate headquarters of the Adam's Mark hotel chain in Creve Coeur on Friday to protest alleged()"〕 The chain was founded in the early 1970s by Fred Kummer and owned by HBE, Corp., which was also founded by Kummer.〔(HBE Website )〕 ==History== In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Adams Mark faced several civil, state, and federal lawsuits for racial discrimination against Black American customers. It was the first entire hotel chain to face a United States Justice Department inquiry into racial discrimination for violations of the US Civil Rights Act of 1964. In the 1990s, Adams Mark settled multimillion-dollar racial discrimination lawsuits involving employees and consumers against individual hotels in Indianapolis, Memphis and St. Louis. In December 1999, five African American hotel guests brought a class action lawsuit against the hotel chain after attending the Black College Reunion in Daytona Beach, Florida in 1999. The suit alleged that Adams Mark "charged black guests higher rates, required them to wear orange wrist bands and prohibited black visitors." Additionally, the claimants reported that "rooms rented to blacks had been 'stripped down' and lacked such basic amenities as telephones and maid service; pictures had been removed from the walls and room mini-bars were locked." The Justice Department agreed with the claimants in a nonmonetary settlement, finding that Adams Mark engaged in discriminatorily "charging Black customers higher prices than Whites and segregating Black customers in less desirable rooms as part of a corporate pattern of discrimination." The suit, and subsequent 17-month boycott of the chain called by the NAACP, was settled out of court for $8 million (US) in 2000. In July 2015, new allegations of racism against Adams Mark surfaced. As the Daily Kos reports, "A white hotel manager of the Adams Mark Hotel in Kansas City, hung a black slave doll from the doorway of the office with a garbage bag in an apparent mocking of the death of Sandra Bland." Tweets about the incident documented a photograph of the doll hanging by a "white plastic bag noose" around her neck. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Adam's Mark」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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