[PDF.68np] Just Another Southern Town: Mary Church Terrell and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Nation's Capital

Just Another Southern Town: Mary Church Terrell and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Nation's Capital

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 | #822919 in Books |  2016-01-29 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  6.40 x1.10 x9.20l,1.36 | File type: PDF | 368 pages

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||5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.| Fascinating and Disturbing!|By vg|This is a fascinating account of events leading up to the Supreme Court case District of Columbia v. John R. Thompson Co, Inc. and how this unanimous decision was influenced by a long forgotten (or rejected) reconstruction-era law that had “mysteriously disappeared”.
In telling the story of Mary Church Terrell, a black graduate| ||"A retelling of the events leading up to the landmark civil rights Supreme Court case District of Columbia v. John R. Thompson Co., Inc., which invalidated segregated restaurants in the city in 1953... Quigley expertly analyzes the legal drama of the court ca

In January of 1950, Mary Church Terrell, an 86-year-old charter member of the NAACP, headed into Thompson's Restaurant, just a few blocks from the White House, and requested to be served. She and her companions were informed by the manager that they could not eat in his establishment, because they were "colored." Terrell, a former suffragette and one of the country's first college-educated African American women, took the matter to court. Three years later, the Supreme C...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Just Another Southern Town: Mary Church Terrell and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Nation's Capital   |  Joan Quigley. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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