Just Another Southern Town

Six years before Rosa Parks launched the Montgomery bus boycott, Mary Church Terrell tried to eat at Thompson’s Restaurant in Washington, D.C., was refused service, and went on to pursue and win her case before the Supreme Court. In Just Another Southern Town: Mary Church Terrell and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Nation’s Capital, Joan Quigley ’86 tells the story of the woman who sparked a civil-rights battle.