Plucking Out Jim Crow in the Nation’s Capital

In 1950, a Washington, DC, restaurant turns away an elderly woman because she is black. The court case she sparks lays the framework for the end of segregation. In Just Another Southern Town, Joan Quigley tells the story of Mary Church Terrell, an unlikely civil rights hero whose life spanned the Emancipation Proclamation and Brown …

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