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Segregated Restaurants Regarding Jim Crow Laws
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Social Protesting in the Streets of Segregated Restaurants
- create attention grabbing signs
- protest through busy streets with many segregated businesses, especially restaurants
- only costs would be posters
- 100+ people needed for each protest
- protest every 2 weeks until effective
Organizing a Leadership Conference/Committee
- speak about civil rights and segregation throughout Southern states
- help gain awareness of unequal treatment from whites
- based on peaceful speeches and gatherings
- no cost due to freedom of speech
- weekly speeches
- fish restaurant in Memphis, Tennessee in 1937
- built for colored people due to segregation and discrimination in restaurants
- due to unfair treatment in white restaurants, blacks needed to build business for themselves
- revealed how discrimination expanded regarding to other people that were not colored
- sign on restaurant in Lancaster, Ohio
- August 1938
- Cafe with sign implying that they would only serve white people; blacks were not allowed
Enforced in Alabama, although effective throughout nearby states
Non-violent Potential Solutions
- sign on restaurant in Portland, Oregon in 1943
- serving whites only
Participation in Local Sit-ins
Document: "It shall be unlawful to conduct a restaurant or other place for the serving of food in the city, at which white and colored people are served in the same room, unless such white and colored persons are effectually separated by a solid partition extending from the floor upward to a distance of seven feet or higher, and unless a separate entrance from the street is provided."
- Alabama
- more dangerous approach fighting for equality
- would sit in in segregated restaurants at counter until served
- no cost, should be attempted often, at various restaurants to gain recognition
- organizing a leadership conference/committee
- social protesting in the streets of segregated restaurants
- participating in local sit-ins
Segregated Restaurants Regarding Jim Crow Laws
- cafe in Durham, North Carolina in 1940
- had separate entrances for whites and blacks
- similar to Southern eating establishments during Jim Crow era
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