Article announcing the trial set that would test 1872 anti-discrimination laws in the Thompson's sit-in case

ID: 4139 ~ Source: Re-printed with permission from the D.C. Public Library, Star Collection, Washington Post

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

Article announcing the trial set that would test 1872 anti-discrimination laws in the Thompson's sit-in case

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…