Just Another Southern Town: Mary Church Terrell and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Nation’s Capital
Six years before Rosa Parks launched the Montgomery bus boycott, Mary Church Terrell tried to eat at Thomson’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 forgotten story of the woman who sparked the civil rights battle in Washington, D.C.
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