Coordinating Committee for the Enforcement of the D.C. Anti-Discrimination Laws records, 1949-1954.

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Coordinating Committee for the Enforcement of the D.C. Anti-Discrimination Laws records, 1949-1954.

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Biography of Mary Church Terrell and tributes to her and to Anna Stein; records related to the test court case and copies of congressional civil rights bills of that period; and correspondence, minutes of meetings, attendance records, and fliers publicizing boycotts, pickets, and demonstrations, which were used to fight discrimination in District of Columbia restaurants, particularly Hecht's, Kresge's, and Murphy's.

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Historical Society of Washington, D.C.

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Historical Society of Washington, D.C.

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S.S. Kresge Company

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Sebastian Spering Kresge began his retailing empire in 1899 when he gained full ownership of a store in Detroit. S.S. Kresge Co. opened its first store in Buffalo in 1911 at 388 Main St. The last Kresge store in the Western N.Y. area closed Dec. 30, 1981. From the description of S.S. Kresge Company photographs, 1949 May 7-1960 May 20 : 388 Main St., Buffalo, N.Y. (Buffalo History Museum). WorldCat record id: 29605241 Retail company based in Detroit, Michigan. Fro...

G.C. Murphy

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Coordinating Committee for the Enforcement of the D.C. Anti-Discrimination Laws

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Formed in 1949 through the efforts of Mary Church Terrell and Annie Stein after the D.C. Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild issued an opinion that anti-discrimination laws passed in 1872 and 1873 were valid; members of the committee provoked an incident by having three "well-dressed, well-behaved" African Americans seek service in Thompson's Restaurant, they were refused service and filed a suit in the District of Columbia Municipal Court against the restaurant where the judge ruled that thes...

Stein, Annie

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"The average child in eighty-five percent of the Black and Puerto Rican schools is functionally illiterate after eight years of schooling in the richest city in the world. This is a massive accomplishment." These first sentences, from an essay Annie Stein wrote for the Harvard Educational Review in 1971, encapsulate a lifetime of radical activism, a career in statistical research, and a habit of righteous anger. For nearly 50 years-- working through labor unions, civil r...

Terrell, Mary Church, 1863-1954

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Mary Church Terrell was born Sept. 23, 1863 in Memphis, TN. Her parents, Robert Reed Church and Louisa Ayers, were freed slaves. She majored in Classics at Oberlin College, the first college in the United States to accept African American and female students; she was one of the first African American women to attend the institution. Terrell graduated in 1884 with Anna Julia Cooper and Ida Gibbs Hunt. She earned her master's degree in Education from Oberlin in 1888. She began teaching at Wilberfo...

Hecht Company

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