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Public Accommodation Debate Reflects Racial Shifts in 1963
A white woman faced a distant corner table in an Atlanta restaurant as sit in protests surged. Harvey Rape, a Durham cafeteria owner, describes conversion from segregationist to integrator after a personal crisis. The press notes growing court battles and shifts in public opinion on restaurant desegregation and access to public facilities across the nation.
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Nicholas C. Chriss
United Press International
Atlanta
Martin Luther King Jr
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Harvey Rape
Rape
Durham
N.C
Delaware
U.S. Supreme Court
Maryland
Florida
South
Boyd Wiley
St. Joseph
Press International
High Justice Department
Montagmery
Ala
Columbia
S.C