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  • Segregation Was Still Very Much A Part Of Public Schools During The Story's Time Period on Random Inaccuracy In 'A Christmas Story’s Version Of '40s

    (#3) Segregation Was Still Very Much A Part Of Public Schools During The Story's Time Period

    Throughout the movie, Ralphie's classmates prove to be a rambunctious bunch, annoying the teacher with novelty teeth and daring one another to lick frozen flag poles. The class includes a few African American children, and while this is commonplace today (and in 1983, when the movie was released), real-life classrooms from the film's time period would have looked much different because of segregation. Despite three post-Civil War amendments to the Constitution establishing rights for African Americans, the Supreme Court continued to pass laws limiting these freedoms.

    In 1896, Plessy v. Ferguson declared segregation constitutional and allowed the creation of "separate but equal" establishments. This ruling not only applied to schools, but also public transportation, churches, and even cemeteries. While laws supporting segregation came to be known as Jim Crow laws in Southern states, racial inequality was not limited to the South alone. Even Ralphie's state of Indiana would have been affected.

    A few court cases initiated by the NAACP in the 1930s and 1940s challenged segregation in schools, but it wasn't until Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 that the Supreme Court finally ruled school segregation unconstitutional. Subsequent court cases and protests led to the 1964 passage of the Civil Rights Act, which put a legal end to segregation.

  • Mrs. Parker's Permed Hairdo Is From The 1980s on Random Inaccuracy In 'A Christmas Story’s Version Of '40s

    (#4) Mrs. Parker's Permed Hairdo Is From The 1980s

    As a loving mother to two young boys and wife to a man whose idea of good taste includes fishnet-clad leg lamps, Mrs. Parker spends much of the film just as frazzled as her hair. In the late 1930s or early 1940s, however, her hair style would have looked entirely out of place. A period appropriate woman's hair style would have not featured bangs, and would have been carefully styled with every hair in place.

    Although curls were in, they were not the tight curls Mrs. Parker wears. They were rolled curls that were soft and sleek like those worn by Ralphie's teacher, Miss Shields. Most women at the time also wore their hair short and pinned back away from the face. Mrs. Parker's look is more appropriate for the 1980s, when the movie was made, as big hair was in and kinky permanent waves were all the rage.

  • The Parkers Listen To Bing Crosby’s ‘Merry Christmas,’ Which Was Released In 1945 on Random Inaccuracy In 'A Christmas Story’s Version Of '40s

    (#2) The Parkers Listen To Bing Crosby’s ‘Merry Christmas,’ Which Was Released In 1945

    On Christmas morning, the Parkers gather around their glittering tree to exchange presents while Bing Crosby softly croons Christmas music in the background. It's a classic and warm holiday scene - but not quite historically accurate, as Crosby didn't release the album in question until 1945.

    Merry Christmas compiled several of Crosby's holiday-themed hits into a single record, including "White Christmas," one of the most beloved songs ever recorded. The song was first broadcast to the public on Christmas Eve in 1941, just after the events of the movie presumptively occurred. After selling more than 15 million copies, Crosby's Merry Christmas remains the second-best selling Christmas album in history. A large part of its popularity comes from its inclusion of "White Christmas," which has kept its place as the best-selling single of all time despite the fact that people generally only listen to it one month out of the year.

  • A Female Army Member Is Among The Higbee's Window Crowd, But Her Uniform Wasn't Created Until At Least 1941 on Random Inaccuracy In 'A Christmas Story’s Version Of '40s

    (#14) A Female Army Member Is Among The Higbee's Window Crowd, But Her Uniform Wasn't Created Until At Least 1941

    As Ralphie and his friends push through the crowd outside Higbee's to get a better view of the store's toy display, they push in front of a couple dressed in military uniforms. If the events of the movie did take place in 1939 or 1940, uniformed members of the military on the street would not have been all that unusual, as WWII was just beginning in Europe at the time. The uniform the woman wears, however, wasn't created until at least 1941 - and her hat wasn't issued to women until around 1943.

    Although women have served as nurses since the American Revolution and worked in communication units during WWI, they were unable to actually enlist in the military until WWII. Because the army needed more recruits, it launched the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) in 1941 to help with shortages in military personnel - although women were still not allowed to join the combat. The WAAC became the Women's Army Corps (WAC) in 1943 when it became an official part of the Army. Although a woman may have been a part of the military in 1939, she would not have been wearing this uniform.

  • The Costumed Mickey Mouse Who Appears In The Christmas Parade Was Created Sometime After 1959 on Random Inaccuracy In 'A Christmas Story’s Version Of '40s

    (#10) The Costumed Mickey Mouse Who Appears In The Christmas Parade Was Created Sometime After 1959

    Like the holiday traditions of many families, the Parkers attend the town's Christmas parade to watch Santa arrive at Higbee's department store. There are floats, music, a variety of costumed Wizard of Oz characters, and an appearance from Mickey Mouse. Created in 1928, Mickey was certainly around by the time the film's story was set, but his costumed form would have been a much more primitive and creepy version than the one seen on screen.

    From their first red carpet appearance at the Snow White premiere in 1937 to the opening of Disneyland in 1955, the heads of Mickey and Minnie's character costumes were made of fabric that held its shape, and the sack worn over the head featured large eye holes so the person wearing the costume could see. After the costumes terrified enough children and many parents complained, Disney unveiled a new Mickey design at the opening of Disneyland's Tomorrowland in 1959. For the first time, Mickey and Minnie costume characters featured solid molded heads like the one seen in the movie. These costumes looked more like the actual cartoon characters and paved the way for those used by the theme parks today.

  • Mr. Parker Is Upset The White Sox Traded Bill Dietrich, But He Wasn’t Released From The Team Until 1946  on Random Inaccuracy In 'A Christmas Story’s Version Of '40s

    (#12) Mr. Parker Is Upset The White Sox Traded Bill Dietrich, But He Wasn’t Released From The Team Until 1946

    Viewers first meet Ralphie's parents as his mother makes the family breakfast and his father reads the paper in hopes of solving a puzzle to win a prize. As Mr. Parker enters the kitchen, he complains about a trade made by the Chicago White Sox in which they got rid of "Bullfrog, the only player they've got..." Distracted by her chores and indifferent to sports, Mrs. Parker tells him, "That's nice."

    Bullfrog, also known as Bill Dietrich, was a real pitcher who did play for the White Sox. He had an inconsistent career and suffered from a variety of ailments, with injuries to his elbow, thumb, and leg, forcing him to spend a lot of time on the shelf and in rehabilitation.

    In real life, however, his career with the White Sox didn't end until the team released him in 1946. Although the team considered trading him a year earlier, it was another broken thumb - and Dietrich's failure to travel to Chicago for treatment - that ended his White Sox career for good.

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A Christmas Story is a family comedy film directed by Bob Clark. It was released on the Christmas holiday in 1983 and was adapted from a semi-fiction anecdote published by Jean Shepherd in 1966, and some of the stories in the movie come from his book published in 1971. The movie tells the boy's perseverance and adult's absurd behavior, the audience will laugh in mild humor and pungent irony.

The random tool lists 14 inaccuracies in A Christmas Story that was a popular movie, although the era of the movie has never been explicitly mentioned, people infer that the movie set up in the 1940s based on many details and features in the movie.

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