seems that way. they just found their excuse for noncompliance
this is a community that sent themselves backwards from all the gains they made in the 50s and early 60, the MLK Jr years. 2 decades later a huge % of their men were in jail and a great many who weren't in jail were walking around town with the waistband of their jeans below their butt cheeks. Whites didn't do that. They did that to themselves.
and at that time, 1936, living adults who were born prior to that date, received social security numbers and paying in to SS.