Washington's Restaurants Desegregated
 

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Washington's Restaurants Desegregated
In June 1953, the Supreme Court upheld an earlier lower court decision in the case of District of Columbia v. John Thompson. The Court affirmed the ruling that restaurants in the District of Columbia could not refuse to serve Black patrons.