Mary Church Terrell (fourth from left) and others picketed Murphy’s five-and-dime in the early 1950s because its lunch counter did not serve African Americans.

ID: 3776 ~ Source: Courtesy of the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University Archives, Howard University, Washington DC

This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Protest - Thompson's Restaurant and the Lost Laws

Mary Church Terrell (fourth from left) and others picketed Murphy’s five-and-dime in the early 1950s because its lunch counter did not serve African Americans.

This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Protest - Thompson's Restaurant and the Lost Laws

Civil Rights Tour: Protest - Thompson's Restaurant and the Lost Laws

In early 1950, Mary Church Terrell and other activists attempted to eat at Thompson’s Restaurant, a downtown cafeteria and one of many restaurants and eateries with a whites-only policy. The group was deliberately testing the validity of…