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Mary Church Terrell and Thompson's Restaurant
1950
LeDroit Park, Washington
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At 86 Terrell led a sit-in at a segregated cafeteria and sued under forgotten 1870s District laws. The Supreme Court upheld them in 1953, desegregating the capital's restaurants a year before Brown.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
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