Thompson's Restaurant, 725 14th Street, was located in one of several ground floor commercial spaces of this office building, 1970s
This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Protest - Thompson's Restaurant and the Lost Laws
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…