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August 14, 2003

Fifty years

From a copy of the Boston Sunday Globe in our kitchen.

WASHINGTON, June 13 - This city, which used to be an overgrown Southern town, passed its first week with no racial segregation in restaurants and bars with the dignified aplomb befitting its status as a world capital.
The first few days of operation under a United States Supreme Court ruling that an 1873 law required all public places to serve any well behaved person, including Negroes, dispelled the misgivings of those who feared "incidents".
No Negroes sought admission to the swanky Mayflower and Shoreham cocktail lounges and night clubs up to Friday evening and smaller hotels reported no difficulty on account of the few Negroes who sought and obtained service in their restaurants...

More up-to-date coverage here.

In the same issue, Everest was front page news (but we don't have the front page!).